Louis B. Rosenberg

Louis B. Rosenberg
PhD.

Louis Rosenberg (2010)
Nationality American
Citizenship United States
Education BS Stanford 1991,MS Stanford 1993,PhD Stanford 1994[1][2][3][4]
Alma mater Stanford University
Occupation Entrepreneur, writer, inventor, professor
Website unanimousai.com/staff-item/louis-rosenberg-phd/

Louis Rosenberg (born May 24, 1969) is a technologist, prolific inventor, entrepreneur, and writer. He attended Stanford University, where he earned his bachelors, masters, and PhD degrees. His doctoral work focused on robotics, virtual reality, and augmented reality, and resulted in the Virtual fixtures system for the U.S. Air Force, the first immersive Augmented Reality system ever built (1992). Rosenberg then founded a number of successful technology companies, including the early VR company Immersion Corporation which went public in 1999 (NASDAQ: IMMR), the 3D digitizer company Microscribe which was used in the making of Shrek, Ice Age, and Titanic, and the mobile / augmented reality company Outland Research. Rosenberg also worked as a tenured professor at California Polytechnic State University.[5][6] In 2014, he founded Unanimous A.I., an artificial intelligence company that enables human groups to amplify their collective brainpower by forming real-time online swarms.[7][8][9] Unanimous AI became well known in 2016 when its Artificial Swarm Intelligence technology called "UNU" made a series of accurate predictions about world events, including predicting the 2016 Academy Awards, the 2016 Kentucky Derby, the 2016 Super Bowl, and the rise of Donald Trump.[10][11][12]

Personal life

Rosenberg is a vegan, a supporter of animal rights, and has helped to develop the first VR surgical simulators that reduced the use of animals in medical training.[2][4][13] He is also dyslexic and has attributed some of his success as a technologist to this trait.[14]

Career

Technology

Louis Rosenberg testing Virtual Fixtures, one of the first Augmented Reality systems ever developed (1992).

In 1992, Louis Rosenberg developed the first immersive Augmented Reality systems ever built, called Virtual fixtures, while working at the U.S. Air Force Armstrong Labs, and published the first study of how an AR system can enhance human performance.[15][16] Rosenberg's related work at Stanford University in the early 90's, offered the first proof that virtual overlays, when registered and presented over a user's direct view of the real physical world, could significantly enhance human performance.[4][17][18][19]

In 1993, Rosenberg founded the virtual reality company, Immersion Corporation which went public in 1999 (NASDAQ: IMMR) and remains a public company today. He served as the company's CEO until 2000.[4] Rosenberg also founded Microscribe, a company that developed the first desktop 3D digitizer - a system that allows animators to digitize physical objects into 3D computer models. The Microscribe 3D digitizer was used in the production of many major feature films including Shrek, Ice Age, Bugs Life, and Titanic.[4][20] Rosenberg also founded Outland Research, a company specializing in advanced methods of human-computer interaction.[21][22][23] In 2001, Google purchased Outland Research technologies, along with its patents.[22]

In 2014, he founded Unanimous A.I., an artificial intelligence company that amplifies the intelligence of human groups by enabling networks of online users to form a form real-time "hive minds" modeled after natural swarms.[24][7][8][9][25] Unanimous AI became well known in 2016 when its swarm-based technology was used to made a series of accurate predictions about world events, including predicting the 2016 Academy Awards, the 2016 Kentucky Derby, the 2016 Super Bowl, and the rise of Donald Trump.[10][11][12][26]

As a professor at California State University (CalPoly), Rosenberg developed educational technologies, including methods for using wearable cameras and time-shifted video to enhance education, perception, and learning.[27][28] Over the length of his career, Rosenberg has been awarded over 350 patents.[29][30][31]

Film work

In 2008, Rosenberg attended the Professional Program in Screenwriting at UCLA film school.[32] In 2009, Rosenberg wrote the short film Lab Rats which won several awards including a Moondance Film Festival the award for best screenplay.[33][34][35] The film, directed by Sam Washington, has subsequently been turned into a webseries by Frostbite Pictures.[36] In 2011, Rosenberg sold a screenplay entitled Paper Trail to Sidney Kimmel Entertainment.[37] In 2012, Rosenberg sold a screenplay entitled Mindplay to Echo Lake Entertainment.[38]

Graphic novels

UPGRADE (sci-fi graphic novel, 2008)

In 2008, Rosenberg authored his first graphic novel entitled UPGRADE, with artwork by Stan Timmons.[39] A satirical take on transhumanism, the book is set in the year 2048, when life is lived entirely online, nobody ever leaving the confines of their tiny apartments, supplies brought to them by automated delivery drones. The protagonist, Avery J. Mankin, is the perfect citizen of this virtual society, until he's unfairly accused of a crime, exiled from the system, and must learn to live in the real world for the first time.[38] A screenplay based on the book won Best Scif-Fi Screenplay at Shriekfest and won the Grand Prize of the Cinestory Screenwriting Awards.[40][41]

Rosenberg then released the graphic novel EONS in 2013 with artwork by Kyle La Fever. The book recounts the story of eight test subjects who are frozen and shot into orbit for a 60-day test of a military survival system. But when they land back on Earth and open the hatch, they find that instead of waking up 60 days later, 200,000 years have passed. The Earth is pristine and there are no traces of humanity anywhere. They have no choice but rebuild.[42]

In 2013, Rosenberg authored the children's book Seeking Marlo, with co-writer Joe Rosenbaum, and artwork by illustrator Bill Maus. The book is aimed at helping kids deal with the loss when a good friend moves away.[42]

Rosenberg released the dystopian graphic novel Monkey Room in 2014. Its a cautionary tale about the creation of a sentient AI that comes to life as a global "hive mind," linking millions of users through their phones, tablets, and computers. With moody artwork by Graeme Howard, the book explores the dark side of artificial intelligence.[43][44] A screenplay version of Monkey Room was selected by the Academy of Motion Pictures from over 7000 scripts to as one of 50 contenders for a Nichol's Fellowship.[45][46]

References

  1. ↑ "Louis Rosenberg, Stanford PhD Profile". Stanford. Retrieved April 16, 2014.
  2. 1 2 "Louis Rosenberg". Outland Pictures. Retrieved April 21, 2014.
  3. ↑ "Virtual Space Exploration Lab and related Telepresence projects". Stanford. Retrieved April 21, 2014.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Gallagher, Leigh (March 20, 2000). "Feel Me". Forbes. Retrieved April 22, 2014.
  5. ↑ Hewes, Amy. "M.E. Professor Rosenberg Honored in "Top 20"". California Polytechnic State University. Retrieved April 21, 2014.
  6. ↑ "Louis Rosenberg". California Polytechnic State University. Retrieved April 21, 2014.
  7. 1 2 http://news.discovery.com/human/life/swarms-of-humans-power-a-i-platform-150603.htm
  8. 1 2 http://sites.lsa.umich.edu/collectiveintelligence/wp-content/uploads/sites/176/2015/05/Rosenberg-CI-2015-Abstract.pdf
  9. 1 2 https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/ecal2015/ch117.html
  10. 1 2 Gunaratana, Shanika (May 10, 2016). "Artificial intelligence:Key to Kentucky Derby betting?". CBS News.
  11. 1 2 Cuthbertson, Anthony (May 10, 2016). "Artificial Intelligence Turns $20 Into $11,000 in Kentucky Derby Bet". Newsweek.
  12. 1 2 Schwartz, Ariel (May 9, 2016). "A 'human swarm' predicted the winners of the Kentucky Derby at 540 to 1 odds". Tech Insider.
  13. ↑ Tam, Pui-Wing (June 16, 2000). "In Backlash Against the Wired World, Silicon Valley Fringe Pulls Plug at Home". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved May 5, 2014.
  14. ↑ Ketchum, Pat (April 1, 2007). "Dyslexia To Design – Professor Pioneers New Learning Synergy". CalPoly. Retrieved April 22, 2014.
  15. ↑ Noer, Michael (September 21, 1998). "Desktop fingerprints". Forbes. Retrieved April 22, 2014.
  16. ↑ L. B. Rosenberg. The Use of Virtual Fixtures As Perceptual Overlays to Enhance Operator Performance in Remote Environments. Technical Report AL-TR-0089, USAF Armstrong Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB OH, 1992.
  17. ↑ Rosenberg, L., "Virtual fixtures as tools to enhance operator performance in telepresence environments," SPIE Manipulator Technology, 1993.
  18. ↑ Rosenberg, "Virtual Haptic Overlays Enhance Performance in Telepresence Tasks," Dept. of Mech. Eng., Stanford Univ., 1994.
  19. ↑ Rosenberg, "Virtual Fixtures: Perceptual Overlays Enhance Operator Performance in Telepresence Tasks," Ph.D. Dissertation, Stanford University.
  20. ↑ "Microscribe Exchange Agreement". Onecle. Retrieved April 21, 2014.
  21. ↑ Knight, Will (December 12, 2006). "Smart soles". New Scientist. Retrieved April 24, 2014.
  22. 1 2 Slawski, bill (September 4, 2011). "Google Picks Up Hardware And Media Patents From Outland Research". SEO by the Sea. Retrieved April 21, 2014.
  23. ↑ "USPTO Patent Full-Text and Image Database". United States Patent and Trademark Office. Retrieved April 28, 2014.
  24. ↑ Rosenberg, L.; Baltaxe, D.; Pescetelli, N. (October 2016). "Crowds vs swarms, a comparison of intelligence". 2016 Swarm/Human Blended Intelligence Workshop (SHBI): 1–4. doi:10.1109/shbi.2016.7780278.
  25. ↑ Rosenberg, L. (July 2016). "Artificial Swarm Intelligence vs human experts". 2016 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN): 2547–2551. doi:10.1109/ijcnn.2016.7727517.
  26. ↑ Rosenberg, L.; Baltaxe, D. (October 2016). "Setting group priorities #x2014; Swarms vs votes". 2016 Swarm/Human Blended Intelligence Workshop (SHBI): 1–4. doi:10.1109/shbi.2016.7780279.
  27. ↑ Rosenberg, L.B. (June 25–29, 2007). "First-Person Videography, a Novel Technology for Teacher Evaluation". World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications. Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education. Retrieved April 24, 2014.
  28. ↑ Rosenberg, L.B.; Petersen, G.J. (Spring 2008). "Time-lapse Video as a Self-Reflection Tool for Collaborative Learning Projects". Journal of Research for Educational Leaders. 4 (2): 4–16. Retrieved April 24, 2014.
  29. ↑ "Patents by Inventor Louis Rosenberg". Justia. Retrieved April 24, 2014.
  30. ↑ "Patents of Louis B. Rosenbger". Google Patents. Retrieved April 24, 2014.
  31. ↑ "European Patent Register". European Patent Office. Retrieved April 28, 2014.
  32. ↑ "Cal Poly Professor's Screenplay Wins Award at WorldFest Film Festival". California Polytechnic State University. Retrieved April 16, 2014.
  33. ↑ "Lab Rats (2010)". IMDB. Retrieved April 24, 2014.
  34. ↑ "Moondance Successes & Praise". Moondance International Film Festival. Retrieved April 21, 2014.
  35. ↑ "Bio". SohoSoHo. Retrieved April 21, 2014.
  36. ↑ "Lab Rats Web Series". Frostbite Pictures. Retrieved April 12, 2014.
  37. ↑ McNary, Dave (October 24, 2011). "Paper Trail' grows with SKE". Variety. Retrieved April 21, 2014.
  38. 1 2 "Former Cal Poly professor releases sci-fi graphic novel at Comic-Con 2012". Mustang News. July 18, 2012. Retrieved April 21, 2014.
  39. ↑ Rosenberg, Louis (June 15, 2012). Steven Stern, ed. Upgrade. Outland Pictures. ISBN 9780988266506. Retrieved April 21, 2014.
  40. ↑ "2009 Shriekfest Winners". Shriekfest. Retrieved April 22, 2014.
  41. ↑ Fox, Maureen (December 1, 2011). "Interview with CineStory Fellow Louis B. Rosenberg". MovieBytes. Retrieved April 22, 2014.
  42. 1 2 Weltner, Anna (June 27, 2013). "Are we the last living souls?". New Times. Retrieved April 21, 2014.
  43. ↑ Messer, Erin C. (April 9, 2014). "Local publisher Outland Pictures' new graphic novel, 'Monkey Room,' explores the collective unconscious". New Times. Retrieved April 21, 2014.
  44. ↑ "Monkey Room, Book 1 by Louis Rosenberg". Examiner.com. April 1, 2014.
  45. ↑ "2013 Academy Nicholl Fellowships Top 50 Screenplays". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved April 24, 2014.
  46. ↑ Oxenham, Simon. "Why bees could be the secret to Super Human intelligence". BBC News. BBC.
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