Nurturing Appropriate Biomedical Innovation in for Developing Countries through the use of MEDIK kits
Event Location: 1305 Newell Simon HallBio: Jose Gomez-Marquez is the program director for the Innovations in International Health initiative at MIT. Among the projects under his technology practice at IIH is the Aerovax Drug Delivery System, a device for mass delivery of inhalable drugs and vaccines to remote populations. The rest of his IIH invention [...]
Realizing Self-Driving Vehicles
Event Location: GHC 4401 Rashid AuditoriumBio: Chris Urmson is the Tech Lead of the Chauffeur team and an assistant research professor at Carnegie Mellon University (on leave). Chris was the Director of Technology for Tartan Racing, the winner of the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. He earned his PhD in 2005 from the Robotics Institute and [...]
Cross-cultural believability of robot characters
Event Location: NSH 1507Abstract: Believability of characters is an objective in literature, theater, animation, film, and other media. In human-computer interaction, believability of on-screen agents improves perceptual and behavioral responses to the character. Social scientists refer to this phenomenon as homophily---humans tend to associate and bond with similar others. In this thesis proposal, we first [...]
Logical Analysis of Hybrid Systems
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: André Platzer is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon. Dr. Platzer developed the theory, practice, and applications of logical analysis and verification of hybrid systems, and he proved the very first completeness theorem for hybrid systems. He introduced compositional verification techniques and methods that can verify [...]
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, [...]