Big coffee-Sebastian Tron

I know that this big coffee is in Ted's speech "Dude, where is my driverless car? At the beginning, he said that a good friend of his died in a car accident, which inspired him to devote himself to the unmanned driving project, hoping to reduce the accidents caused by car accidents. Great coffee meets sadness, not complaining, but rising. This is a vivid example!

Mr. Taurus, born in May 1967, is an innovator, enterprise practitioner and scientist who is at the forefront of the times. (Definition on Wikipedia. He is now the CEO and co-founder of Udacity. Prior to this, he was a Google researcher and vice president, and he was also a research professor at Stanford University. He has published 380 scientific papers and books 1 1, and won numerous awards.

The German-born computer scientist has been a research professor at Stanford University since 2003. He joined Google in April 2007 and is the company's vice president and research expert. 20 1 1 year, Thrun participated in Google's "Moonshot" project-Google X, which includes self-driving cars, Google Glass and Project Loon hot air balloon project. Among them, many projects are related to machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Google Glass is not only Thrun's product, but also the practical carrier of his scientific research thoughts.

Thrun's logic is that if people only rely on their own brains to work, it may cause confusion in the storage of brain information, especially in the process of transmitting information to the next generation. Thrun claims that this confusion is mainly due to people's forgetfulness. It is precisely because of this forgetfulness that some anecdotes can only be circulated in society and cannot be preserved.

Since then, the earliest digital storage tools began to appear, that is, books. Thrun said: "Today people don't regard books as digital tools, but they are digital because people can really copy these contents completely." With the appearance of books, people can also store more cultural information, so that libraries can provide great support for scientific innovation and industry innovation.

Thrun also said: "Of course, today people no longer want to live in a world without books. What Google Glass can do is to store your personal experience and digitize it. "

This feeling may be as strange as human intuition. The continuous operation of Google Glass is like an experience recorder, which can save the user's experience and let others enjoy it. This will be a huge change, which is why Thrun is very excited about this device. For devices like Google Glass, replacing the function of human brain will make us better.

Although Google Glass has disappeared from people's field of vision, it still cannot prevent Thun from further exploring in the field of artificial intelligence.

Google X lab is the most mysterious department of Google. After the birth of Google Glass, it has received unprecedented attention. We know that apart from Google Glass, Google X Lab also has a very important project-Google driverless car led by sebastian thrun, a professor at Stanford University. Today, this project has accumulated more than 400,000 miles in various environments, and it is becoming more and more mature.

Thurn believes that the benefits of driverless cars have the following three aspects:

1. Reduce energy consumption. There is energy loss when the car is driving. When the car is driving at a slow speed, the loss mainly comes from the friction between the gear set and the tire and the ground. With the increase of speed, more and more energy will be spent on fighting air resistance, and the range will be multiplied. When the speed reaches a certain level, 80% of the energy will be consumed here. But if you drive a car behind another car, it is equivalent to driving in the wind tunnel it is driving, and the resistance will be greatly reduced.

This principle led to the idea that if high-speed vehicles can drive at close range, it will greatly save energy. But as we all know, there is a concept of "safe distance" in driving. Because people's manipulation behavior is difficult to control and the reaction speed is limited, this idea can only be realized by computer control.

2. Save space and solve congestion. According to satellite observation, only 6% of roads in the United States are covered by cars, and most of the remaining space is used as a "safe distance", which wastes a lot of road space. At the same time, when the traffic jam in a certain section reaches/exceeds a certain critical point, all vehicles will slow down, causing congestion. If the distance between cars can be greatly shortened at high speed, it can not only carry more cars on the road, but also solve the traffic jam problem.

3. Improve the utilization rate of automobiles. The data shows that only 3% of the average family car in the United States is used for running. If people can enjoy cars, they can save a lot of resources. Now we have two common ways to enjoy cars: taxis and car rental services, but these services are expensive, and the cars in car rental services will not be used for a long time. However, if the car can drive automatically, it will become the mobile carrier of the traffic line. When we need to use them, it is a great scene to call the nearest empty car to serve us through App, which means that we can greatly reduce car production and save resources without spending so much space to build so many parking lots.

Google's driverless car project represents a concept of establishing a new energy-saving, efficient and safe mode of transportation. For the public, it may mean that we don't need to buy a car, we won't encounter the situation that we can't get a car, and we don't have to worry about finding a parking space anymore.

During this period, Thrun "squeezed time" to set up his own company-Uda City. On July 5, 20 1 1, the company was formally established. With the superior resources of Stanford University, Thrun and his colleague and computing scientist Peter Norvig launched a free online course "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence" on Udacity platform, which attracted the attention of 190 users from more than 65,438 countries. On August 20 14, Thrun left the Google X project and devoted himself to Udacity.

Udacity, founded by sebastian thrun, aims to be a stable "source" of the unmanned talent market. Udacity officially entered China on June 20 14, and was called Syracuse of Judah.

Undacity bears the obvious imprint of Thrun, and its teaching method is obviously different from traditional education, which is closely related to the needs of the industry. This may also be that he must have found that talent is the bottleneck of the development of artificial intelligence in his previous work in the company. After all, there are too few people like him who have interdisciplinary and research fields in his early years.

Thru's main life number is 33/6, and I believe Udacity can really take advantage of this tutor-level number.

At hildesheim University, Germany, he studied computer science, economics and medicine at the same time, and obtained Vordiplom (a special degree in Germany, a certificate obtained after two years of university study). 1993 transferred to Bonn University, and completed undergraduate and doctoral degrees in computer and statistics. Later, he joined the Computer Department of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) to study real science. From here, he officially entered the field of robotics and automatic learning.

Thru's research before joining Google has already demonstrated extremely creative product capabilities and achieved certain results. As early as 1997, he developed the first robot tour guide for the Bonn Museum in Germany. Minerva used the same technology in 1998. During its two-week deployment, Minerva received tens of thousands of visitors at the National Museum of America in Washington.

He also participated in a robot care project and designed an interactive humanoid robot in a private nursing home near Pittsburgh. In 2002, he helped develop robots to help explore mines.

His research experience before entering Google won him numerous awards. There are too many to translate. Cowboys are cowboys everywhere. For them, products and business are tools to realize personal ideals and burdens, so that cattle people can contact each other.