Ken Goldberg
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"Kenneth Y. Goldberg" (born 1961) is an American artist, writer, inventor, and researcher in the field of robotics and automation. He is the craigslist Distinguished Professor of New Media and Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations

Research (IEOR), with joint appointments in Electrical Engineering and

Computer Science (EECS), Art Practice, and the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. Goldberg also holds an appointment in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of California, San Francisco.

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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.

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.

[The Goldbergs plan to help organizations that promote drug awareness, education and treatment.] And because things went so terribly wrong for us, ... we want to identify places with methodologies that work.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

We talked about drugs with our children.