George A. Bekey
Encyclopedia
George A. Bekey is a renowned 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.
Roboticist
A roboticist designs, builds, programs, and experiments with robots. Since robotics is a highly interdisciplinary field, roboticists often have backgrounds in a number of disciplines including computer science, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and computer engineering...
and the Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering 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...
. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering
National Academy of Engineering
The National Academy of Engineering is a government-created non-profit institution in the United States, that was founded in 1964 under the same congressional act that led to the founding of the National Academy of Sciences...
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.
Education
- B.S. (Electrical Engineering) University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California, BerkeleyThe University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
, 1950. - M.S (Engineering) University of California, Los AngelesUniversity of California, Los AngelesThe University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses...
, 1952. - Ph.D. (Engineering) University of California, Los Angeles, 1962.