Hennessy, a professor of electricalengineeringandcomputerscience with 23 years at Stanford, has the right background to figure out the university's new role.
Federighi holds a Master of Science degree in ComputerScienceand a Bachelor of Science in ElectricalEngineeringandComputerScience from the University of California, Berkeley.
In his Google blog post, Mr Thrun - professor of computerscienceandelectricalengineering at Stanford University - insisted that safety was the "first priority" in the project.