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Year of election: | 2007 |
Section: | Informatics |
City: | Stanford, CA, USA |
Country: | USA |
Sebastian Thrun has made substantial contributions to Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. He pioneered the emerging field of "Probabilistic Robotics," which leverages statistical methods into Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. Thrun leads a group of scientists renown for their contributions to autonomous cars. In 2005, his team won the "DARPA Grand Challenge," a desert race of driverless vehicles organized by the US Department of Defense, and endowed with a $2M prize. Research on car safety and autonomous driving carried out in the "Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab," which has been directed by Thrun since 2004, are largely viewed as the defining works in the field.