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 ...

NEW YORK – Today we drive cars, shell out enormous sums for higher education and navigate the world with electronics that demand the unwavering attention of our ears, eyes, hands and feet. Google's ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are few entrepreneurs who can compete with Sebastian Thrun in terms of creativity and breadth of innovation. He led the development of Stanley, a robotic vehicle on the 2005 DARPA Grand ...

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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 ...

Flying cars could be in air space within five years, Sebastian Thrun, the CEO of Kitty Hawk, a company backed Alphabet Chief Executive Larry Page, told CNBC. Thrun said flying cars are in the "science ...

Sebastian Thrun has left the building — the Google X building, that is. The founder of search giant Google’s factory to develop and build “moonshot” technologies, who launched the company’s driverless ...

Picture this: You’re the founder of a secretive research and development lab at one of the hottest companies in the world, likely paid a handsome salary for the privilege, and your name is in the ...