Hat tip to CaryGEE."[Thrun] eventually found his way to Stanford, leading the university team's entry in the 2005 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) Grand Challenge to create an autonomous vehicle that could navigate 132 miles through a desert. He insisted on a blank slate, letting student imaginations run wild as opposed to proving that some professor's arcane research actually works. "It's sad that we never get trained to leave assumptions behind," he says. Stanford won by 11 minutes."
Monday, June 18, 2012
The Future of Research? Train to Leave Assumptions Behind
Andy Kessler at the Wall Street Journal online writes in
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