MIT Media Lab Colloquium series
Ken Goldberg, UC Berkeley
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Monday March 31, 2008
Bartos Theater
4:00-5:30 pm
Ken Goldberg will present experiments and questions raised by robots and social networks, ranging from ouija boards to human "tele-actors," and tell a true story about how invasions of privacy led him and his students to investigate how robots can assist in monitoring the natural environment. he'll describe a robotic system they've deployed to assist the search for the ivory billed woodpecker, a bird of extreme interest to birdwatchers, ornithologists, and conservationists whose last confirmed sighting was in 1944.
He will also present the manifesto of the berkeley center for new media and propose a hopefully controversial definition of "media."
bio: Ken Goldberg is an artist, professor of engineering at U.C. Berkeley and director of the Berkeley Center for New Media (bcnm). Ken is an IEEE fellow and vice president of technical activities for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. His artwork has been exhibited at Ars Electronica, ZKM, Pompidou Center, ICC Biennale, Kwangju Biennale, Artists Space, the Kitchen, and the Whitney Biennial.