Re: [kcanakis@grasp.cis.upenn.edu: GRASP Seminar: Friday 7/25 @ 11AM in 307 Levine]

[Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com>]

Ooh, sounds like fun!  I hope I can make it.

Is Levine Hall that new glass building behind Bennett Hall?

Walt

On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 08:34:36PM -0400, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> For you unemployed guys out there, this talk mentions perl and
> (typically, non-summer anyway) includes lunch (pizza afterwards).  And
> it's got battling robots.
> 
> -Jeff
> 
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Katerina Canakis <kcanakis@grasp.cis.upenn.edu> -----
> 
> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 09:25:34 -0400
> From: Katerina Canakis <kcanakis@grasp.cis.upenn.edu>
> Subject: GRASP Seminar: Friday 7/25 @ 11AM in 307 Levine
> To: graspnow@grasp.cis.upenn.edu, grasplunchers@grasp.cis.upenn.edu
> 
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> GRASP SEMINAR
> 
> Friday, July 25, 2003 - 11:00am
> Location -- Levine Hall, Room 307
> 
> Dan Lee
> University of Pennsylvania
> 
> "Programming Robot Dogs to Play Soccer: Fast Reasoning under Extreme 
> Uncertainty"
> 
> Abstract
> ^^^^^^^^^
> The Penn Robocup Legged-League team (the "UPennalizers") recently came 
> in second place in international competition in Padua, Italy. The 
> software for the robots was developed over the course of a few months, 
> yet was very competitive with other teams that spent many more 
> person-hours in preparation. I will describe the innovative aspects of 
> the UPenn software that was developed in consultation with members of 
> the GRASP lab to do fast vision, localization, team  coordination, and 
> motions. Much of the resulting code, including the main Perl scripting 
> engine, innovative kicks, and high-level robot behaviors were developed 
> by a hardy group of Penn undergraduates over the course of the summer 
> and the tournament. I will show videos of some of our matches, and 
> discuss plans for the future.
> 
> Breif Bio
> ^^^^^^^^^
> Dan Lee recently arrived at Penn from Bell Labs, the research and 
> development arm of Lucent Technologies, where he was a researcher for 
> six years in the Biological Computation and Theoretical Physics 
> departments. Before that, he studied physics receiving his bachelor's 
> degree from Harvard  in 1990, and his doctorate in condensed matter 
> physics from MIT in 1995. 
> 
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