Rodney Brooks

Born: 1954-12-30 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

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.