Ken Goldberg
Ken Goldberg
Kenneth Y. Goldbergis an American artist, writer, inventor, and researcher in the field of robotics and automation. He is the craigslist Distinguished Professor of New Media and Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, with joint appointments in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Art Practice, and the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. Goldberg also holds an appointment in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of California, San Francisco...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
CountryUnited States of America
If you got everything you wanted, you wouldn't have everything you need.
PowerPoint is the Rodney Dangerfield of software. It gets no respect.
We thought he was headed to a safe environment and a good chance to get control of his situation.
To have nature directly admitted into the San Francisco Opera House is pretty risky because of its unpredictability. As far as we know, nothing like this has ever been done.
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The rangers want to show people what can happen if they leave food in their cars. Of course, viewers safe at home may enjoy watching the brutes at work: Go Bears!
'Bloom' is basically the idea that all flesh is grass, and that we can look at natural plant growth and organic material as outgrowths of the Earth.
Artificial creatures date back to the ancient Chinese and Greeks. Renaissance automata were designed primarily to entertain, reflecting the value placed on leisure.
The Web meant that I didn't have to schlep a whole bunch of stuff to a museum and fight with all their constraints and make something that, in the end, only 150 people would actually get out to see. Instead, I could put something together in my lab and make it accessible to the world.
We're fascinated with robots because they are reflections of ourselves.
As humans embrace new forms of social media to keep connected with friends and colleagues, our robots are becoming increasingly sociable.
Epistemology has always been affected by technologies like the telescope and the microscope, things that have created a radical shift in how we sense physical reality.
I was interested in the questions that come up when the Internet gives you access not just to JSTOR libraries and to digital information, but also to things that are live and dynamic and organic in some way.
What was really interesting to me about 'The Telegarden' was this idea of connecting the physical world, the natural world, and the social world through the Internet.