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Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Rodney Allen Brooks (born 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rodney Brooks, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Awards & recognition
- IEEE Founders Medal · 2023
- Corresponding Member of the Australian Academy of Science · 2006
- Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science · 2006
- ACM Fellow · 2005
- IJCAI Computers and Thought Award · 1991
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- AAAI Fellow · 1990
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Fellow of the American Association — the Advancement of Science
