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	Science Show - 1/09/01: Artificial Intelligence and You
		Rodney Brooks: I used to think that that was a possibility but my current answer is no, they’re not going to take over from us because there isn’t going to be anyus for them to take over from, because we are going to become robots over the next 20, 30, 40, 50 years.
		Rodney Brooks: Well, there’s a technological push, a clinical push for people who have diseases or amputations, or macular degeneration in their eyes, or they’ve gone deaf, there’s quite an understandable push to build technologies to help them.
		Rodney Brooks: Well, the big fear from Hollywood movies is that the robots will be so much smarter and more powerful than us, but the most advanced robots today can still be beaten by a person in the loop with the advanced robot.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/science/ss/stories/s354748.htm (1020 words)

	brooks: University of Utah News Release: April 3, 2002
		Rodney Brooks is a professor of computer science and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab.
		Brooks notes that modern molecular biology "is based on the assumption we are living machines, we are made up of biomolecules that interact in a lawful way.
		Brooks notes that the gap between humans and robots is narrowing with the growing use of heart pacemakers, artificial hips and other mechanical and electronic parts in people.
	www.utah.edu /unews/releases/02/apr/brooks.html (639 words)

	Flesh and Machines : How Robots Will Change Us
		Rodney Brooks, a leading roboticist and computer science professor, believes that robots in the future will probably be nothing like such all-knowing brain machines as 2001's HAL, nor will they resemble the sleek cyborgs of other Hollywood nightmares.
		Rodney Brooks: While I think this is a question we will need to address in the future, I think we will have some marginally simpler ethical issues to deal with in the shorter term -- over the next 10 to 20 years.
		Rodney Brooks: While there is an optimistic interpretation of all these technologies, I think there are a lot of ethical issues that we will all have to face over the next 10 to 20 years.
	www.robotbooks.com /Rodney_Brooks.htm (1166 words)

	NetFuture #146
		Apparently fearing that we will be insufficiently gripped by his message, Brooks (who is director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT) goes on to say in the space of three pages: The body, this mass of biomolecules, is a machine that acts according to a set of specifiable rules....
		When, using the characteristic language of the insecure reductionist ("we are nothing more than"), Brooks refers to molecular interactions and says emphatically, "that is all there is", he is engaged in a startlingly transparent argument from ignorance.
		Brooks might reply that, at some higher level of explanation, quantum weirdness (and the unknowns lying beneath it) manage to even themselves out, leaving us with the hope of identifying neat mechanisms at this higher level.
	www.netfuture.org /2003/Jun2403_146.html (3173 words)

	2001: HAL's Legacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rodney Brooks is a Fujitsu Professor of Computer Science and Engineering (EECS Dept), and Director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
		Brooks: Of course 2001 was the first movie I saw with computer graphics and those sorts of things so it just looked incredibly futuristic to me. And the model of the space ship which are now commonplace was completely new.
		Brooks: Back in 1968 AI was dealing with teletype input where you could type a very simple phrase or equation and the system could echo back with some analysis of it.
	www.2001halslegacy.com /interviews/brooks.html (954 words)

	Suspect sought in 2 bank heists
		Brooks allegedly approached a teller, put his right hand into his pocket to simulate a weapon and said, "This is a robbery.
		The 16-year veteran immediately reocgnized Brooks because "he was a suspect in several petty theft daytime burglaries in the Oakland area during 2003," Walden wrote.
		Brooks is being sought on a no-bail arrest warrant.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/06/13/BAbank13.DTL&type=printable (396 words)

	Brooks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charles William Shirley Brooks (1816–1874), an English journalist and novelist
		Brooks Brothers, the oldest surviving men's clothier in the United States
		Brooks England, an English bicycle leather saddle manufacturer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brooks (245 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us - Rodney Allen Brooks - Hardcover
		Brooks begins with a brief but comprehensive overview of the field of research into AI and robotics, then dives quickly into his and his fellow enthusiasts' work as they engineer one strange, insect-looking (and weirdly human-acting) metallic creature after another.
		Brooks points the way toward a future where humans work in tandem with and even begin to resemble a host of his fast, cheap creations not a science fiction utopia, but a future where people have a lot more and better tools to work with.
		Rodney A. Brooks is Fujitsu Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT and director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
	btobsearch.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?btob=Y&isbn=0375420797&pwb=1 (968 words)

	Review of Flesh and Machines
		Rodney A. Brooks, director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, presents a manifesto on robots and robotics.
		Brooks spends a great deal of time discussing robots built in the past few decades, especially those he was responsible for.
		Brooks' future is not very far off, and, in the end, he offers little insight in to what awaits us in this domain.
	www.techsoc.com /flesh.htm (668 words)

	Brooks Rodney A - new and used books
		BROOKS, RODNEY A. THE MIT PRESS LTD, USA Presents Rodney Brooks's initial formulation of and contributions to the development of the behavioural approach to robotics.
		BROOKS, RODNEY A. MIT PRESS LTD 1999 New paperback Presents Rodney Brooks's initial formulation of and contributions to the development of the behavioural approach to robotics.
		Brooks, Rodney A. Cambrian Intelligence The Early History of the New AI.
	www.isbn.pl /A-brooks-rodney-a (570 words)

	UGA - AgEcon - Features of the semester
		Rodney Brooks is an M.S. student at the UGA Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics.
		Rodney's goal is to be financially secure and to be able to give back to the community in which he grew up, Quitman, Georgia.
		Rodney states that he "cherishes" the time he is able to spend with his wife, Shala, his six year old daughter, Druscila, his seven month old son, Rodney, Jr., and other family members.
	www.agecon.uga.edu /~aaec/features_spring03.html (2304 words)

	Rodney Brooks Encyclopedia Article @ aNewLow.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Brooks has argued strongly against symbolic processing approaches to creating intelligent machines, which had been the focus of AI since the days of Alan Turing, directly tracing back to the work of Gottlob Frege.
		Instead, Brooks has focused on biologically-inspired robotic architectures (e.g., the Subsumption architecture) that address basic perceptual and sensorimotor tasks.
		Brooks impact of the field has been enormous and his influence rivals that of Marvin Minsky and John McCarthy.
	anewlow.com /encyclopedia/Rodney_Brooks (507 words)

	Review of Flesh and Machines How Robots Will Change Us by Rodney A. Brooks
		Brooks never seems to run out of appealing personal anecdotes, beginning with an adolescence in which he "grew up a nerd in a place [Adelaide, South Australia] that did not know what a nerd was." That was a decade before he encountered Hans Moravec.
		As Director of MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, unquestionably Rodney Brooks is such a leader, but it is not just his title and position that gives his writing such credibility.
		Brooks reveals that his favorite robot called Genghis is a six-legged insect-like creature.
	www.fredbortz.com /review/FleshandMachines.htm (936 words)

	All In The Mind - 15/12/2002: Does Artificial Life have a Mind? Is it Really Alive?
		Rodney Brooks: So far I’ve been concentrating with what I might call “silicon steel”, which is a very different sort of material from the life as we know it on earth.
		Rodney Brooks: Well certainly people relate to it as if it’s alive, and even the people who know in some sense that it’s not alive, they find themselves unconsciously relating to it as if it’s alive.
		Rodney Brooks: Vision, I mean our vision systems are fantastic, and early artificial intelligence completely ignored vision, because anyone could do vision, it was only the really smart people, the intelligent people who could play chess, or solve integral calculus problems.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/science/mind/s746050.htm (3882 words)

	Rodney Brooks
		Rodney Brooks is the Director of Operations for Carrier Corporation.
		Rodney received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.
		Rodney was active in the McNairy County, TN, Chamber of Commerce where he was a member of Leadership McNairy County.
	www.colliervillechamber.com /chamber/rodney_brooks.htm (126 words)

	Wired 10.02: Street Cred
		One of Brooks' favorite talking points is human history as a series of sobering lessons on why we're not special.
		Brooks provides little discussion of this, which is at least one important source for AI insights.
		Brooks says I'm predicting a "singularity in which computation makes us all-powerful around the year 2020." He implies I chose that date because I'll then be about 70 years old, and later dates would not satisfy my desire to participate in this singularity.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/10.02/streetcred.html?pg=2 (616 words)

	ISA \| Pinto's point: Robots are here
		Rodney A. Brooks is director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Fujitsu Professor of Computer Science.
		Rodney Brooks says robots today are where computers were in 1978.
		Rodney Brooks insists that robots with the vision capabilities of a two-year-old and the manipulation capabilities of a six-year-old will be disruptive to our way of life.
	www.isa.org /Content/ContentGroups/News/2004/June27/Pintos_point__Robots_are_here.htm (381 words)

	Robonauts - The Boston Globe
		In 1989, using an insect-like robot named Genghis, Rodney Brooks pitched a bold vision for exploring space: Send up an army of small, cheap machines to rove around on a distant planet and beam back data.
		The Bush administration's push for more human space flight -- signed off on a few weeks ago by Congress -- is increasing the demand for robot partners that can learn new tasks, use tools the same way people do, and act as a space support staff.
		Rodney Brooks will host a salon-style, interactive discussion tomorrow at 6 p.m., at the MIT Museum, 265 Massachusetts Ave.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/health_science/articles/2006/01/09/robonauts (936 words)

	MIT World » : Innovation at the Interface: Technological Fusion at MIT
		Rodney Brooks describes robots exploring dangerous bunkers in Iraq and Afghanistan, and intelligent prosthetic limbs.
		In addition to his multiple roles at MIT, Rodney Brooks is Chairman and Chief Technical Officer of iRobot Corp. He received degrees in pure mathematics from the Flinders University of South Australia and the Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1981.
		Dr. Brooks is a Founding Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
	mitworld.mit.edu /video/195 (577 words)

	Abstracts of Rodney Brooks' Thinking
		To Brooks, solving this problem is vital to the ultimate success of machine intelligence, and this is why he has major research projects underway with the cyborgs Cog and Kismet.
		Brooks mentions a prototype robo-vac, Sozzie, that used a laser to measure the dirtiness of the dust being sucked, as an indication of how long to scour a particular area before moving to the next.
		Brooks [probably rightly] foresees that, as compared to AI, biotechnology has been progressing by huge leaps and bounds, and it will likely have more impact on society in the next few years.
	www.oricomtech.com /misc/fandm.htm (2589 words)

	The Reality Club: The Deep Question
		Rodney Brooks focuses on an important element missing in most contemporary analyses of cognitive, psychological, and computer systems - the central role of lower-level motor processes.
		Great interview with Rodney Brooks - particularly your steadfastness in attempting to extract a workable new metaphor for living systems from him, and his equally steadfast determination to refuse you one, at least for the time being.
		Rodney Brooks has actually appointed a theological advisor to that project, who has considered just this question - which I found fascinating.
	www.edge.org /discourse/brooks_deep.html (1062 words)

	Pop!Tech - The Impact of Technology on People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rodney A. Brooks is professor of computer science and engineering and director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Mass.
		Cog is capable of learning from his experiences, as humans do, and Brooks hopes that his robot eventually will have the intelligence of a six-month-old baby.
		Rodney Brooks is also chairman and CTO of iRobot corporation which is making robots available to consumers.
	www.poptech.org /speakers.cfm?page=speaker_detail&id=55 (172 words)

	publications
		Brooks, R.A., C. Breazeal (Ferrell), R. Irie, C. Kemp, M. Marjanovic, B. Scassellati and M. Williamson, "Alternate Essences of Intelligence", Proceedings of the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-98), Madison, Wisconsin, July 1998, pp.
		Lorigo, L.M., R.A. Brooks and W.E.L. Grimson, "Visually-Guided Obstacle Avoidance in Unstructured Environments", Proceedings of IROS '97, Grenoble, France, September 1997, pp.
		Brooks, R.A., "From Earwigs to Humans", Proceedings IIAS The Third Brain and Mind International Symposium Concept Formation, Thinking and Their Development, Kyoto, Japan, May 1996, pp.
	people.csail.mit.edu /brooks/publications.shtml (3032 words)

	Rodney Allen Brooks -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		She was Gwendolyn Brooks, poet laureate of Illinois and the first African American winner of a Pulitzer prize for poetry.
		Rodney was elected to the Continental Congress 1774.
		Brook became involved in theater at a young age and had directed several shows before he graduated from Oxford University at age 19.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9344566 (659 words)

	SS > NF reviews > Rodney A. Brooks
		Rodney Brooks decided it was time for a radical rethink of the entire approach.
		This is Brooks' take on the science of intelligent robots, and could be considered as a "pop science" version of Cambrian Intelligence, also bringing us more up to date on what has been happening since the early 1990s.
		Brooks bases his approach on the subsumption architectures, a situated, embodied, "bottom-up" approach to intelligent behaviour, as opposed to Good Old-Fashioned AI's symbolic reasoning top-down approach.
	www-users.cs.york.ac.uk /~susan/bib/nf/b/brooks.htm (1853 words)

	OregonEngineer \| K-12 News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Brooks is also MIT's Fujitsu professor of computer science and the chairman and chief technical officer of iRobot Corp.
		Brooks was born in Adelaide, Australia in 1954.
		Brooks introduced ideas of behavior-based programming to his robots that differed drastically from the traditional method.
	www.oregonengineer.org /k12_isef_0403.html (221 words)

	Tim Moore questions honesty of school board trustee
		Rodney Brooks is not a guy I am planning to do any business with in the foreseeable future.
		Rodney did not hesitate to interpret the meaning of a slight voter plurality in his favor.
		Rodney grows indignant over some persons allegation that Granite Rocks CEO Bruce Woolpert supports the new high school "for profit motives." It is a "base canard," Rodney sniffs, "and the maker of it should be ashamed." Brooks hails the CEO as one of "our principal business partners." An interesting choice of words, wouldn't you say?
	www.tellingthetruth.com /ttt_old/teemor4.html (932 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Programmes \| Hardtalk \| Robot risk 'is worth it'
		Rodney Brooks, Director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Massachussets Institute of Technology, said: "The benefits of having robots could vastly outweigh the problems."
		Professor Brooks said the nature of exploratory science meant scientists had to keep asking questions.
		Professor Brooks said that this was a "deep question", but pointed out that humans are programmed in exactly the same way as robots.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/programmes/hardtalk/2202825.stm (636 words)

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