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EPISODE · Apr 13, 2026 · 32 MIN

Self-Driving Cars in the 1980s (!) with Dean Pomerleau

from Machine Learning: How Did We Get Here? · host Tom Mitchell | Stanford Digital Economy Lab | Carnegie Mellon University

Tom meets with Dr. Dean Pomerleau, who as a CMU PhD student in the 1980s was the first person to demonstrate that a neural network could be trained to automatically steer a self-driving vehicle.Dean's results shocked the research community, and paved the way for decades of follow-on research leading to today's self-driving cars.

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