VASC Seminar
Raia Hadsell
RI

Perception on an Offroad Robot: Shallow and Deep Learning Architectures

Event Location: 1507 NSHBio: I am a second year Robograd (PhD student at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University). My research focus is to make pretty pictures (Computer Graphics) and to make sense out of ugly pictures (Computer Vision). More technically, I am interested in understanding how light interacts with media like smoke,dust, fog, ocean [...]

RI Seminar
Hod Lipson
Associate Professor
Cornell University

Self-Reflection and Self-Fabrication in robotic systems

Event Location: 1305 NSHBio: Hod Lipson is an Associate Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and Computing & Information Science at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. He directs the Computational Synthesis group, which focuses on novel ways for automatic design, fabrication and adaptation of virtual and physical machines. He has led work in areas such [...]

RI Seminar
Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson
Cognitive Systems and Linguistics
University of British Columbia

Extracting and identifying communicative events from multimodal behavior

Event Location: 1305 NSHBio: Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson received a Bachelor's degree in philosophy and physics from St. John's College, Maryland, in 1974, a certificate in ethnographic film making in 1976, and an M.A. in Linguistics from Indiana University in 1978. From 1982-1987 he was an NIH pre-doctoral fellow at Haskins Laboratories (Connecticut) investigating "the organization and [...]

RI Seminar
Randy Beard
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Brigham Young University

Autonomy and Cooperation for Micro Air Vehicles

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Randal W. Beard received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, in 1991, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering in 1993, the M.S. degree in mathematics in 1994, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 1995, all from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y. [...]

RI Seminar
Bilge Mutlu
PhD Candidate in Human-Computer Interaction
Carnegie Mellon HCII

Designing Social Behavior for Humanlike Robots

Event Location: 1305 NSHBio: Bilge Mutlu is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on designing social behavior for socially interactive systems—particularly, humanlike robots—in an integrated, interdisciplinary process in which he combines knowledge and methods from cognitive, social, computer science, and design, and understanding the cognitive, social, [...]