RI Seminar
The Journey from Algorithm to Product
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Dr. Henry Schneiderman co-founded and served as CEO of Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition (PittPatt), a face recognition technology company spun off from Carnegie Mellon in 2004 and acquired by Google in 2011. At Google, he is involved in a variety of computer vision related products and services. In particular, he has helped [...]
Active Perception and What Comes After
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Dr. Ruzena Bajcsy (“buy chee”) was appointed Director of CITRIS and professor of EECS department at the University of California, Berkeley on November 1, 2001. Prior to coming to Berkeley, she was Assistant Director of the Computer Information Science and Engineering Directorate (CISE) between December 1, 1998 and September 1, 2001. [...]
Inheriting and Evolving the Infrastructure for Systems and Devices of Humanoid and Home Assistance
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Masayuki Inaba is a Professor at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo. He received B.S of Mechanical Engineering in 1981, M.S and Dr. Degrees of Information Engineering from The University of Tokyo in 1983 and 1986 respectively. He was appointed as a lecturer in [...]
Carnegie Mellon University
Cognitive factors in neural prosthetic control
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Steven Chase is an Assistant Professor jointly appointed in the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his BS in Applied Physics from Caltech in ‘97, his MS in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley in ‘99, and his PhD [...]
Modeling Social Reasoning through Recursive, Decision-Theoretic Planning
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: David Pynadath is a Research Scientist at the Institute for Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California. His research has focused on developing an artificial intelligence framework that can model, simulate, and analyze social interaction, with special emphasis on the methods by which agents, both human and software, form and [...]
Gliders, bicycles and walking robots
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Andy Ruina is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Cornell University where he has been, but for various leaves, since the afternoon of Monday August 25, 1980. He teaches various basic mechanics and math classes. His early research was on rock friction and sliding instability, with the aim of increasing understanding [...]
Bootstrapping a startup: 3D scanning for fun and profit (?)
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Damion Shelton is CTO of threeRivers 3D, a Pittsburgh-based 3D imaging company which he co-founded in 2007 after receiving a PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University. At threeRivers 3D he is responsible for the software and embedded systems development for threeRivers 3D’s off-the-shelf and custom line of 3D scanners. His [...]
A New Class of Industrial Robot
Event Location: UC McConomyBio: Rodney Brooks is the Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus) at MIT. He is a robotics entrepreneur and Founder, Chairman and CTO of Rethink Robotics (formerly Heartland Robotics). He is also a Founder, former Board Member (1990 - 2011) and former CTO (1990 - 2008) of iRobot Corp (Nasdaq: IRBT). Dr. Brooks [...]
School of Interactive Computing
GVU and RIM @ GT Centers
Video Analysis and Enhancement: Video Stabilization and Rolling Shutter Removal on YouTube
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Irfan Essa is a Professor in the School of Interactive Computing (iC) of the College of Computing (CoC), and Adjunct Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (GA Tech), in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He is also the Director of Off-Campus Initiatives for the College of [...]