Rodney Brooks

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Rodney Allen Brooks

Rodney Brooks in 2005
Born December 30, 1954 (1954-12-30) (age 54)
Adelaide
Residence Flag of the United States.svg U.S.
Nationality Flag of Australia.svg Australian
Fields Robotics
Institutions MIT
Alma mater Stanford University
Flinders University

Rodney Allen Brooks (b. December 30, 1954, in Adelaide, Australia) is a professor of robotics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since 1986 he has authored a series of highly influential papers, which have inaugurated a fundamental shift in artificial intelligence research. Outside the scientific community, Brooks is also known for his appearance in a film featuring him and his work, Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control.

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[edit] Scientific approach: biologically-inspired robotics

In his classic paper, "Elephants Don't Play Chess.", Brooks argued that interacting with the physical world is far more difficult than symbolically reasoning about it.

Symbolic computational approaches to creating intelligent machines had long been the focus of AI since the days of Alan Turing, directly tracing back to the work of Gottlob Frege. Brooks focused instead on biologically-inspired robotic architectures (e.g., the subsumption architecture) that address basic perceptual and sensorimotor tasks.

Currently, Brooks's work focuses on engineering intelligent robots to operate in unstructured environments, and understanding human intelligence through building humanoid robots.

In the late 1980s Brooks and his team introduced Allen, a robot using subsumption architecture.

[edit] Career summary

[edit] Leadership

Brooks currently serves as Panasonic Professor of Robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is Chief Technical Officer and sits on the Board of iRobot Corp. From July 1, 2003, until June 30, 2007, he was director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; prior to that, he was director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

[edit] Research

Previous research:

[edit] Corporate spin-offs

[edit] Publications

Recent books and papers:

  • Cambrian Intelligence: The Early History of the New AI (MIT Press, 1999) ISBN 0-262-52263-2
  • K. Warwick "Out of the Shady age: the best of robotics compilation", Review of Cambrian Intelligence: the early history of AI, by R A Brooks, Times Higher Educational Supplement, p. 32, 15th Sept. 2000.

Other publications include papers and books in:

Prof. Brooks was also co-founding editor of the International Journal of Computer Vision and is on the editorial boards of various journals including:

[edit] Memberships, lectureships, prizes, etc

Memberships include:

Prizes include:

Lectureships include:

Film appearances include:

[edit] Sources

  1. ^ "FOXNews.com - Scientist: Military Working on Cyborg Spy Moths". http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,276182,00.html. Retrieved 2008-06-24. 

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