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Chris Urmson: Aurora CEO - Autonomous Driving

Behind The Tech with Kevin Scott

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Did You Think You'd Be a Computer Science Professor?

When he was a graduate student, I was pretty convinced I wanted to be a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon because it seemed like a great place. And then I spent a couple of years on the faculty and worked with Caterpillar. In 2008, Google asked me to lead their self-driving car team for two years. "I came to realize that they had this incredible engineering resource"

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