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Robotics Institute Seminar Schedule, Fall 2006
General Information | Previous Seminars | Seminar Committee

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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
September 8	Data Mining to Support Food Safety
	Artur Dubrawski	Carnegie Mellon University		Alexei A. Efros
September 15	Ballbots
	Ralph Hollis	Carnegie Mellon University		Alexei A. Efros
September 22	Fast and Accurate Face Tracking
	Iain Mathews	Carnegie Mellon University
September 29	Is the human hand dexterous because, or in spite, of its anatomical complexity?
	Francisco Valero-Cuevas	Cornell University		Jessica Hodgins
October 6	Machine Learning in in vivo CNS Drug Discovery
	Jeff Schneider	Carnegie Mellon University
October 13	Object classification, recognition and segmentation by a hierarchy of abstract fragments
	Shimon Ullman	Weizmann Institute of Science		Alexei A. Efros
October 24	Teaching Technical Creativity through Robotics in Ghana
	G. Ayorkor Mills-Tettey		Carnegie Mellon University
October 27	Robust Autonomous Color Learning on a Mobile Robot
	Peter Stone	University of Texas at Austin		Brett Browning
November 3	BigDog - a dynamic quadruped robot
	Martin Buehler	Boston Dynamics		Sanjiv Singh
November 7	A Braille Writing Tutor to Combat Illiteracy in Developing Communities
	Nidhi Kalra Tom Lauwers	Carnegie Mellon University
November 10	Integrated models of scenes and objects
	Antonio Torralba	MIT		Alexei A. Efros
November 17	No Seminar
November 24	Thanksgiving
December 1	What Devices Should Capture Visual Appearance?
	Jack Tumblin	Northwestern University		Jessica Hodgins
December 8	Un-powered & Powered Exoskeletons for Gait Training of Motor Impaired Patients
	Sunil Agrawal	University of Delaware		Alexei A. Efros
December 15	Finals

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 Alexei Efros by e-mail at efros@cs.cmu.edu, or by phone at (412) 268-1234.

Alexei Efros, chair Ling Xu, electronic publicity Mihail Pivtoraiko, real-world publicity Janice Brochetti, speaker relations

efros@cs.cmu.edu lingx@andrew.cmu.edu mpivtora@andrew.cmu.edu janiceb@andrew.cmu.edu

Seminar Mailing List

To subscribe or unsubscribe to the RI Seminar e-mail list (robotics-seminar@cs.cmu.edu) please contact Alan Guisewite (adg@cmu.edu)

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