Jeff Abrahamson on Wed, 23 Jul 2003 21:20:41 -0400


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


Yup:

    http://www.facilities.upenn.edu/mapsBldgs/view_bldg.php3?id=169

-J


On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 08:47:30PM -0400, Walt Mankowski wrote:
>   [69 lines, 414 words, 2566 characters]  Top characters: eanotrsi
> 
> 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
> > 
> >   [34 lines, 218 words, 1416 characters]  Top characters: eotnairs
> > 
> > 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. 
> > 
> > ----- End forwarded message -----
> > 
> > -- 
> >  Jeff
> > 
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