Rodney Brooks
Acting
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.
Known For
The landmark documentary series that captures real life drama at its most intense, following police detectives around the clock as they investigate major crimes.
24 Hours in Police Custody
If machines can be smarter than people, is humanity really anything special?
Machine
Jamali Maddix meets extraordinary characters making a living in the digital era, from online sex workers to bitcoin millionaires and children supporting their families by uploading viral content
Adventures in Futureland
Errol Morris’s Fast, Cheap & Out of Control interweaves the stories of four men, each driven to create eccentric worlds from their unique obsessions, all of which involve animals. There’s a lion tamer who shares his theories on the mental processes of wild animals; a topiary gardener who has devoted a lifetime to shaping bears and giraffes out of hedges and trees; a man fascinated with hairless mole rats; and an MIT scientist who has designed complex, autonomous robots that can crawl like bugs.
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
"Three Tales" is a video music work by American composer Steve Reich and video artist Beryl Korot. It is set in three "Acts", each depicting a technological advance of the 20th century and its negative implications on humanity: the dirigible airship Hindenburg and its explosion; the Atom Bomb and its testing on Bikini Atoll; and Dolly the sheep, first successful genetic cloning of a mammal.