DATE & TIME

ISR

PRECARN

IRIS

SPECIAL THEMATIC SESSIONS

AI

GI

VI

MONDAY

           

08:30 — 09:15

Keynote Speaker: Takeo Kanade "Robotics: Renewed Opportunities and Approaches"

9:30-10:50

Programming & Control

Robotic Assisted Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG)

and

General Purpose Software Components for Surgical Planning

Robot-Mounted Range Sensor Systems: Applications and Advances

Invited Speaker:

Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research, USA

"Toward Attentional Systems and Interfaces"

Invited Speaker:

Hiroshi Ishii, MIT Medfia Laboratory, USA

"Tangible Bits: Designing the Boundary between People, Bits and Atoms"

Human-Computer Interfaces

11:10-12:30

Continued

From Scans to Sutures

and

Design and Control Issues in the Development of a Robot System for Medical Ultrasound

Continued

Games/Constraint Satisfaction

Invited Speaker:

Henry Fuchs, Univ. of North Carolina, USA

"Office of the Future: Beyond the Dynabook to a Room-sized Personal Computer Environment"

Recognition and Shape

14:00-15:40

Mobile Robotics

(ISR 2000 session)

Design and Modeling Issues

Flexible Fixtureless Assembly

Natural Language I

Issues and Techniques for Interactive Information Spaces

Invited Speaker:

Alex Pentland, MIT Media Lab, USA

"Next Generation Computing"

16:00-17:40

Continued

Continued

Poster Session

16:00 — 16:50

Modeling

17:00 — 18:00

Invited Speaker:

Demetri Terzopoulos, Univ of Toronto, Canada

"Artificial Animals (and Humans): From Physics to Intelligence"

Medical Imaging

 

DATE & TIME

ISR

PRECARN

IRIS

SPECIAL THEMATIC SESSIONS

AI

GI

VI

TUESDAY

           

08:30 — 09:15

Keynote Speaker: Kevin Ostby "Innovative Robotic Solutions Move into New Industries"

9:30-10:50

Modeling & Control of Flexible Manipulators

The Automated Mine — A Panel Discussion

Landmines - Seeking Solutions to a Dangerous Worldwide Problem

Invited Speaker

Eugene Charniak, Brown Univ., USA

"Parsing to Meaning, Statistically"

Anination

Invited Speaker

Horst Bunke, Univ. of Bern, Switzerland

"Graph Matching — Recent Theoretical Results, Algorithms, and Applications"

11:10-12:30

Continued

 

Continued

Knowledge Representation

Image-based Modeling and Rendering

Statistical Methods

13:30 — 14:00

Invited Speaker:

Charlie Duncheon, Adept Technology, USA

"How E-Commerce Will Fuel Robotics Industry Growth"

         

13:30 — 14:00

Special Invited Speaker Presentation: Charlie Duncheon "How E-Commerce Will Fuel Robotics Industry Growth"

14:00-15:40

Industrial and Other Applications

Virtual Reality Sector Focus Group

Applications to Operations in Harsh Terrestrial Environments

Natural Language II

Collaborative and Community Spaces

Image Restoration and Reconstruction

16:00-17:40

Teleoperation and Visual Feedback

Continued

Continued

AI Applications

Poster session

Applications

 

DATE & TIME

ISR

PRECARN

IRIS

SPECIAL THEMATIC SESSIONS

AI

GI

VI

WEDNESDAY

           

08:30 — 09:15

Keynote Address: Ian Hunter "Nanorobotic Scientific Instruments"

9:15 — 10:35

Applications: Underwater & Service Robots

Building Companies from Research! Identifying and Exploiting Commercial Potential

Space Robotics

Invited Speaker

Jan. M. Zytkow, UNC Charlotte, USA

"Automated Discovery: A Fusion of Multidisciplinary Principles:

Rendering

Motion

10:55 — 12:15

Applications: Industrial Robots

Continued

Continued

Machine Learning / Data Mining

Image Processing & Visualization

Reconstruction

14:00 — 15:40

   

Space Robotics

Planning / Theorem Proving / Artificial Life

Advances in HCI Design and Application

Invited Speaker:

Michael J. Black, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, USA

"Stochastic Tracking of Human Motion"

16:00 — 17:40

   

Continued

Neural Networks

Geometry

Image Understanding