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State of the Institute
Event Location: NHS 1305Bio: Matt Mason is best known for his accomplishments in manipulation, including constructing a ship in a bottle, juggling three clubs or four balls, and the ability to snap his fingers with either hand. His work in other areas includes construction of a manned surface vehicle which autonomously reconfigured to an unmanned [...]
Understanding Events and Tags in Media-rich Messages
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Lexing Xie is Senior Lecturer in the Research School of Computer Science at the Australian National University. She was with IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in New York from 2005 to 2010, and adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University 2007-2009. She received B.S. from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and M.S. and [...]
Landing the Lunar X Prize: Rovers and Rockets from CMU to the Moon
Event Location: GHC 4307Bio: William “Red” Whittaker is the Fredkin University Professor of Robotics at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute. He has developed dozens of robots, breaking new ground in autonomous vehicles, field robotics, space exploration, mining and agriculture. Whittaker developed the robots that cleaned up the Three-Mile Island nuclear accident. His ground vehicles have driven [...]
Lessons Learned Bootstrapping a Robotic Vehicle Company
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Mel is a founder and the CEO of Autonomous Solutions, Inc. Prior to founding ASI in 2000, he held a position managing robotics development programs for John Deere, the US Departments of Defense and Energy, and NASA Space Shuttle Payloads at Utah State University. ASI has worked over the last 12 [...]
Creating a Real-Time Conversation Manager with multiple time scales
Event Location: GHC 6115Bio: My research concerns human communication and collaboration, and their application to agents, and interfaces, especially those using gesture, social behavior, speech, and natural language. Most recently my work has focused on collaboration and dialogue with humanoid robots about simple hosting tasks, and with on-screen agents for health behavior change. Abstract: My [...]
How should we build robots for the future of surgery?
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Dr. Catherine Mohr is the Director of Medical Research at Intuitive Surgical, a high technology surgical robotics company that makes the da Vinci surgical robot. In this role she develops new robotic surgical procedures, and evaluates technologies to improve outcomes with surgical robots. In addition, she is a Consulting Assistant Professor [...]
Visual Mapping of Rivers, Vineyards and Orchards
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Stephen Nuske is a project scientist in the Field Robotics Center at Carnegie Mellon University. He originally joined CMU as a PostDoc in 2008 after completing his PhD at the University of Queensland and the Commonwealth Science and Industry Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia.Abstract: Maps can store and convey many valuable attributes, [...]
Velocity-Space Approaches for Multi-agent Motion Planning and Crowd Simulations
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Dinesh Manocha is currently the Phi Delta Theta/Mason Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has co-authored than 330 papers in the leading conferences and journals on computer graphics, robotics, and scientific computing. He has also served program chair for many conferences and [...]
Gaussian Smoothing for Nonconvex Optimization with Applications to Computer Vision
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Hossein Mobahi is a postdoctoral research associate in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his PhD from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in Dec 2012. He has worked on several topics in computer vision and machine learning, including image alignment, image segmentation, 3D [...]