Position: Associate Research Professor, Robotics Institute : Director, Intelligent Measurement and Control Lab Office: NSH A421 Office Phone: +1 412 268 8742 Labs: NSH A417 Lab Phone: +1 412 268 8742 Directions: The A floor of NSH is the floor below 1. Lab and office are in the southeast corner. Home: +1 412 621 6104 Cellular: +1 412 983 2626 Hours: Coherent response more likely late PM than early AM. Travel: Ask Chris Downey +1 412 268 3078 or call my cellphone. Policy: Don't do anything that makes me want to create a policy. ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** From "Principles of Neurodynamics: Perceptrons and the Theory of Brain Mechanisms", by Frank Rosenblatt, 1962: "Perception, then, emerges as that relatively primitive, partly autonomous, institutionalized, ratiomorphic subsystem of cognition which achieves prompt and richly detailed orientation habitually concerning the vitally relevant, mostly distal aspects of the environment on the basis of mutually vicarious, relatively restricted and stereotyped, insufficient evidence in uncertainty-geared interaction and compromise, seemingly following the highest probability for smallness of error at the expense of the highest frequency of precision." -- From "Perception and the Representative Design of Psychological Experiments," by Egon Brunswik. "That's a simplification. Perception is standing on the sidewalk, watching all the girls go by." -- From "The New Yorker," December 19, 1959.