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Rodney A. Brooks is currently (2004) Director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and Fujitsu Professor of Computer Science. He is Chairman and Chief Technical Officer of iRobot Corp[1] and on the board of the Intelligent Inspection Corporation.

Table of contents

1 Career summary, research
2 Publications
3 Memberships, lectureships, prizes, etc
4 External links

Career summary, research

Degree in pure mathematics from Flinders University of South Australia
Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University (1981)
Research positions at Carnegie Mellon University and MIT
Faculty position at Stanford
Joined the faculty of MIT (1984)

Current research:

engineering intelligent robots to operate in unstructured environments
understanding human intelligence through building humanoid robots

Publications

Recent books and papers:

Cambrian Intelligence (MIT Press, 1999)
The Relationship Between Matter and Life (in Nature 409, pp. 409-411; 2001)
Flesh and Machines (Pantheon, 2002)

Other publications include papers and books in:

model-based computer vision

uncertainty analysis

autonomous robots
micro-robots
micro-actuators
planetary exploration
representation
artificial life
humanoid robots
compiler design

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

Adaptive Behavior
Artificial Life
Applied Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Robots
New Generation Computing

Memberships, lectureships, prizes, etc

Memberships include:

Founding Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Prizes include:

Computers and Thought Award at the 1991 IJCAI (International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence)

Lectureships include:

Cray lecturer at the University of Minnesota
Mellon lecturer at Dartmouth College
Hyland lecturer at Hughes
Forsythe lecturer at Stanford University

Film appearances include:

Being himself in the Errol Morris movie Fast, Cheap and Out of Control (named after one of his scientific papers)

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