Charles Rosen (scientist)

Charles Rosen (December 7, 1917 – December 8, 2002) was a pioneer in artificial intelligence and founder of SRI International's Artificial Intelligence Center.[1] He led the project that led to the development of Shakey the Robot, "who" now resides in a glass case at the Computer History Museum, in Mountain View, California.

Charles Rosen
Rosen (center-right)
Born(1917-12-07)December 7, 1917
DiedDecember 8, 2002(2002-12-08) (aged 85)[1]
Alma materCooper Union
McGill University
Known forShakey the robot
Scientific career
InstitutionsGeneral Electric Research Laboratory

SRI International's Artificial Intelligence Center

Ridge Vineyards

Early life and education

Raised in Montreal, Rosen became a student at Cooper Union and received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1940; he returned to Montreal to study at McGill University, where he received his M. Eng. (in communications) in 1950.

Career

While working at the General Electric Research Laboratory, in 1953 Rosen co-authored one of the first textbooks on transistor circuits.[2] In 1956, Rosen received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Syracuse University (with a minor in solid state physics).[3]

In 1957, Rosen joined the Stanford Research Institute, where he did much of his artificial intelligence work.[1]

In 1959, Rosen co-founded Ridge Vineyards with SRI colleagues Hewitt Crane and David Bennion. Under their ownership, Ridge would go on to place fifth in the Judgment of Paris wine tasting.[4]

In 1978, Rosen co-founded Machine Intelligence Corporation (MIC) with colleagues from SRI and elsewhere[5]. He served as its first CEO. MIC developed the first commercially available industrial machine vision system, the VS-100[6], in his garage. MIC later spun out Symantec Corporation in 1982.

gollark: I found a program which does similar multicasting-y stuff and works fine, but I don't understand what it's actually doing because it's in a very different language with different semantics.
gollark: It's possible that I have some fundamental misunderstanding of how to make the networking stack happy with all this, but the examples I found did basically the same stuff so WHO KNOWS.
gollark: It's going onto my pile of "abandoned until I can find a non-eldritch way to do this" things.
gollark: "Interesting" and highly cursed: Google appear to have implemented some sort of horrible BASIC-y language encoded in YAML for "cloud workflows": https://cloud.google.com/workflows/docs/reference/syntax
gollark: I don't really know about the details at all, but I think the way it works is that when you observe one end, it collapses into one of two random states, and the other one collapses into the other. Or something vaguely like that.

References
  1. Buchanan, Wyatt (2002-12-20). "Charles Rosen -- expert on robots, co-founder of winery". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2012-09-23.
  2. Shea, Richard F., editor (1953). Principles of Transistor Circuits (John Wiley and Sons, 1953).
  3. Stanford Research Institute (1969). "Development and Application of Question-Answering Techniques for a Remote-Access Medical Information Retrieval System," proposal submitted by the Stanford Research Institute on November 13, 1969. Online version (incorporating Rosen's CV) retrieved Oct. 23, 2007.
  4. Taber, George M. (2005). The Judgment of Paris: California vs. France (Simon & Schuster), pp. pg 181-182. ISBN 0-7432-4751-5
  5. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hONKLisAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra#d=gs_md_cita-d&u=%2Fcitations%3Fview_op%3Dview_citation%26hl%3Den%26user%3DhONKLisAAAAJ%26cstart%3D20%26pagesize%3D80%26citation_for_view%3DhONKLisAAAAJ%3A3fE2CSJIrl8C%26tzom%3D480
  6. Rosen, C. A.; Gleason, G. J. (1983). "Evaluating Vision System Performance". Robot Vision. pp. 97–103. doi:10.1007/978-3-662-09771-7_6. ISBN 978-3-662-09773-1.
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