[deepnet]

Professor Thrun changed my life, I and many tens of thousands around the world graduated from his classes, gaining an education that would have been impossible for many of us.

I am forever in his debt for his tireless work as an educator and his work on SLAM & Self Driving Cars.

Being taught by practitioners at the cutting edge of research like Thrun, Norvig, Ng, & Hinton is the education I dreamed of. I hope that Udacity develops into a full research vehicle and offers its own qualifications, the UKs Open University is a good model for this.

His 2015 talk on democratising education is visionary, practical and disruptive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=898S7o9UnPA

[Gargoyle]

It's interesting that the HN community thinks this comment should be downvoted. There's nothing wrong with it in any way.