Ken Goldberg
Encyclopedia
Kenneth Y. 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
.
, Nigeria
and grew up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He received a BS in Electrical Engineering and BS in Economics, summa cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania
in 1984. Goldberg also received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University
in 1990. He then taught in the department of computer science at the University of Southern California
from 1991–1995 and was visiting faculty in 2000 at the MIT Media Lab
. http://goldberg.berkeley.edu/art/cv-art.html
Grasping and Assembly, with an emphasis on minimalist approaches that
require a minimum of sensing and complexity. For 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. He also patented the kinematically yielding gripper,
a new robot
gripper that complies passively to hold parts securely
without sensing. Named IEEE Fellow in 2005, Goldberg co-founded the IEEE
Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering and his work has resulted
in six United States patents.
Goldberg is credited with developing the first robot with web
interface (August 1994). His subsequent project, the Telegarden
,
allowed remote visitors, via the Internet, to view, water, and plant
seeds in a living garden. This project was online continuously for
nine years in the lobby of the Ars Electronica Center
. Goldberg
is a leading researcher in networked telerobotics
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.
Goldberg is Founding Director of UC Berkeley's Art, Technology, and
Culture Colloquium, established in 1997. This monthly speaker series
brings artists, writers, and curators such as Billy Klüver
,
David Byrne
and Bruno Latour
to give evening lectures and is
free and open to the public. Goldberg is editor of several books,
including The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology in
the Age of the Internet (MIT Press, 2000), which explores what is
knowable at a distance.
For his research, Goldberg was awarded the National Science Foundation
Young Investigator Award in 1994, the National Science Foundation
Presidential Faculty Fellowship in 1995, the Joseph F. Engelberger
Robotics Award in 2000, the IEEE Major Educational Innovation Award in
2001.
As an artist, Goldberg's work has been exhibited at the
Whitney Biennial
, Venice Biennale
, Pompidou Center (Paris), Walker Art
Center, Ars Electronica (Linz Austria), File festival (São Paulo), ZKM (Karlsruhe), ICC Biennale
(Tokyo), Kwangju Biennale (Seoul), Artists Space, and The Kitchen (New
York). He has held visiting positions at San Francisco Art Institute
,
MIT Media Lab
, and the Art Center College of Design
.
The Tribe, a short film he co-wrote with his wife, Tiffany Shlain
(who also directed and produced the film) was selected for the
2006 Sundance Film Festival
and the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival
.
Goldberg's Ballet Mori project, performed by the San Francisco Ballet, won an Isadora Duncan Award in 2006.
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
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
. He is also a member of the Berkeley Center for New Media
Berkeley Center for New Media
-Berkeley Center for New Media:The Berkeley Center for New Media is a research, teaching, and public events program at UC Berkeley...
. He is an artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
, writer, inventor, and researcher in the field of robotics
Robotics
Robotics is the branch of technology that deals with the design, construction, operation, structural disposition, manufacture and application of robots...
and automation
Automation
Automation is the use of control systems and information technologies to reduce the need for human work in the production of goods and services. In the scope of industrialization, automation is a step beyond mechanization...
.
Background
Goldberg was born in IbadanIbadan
Ibadan is the capital city of Oyo State and the third largest metropolitan area in Nigeria, after Lagos and Kano, with a population of 1,338,659 according to the 2006 census. Ibadan is also the largest metropolitan geographical area...
, Nigeria
Nigeria
Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...
and grew up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He received a BS in Electrical Engineering and BS in Economics, summa cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...
in 1984. Goldberg also received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States....
in 1990. He then taught in the department of computer science at the University of Southern California
University of Southern California
The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...
from 1991–1995 and was visiting faculty in 2000 at the MIT Media Lab
MIT Media Lab
The MIT Media Lab is a laboratory of MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Devoted to research projects at the convergence of design, multimedia and technology, the Media Lab has been widely popularized since the 1990s by business and technology publications such as Wired and Red Herring for a...
. http://goldberg.berkeley.edu/art/cv-art.html
Career
Goldberg and his students develop new algorithms for Feeding, Fixturing,Grasping and Assembly, with an emphasis on minimalist approaches that
require a minimum of sensing and complexity. For 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. He also patented the kinematically yielding gripper,
a new robot
Robot
A robot is a mechanical or virtual intelligent agent that can perform tasks automatically or with guidance, typically by remote control. In practice a robot is usually an electro-mechanical machine that is guided by computer and electronic programming. Robots can be autonomous, semi-autonomous or...
gripper that complies passively to hold parts securely
without sensing. Named IEEE Fellow in 2005, Goldberg co-founded the IEEE
Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering and his work has resulted
in six United States patents.
Goldberg is credited with developing the first robot with web
interface (August 1994). His subsequent project, the Telegarden
Telegarden
The TeleGarden was a telerobotic community garden for the Internet. Starting in the mid-1990s, it allowed users to view, plant and take care of a small garden, using an Adept-1 industrial robotic arm controlled online....
,
allowed remote visitors, via the Internet, to view, water, and plant
seeds in a living garden. This project was online continuously for
nine years in the lobby of the Ars Electronica Center
Ars Electronica Center
The Ars Electronica Center is a center for electronic arts run by Ars Electronica situated in Linz, Austria, at the northern side of the Danube opposite the city hall of Linz. It has been built on the right side of the Nibelungenbrücke....
. Goldberg
is a leading researcher in networked telerobotics
Telerobotics
Telerobotics is the area of robotics concerned with the control of robots from a distance, chiefly using wireless connections , "tethered" connections, or the Internet...
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.
Goldberg is Founding Director of UC Berkeley's Art, Technology, and
Culture Colloquium, established in 1997. This monthly speaker series
brings artists, writers, and curators such as Billy Klüver
Billy Klüver
Billy Klüver Johan Wilhelm Klüver was an electrical engineer at Bell Telephone Laboratories who founded Experiments in Art and Technology. Klüver lectured extensively on art and technology and social issues to be addressed by the technical community. He published numerous articles on these subjects...
,
David Byrne
David Byrne (musician)
David Byrne is a musician and artist, best known as a founding member and principal songwriter of the American new wave band Talking Heads, which was active between 1975 and 1991. Since then, Byrne has released his own solo recordings and worked with various media including film, photography,...
and Bruno Latour
Bruno Latour
Bruno Latour is a French sociologist of science and anthropologist and an influential theorist in the field of Science and Technology Studies...
to give evening lectures and is
free and open to the public. Goldberg is editor of several books,
including The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology in
the Age of the Internet (MIT Press, 2000), which explores what is
knowable at a distance.
For his research, Goldberg was awarded the National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health...
Young Investigator Award in 1994, the National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health...
Presidential Faculty Fellowship in 1995, the Joseph F. Engelberger
Robotics Award in 2000, the IEEE Major Educational Innovation Award in
2001.
As an artist, Goldberg's work has been exhibited at the
Whitney Biennial
Whitney Biennial
The Whitney Biennial is a biennale exhibition of contemporary American art, typically by young and lesser known artists, on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, USA. The event began as an annual exhibition in 1932, the first biennial was in 1973...
, Venice Biennale
Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years in Venice, Italy. The Venice Film Festival is part of it. So too is the Venice Biennale of Architecture, which is held in even years...
, Pompidou Center (Paris), Walker Art
Center, Ars Electronica (Linz Austria), File festival (São Paulo), ZKM (Karlsruhe), ICC Biennale
(Tokyo), Kwangju Biennale (Seoul), Artists Space, and The Kitchen (New
York). He has held visiting positions at San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco Art Institute is a school of higher education in contemporary art with the main campus in the Russian Hill district of San Francisco, California. Its graduate center is in the Dogpatch neighborhood. The private, non-profit institution is accredited by WASC and is a member of the...
,
MIT Media Lab
MIT Media Lab
The MIT Media Lab is a laboratory of MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Devoted to research projects at the convergence of design, multimedia and technology, the Media Lab has been widely popularized since the 1990s by business and technology publications such as Wired and Red Herring for a...
, and the Art Center College of Design
Art Center College of Design
Art Center College of Design is a private college located in Pasadena, California, and was cited by BusinessWeek as one of the 60 best design schools in the world. The college’s industrial design program is consistently ranked number one by both DesignIntelligence and U.S...
.
The Tribe, a short film he co-wrote with his wife, Tiffany Shlain
Tiffany Shlain
Tiffany Shlain is an American filmmaker and founder of the Webby Awards. Recognized by Newsweek as "one of the women shaping the 21st century."-Bio:...
(who also directed and produced the film) was selected for the
2006 Sundance Film Festival
Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...
and the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival
Tribeca Film Festival
The Tribeca Film Festival is a film festival founded in 2002 by Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro and Craig Hatkoff in a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the consequent loss of vitality in the TriBeCa neighborhood in Lower Manhattan.The mission of the festival...
.
Goldberg's Ballet Mori project, performed by the San Francisco Ballet, won an Isadora Duncan Award in 2006.
External links
- Ken Goldberg's UC Berkeley homepage
- Ken Goldberg's Artwork
- Berkeley Automation Lab homepage
- IEEE Transactions on Automation Science
- Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
- Goldberg's publications at the Digital Bibliography & Library ProjectDigital Bibliography & Library ProjectDBLP is a computer science bibliography website hosted at Universität Trier, in Germany. It was originally a database and logic programming bibliography site, and has existed at least since the 1980s. DBLP listed more than 1.3 million articles on computer science in January 2010...
- The Robot in the Garden (MIT Press/Leonardo Books)
- Thomas Dreher: Telepresence - Eduardo Kac and Ken Goldberg (in German)