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
Artificial creatures date back to the ancient Chinese and Greeks. Renaissance automata were designed primarily to entertain, reflecting the value placed on leisure.
As much as I want to use Suffern as a platform to get out there, I want this effort to be broader than that. ... We just want to save one person.
Biologists spend a great deal of time observing and recording nature using traditional video equipment. So we're trying to help them bring the latest technology into the field.
I think there's a fantasy around technology, that technology is being promoted and envisioned as larger than it really is. I try to make people think about the limitations of technology in a way that isn't obvious or didactic.
The computers have to talk to each other. The networks have to work. There are many ingredients. With all our fancy computers and networks, we still can't predict the Earth.
It's a perfect medium to target hard-to-reach audiences.
There will be a vocabulary of moves to go with the vocabulary of sounds. Their order will be decided by what Earth is doing that particular evening.
PowerPoint is the Rodney Dangerfield of software. It gets no respect.
With the market rapidly embracing the benefits of digital signage, and a growing interest in narrowcasting by advertisers, we are excited to announce the 2.0 release of our NEOCAST Media Server software to the marketplace. With the enhanced capabilities, customers will continue to enjoy the market leading digital signage features NEOCAST offers, plus have the needed assurance the solution will continue to evolve as new digital signage standards and demands emerge.
'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.
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.