RI Seminar
Ed Durfee
Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
University of Michigan

Don’t Always Ask, Don’t Always Tell: Judicious Mutual Modeling in Cooperative Multiagent Systems

Event Location: 1305 Newell Simon HallBio: Ed Durfee is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, and of Information, at the University of Michigan, where he has served on the faculty for over 20 years. His research focuses on developing representations and algorithms for multiagent planning, scheduling, and coordination, with applications that include cooperative robotics, [...]

RI Seminar
Pedro Szekely
Project Leader, Information Sciences Institute
University of Southern California

STaC: Automated Adaptation of Strategic Guidance in Multiagent Coordination

Event Location: 1305 Newell Simon HallBio: Dr. Pedro Szekely is a Project Leader in USC/ISI and a Research Assistant Professor in USC’s Computer Science Department. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1982 and 1987. Pedro has worked on user interfaces, multi-agent systems, and planning and scheduling. [...]

RI Seminar
Cynthia Breazeal
Associate Professor, Media Arts and Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The social side of personal robots

Event Location: 1305 Newell Simon HallBio: Dr. Cynthia Breazeal is an Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she founded and directs the Personal Robots Group at the Media Lab. She is a pioneer of social robotics and Human Robot Interaction. She has authored the book “Designing Sociable [...]

Seminar
Tim Salcudean
Professor
University of British Columbia

Tissue elasticity imaging for the simulation and guidance of percutaneous procedures

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Septimiu (Tim) E. Salcudean (S’78-M’-79-SM’03-F’05) received the B. Eng (Hons.) and M.Eng degrees from McGill University and the Ph.D. degree from U.C. Berkeley, all in Electrical Engineering. From 1986 to 1989, he was a Research Staff Member in the robotics group at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. He then joined [...]

RI Seminar
Kristen Grauman
Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
University of Texas at Austin

Steering Human Insight for Large-Scale Visual Learning

Event Location: 1305 Newell Simon HallBio: Kristen Grauman is a Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research in computer vision and machine learning focuses on visual search and object recognition. Before joining UT-Austin in 2007, she received her Ph.D. in the EECS [...]