Bill Ross

I work as a project manager at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Lately I spend most of my time at the NREC.

How to reach me:

Office: (518) 891-5889	To fool email search bots:	Bill Ross
Cell: (412) 848-1148	Email account: br	National Robotics Engineering Consortium
	Email machine: cs.cmu.edu	Ten 40th Street
		Pittsburgh, PA 15201

Research Interests

Practical, real-world applications of advanced robotics technology.

High speed computer vision systems and advanced vision algorithms.

Novel applications for autonomous mobile robotics.

High performance computing hardware and architectures.

Recent Research

• Unmanned Ground Vehicle Project
• Belt Inspection Project
• Biomedical Robotics for Drug Discovery Applications
• Ship Cleaning Robots
• Chipmunk Image Processing Module
• Computer Vision Algorithms
• Vision Machine
• Robot Boat
• High Speed Stereo Vision

Research Links

• The Robotics Institute
• National Robotics Engineering Consortium
• The Computer Vision Homepage

Vital Statistics

Born Washington, D.C. 1964

Master of Science in Computer Science, Washington University May, 1988

Married to Professor Donna Fulkerson

Dog Otto and son Cooper

Non-Research Interests

I build Wooden Boats

I live and work in Saranac Lake in the Adirondacks

Interesting Links

• Cool Monster Robots at Survival Research Labs
• Robotics Internet Resources
• Fun with Science - the Science Hobbyist Homepage
• Honda Human Robot
• Trans-Humanism
• New England Ice Yacht Association
• SETI