| 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 |