ARTSI Faculty Summer Workshop
August 4-8, 2008 at Carnegie Mellon

All sessions are in Newell Simon Hall room 3305 unless noted.
List of confirmed attendees

Monday, August 4
8:30 am
NSH 3305
Registration and continental breakfast
9:00 - 9:15 am
NSH 3305
Welcome by Dr. Jared Cohon, President of Carnegie Mellon

Opening remarks by Andrew Williams, head of ARTSI, and Dave Touretzky, ARTSI director of robotics education

9:15 am-12:30 pm
NSH 3305
Illah Nourbakhsh
Carl DiSalvo
CREATE lab, TeRK project, Qwerk board, Robots 250, ideas for community outreach activities
12:30 pm-2:00 pm Box lunch and free time
2:00 pm-5:00 pm
NSH 3305
Monica Anderson and Jeff Forbes iRobot Create, SmURV, Tapia Competition, Python, Player/Stage
5:30 pm-8:30 pm Private viewing of robotic art exhibit at the Mattress Factory, followed by dinner
Tuesday, August 5
8:30 am
NSH 3305
Continental breakfast
9:00am -12:00 pm
NSH 3305
Dave Touretzky
Ethan Tira-Thompson
Glenn Nickens
Tekkotsu part 1: cognitive robotics, new Chiara robot, robot arms and manipulation
12:00 pm-1:30 pm
CIC Building, lower level
Lunch with engineers at Google Pittsburgh
2:00 pm-5:00 pm
NSH 3305
Dave Touretzky
Ethan Tira-Thompson
Glenn Nickens
Tekkotsu part 2
Wednesday, August 6
8:30 am
NSH 3305
Continental breakfast
9:00 am-12:30 pm
NSH 3305
Ayanna Howard, Charlie Kemp, Mary Hershberger, Bambi Brewer, Garrett Grindley Healthcare applications; medical robotics; human-robot interaction
12:30 pm-1:30 pm
NSH 3305
Box lunch
1:30 pm-5:00 pm
Various locations
CMU staff Tours of the Robotics Institute, NREC (National Robotics Engineering Center), Robot City
5:00-6:30
CIC Building
Reception sponsored by Apple Inc.
Thursday, August 7
8:30 am
NSH 3305
Continental breakfast
9:00 am-10:30 am
NSH 3305
Tiffany Bussey Entrepreneurship training
11:00 am-12:00pm
CIC Building, 4th floor
Everyone Advisory board meeting; strategic planning. Held in the Panther Hollow Room at Intel Research Pittsburgh
12:00 am-1:30pm
CIC Building, 4th floor
Lunch with engineers at Intel Research Pittsburgh
1:30 pm-3:00 pm
NSH 3305
Carl Disalvo and Ian Ingram Robotic art
3:30 -5:00 pm
NSH 3305
Tarshia Stanley Film making and video editing
Friday, August 8
8:30 am
NSH 3305
Continental breakfast
9:00 am-10:15 am
NSH 3305
Sara Kiesler Evaluation goals and strategies
10:30 am-12:00 pm
NSH 3305
Andrew Williams amd Carol Frieze K-12 outreach; robotics and computer science roadshows
12:00 pm-1:00 pm
NSH 3305
Box lunch
1:00 pm-3:00 pm
NSH 3305
Everyone Teaching strategies and PEER Team Research plans for 2008-2009


Dave Touretzky
Last modified: Mon Aug 4 10:04:06 EDT 2008