The obvious question was staring me right in the face. When discussing the online learning platform Udacity with its founder Sebastian Thrun — who co-founded Google X — there was one thing I just had ...

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) — distance-learning courses open to an unlimited number of people on the web — are estimated to become an $8.5 billion industry by 2020, up from almost $2 billion ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Silicon Valley online education platform Udacity has already received more than 11,000 applicants for its so-called nanodegree in self-driving car engineering, Udacity ...

Sebastian Thrun is a world-class innovator with big ideas. The German-born computer scientist is the mind behind the first driverless car and Google Glass. CBS News' John Blackstone looked at his ...

Massively open online course (MOOC) provider Udacity today announced that cofounder Sebastian Thrun is stepping down from the chief executive position and is being replaced by Vish Makhijani, who has ...

Sebastian Thrun has built a lot of high-tech inventions over his career, from prize-winning robots at Stanford to Google Street View and the secretive Google[x] lab, where he helped get Google on the ...

Udacity, the $1 billion online education startup, has laid off about 20 percent of its workforce and is restructuring its operations as the company’s co-founder Sebastian Thrun seeks to bring costs in ...

Udacity's high-profile chief executive, Sebastian Thrun, is at it again. Having just raised $35 million in new venture capital, he is bristling with plans to keep expanding in online instruction, ...

Sebastian Thrun, who declared some of his own company’s massive open online courses (MOOCs) as “lousy” products, is continuing to distance the experimental online classes from the traditional courses ...

Sebastian Thrun electrified the world in late 2011 when 160,000 people from around the world signed up to take the free online class that he and colleague Peter Norvig offered at Stanford University ...

Udacity seemed to stumble last month when it restructured and laid off about 20% of its workforce. But founder, executive chairman and interim CEO Sebastian Thrun tells Business Insider that the ...

“I’m a fighter. I believe in our people, I believe in our mission, and I believe that it should exist and must exist.” Sebastian Thrun is talking animatedly about Udacity, the $1 billion online ...