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Sebastian Thrun
Professor Sebastian Thrun is Director of the Stanford University Artificial
Intelligence Lab, where he pursues research on machine learning and robotics.
He is a founding member of Robotics Science and Systems and is Vice President
of the Neural Information Processing System Foundation. Thrun was named one of
Popular Science magazine's "Brilliant Ten" in 2005.
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William "Red" Whittaker
William "Red" Whittaker is the Fredkin Professor of Robotics and Director of
the Field Robotics Center at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also cofounder
and Chief Scientist of RedZone Robotics. Whittaker has 16 patents and has
authored or coauthored over 200 publications.
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Ron Kurjanowicz
Ron Kurjanowicz is Chief of Staff for the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency (DARPA), specializing in acquisition of new technologies for the United
States Department of Defense. In 2005, he served as Program Manager for the
DARPA Grand Challenge.
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Wayt Gibbs
Wayt Gibbs has been a Senior Writer for Scientific American since 1998.
He has authored over 210 bylined articles for the magazine, covering a wide
range of science and technology issues. He lives and works in Pittsburgh,
PA.
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Bruce Hall
Bruce Hall is a founding member of Team Digital Auto Drive, a research and
development organization specializing in vision-recognition-based 3-D Imaging
and navigational technologies. Team DAD is based in Morgan Hill, California.
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Gary Schmiedel
Gary Schmiedel is Vice President of Advanced Product Engineering for Oshkosh
Truck Corporation. He currently leads the TerraMax project and is working to
create an autonomous version of an Oshkosh off-road vehicle originally designed
for the U.S. Marine Corps.
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Anthony Levandowski
Anthony Levandowski is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley.
He currently leads the Blue Team, a group comprised of graduate and
undergraduate students working on an autonomous motorcycle.
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Kevin Peterson
Kevin Peterson is a graduate student and electrical engineer at Carnegie
Mellon's Robotics Institute, where he leads team "Sandstorm," the second of
CMU's two entries into the Grand Challenge. His main interests are field
robotics and planning.
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