Stanford team wins DARPA Grand Challenge.(AAAI News: Winter News from the American Association for Artificial Intelligence)(Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency )(Brief article)

From: AI Magazine | Date: December 22, 2005 | Copyright information

AAAI congratulates Sebastian Thrun, associate professor of computer science at Stanford University and director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and the entire Stanford Racing Team on their recent victory in the DARPA Grand Challenge, a 17S-mile driverless race across the Mojave Desert in California and Nevada. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) launched the Grand Challenge in 2004 to speed the development of autonomous off-road vehicles. Stanfo...

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