Udacity is growing up. The online education company, founded by former Google research whiz Sebastian Thrun, stirred up controversy last year with Thrun's assertion that in 50 years there might be ...

Sebastian Thrun is a world-class innovator with big ideas. The German-born computer scientist is the mind behind the first driverless car and Google Glass. CBS News' John Blackstone looked at his ...

After pushing the capabilities of machines so far that they can threaten entire industries, Sebastian Thrun is using his forward thinking to help the humans keep up. “We have a situation where the gap ...

Silicon Valley is coming to terms with the impacts of some of its inventions, which are not always in line with the techno-optimistic vision that the industry offered the world 25 years ago, when ...

Educators and policymakers have long dreamed of providing universal, low cost, first-class higher education. Their wish may come true soon thanks to an unlikely source: Silicon Valley. The mecca of ...

Udacity seemed to stumble last month when it restructured and laid off about 20% of its workforce. But founder, executive chairman and interim CEO Sebastian Thrun tells Business Insider that the ...

Sebastian Thrun, CEO of Kittyhawk and president of Udacity, and Sam Altman, president of Y Combinator and co-chair of Open AI, spoke with WIRED’s Former Editor-in-Chief Chris Anderson as part of ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. The startup was actually a partner in running the online AI class (unlike the other two CS classes ...

Autonomous driving is often considered the brainchild of Sebastian Thrun, among a few other technologists, but Thrun is already looking to move on to the next mode of transportation — and he isn’t ...

What do flying cars, robots, and meal preparation have in common? They're all passion projects for Silicon Valley tech superstar Sebastian Thrun. The former Google executive and expert in AI and ...

“I’m a fighter. I believe in our people, I believe in our mission, and I believe that it should exist and must exist.” Sebastian Thrun is talking animatedly about Udacity, the $1 billion online ...

TWEET THAT CLASS: We slipped into a talk at the Palo Alto Commonwealth Club by Sebastian Thrun, founder and CEO of Udacity. Along with telling his story of how Udacity got started---and even ...