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Dr. George Bekey
Emeritus Professor of Computer Science
Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
University of Southern California

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Recorded: 11/16/05
Dr. George A. Bekey is Gordon Marshall Professor of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California. His research interests are in the areas of cooperative intelligent multiple robotic systems and applications of AI and robotics to medicine. Dr. Bekey was a founder of the Biomedical Engineering Department and the founder of the Robotics Research Laboratory at USC.

Dr. Bekey has published over 200 technical papers in the areas of robotics, computer simulation, control systems, biomedical engineering, and human-machine systems. He is the co-author (with W.J. Karplus) of a textbook, Hybrid Computation (Wiley, 1968), and co-editor of several books, the most recent being Neural Networks and Robotics (Kluwer, 1993), Autonomous Underwater Robotic Systems (Kluwer, 1996), and Robot Colonies (Kluwer, 1997). Dr. Bekey is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Autonomous Robots, Founding Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, and a member of the editorial boards of Mathematics and Computers in Simulation and Transactions of the Society of Computer Simulation.