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guarantee of informational accuracy or link
validity. Contact information for the speakers, hosts and
seminar committee are certainly out of date.
IMPORTANT NOTICE!
1996 Fall Seminars will be held in the Adamson Wing (Porter/Baker Hall, across the Mall) Fridays at 4:00 PM with cookies-and-tea afterwards. This was the best solution to a SNAFU with the registrar that made our traditional scheduling impossible.
There are two web pages relating to RI Seminars: this one, and another that has been maintained for several years by Chris Lee. This page should be regarded as most current; Chris's page should be regarded as most historically accurate.
administrative issues, tentative scheduling, reimbursements, cookie-and-tea flavor opinions, etc:
Carol_Boshears@ri.cmu.edu, 412 268 3078
technical issues, final scheduling committments, subject-and-speaker flavor opinions, etc:
Mel Siegel <mws+@cmu.edu>, 412 268 8802
96-Aug-30
Matt Mason
CMU Robotics Institute
Robotics PhD Program
ABSTRACT
96-Sep-06
E. Ilhan KONUKSEVEN
CMU Mechanical Engineering
Moving Part Recognition and Automatic Pick and Place Using an Industrial Robot
96-Sep-13
Eric Krotkov
CMU Robotics Institute
Lunar Navigation
96-Sep-20
Howie Choset
CMU Mechanical Engineering
Sensor Based Planning:
The Hierarchical Generalized Voronoi Graph
ABSTRACT
96-Sep-27
Hans Moravec
CMU Robotics Institute
Robot Spatial Perception by Stereoscopic Vision and 3D Evidence Grids
(the figures that go with the above abstract)
96-Oct-04
Mel Siegel
CMU Robotics Institute
ABSTRACT
BIO
96-Oct-11
none: go to the Gedankenfest for Herb Simon
96-Oct-18
Yanxi Liu
CMU Robotics Institute
Mathematical Robotics
96-Oct-25
Gill Pratt
MIT AI Lab
walking machines
617 253 2037
96-Nov-01
Raj Reddy
CMU Robotics Institute
"To Err is Human" (HCI)
96-Nov-08 3:30 - 4:00 PM
Tea+Cookies
Adamson Wing (the usual place)
96-Nov-08 4:00 - 5:00 PM
Adamson Wing (the usual place)
Ken Goldberg
Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
UC Berkeley
teleoperation and the www; manipulation planning and algorithms for automation
96-Nov-15
Peter Lawrence
University of British Columbia 604 822 5934
Forestry Robotics
96-Nov-22
Jon Webb
visint.com 621 8242
shape camera
96-Nov-29
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
96-Dec-06
Bernie Roth
Stanford Mech E 415 723 3657
kinematics, dynamics, control, and design
SPECIAL TIMES (due to a late afternoon final exam in the Adamson Wing)
Tea+cookies at 2:15 PM
Seminar begins at 3:00 PM
96-Dec-13
Eric Rollins
CMU SCS RI FRC
Deformable Models in Medical Image Analysis
96-Dec-20
[[none -- it is long after classes end]]
96-Dec-27
XMAS/NEW YEAR HOLIDAY
The following are committed but not yet scheduled:
"coinciding with Dirk Langer's thesis defense"
Roman Kuc
Yale Electrical Engineering
sonar topic
"mid November"
Pradeep Khosla
CMU 268 5090
The DARPA Robotics Program (+ "life at DARPA")
The following are interested but it may not be possible to schedule them for a mutually convenient date this semester:
Joel Burdick
Cal Tech
(early winter or late spring -- being coordinated by Howie Choset and Matt Mason)
Marc Raibert
BDI -- Cambridge MA 617 62 2929
walking machines?
(availability TBD)
Henry Fuchs
UNC-CH Computer Science
computer graphics
(needs to be rescheduled after cancellation 96-Oct-18 and 96-Nov-08)
John Bayouth MD
Shadyside Hospital
Robotic deployment of linac/x-ray head for cancer treatment
(to be coordinated by Matt Mason)
Michael N. Sobel DMD
Forensic dentistry
412 421 0401
(he could give a seminar on dental techniques use to identify airplane crash victims, etc;
see Mel Siegel for details)
The following might be available for another semester:
Tim Salcudean
U British Columbia
(on sabatical in Europe through 97-Sep)
Ken Salisbury
MIT
(too much travel this semester)
The following have been recommended but I have not [yet] contacted them [usually because there would be too many seminars on similar topics, or too many speakers from the same institution]:
Dave Brock <dlb@ai.mit.edu>
VR/HCI
suggested by Ken Salisbury when he declined for this semester
John Leonard
MIT Oceanography
sonar navigation etc
suggested by Ian Davis
Lee Weiss
CMU Robotics
manufacturing by addition
willing, but no mutually convenient slot this fall 1996