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Ken Goldberg, Ph.D. is an engineer and inventor working at the intersection of art, robotics, and social media. On the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley, where he is craigslist Distinguished Professor of New Media, Ken also holds an appointment in the UC San Francisco Medical School where he pursues research in medical robotics. In March, Ken will present a screening of Spike Jonze's (2010 film) "I’m Here", a bittersweet science-fiction romance starring Andrew Garfield and Sienna Guillory as two robots in an everyday world.

Ken’s website with info on publications, projects, etc:
http://goldberg.berkeley.edu/

Trailer for "I'm Here" by Spike Jonze: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qow5_R0ab7w

California Film Institute, Science on Screen, March 18, 2012: http://www.cafilm.org/

Blog Entries by Ken Goldberg

Can Social Networks Rapidly Expand Knowledge?

(0) Comments | Posted September 19, 2012 | 5:55 PM

How many of our friends and neighbors are aware of California's Proposition 30? Despite the high stakes and its potential impact on everyone from students and parents to business leaders, many Californians are not yet aware of it. Can social networks rapidly expand knowledge about timely issues like this?

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Ansel Adams: Picturing California's Future

(6) Comments | Posted June 1, 2012 | 4:44 PM

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Everyone knows Ansel Adams' photos of Yosemite. But I'd never heard of Fiat Lux, a set of over 6,700 Ansel Adams photographs of the University of California that constitute his second largest body of work. Adams shot these photos at the request of UC...

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The Robot with the Dragon Tattoo

(3) Comments | Posted January 4, 2012 | 11:08 PM

"I'm completely operational and all my circuits are functioning normally." -- Hal (2001, A Space Odyssey)

My eight-year-old daughter Odessa and I have a running disagreement about the best way to hold a pencil. She's working on her penmanship and doesn't consider my 50 years of experience as relevant....

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