Data Mining, Down Under

Sebastian Thrun of Stanford Racing gives a great a talk on what it took build an autonomous vehicle to win the DARPA Grand Challenge. There are lots of cool technical details on the use of machine learning to achieve this. You can watch it on Google Video here.

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Start your engines, the DARPA Grand Challenge is on again only this time its an urban challenge! The last two competitions were to race an autonomous vehicle through a desert, with the 2005 winner, Standford, taking home a US$2 million prize.

Stanford’s software in action: Input from GPS and many sensors feed the [...]

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