"My Adventures in New Orleans and Mars"

08/13/04: 10:30 AM
11th Floor Small Conference Room
Host: Patrick Pantel, schedule

Abstract: It's been 2 years since I graduated from USC/ISI. In this talk I'll describe my adventures as a new professor, including the recent success of the AiBee interactive robot art installation at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art aibee.org, chairing the RoboCup US Open 2004 in New Orleans www.robocupusa.org, and my summer collaboration at NASA/JPL for robot construction workers on Mars. Also, I'll talk about the Virtual Synergy interface, which combines a three dimensional graphical interface with physical robots to allow for collaboration among multiple people, simulated software agents and physical robots. I employed Virtual Synergy in a variety of areas, for the AiBee robot art project, for the UNO urban search and rescue robot team, and for robot construction workers on Mars.

About Sheila Tejada: Prof. Sheila Tejada is currently an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of New Orleans, where she teaches courses and performs research in artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics. In 1993 she received her Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles. She was awarded her Masters and Doctoral degrees in Computer Science from the University of Southern California in 1998 and 2002, respectively. Prof. Tejada has developed awarding-winning robots, such as, the robot YODA that took the silver medal at the AAAI office navigation robot competition, held in Portland, Oregon, and the robot soccer team DreamTeam that were the first world champions at the RoboCup International Robot Soccer Competion in Nagoya, Japan. Most recently, the UNO Robotics Team won a technical award for research on human-agent-robot interfaces at the AAAI/IJCAI Urban Search and Rescue Competition in Acapulco, Mexico and an Open Interaction award at AAAI 2004 as the Audience's favorite for the AiBee interactive robotic art project.

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