Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 21:18:02 GMT Server: NCSA/1.5.2 Last-modified: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 15:09:08 GMT Content-type: text/html Content-length: 2668 George A. Bekey

Prof. George A. Bekey

George A. Bekey received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of California, Berkeley, in 1950 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1952 and 1962, respectively.

He is Gordon Marshall Professor of Computer Science, Director of the USC Center for Manufacturing and Automation Research, and Director of the Robotics Research Laboratory at the University of Southern California. His research interests are in the areas of intelligent robotic systems, applications of AI and robotics to medicine, and planning and control of manufacturing systems. From 1983 to 1989, he was Director of the USC Robotics Institute; from 1984-1989, he was Chairman of the Computer Science Department.

In addition to his teaching and university research, Dr. Bekey's professional experience includes: four years as a Research Engineer with the Department of Engineering at UCLA, where he worked primarily with computers; three years with Beckman Instruments, Inc., as a Computer Applications Engineer and Manager of the Los Angeles Computation Center; Section Head of the Analysis and Simulation Section and Senior Staff Engineer, TRW Systems, Los Angeles. His last assignment at TRW was to organize a staff group concerned with simulation and control of manned space vehicles.

Dr. Bekey has published over 180 technical papers in the areas of biomedical engineering, robotics, computer simulation, control systems, and human-machine systems. He is the co-author (with W.J. Karplus) of a text, Hybrid Computation (Wiley, 1968), and co-Editor of several books, the most recent being Neural Networks and Robotics (Kluwer, 1993). He is also the Editor of 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. His professional society memberships include: the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI); the Society for Computer Simulation (SCS) and the International Neural Network Society (INNS). He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.