Welcome to Michel's home page!

<Michel.Buffa@cmu.edu>

Who am I?

I am Michel Buffa, visiting scientist at the Robotic Institute of the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh . I'm currently studying the navigation of cross country mobile robots using weakly calibrated stereovision. I'm involved in the The Navlab project. Here is a picture of the robot I'm working on. Our lab maintains a very interesting page with links to a lot of computer vision related stuff all over the world. See the CMU Computer Vision home page. Check also the Robotics mosaic page.

Here are my publications.

I recently acquired a position as a teacher in computer engineering at the Univeristy of Nice, in France. I'll start teaching there in September 1994. I'll conduct my research work on Underwater Virtual Reality at ESSI (Ecole Superieure des Sciences Informatiques), at Sophia-Antipolis near Nice in the southeast of France, in the team directed by Peter Sander. An interesting link for the french teachers is the CNU ftp server.

Coordinates

email: <Michel.Buffa@cmu.edu>
Surface mail: Robotic Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh PA 15232, USA
Phone: 1-412-268-2339
Fax: 1-412-268-621-1970
Office: 210 Smith Hall, 3rd floor
WWW: http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/buffa/www/homepage.html
IRC: nickname "Zebra3".

You don't know IRC ? Why don't you visit my IRC page? It will explain everything you want to know about IRC: what it is, how to get the software, how to use it. You can even connect on IRC with a simple mouse click!

Hobbies

Don't forget to check my videogames WWW pages!

Here we go! Here are my hobbies!

In France, before leaving to the USA, I used to play guitar in a Rock'n'Roll band. Don't speak to me about Jazz, or worse: Free-Jazz, South American music or things like that: it's not my cup of tea! The music I like must be played on american guitars exclusively, plugged into old valve amplifiers set to 11, and may include some Fuzz noises. No keyboards are allowed except an old Hammond organ! See my music page for details! I'm looking desperately for an electric Hollow-Body guitar, (Gretsh, Gibson ES335). Mail me if you have one to sell!
I love all psychotronic stuff like sick movies, old psychedelic punk bands from the sixties or like my friend Greffe, the singer of my old band. Have a look at my cinema/music page to understand what I mean.
I love playing video games. I have a SNES with a SWC and lot of games, and a 3DO game console that is great but has only a few games for the moment. See my video games page that are one of my principal contributions to the WWW.
I love scuba diving, and sailing. By the way, have you read the rec.scuba FAQ? You may also want to check the Aquanot WWW server? Look also at theATOC (Acoustic Thermometry of Ocean Climate) mosaic page.