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Robotics Institute Seminar Schedule, Spring 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
January 20	Biomimetic Robots: Applying Biological Principles to the Design and Operation of Legged Robots for Planetary Exploration
	Dr. Mark Cutkosky	Stanford University			Metin Sitti	view
January 27	Perspectives on Autonomous Desert Driving
	Mike Montemerlo	Stanford University			Drew Bagnell	view
February 3	Scalable Approaches to Deploying Swarms of Vehicles and Sensors
	Vijay Kumar	University of Pennsylvania			Alonzo Kelly	view
February 7	Look Before You Book: Computer Science in the Airline Industry
	Todd Williamson	ITA Software, Inc			Martial Hebert	view
February 10	Exploring the Deepest Depths: Development of a Hybrid Remotely Operated Vehicle for Oceanographic Operations to 11,000m Depth
	Louis Whitcomb	Johns Hopkins University			Ralph Hollis	view
February 17	Identifying the Business Opportunity in your Research: Securing Alternative Funding Sources for R&D
	Leo A. Keevican, Jr. Adrienne Garber	Renaissance Partners				view
February 23	Space-Time Analysis and Manipulation of Behaviors in Video
	Michal Irani		Weizmann Institute of Science	Alexei A. Efros			view
February 24	A Frequency Analysis of Light Transport
	Fredo Durand	MIT			Doug James	view
March 3	New Horizons for Orthotic & Prosthetic Technology: Merging Body and Machine
	Hugh Herr	MIT			Jessica Hodgins	view
March 10	Spring Break
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March 17	Spring Break
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March 24	Dynamic Models of Human Behavior
	Zoran Popovic	University of Washington
March 24	Global Connection: National Geographic, Google Earth and Carnegie Mellon
	Valerie May Michael Jones Randy Sargent	National Geographic Google Earth Carnegie Mellon University
March 31	Distributed Estimation and Control of Multi-Agent Systems
	Kevin Lynch	Northwestern			Matt Mason
April 7	The V-unit as an Opportunity to Build a Vision: Case Studies from the Last Two Years
	Bernardine Dias Manuela Veloso	Carnegie Mellon University
April 14	Technology Transfer at Carnegie Mellon
	Rob Conway	CMU Center for Technology Transfer				PowerPoint
April 21	Spring Carnival
April 28	Making the Most of Minimalism in Distributed Manipulation
	Jon Luntz	University of Michigan			Howie Choset
May 5	Broadcast Feedback for Muscle Actuators and Organic Robotics: Biologically-Inspired Cellular Actuators Using Distributed Stochastic Control
	Harry Asada	MIT			Metin Setti

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 Doug James by e-mail at djames@cs.cmu.edu, or by phone at (412) 268-5505.

Doug James, chair Seth Koterba, electronic publicity Ling Xu, real-world publicity Janice Brochetti, speaker relations

djames@cs.cmu.edu skoterba@andrew.cmu.edu lingx@andrew.cmu.edu janiceb@andrew.cmu.edu

Seminar Mailing List

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