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Brooks, Rodney A. |
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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Computer and Information Sciences |
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Dr. Brooks' research has concerned a wide range of questions in computer vision, Artificial Intelligence, robotics, human-robot interaction, and Artificial Life. Additionally, since 1984, he has had a constant practice of commercializing that research through a series of six startup companies. His research has always had a strong component of looking at current research in animal and human psychology, behavior, and neuroscience, and applying those findings to develop computational approaches that provide practical algorithms for a wide range of applications. These approaches have included top-down model-based object recognition, spatial representations for building maps and planning motions in the mapped world, reactive behaviors based on a wide variety of sensory inputs, social interactions with humans, neural control of insect walking and of human upper torso motions, direct evolution of computer programs, and evolution of embodied robots. More recently he has concentrated on philosophical aspects of the origin of common assumptions about the computational nature of both Artificial Intelligence neuroscience. |
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