Robotics Institute: Seminar Schedule, Spring 2004

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Seminar Calendar

Information on the speaker can be viewed by clicking on the title of the seminar.

The abstract, video, and the presentation, when available, are also accessible by clicking on the title of the seminar.

The schedule, titles, and abstracts from earlier in this semester can be found in the archives.

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Host	Video
August 26	Curvature and Shape from Touch
	Yan-bin Jia	Iowa State University	Matt Mason
September 2	Useful Signals From Motor Cortex
	Andrew Schwartz	University of Pittsburgh	George Stetton	view
September 9	The Interbots Initiative at Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center: Interactive Animatronics with character!
	Randy Pausch, Will Bosley	Entertainment Technology Center	Matt Mason	view
September 16	Reasoning Over Discontinuous Hypothesis Spaces Subspace Methods for Vision, Graphics and Signal Processing Human-Robot Interaction in Complex Applications
	Paul Rybski, Aaron Steinfeld, Fernando De la Torre	Carnegie Mellon University	Jessica Hodgins	view
September 23	Computational photography Special Location: NSH 3305
	Bill Freeman	Massachusetts Institute of Technology: CSAIL	Martial Hebert	view
September 30	Human Telesupervision of Multirobot Teams for Space Exploration
	John Dolan	Carnegie Mellon University		view
October 7	MRF's for MRI's: Bayesian Reconstruction of MR Images via Graph Cuts
	Ramin Zabih	Cornell University	Simon Baker	view
October 14	Studies on energetically efficient biped locomotion
	Stefano Stramigioli	University of Twente	Howie Choset	view
October 21	Mid Semester Break

October 28	Cancelled
	Randy Sargent	Carnegie Mellon University / NASA - Ames Research Center	Illah Nourbakhsh
November 4	Engineering Methodologies for Real-time Vision Systems Special Location: NSH 3305
	Visvanathan Ramesh	Siemens	Srinivasa Narasimhan	view
November 11	Social robots, social development, and social disorders
	Brian Scassellati	Yale University	Marek Michalowski	view
November 18	No RI Seminar

November 25	Thanksgiving Holiday

December 2	Biologically Inspired Miniature Robots
	Metin Sitti	Carnegie Mellon University		view
December 9	Technology Underlying Inherently Safer Human-Robot Interaction
	Bill Townsend	Barrett Technology Inc.	Yoky Matsuoka	view
December 16	Applying Machine Learning to the Treatment of Diabetes in Qatar
	David Duke	CMU Qatar		view

General Information

Seminars are held every Friday in 1305 Newell-Simon Hall, unless otherwise noted on the calendar or abstract. Seminars begin at 3:30pm, and refreshments are served starting at 3:15pm. Feel free to arrive early to get the first shot at the cookies and talk to your colleagues; please try not to leave during a seminar in deference to the speaker.

If you would like to arrange a meeting with a speaker, please contact the speaker if they are from CMU, or their host, listed on the calendar, if they are from outside of the University.

Previous Seminars

Abstracts from earlier this semester, as well as Seminar calendars and abstracts back to the Fall of 1993 can be found in the Robotics Institute Seminar Archive.

Seminar Committee

For technical issues and final scheduling commitments, as well as opinions or suggestions on speakers and seminar topics, please contact Alonzo Kelly.by e-mail at alonzo@ri.cmu.edu, or by phone at (412) 683-2550.

Alonzo Kelly, chair
David Choi, speaker relations & electronic publicity
Seth Koterba, real-world publicity

alonzo@ri.cmu.edu
dyc@andrew.cmu.edu
skoterba@andrew.cmu.edu

The Robotics Institute is part of the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University.

This page is maintained by David Choi.