CIM 20th Anniversary Celebration & Symposium

Notable events and times:

OPEN HOUSE: 10am to 3pm

Demos of research projects in our 12 interdisciplinary labs specializing in the areas of robotics, systems and control, haptics, vision, medical imaging and shared reality.

OPENING REMARKS: 9:30am to 10:00pm

ALUMNI SPEAKERS: 10:30am to 11:30pm (speaker sequencing subject to change)

Short  talks by alumni  in both academia and industry sampling the diverse things they do

• Oliver Astley, GE Research, 10 things I know now, that I wish I knew when I graduated - Lessons learned after 6-years in a corporate R&D.    
  
• Kim Wheeler, Roadnarrows, Memoirs of a Geek: A McRCIM graduate starts her own robotics company.
  
• Allan Dobbins, University of Alabama, Inverted Stereopsis
  
• Gino Lalli, MAGI Control, The MAGI-Therm Industrial Controller
  
• John Zelek, University of Waterloo, Seeing and Feeling by Touch    [ Rescheduled to 18:30 ]

 (See abstracts here)

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS -- Stimulating and enthusiastically received talks:

• Julie Payette, Canadian Space Agency Astronaut and former PhD student at CIM. (12-12:30pm)
  

• Steve Zucker, "From modeling intelligence to modeling plants," co-founder of the Centre for Intelligent Machines and currently David and Lucile Packard Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Yale University. (3-4pm)

• Alex (Sandy) Pentland, "Collective Intelligence", MIT’s Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences and a pioneer in wearable computers, health systems, smart environments, and technology for developing countries. (6:30-7:30pm)
  Collective Intelligence (click for abstract)

STUDENT POSTER SESSION: 1pm to 2:30pm (McConnell Building, 4th floor)

CIM graduate students – among the brightest and the best in the world -will present posters on their research studies. Invitees from diverse professional backgrounds acted as reviewers and judges, selecteding 3 winning posters, but observing that there were many excellent entries.

CLOSING REMARKS: 4pm to 4:30 pm

Wrap up Vin et Fromage:  4:15 pm to 7:00pm  (MC 437)

DINNER: 6:00pm to 11pm (advance tickets required)

 The day will wrap-up with an exclusive dinner at McGill’s Faculty Club.  There is limited space for the dinner, a few seats may still be available. Dinner includes on-site attendance at seminar with Alex Pentland. Dinner tickets are $100 per person.

Click here and register now!   Space for the banquet is limited.

INQUIRIES: manager@cim.mcgill.ca