On Thursday December 7th, I attended a professional lecture at Montclair State University Campus from Takeo Kanade. The lecture was apart of the Roboto-San series on campus which discussed the history and changes in robotics from the personal experiences of Dr. Kanade. The Lecture was known as The Future of Robotics: A Multicultural Perspective from My Fun Research in Computer Vision and Robotics which displayed his personal opinions on how robotics has advanced. Takeo Kanade gave his own personal perspective of the evolution through his experience as a professor. As a Professor of Computer Science and Robotics in the Robotics Program at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Takeo Kanade is also the founder of the Digital Human Research
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Takeo Kanade entire speech was given on a powerpoint presentation which used quite amount of evidence and explanation to his main points both for the computer science majors and non-majors like myself. The use of the powerpoint was a good way to organize and transition through his main points and evidence nicely. His evidence not only brought clarity to some of the concepts of robotics but also gave a more personal feel. One of his first supporting points was a video of the Superbowl in 2001 which presented one of his works in further detail. There was also another video that displayed his analog system created in 1995 that went to support his third main point of his relationship to robotics as more than just a mechanism. The video were an interesting way to put into context his experience in the field of robotics. Although, I felt as if the audio was a bit overbearing even with a microphone he had a difficult time speaking over his videos which made you just have to focus on one thing at a time. Majority of the speech he spoke with good vocal pace and was able to speak loud enough for everyone in the whole room because of the microphone which was a benefit on his behalf. One of the most interesting parts, that I feel also helped to display his credibility was when he read from his own published selling books entitled, Think Like an Amuater, Do as an Expert, Kanade states “ When you want to prevent raindrops from obstructing your view while driving, no idea is more straightforward and natural than to think, “If the obstruction is that the lights from the headlights hit the raindrops, the cure is to prevent it.” It only takes an amuater to see the little problems but it take an expert to find the solution. In other words, the goal of robotics is just to train the machine or technology to make simple decisions and solutions through our interactions. He described it perfectly as a human intelligence within a robotic information driven system combined as one. I
Takeo Kanade entire speech was given on a powerpoint presentation which used quite amount of evidence and explanation to his main points both for the computer science majors and non-majors like myself. The use of the powerpoint was a good way to organize and transition through his main points and evidence nicely. His evidence not only brought clarity to some of the concepts of robotics but also gave a more personal feel. One of his first supporting points was a video of the Superbowl in 2001 which presented one of his works in further detail. There was also another video that displayed his analog system created in 1995 that went to support his third main point of his relationship to robotics as more than just a mechanism. The video were an interesting way to put into context his experience in the field of robotics. Although, I felt as if the audio was a bit overbearing even with a microphone he had a difficult time speaking over his videos which made you just have to focus on one thing at a time. Majority of the speech he spoke with good vocal pace and was able to speak loud enough for everyone in the whole room because of the microphone which was a benefit on his behalf. One of the most interesting parts, that I feel also helped to display his credibility was when he read from his own published selling books entitled, Think Like an Amuater, Do as an Expert, Kanade states “ When you want to prevent raindrops from obstructing your view while driving, no idea is more straightforward and natural than to think, “If the obstruction is that the lights from the headlights hit the raindrops, the cure is to prevent it.” It only takes an amuater to see the little problems but it take an expert to find the solution. In other words, the goal of robotics is just to train the machine or technology to make simple decisions and solutions through our interactions. He described it perfectly as a human intelligence within a robotic information driven system combined as one. I