ClaimsRodney Brooks

“Here is my keynote at CVPR2023 from Tuesday June 20, 2023, earlier this week.”

Rodney Brooks, on X 24 June 2023 Post by @rodneyabrooks on X, 2023-06-24 (X)

Factual Their own work or organisation

Rodney Brooks gave a keynote at CVPR 2023 on Tuesday 20 June 2023.

Resolved true The record shows it happened or was so.

Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?

What would count as true or false

True if CVPR 2023 records (programme, workshop schedule or recording) show Rodney Brooks gave a keynote or invited keynote talk at CVPR 2023 (main conference or a CVPR 2023 workshop billed as a keynote) on Tuesday 20 June 2023. Mostly true if he gave a CVPR 2023 keynote but the date was a different day of that conference week (17–23 June 2023), or the talk was an invited talk, not one labelled a keynote. Mostly false if he spoke at CVPR 2023 only in a minor capacity (for example a panel) and not as a keynote or invited speaker. False if the evidence shows he did not speak at CVPR 2023.

Set before the research began.

Evidence (3)

  1. E1 CVPR 2023 (Inside Front Cover) Main Conference CVPR 2023 (IEEE/CVF), program guide hosted at media.icml.cc

    “0900–1000 Plenary-Tue-AM (MIT) Keynote: Title: Abstract: Rodney Brooks”
  2. E2 CVPR 2023 (Inside Front Cover) Main Conference CVPR 2023 (IEEE/CVF), program guide hosted at media.icml.cc

    “Tuesday, June 20 0700–1700 Registration”
  3. E3 CVPR: Inspiring the Next Generation of Research CVPR 2023 (cvpr.thecvf.com) · 15 June 2023

    ““What I really want to do is encourage you to all think differently than what everyone else around you is thinking, because that’s where the good ideas come from,” remarked Rodney (Rod) Brooks, Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), during the opening of his keynote remarks yesterday.”

Reasoning

The CVPR 2023 main conference programme guide lists Rodney Brooks (MIT) as the keynote speaker in the Plenary-Tue-AM slot, 0900–1000 (E1). The same guide shows that the conference Tuesday was June 20 (E2). A CVPR blog post at the "Blog21June" URL describes Brooks opening "his keynote remarks yesterday" (E3), which fits a Tuesday 20 June keynote. Its listed date of 2023-06-15 does not match that URL, but the programme guide alone places the keynote on Tuesday.

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Rodney Brooks, “Rodney Brooks gave a keynote at CVPR 2023 on Tuesday 20 June 2023.” (said 24 June 2023). Verdict: resolved true. Reliability API, claim c_f4c10456ee53, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_f4c10456ee53

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