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    Tony Tether | then: Director of Darpa (2001–2009) | now: Private technical consultant
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    Jose Negron | then: Darpa’s day-to-day manager for the Grand Challenge | now: Cyberwarfare consultant
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    Joseph Bebel | then: Student at Palos Verdes High School | now: PhD student in computer science at USC
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    David Hall | then: CEO of Velodyne, a loudspeaker company | now: CEO of Velodyne, now making lidar laser sensors
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    Melanie Dumas | then: Voice- recognition engineer | now: Program manager on Google’s security team
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    Jim McBride | then: Engineer in Ford’s safety department | now: Autonomous vehicle specialist at Ford
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    Sal Fish | then: CEO of Score International, which organized desert races like the Baja 1000 | now: Retired
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    Alberto Broggi | then: Lead on Team TerraMax | now: General manager of VisLab, a computer vision developer
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    Chris Urmson | then: Robotics student at Carnegie Mellon| now: Head of Aurora Innovation, a self-driving startup
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    Red Whittaker | then: Robotics researcher at Carnegie Mellon | now: Same
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    Sebastian Thrun | then: Machine-learning researcher at Stanford | now: Head of online university Udacity
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