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Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Now at Udacity, Google X founder talks self-driving cars and jobs - Carolyn Said, SF Chronicle
Sebastian Thrun wears many hats. He’s an expert in robotics and artificial intelligence, a scientist, educator, inventor and entrepreneur. He’s best known for founding Google X, a lab for world-changing, “moonshot” projects, and helping to pioneer self-driving cars at Google and Stanford, where he is a research professor. Now he’s focusing on workforce training through his 5-year-old Mountain View startup Udacity, which offers online courses to quickly prepare students for tech jobs. Udacity’s 12 “nanodegree” programs, which include certificates in self-driving engineering and artificial intelligence, cost a few hundred dollars, take a few months and are tailored to needs outlined by employers.
http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Google-X-founder-now-at-Udacity-talks-10687730.php