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Rodney Brooks

AKA Rodney Allen Brooks

Born: 30-Dec-1954
Birthplace: Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Scientist

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Robotics researcher, director of MIT CS and AI Lab

    University: BS Pure Mathematics, Flinders University of South Australia
    University: PhD Computer Science, Stanford University (1981)
    Professor: Computer Science Department, MIT (1984-)

    iRobot CTO (1990-)
    Member of the Board of iRobot (as Chairman, 1990-)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science
    Association for Computing Machinery Fellow
    edge.org
    National Academy of Engineering
    Obama for America
    The Third Culture

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (7-Sep-1997) Himself

Official Website:
http://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/

Author of books:
Cambrian Intelligence: The Early History of the New AI (1999)
Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us: The Early History of the New AI (2002)


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