Rodney Allen Brooks (b. 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.
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Rodney Allen Brooks (b. 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.
In his classic paper, "Elephants Don't Play Chess.," Brooks argued that interacting with the physical world is far more difficult than symbolically reasoning about it.
Symbolic computational approaches to creating intelligent machines had long been the focus of AI since the days of Alan Turing, directly tracing back to the work of Gottlob Frege. Brooks focused instead on biologically-inspired robotic architectures (e.g., the Subsumption architecture) that address basic perceptual and sensorimotor tasks.
Currently, Professor Brooks's work focuses on engineering...
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