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Rodney Brooks

Rodney Brooks appears in the following:

Move Over Ken Jennings, IBM's Watson Is Here

Wednesday, February 09, 2011

Watson, a computer designed over the course of four years, costing hundreds of millions of dollars, will be one of the three contestants on "Jeopardy!" next week. The IBM machine is designed to decipher English-language clues and then search more than half-million books for the answer; and it does it all under three seconds.  

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More Than Meets the Eye

Monday, July 30, 2007

Robots with artificial intelligence have been a science fiction staple for decades, but now some researchers might be close to making them a reality. New York Times contributing writer Robin Marantz Henig and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Rodney Brooks describe new machines that can make eye contact, read social ...

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Robots, Fembots, Ribbons

Saturday, August 21, 2004

Kurt Andersen talks with Rodney Brooks, Director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, about the culture of robots.

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Robot, Fembot, Old Timey

Saturday, January 18, 2003

Kurt Andersen and scientist Rodney Brooks look at how metal men are jumping from pop culture into real life.

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