#217 – Rodney Brooks

04 Sep 2021

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #217:

1. The How and Why Wonder Book of Electricity by Jerome J Notkin
2. The How and Why Wonder Book of Robots and Electronic Brains by Robert Scharff, Denny McMains
3. Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law by Peter Woit
4. Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines by Marvin Lee Minsky
5. The Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms by Alfred Aho
6. Perceptrons: An Introduction to Computational Geometry by Marvin Minsky, Seymour A. Papert

Rodney Allen Brooks is an Australian roboticist, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, author, and robotics entrepreneur, most known for popularizing the actionist approach to robotics. Wikipedia

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