Warning
This page is provided for historical and archival purposes only. While the seminar dates are correct, we offer no guarantee of informational accuracy or link validity. Contact information for the speakers, hosts and seminar committee are certainly out of date.

Seminar Information
Seminars are held every Friday in the Adamson Wing of Baker Hall, unless otherwise noted on the calendar or abstract. Seminars begin at 3:30pm, and refreshments are served upstairs 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 defference 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.

Seminar Calendar
Information on the speaker, when available, can be viewed by clicking on the speaker's name. The abstract, when available, can be viewed by clicking on the title of the seminar.

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Host
January 23	The National Robotics Engineering Consortium: Mission, Challenges and Outlook
	John Bares	Carnegie Mellon University Robotics
January 30	Building Simulated Environments which Sound and Feel Real
	Dinesh K. Pai	University of British Columbia Computer Science	Mike Erdmann
February 6	Statistical Techniques for Building Maps With Mobile Robots
	Sebastian Thrun	Carnegie Mellon University SCS and Robotics
February 13	The Mars Pathfinder Microrover - A New Era in Planetary Exploration
	Henry Stone	Jet Propulsion Laboratories Pathfinder Team	Sanjiv Singh
February 20	Computational Sensors for Vision
	Vladimir M. Brajovic	Carnegie Mellon University Robotics
February 27	Title: "Interactive Entertainment & Robotics: Shall We Play A Game?"
	Ian Davis	Activision	Sanjiv Singh
March 6	Autonomous Long Range Navigation for Planetary Rovers
	Raja Chatila	LAAS-CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research)	Tony Stentz
March 13	Self-reconfiguring Robotics
	Daniela Rus	Dartmouth College Computer Science	Mike Erdmann
March 20	Color and Texture Metrics for Image Database Navigation
	Carlo Tomasi	Stanford University CS and Robotics	Sanjiv Singh
March 27	No Seminar: Spring Break
April 3	Grasping and Manipulation: Geometry and Algorithms
	Jean Ponce	University of Illinois Beckman Institute	Martial Hebert
April 10	High Integrity Localization
	Steve Scheding	Carnegie Mellon University National Robotics Engineering Consortium University of Sydney, Australia Australian Center for Field Robotics
April 17	No seminar
April 24	Haptic interface and controller design for transparent teleoperation
	Tim Salcudean	University of British Columbia Electrical Engineering	Ralph Hollis
May 1	Automatic On-board Planning for Autonomous Spacecraft
	Nicola Muscettola	NASA Ames Research Center	Steve Smith

Links and Contacts
Web pages for previous seminars are availbale for Fall 1997, Spring 1997, Fall 1996, and previous years.

For technical issues and final scheduling commitments, as well as opinions or suggestions on speakers and seminar topics, please contact Sanjiv Singh by e-mail at ssingh@frc.ri.cmu.edu, or by phone at 412/268-6577.

For administrative issues, tentative scheduling, reimbursements, and opinions on what kind of tea, coffee, or cookies you would like to see at the seminar, please contact Dorothea Marsh by e-mail at dot@frc.ri.cmu.edu or by phone at 412/268-6577.