David Stavens


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David Stavens is an American entrepreneur, scientist and co-founder and CEO of Nines, a Silicon Valley teleradiology practice.[5][6][7] He was co-founder and CEO of Udacity and a co-creator of Stanley,[8][9][10][11] the winning car of the second driverless car competition of the DARPA Grand Challenge.[12] Stavens has published in the fields of robotics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.[13]

Early life and education

Stavens grew up in Sioux City, Iowa and attended Princeton University, graduating with a B.S.E. in Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude, at age 19.[14] He is an alumnus of Stanford University's Computer Science department for both M.S.[15] and Ph.D.[16] programs. His Ph.D. was advised by Sebastian Thrun.[17]

Autonomous cars

Stavens was a co-creator on Stanford’s autonomous car team.[18] The team built Stanley, the winner of the second driverless car competition of the DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005. Stanley has been on display in the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History[19] and National Air and Space Museum.[20] Academic publications from the team (by Stavens along with Hendrik Dahlkamp, Adrian Kaehler, Sebastian Thrun, Gary Bradski) state that they applied self-supervised learning, to detect drivable surfaces in the desert for self-driving cars which led the vehicle to win the race.[21] Stavens's publications state that they apply the concept of self-supervised learning to autonomous driving with the benefit of avoiding human intervention.[22][23] His dissertation states that this self-supervised learning approach has the potential to improve human driving performance.[4] The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab awarded Stavens a gold medal "For his groundbreaking contributions to the winning DARPA Grand Challenge vehicle...."[24]

The Stanford autonomous driving team ultimately joined Google as the foundation of Google's self-driving car team (Waymo).[25]

Stavens also made contributions to the 2009 NASA Mars Rover Mission.[26]

Indoor WiFi maps

Stavens also worked on research at Stanford on indoor localization using WiFi signal strength measurements. The goal was to create a system capable of delivering GPS-quality localization indoors, where GPS satellites do not function. He and Jesse Levinson were winners of the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship in 2009 which provided $100,000 in funding for the research.[27]

He published the research along with Joseph Huang, David Millman, Morgan Quigley, Sebastian Thrun, and Alok Aggarwal, stating that it produced excellent results in practice.[28] Joseph Huang went on to found an indoor localization start-up, WifiSLAM,[29] that was acquired by Apple.[30]

Online education

Stavens co-founded and was CEO of Udacity.[31] Udacity helped popularize the concept of the offering college courses for free as Massive open online course's (MOOC),[32] intended to make high-quality education accessible and nearly free around the entire world via Internet.[33]

As CEO, he grew the company to 160,000 students and 20 employees.[34] Udacity was valued at $1 billion in 2015.[35] As of 2018, Udacity had over 50,000 paid students and $70 million in revenue.[36]

References

  1. ^ Efrati, Amir (2012-04-12). "Start-Up Expands Free Course Offerings Online". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2018-04-04.
  2. ^ Thrun, Sebastián; Montemerlo, Mike; Dahlkamp, ​​Hendrik; Stavens, David; Aron, Andrei; Diebel, James; Fong, Philip; Gale, John; Halpenny, Morgan (2007). El Gran Desafío DARPA 2005 . Springer Tracts en Robótica Avanzada. Springer, Berlín, Heidelberg. págs. 1-43. doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-540-73429-1_1 . ISBN 9783540734284.
  3. ^ David Stavens en el Proyecto de genealogía de las matemáticas . Consultado el 4 de marzo de 2018.
  4. ^ a b "Aprender a conducir [recurso electrónico]: percepción de los coches autónomos en el catálogo de SearchWorks" . searchworks.stanford.edu . Consultado el 4 de marzo de 2018 .
  5. ^ "Microsoft académico" . academic.microsoft.com . Consultado el 8 de julio de 2021 .
  6. ^ Inc, Nueve. "Líder de teleradiología recibe autorización de la FDA por su herramienta de medición de nódulos pulmonares construida con inteligencia artificial" . www.prnewswire.com . Consultado el 8 de julio de 2021 .
  7. ^ "Liderazgo de la práctica de radiología superior I Nines Teleradiology" . www.nines.com . Consultado el 8 de julio de 2021 .
  8. ^ Leckart, Steven. "El experimento de la educación de Stanford podría cambiar el aprendizaje superior para siempre" . CON CABLE . Consultado el 14 de marzo de 2018 .
  9. ^ "El pionero en línea Udacity aterriza una ronda de $ 105 millones y una valoración de $ 1 mil millones" . USA HOY . Consultado el 8 de julio de 2021 .
  10. ^ Anderson, Stuart. "Sebastian Thrun: Udacity no existiría sin inmigrantes" . Forbes . Consultado el 8 de julio de 2021 .
  11. ^ Poletti, Teresa. "Por qué el padre del coche autónomo dejó Google" . MarketWatch . Consultado el 8 de julio de 2021 .
  12. ^ Davis, Joshua. "Dile hola a Stanley" . CON CABLE . Consultado el 4 de marzo de 2018 .
  13. ^ "David Stavens - Citas de Google Académico" . scholar.google.com . Consultado el 4 de marzo de 2018 .
  14. ^ "Página de inicio de David Stavens" . ai.stanford.edu . Consultado el 3 de abril de 2018 .
  15. ^ "Maestros Alumnos | Ciencias de la Computación de Stanford" . cs.stanford.edu . Consultado el 3 de abril de 2018 .
  16. ^ "Alumnos de doctorado | Ciencias de la computación de Stanford" . cs.stanford.edu . Consultado el 4 de marzo de 2018 .
  17. ^ "David Stavens - el proyecto de genealogía de las matemáticas" . www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu . Consultado el 4 de marzo de 2018 .
  18. ^ Poletti, Teresa. "Por qué el padre del coche autónomo dejó Google" . MarketWatch . Consultado el 16 de marzo de 2018 .
  19. ^ " Coche robot " Stanley " . Museo Nacional de Historia Americana . Consultado el 4 de marzo de 2018 .
  20. ^ "Stanley se muda" . Museo Nacional del Aire y el Espacio . 2012-11-09 . Consultado el 4 de marzo de 2018 .
  21. Dahlkamp, ​​H .; Kaehler, A .; Stavens, D .; Thrun, S .; Bradski, G. (16 de agosto de 2006). Detección de carreteras monoculares autosupervisadas en terrenos desérticos . 02 . ISBN 9780262693486.
  22. ^ Stavens, David; Thrun, Sebastián (13 de julio de 2006). Un estimador de rugosidad del terreno auto-supervisado para conducción autónoma todoterreno . Prensa AUAI. págs. 469–476. ISBN 978-0974903927.
  23. ^ Stavens, D .; Thrun, S. (junio de 2010). Aprendizaje no supervisado de características invariantes mediante video . 2010 IEEE Computer Society Conference sobre visión por computadora y reconocimiento de patrones . págs. 1649-1656. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.300.2068 . doi : 10.1109 / CVPR.2010.5539773 . ISBN  978-1-4244-6984-0.
  24. ^ "David Stavens, charla, medalla de oro para algoritmos de visión DARPA Grand Challenge" . searchworks.stanford.edu .
  25. ^ "A qué nos dirigimos" . Blog oficial de Google . Consultado el 4 de marzo de 2018 .
  26. Ghosh, Shona (9 de marzo de 2013). "Google Glass: los científicos detrás de las gafas de realidad aumentada de Google" . ISSN 0307-1235 . Consultado el 4 de marzo de 2018 . 
  27. ^ "Ganadores de becas de innovación de Qualcomm | Qualcomm" . Qualcomm . Consultado el 4 de marzo de 2018 .
  28. ^ Huang, J .; Millman, D .; Quigley, M .; Stavens, D .; Thrun, S .; Aggarwal, A. (mayo de 2011). WiFi GraphSLAM interior generalizado y eficiente . 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation . págs. 1038–1043. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.378.5332 . doi : 10.1109 / ICRA.2011.5979643 . ISBN  978-1-61284-386-5.
  29. ^ "La ubicación interior está lista para su segundo acto (exclusivo)" . VentureBeat . 2012-08-30 . Consultado el 4 de marzo de 2018 .
  30. ^ "Apple compra WifiSLAM empresa de mapeo interior" . Business Insider . Consultado el 4 de marzo de 2018 .
  31. ^ Cheshire, Tom. "La universidad acaba de cambiar: cómo el video en línea está abriendo conocimiento al mundo" . Revista cableada . Consultado el 4 de abril de 2018 .
  32. ^ "Udacity Official Declares MOOCs 'Dead' (Though the Company Still Offers Them) - EdSurge News". EdSurge. 2017-10-12. Retrieved 2018-03-16.
  33. ^ "Udacity's Sebastian Thrun, Godfather Of Free Online Education, Changes Course". Fast Company. 2013-11-14. Retrieved 2018-03-16.
  34. ^ Efrati, Amir (2012-04-12). "Start-Up Expands Free Course Offerings Online". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2018-03-04.
  35. ^ "Udacity Raises $105 Million Series D, Bringing Valuation To $1 Billion – TechCrunch". techcrunch.com. Retrieved 2018-03-16.
  36. ^ "Udacity, with eye to eventual IPO, says revenue more than doubled..." Reuters. 2018-02-27. Retrieved 2018-03-04.

External Links

  • Udacity Official Website
  • Nines Official Website
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