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Ken Goldberg
Goldberg in 2019
Born
Kenneth Yigael Goldberg

1961 (age 62–63)
Ibadan, Nigeria
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater
Known forRobotics
SpouseTiffany Shlain
RelativesAdele Goldberg(sister)
Scientific career
Institutions
Websitegoldberg.berkeley.edu

Kenneth Yigael Goldberg(born 1961) is an American artist, writer, inventor, and researcher in the field ofroboticsandautomation.He is professor and chair of theindustrial engineering and operations researchdepartment at theUniversity of California, Berkeley,and holds the William S. Floyd Jr. Distinguished Chair in Engineering at Berkeley, with joint appointments in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), Art Practice, and the School of Information.[1][2][3][4]Goldberg also holds an appointment in the Department of Radiation Oncology at theUniversity of California, San Francisco.

Background[edit]

Goldberg was born inIbadan,Nigeria, where his parents taught at Mayflower Private School, and grew up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.[5][6]Goldberg's father worked as an engineer, and Ken would work on projects with his father. Goldberg expressed an interest in art during high school, but his parents suggested he study something more practical.[7]He received a BS in electrical engineering and BS in economics, summa cum laude, from theUniversity of Pennsylvaniain 1984. Goldberg also received his Ph.D. in computer science fromCarnegie Mellon Universityin 1990.[8]While studying abroad in Edinburgh, Goldberg took a course on artificial intelligence that began his interest in robotics and their artistic potential.[7]He then taught in the department of computer science at theUniversity of Southern Californiafrom 1991 to 1995 and was visiting faculty in 2000 atMIT.[6]

Career[edit]

Robotics[edit]

Goldberg and his students have published over 170 peer-reviewed technical papers on algorithms forRobotics,Automation,and social information filtering.[9]Goldberg leads the UC Berkeley Automation Sciences Lab, which pursues research in Cloud Robotics and Automation, Social Information Retrieval using geometric algorithms, and Algorithmic Automation for Feeding, Fixturing, Grasping, with an emphasis on geometric algorithms that minimize sensing and actuation.[10][11]

In his PhD dissertation, Goldberg developed the first algorithm for orienting (feeding) polygonal parts and proved that the algorithm can be used to orient any part up to rotational symmetry.[12]He also patented the kinematically yielding gripper, a newrobotgripper that complies passively to hold parts securely without sensing. Goldberg is co-founder and editor-in-chief of theIEEETransactions on Automation Science and Engineering.[13]His research has resulted in eight United Statespatents.[14]

Goldberg is credited with developing the first robot with web interface (August 1994). His subsequent project, theTelegarden, allowed remote visitors, via the Internet, to view, water, and plant seeds in a living garden.[15]This project was online continuously for nine years in the lobby of theArs Electronica Center.[16]Goldberg is a leading researcher in networkedteleroboticsand Cloud Robotics and has developed a series of collaborative tele-operation systems such as the Tele-Actor, in which a human moves through a remote environment guided by remote participants via the Internet.[17]

Goldberg is co-founder, with Ayorkor Korseh, of the African Robotics Network (AFRON), established in 2012 to promote communication and collaborations that will enhance robotics-related education, research, and industry on the continent of Africa.[18]AFRON's Ultra-Affordable Educational Robot design competition was recognized with a Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Award in 2013.[19]

Goldberg is co-founder of theBerkeley Center for New Mediaand served as its director from 2007 to 2010, and is co-founder and director of the Data and Democracy Initiative of theCenter for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society.[20]

For his research, Goldberg was awarded theNational Science Foundation Young Investigator Award in 1994, theNational Science Foundation Presidential Faculty Fellowship in 1995, theJoseph F. Engelberger Robotics Award in 2000, theIEEEMajor Educational Innovation Award in 2001. Goldberg was namedIEEE Fellowin 2005 "for contributions to networked telerobotics and geometric algorithms for automation."

Artwork[edit]

In the field ofcollaborative filtering,Goldberg developed Eigentaste, a constant-time recommendation algorithm. It is featured in his online project, Jester, which is an online personalized jokerecommender system.[21]Goldberg's work in filtering algorithms has also extended to social media and foreign policy. His project, Opinion Space, is a data visualization which enables organization and analysis of constructive suggestions, using an intuitive graphical map of ideas.[22]This platform is currently utilized for collective idea discovery by the U.S. Department of State, and corporations such as Unilever and GM.

Goldberg is founding director of UC Berkeley'sArt, Technology, and Culture Lecture Series,established in 1997.[23]This monthly speaker series brings artists, writers, and curators such asLaurie Anderson,Miranda July,Billy Klüver, David ByrneandBruno Latourto give evening lectures and is free and open to the public.

Goldberg is editor of several books, includingThe Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of the Internet(MIT Press, 2000), andBeyond Webcams: An Introduction to Online Robotics(MIT Press, 2001), which both explore what is knowable at a distance.

Goldberg has worked on several net-based installation pieces from 1995 to today. One of his more well-known works,Legal Tender,allowed users to perform experiments on hundred dollar bills. After being given a sector of the bill to burn, users were flashed with the message of the illegality of tampering with U.S. currency. Follow up works such asOuija 2000andPublic Keysbuilt upon the idea of audience participation over the internet.[24]

As an artist, Goldberg's work has been exhibited at the Whitney Biennial,Venice Biennale,Catharine Clark Gallery,[25]Pompidou Centre (Paris), Walker Art Center, Ars Electronica (Linz Austria),Electronic Language International Festival(São Paulo), ZKM (Karlsruhe), ICC Biennale (Tokyo), Kwangju Biennale (Seoul), Artists Space, and The Kitchen (New York). He has held visiting positions atSan Francisco Art Institute, MIT Media Lab,and theArt Center College of Design.[26]

The Tribe,a short film he co-wrote with his wife,Tiffany Shlain(who directed and produced the film) was selected for the 2006Sundance Film Festivaland the 2006Tribeca Film Festival.[27]Their second film collaboration, Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death, and Technology, is a documentary feature film selected for the 2011Sundance Film Festival.[28]

Goldberg's Ballet Mori project, performed by the San Francisco Ballet, won an Izzie award at theIsadora Duncan Dance Awardsin 2007.[29]Goldberg collaborated with Gil Gershoni onAre We There Yet?,a solo acoustic art installation commissioned by the Creative Work Fund and exhibited in 2011 at theContemporary Jewish Museumin San Francisco.[30]Goldberg collaborated withMartin M. WattenbergandFernanda Viégason the visual installationBloomthat is in the permanent collection of theNevada Museum of Art.[31][32]

References[edit]

  1. ^Craigslist donates $1.6M for faculty chair at Cal
  2. ^"UC Berkeley IEOR Dept. - Faculty Page".Archived fromthe originalon August 17, 2018.RetrievedAugust 4,2013.
  3. ^UC Berkeley EECS Dept. - Faculty Page
  4. ^UC Berkeley School of Information - Faculty Page
  5. ^"Conversation with Ken Goldberg".Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley.Archived fromthe originalon July 11, 2010.RetrievedOctober 16,2014.
  6. ^abRemote Control - East Bay ExpressWeb-piloted humans, telegardens, robots that paint -- it's all in a half-day's work for Cal engineering whiz and conceptual artist Ken Goldberg.
  7. ^ab"Conversation with Ken Goldberg, p. 1 of 7".globetrotter.berkeley.edu.Archived fromthe originalon July 11, 2010.RetrievedFebruary 28,2019.
  8. ^Carnegie Mellon University, Computer Science - Alumni Snapshot: Ken Goldberg
  9. ^Ken Goldberg and Co-Authors Online Publications
  10. ^"UC Berkeley Laboratory for Automation Science and Engineering".Archived fromthe originalon July 19, 2011.RetrievedAugust 4,2013.
  11. ^[1]Putting the Turing into Manufacturing: Recent Developments in Algorithmic Automation.Ken Goldberg. Invited Keynote: Extended Abstract. ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG). Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. June 2013.
  12. ^ACM Digital Library - Stochastic plans for robotic manipulation
  13. ^Editorial Board - 'IEEE Robotics and Automation Society'
  14. ^List of Patents - Ken Goldberg
  15. ^"Ken Goldberg: 4 lessons from robots about being human | Video on TED".Archived fromthe originalon February 13, 2014.RetrievedAugust 6,2013.
  16. ^UC Berkeley - The Telegarden Website
  17. ^[2]Collaborative Online Teleoperation with Spatial Dynamic Voting and a HumanTele-ActorK. Goldberg, D. Song, Y. Khor, D. Pescovitz, A. Levandowski, J. Himmelstein, J. Shih, A. Ho, E. Paulos, J. Donath, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2002.
  18. ^Founders - African Robotics Network (AFRON)
  19. ^"The African Robotics Network (AFRON) – Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards".Archived fromthe originalon October 24, 2014.RetrievedAugust 4,2013.
  20. ^CITRIS - Ken Goldberg appointed Faculty Director of the CITRIS Data and Democracy InitiativeArchived2012-06-09 at theWayback Machine
  21. ^[3]Eigentaste: A Constant Time Collaborative Filtering Algorithm,Ken Goldberg, Theresa Roeder, Dhruv Gupta, and Chris Perkins, Information Retrieval Journal,4(2), pp. 133-151. July 2001.
  22. ^[4]Opinion Space: A Scalable Tool for Browsing Online Comments.Siamak Faridani, Ephrat Bitton, Kimiko Ryokai, Ken Goldberg. ACM International Conference on Computer Human Interaction (CHI). Atlanta, GA. April 2010.
  23. ^UC Berkeley Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
  24. ^"ken goldberg, professor, uc berkeley".goldberg.berkeley.edu.RetrievedFebruary 28,2019.
  25. ^"Ken Goldberg".Catharine Clark Gallery.RetrievedJanuary 17,2014.
  26. ^Ken Goldberg, Artist Bio
  27. ^The Tribe the Film (2005)
  28. ^Connected the Film | An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology (2011)
  29. ^Outstanding Achievement in Music / Sound / Text - Isadora Duncan Dance Awards[usurped]
  30. ^"Are We There Yet? - Contemporary Jewish Museum - Art, People, and Ideas, San Francisco, CA".Archived fromthe originalon November 27, 2013.RetrievedNovember 16,2013.
  31. ^Making Art Out of EarthquakesBerkeley's Ken Goldberg explores how to help people understand the physical realities of a geologically active world.
  32. ^BLOOM: Ken Goldberg, Sanjay Krishnan, Fernanda Viégas, and Martin Wattenberg | Nevada Museum of Art

Further reading[edit]

  • Baumgärtel, Tilman (2001).net.art 2.0 - New Materials towards Net art.Nürnberg: Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg. pp. 88–95.ISBN978-3-933096-66-1.

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