Ken Goldberg Quotations

'Bloom' is basically the idea that all flesh is grass, and that we can look at natural plant growth and organic material as outgrowths of the Earth.

Artificial creatures date back to the ancient Chinese and Greeks. Renaissance automata were designed primarily to entertain, reflecting the value placed on leisure.

The Web meant that I didn't have to schlep a whole bunch of stuff to a museum and fight with all their constraints and make something that, in the end, only 150 people would actually get out to see. Instead, I could put something together in my lab and make it accessible to the world.

We're fascinated with robots because they are reflections of ourselves.

Our robots are signing up for online learning. After decades of attempts to program robots to perform complex tasks like flying helicopters or surgical suturing, the new approach is based on observing and recording the motions of human experts as they perform these feats.

As humans embrace new forms of social media to keep connected with friends and colleagues, our robots are becoming increasingly sociable.

Epistemology has always been affected by technologies like the telescope and the microscope, things that have created a radical shift in how we sense physical reality.

I was interested in the questions that come up when the Internet gives you access not just to JSTOR libraries and to digital information, but also to things that are live and dynamic and organic in some way.

What was really interesting to me about 'The Telegarden' was this idea of connecting the physical world, the natural world, and the social world through the Internet.

With the market rapidly embracing the benefits of digital signage, and a growing interest in narrowcasting by advertisers, we are excited to announce the 2.0 release of our NEOCAST Media Server software to the marketplace. With the enhanced capabilities, customers will continue to enjoy the market leading digital signage features NEOCAST offers, plus have the needed assurance the solution will continue to evolve as new digital signage standards and demands emerge.

Nobody on the national or state level is leading the general charge toward making men's health care better. For instance, the National Institutes of Health has an office of women's health but none for men.

The rangers want to show people what can happen if they leave food in their cars. Of course, viewers safe at home may enjoy watching the brutes at work: Go Bears!

Human taste is complex, and I'm not sure it can be accounted for. This is one of the biggest challenges we face because preference engines are based on the idea that if we agree on three movies, we will agree on the fourth. But it often doesn't work that way.

I think there's a fantasy around technology, that technology is being promoted and envisioned as larger than it really is. I try to make people think about the limitations of technology in a way that isn't obvious or didactic.

We thought he was headed to a safe environment and a good chance to get control of his situation.

To have nature directly admitted into the San Francisco Opera House is pretty risky because of its unpredictability. As far as we know, nothing like this has ever been done.

Biologists spend a great deal of time observing and recording nature using traditional video equipment. So we're trying to help them bring the latest technology into the field.

Rather than tell men to have their prostates checked or to guard against heart disease, I urge them to drop the 'bulletproof' attitude, get involved in health screenings and realize that diseases can happen to anybody.

Advertisers are looking for new ways to get to the mass audience and see grocery stores as a big marketplace. The customers are in the stores, the wallets are in their pockets and the TV programming allows vendors to talk directly to them with their products in close proximity.

So the question is who do we treat and how aggressively do we treat them. Sometimes the answer is as clear as mud.

There will be a vocabulary of moves to go with the vocabulary of sounds. Their order will be decided by what Earth is doing that particular evening.

As much as I want to use Suffern as a platform to get out there, I want this effort to be broader than that. ... We just want to save one person.

I told him, ?You should live so long that you die from prostate cancer.

It's a perfect medium to target hard-to-reach audiences.

It's a hybrid system though, so it's collaborative not just among people but also among sensors. A change in the image can be requested by people or sensors and that request can be weighted depending on who or what is making it. If the chief biologist wants to see something, her request can override everything else.

It's satisfying to know that the U.S. Department of Education recognizes the expertise of our faculty and has selected us to lead the way in improving mathematics teacher recruitment, preparation and support.

PowerPoint is the Rodney Dangerfield of software. It gets no respect.

If you got everything you wanted, you wouldn't have everything you need.

Philosophers say that perfection is unattainable. Lithographers redefine perfection according to SEMI standards.

Interferometry, like surfing, is a search for the perfect wave. But physicists don't have to paddle around and wait.

The Earth will control these sounds just as a conductor controls an orchestra by moving a baton.

The computers have to talk to each other. The networks have to work. There are many ingredients. With all our fancy computers and networks, we still can't predict the Earth.