Ken Goldberg

Birthyear: 1961
Website: http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/

Last updated: 2015-05-21

About

The US-American Keneth Goldberg is a Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR), with a joint appointment in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), and in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a member of the Berkeley Center for New Media. He is an artist, writer, inventor, and researcher in the field of robotics and automation.

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2011-present. Professor of Radiation Oncology, The University of California at San Francisco.
2014-present. Director, CITRIS People and Robots Initiative.
2011-2015. Faculty Director, CITRIS Data and Democracy Initiative.
2009-2014. craigslist Distinguished Chair in New Media, The University of California at Berkeley.
2007-2010. Director, Berkeley Center for New Media.
2002 Professor at the University of California at Berkeley / Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
2001 Major Educational Innovation Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
2000 Visiting Professor at the MIT Media Lab
1999 Visiting Professor at the San Francisco Art Institute
1997 - 2002 Associate Professor at the University of California at Berkeley / ndustrial Engineering and Operations Research/Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
1995 - 1997 Assistant Professor at the University of California at Berkeley
1995 Kobe Prize, Interactive Media Festival. Los Angeles
1995 First Prize of the Festival for Independent Visual Arts Interactive at Montreal
1991 - 1995 Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. / Computer Science
Associate Director of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems
1990 PhD. at the Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh / School of Computer Science. Dissertation: Stochastic Plans for Robotic Manipulation.
1986 Visiting Researcher at the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion), Haifa / Center for Manufacturing Systems and Robotics
1984 Degree at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA / Dual degree: BSE Electrical Engineering, Moore School of Engineering. BS Economics, Wharton School of Business
1982 Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, Scotland. Junior Year Abroad

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Goldberg, Ken and Dezhen Song. »The Co-Opticon: Shared Access to a Robotic Streaming Video Camera.« In ACM MultiMedia Conference, Berkeley, November 2003, Berkeley, CA: 2003.
Goldberg, Ken and Dezhen Song. »ShareCam Part I: Interface, System Architecture, and Implementation of a Collaboratively Controlled Robotic Webcam.« In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robots and Systems, edited by California Univ. Dept. of IEORVol.2. Berkeley, CA, USA: 2003.
Goldberg, Ken and Dezhen Song and Anatoly Pashkevich. »ShareCam Part II: Approximate and Distributed Algorithms for a Collaboratively Controlled Robotic Webcam.« In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robots and Systems, October 2003, : 2003.
Grau, Oliver. Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003.
Goldberg, Ken and D. Song and Y. Khor and D. Pescovitz and Levandowski, A. and J. Himmelstein and J. et. al. Shih. »Collaborative Online Teleoperation with Spatial Dynamic Voting and a Human ``Tele-Actor''.« In EEE ICRA 2002, Washington, CD. May 2002, Washington, DC: 2002.
Siegwart, Roland and Ken Goldberg, ed. Beyond Webcams: An Introduction to Online Robots. Cambridge, MASS: The MIT Press, 2002.
Van der Stappen, Frank and Robert-Paul Berretty and Ken AND Overmars Goldberg. »Geometry and Part Feeding.« In Sensor Based Intelligent Robot Systems, edited by H. Bunke and H. I. et. al. ChristensenVol.2238. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, , 259-281. Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2002.
Goldberg, Ken and Billy Chen. »Collaborative Control of Robot Motion: Robustness to Error.« In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robots and Systems, : 2001.
Donath, Judith and Dana Spiegel and Matt Lee and Kelly AND Goldberg Dobson. »Collaborative Tele-directing.« In CHI ´01, : 2001.
Goldberg, Ken, ed. The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of the Internet. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000.
Dreher, Thomas. »Telepräsenz: Eduardo Kac und Ken Goldberg.« IASL online Internationales Archiv für die Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur (April 4th 2000).
Goldberg, Ken. »A Brief History of Robotics.« In National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, Irvine, CA, edited by National Academy of EngineeringIrvine, CA: 1999.
Goldberg, Ken and Karl Bohringer and Ron Fearing. »MicroAssembly.« In Handbook of Industrial Robotics, edited by S. NofHoboken, NY: John Wiley and Sons Ltd., 1999.
Goldberg, Ken. »Virtual Reality in the Age of Telepresence.« Convergence Journal 4, no. 1 (Spring 1998): 33-37.
Goldberg, Ken and Michael Mascha and Steven Gentner and Rossman Jürgen and Nick Rothenberg and Carl Sutter and Jeff Wiegley. »Beyond the Web: Manipulating the Real World.« Computer Networks and ISDN Systems Journal 28, no. 1 (December 1995): 209-219.
Goldberg, Ken and D. Halperin and Jean-Claude et. al. Latombe, ed. Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics. Wellesley, MA: A. K. Peters, 1995.
Goldberg, Ken. »Completeness in Robot Motion Planning.« In Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics, edited by Ken et. al. GoldbergVol.1. Algorithmic Foundations of Robotic Series, Wellesley, MA: A. K. Peters, 1995.
Goldberg, Ken and Michael Mascha and Steven Gentner and Rossman Jürgen and Nick Rothenberg and Carl Sutter and Jeff Wiegley. »Beyond the Web: Excavating the Real World via Mosaic.« In Second International WWW Conference, Chicago, IL, : 1994.
Goldberg, Ken. »Feeding and Sorting Algorithms for the Parallel-Jaw Gripper.« In Robotics Research, edited by Richard Paul and Georges GiraltStanford, CA: International Foundation for Robotics Research IFRR, 1993.
Goldberg, Ken and John Canny. »A RISC Approach to Sensing and Manipulation.« In Robotics Research, edited by Richard Paul and Georges GiraltStanford, CA: IFFR, 1993.
Goldberg, Ken and George Bekey, ed. Neural Networks in Robotics. Dordrecht, NL: Kluwer Academic, 1993.
Goldberg, Ken and Barak Pearlmutter. »Using Backpropagation with Temporal Windows to Learn the Dynamics of the CMU Direct-Drive Arm.« In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1988.
Goldberg, Ken and Matthew T. Mason and Russell H. Taylor. »Sensor-Based Manipulation Planning as a Game with Nature.« In Robotics Research, edited by R. Bolles and B. RothCambridge, MAS: MIT Press, 1987.
Goldberg, Ken and Ruzena Bajcsy. »Active Touch and Robot Perception.« Cognition and Brain Theory 7, no. 2 (Winter 1984): 199-214.

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