George A. Bekey
| George A. Bekey | |
|---|---|
| Fields | Robotics |
| Institutions | University of Southern California |
| Alma mater |
University of California, Berkeley University of California, Los Angeles |
George A. Bekey is an American roboticist and the Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow in various professional societies. Bekey is best known for his achievements across multiple technical fields, for which he was designated a USC University Professor, which honors the university's most accomplished, multi-disciplinary faculty. He is also affiliated with the College of Engineering at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where he teaches a course on world religions. His most recent book is Autonomous Robots: From Biological Inspiration to Implementation and Control from MIT Press.
Robot Ethics
Lately he has concerned himself with the ethics and social aspects of robots as they play more of a role in different aspects of human life, realising an edited text[1] bringing together some of the key thinkers in the field including James Hughes, Selmer Bringsjord, Kevin Warwick, Peter Asaro and Noel Sharkey.
Education
- B.S. (Electrical Engineering) University of California, Berkeley, 1950.
- M.S (Engineering) University of California, Los Angeles, 1952.
- Ph.D. (Engineering) University of California, Los Angeles, 1962.
References
- ↑ P.Lin, K.Abney and G.Bekey, "Robot Ethics", MIT Press, 2012