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Red Whittaker : ウィキペディア英語版 | Red Whittaker
Red Whittaker is a roboticist and research professor of robotics at Carnegie Mellon University. He led Tartan Racing to its first place victory in the DARPA Grand Challenge (2007) Urban Challenge and brought Carnegie Mellon University the two million dollar prize. Previously, Whittaker also competed for the DARPA Grand Challenge placing second and third place simultaneously, in the Grand Challenge Races. Whittaker is currently the Fredkin Research Professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute as well as the Director of the Field Robotics Center and Chief Scientist of the Robotics Engineering Consortium, both located at the university. He is also leading the CMU team which is competing for the ''Google Lunar X Prize''. As the Chairman and CSO of Astrobotic Technology, Whittaker will play an instrumental role in further lunar development.〔(Astrobotic Technology, Inc. - About )〕 ==Biography== Whittaker spent his childhood in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, where his father was a salesman for explosives and his mother was a chemist. He matriculated at Princeton University, but interrupted his studies to join the United States Marines.〔 He returned to Princeton to earn his bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1973 and then attended Carnegie Mellon University, where he earned his master's degree in 1975 and his Ph.D. in 1979, both in civil engineering.
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