Dr. Rodney Brooks
MIT Computer Science & AI Laboratory
Biography
Dr. Rodney Brooks is Director (until June 30, 2007) of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and is the Panasonic Professor of Robotics at MIT. He is also CTO of iRobot Corp (Nasdaq: IRBT). He received degrees in pure mathematics from the Flinders University of South Australia and the Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1981. He held research positions at Carnegie Mellon University and MIT, and a faculty position at Stanford before joining the faculty of MIT in 1984. He has published papers and books in model-based computer vision, path planning, uncertainty analysis, robot assembly, active vision, autonomous robots, micro-robots, micro-actuators, planetary exploration, representation, artificial life, humanoid robots, and compiler design. Dr. Brooks is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Founding Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and a Corresponding Member of the Australian Academy of Science, and a Foreign Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.