Chris Urmson


Google Car Presentation vmWorld 2012 Sand Francisco with Chris Urmson

Published on Sep 26, 2012

Google Car vmWorld 2012 Sand Francisco Chris Urmson
Techincal Lead for Google Car Project
Live @ vmWorld 2012 San Francisco Moscone Center
 

Chris Urmson: How a driverless car sees the road

Published on Jun 26, 2015

Statistically, the least reliable part of the car is ... the driver. Chris Urmson heads up Google's driverless car program, one of several efforts to remove humans from the driver's seat. He talks about where his program is right now, and shares fascinating footage that shows how the car sees the road and makes autonomous decisions about what to do next.
 

Chris Urmson: Perspectives on self-driving cars

Streamed live on Apr 20, 2017

Chris Urmson, CEO & co-founder Aurora

Perspectives on Self-Driving Cars

Abstract:
Self-driving vehicles will save millions of lives, make cities more liveable, save resources, and transform transportation to be more accessible and enjoyable for everyone. Despite a decade of rapid advancement in the state-of-the-art, perception of the technology still lands somewhere between solved and unsolveable.
Over the last decade I’ve had the chance to have a front row seat, watching the technology and industry evolve. In this talk I will share perspectives on the technology, the players and what the future holds.

Bio:
Chris Urmson is the co-founder and CEO of Aurora, a company focused on making self-driving cars a reality. Chris led Google’s self-driving car program and was a member of the faculty of the Robotics Institute.
His research focused on motion planning and perception for robotic vehicles. During his time at Carnegie Mellon, he worked with house size trucks, drove robots around in deserts, and was part of the DARPA Urban and Grand Challenge teams. Chris earned his PhD in 2005 from Carnegie Mellon and his BSc in computer engineering from the University of Manitoba in 1998.
 
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