Autonomous vehicle pioneers Karl Iagnemma and Chris Urmson are coming to TC Sessions: Mobility 2021
Long before the multimillion-dollar acquisitions and funding rounds pushed autonomous vehicles to the top of the hype cycle,
Karl Iagnemma and
Chris Urmson were researching and, later, developing the foundations of the technology.
These pioneers Iagnemma coming from MIT, Urmson from Carnegie Mellon University would eventually go on to launch their own autonomous vehicle startups in an aim to finally bring years of R&D to the public.
That task isn’t over quite yet. Urmson, who is co-founder and CEO of Aurora, and Iagnemma, who is president and CEO of Motional, are still working on unlocking the technical and business problems that stand in the way of commercialization.
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Bryanston School is taking steps to nurture creativity as an antidote to pandemic frustrations and is extending its initiatives to include other local schools. Special workshops delivered by acclaimed and award-winning artists are the latest in a series of online events at Bryanston. The aim is that pupils are challenged to explore their imagination and develop their artistic skills and ideas whilst away from the school environment. Pupils in Years 11 and 12 at The Blandford School have also been invited to join the next live online workshop, to be hosted by highly respected portrait artist Paul Brandford. Bryanston’s Art Department is also exploring the possibility of producing a series of short films to promote creativity in online art lessons for primary schools within the Blandford Schools Network once current restrictions are lifted.
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If you thought rocket science was hard, try training a computer to safely change lanes while behind the wheel of a full-size SUV in heavy drivetime traffic. Autonomous vehicle developers have faced myriad similar challenged over the past three decades but nothing, it seems, turns the wheels of innovation quite like a bit of good, old-fashioned competition one which DARPA was only more than happy to provide.
In
Insider senior editor and former
Wired Transportation editor, Alex Davies takes the reader on an immersive tour of DARPA’s “Grand Challenges” the agency’s autonomous vehicle trials which drew top talents from across academia and the private sector in effort to spur on the state of autonomous vehicle technology as well as profiles many of the elite engineers that took place in the competitions.