Speaker: Ruzena Bajcsy, Director Emeritus CITRIS, UC Berkeley
ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award Winner
Member of National Academy of Engineering & Institute of Medicine
Title: Humans in Real and Virtual Space: Studies of interaction and
Collaboration mediated by technology
Date and Time: February 23, 2006 (Thursday), 10:30 AM
Place: Bio Sciences Annex Auditorium
Reception: Reception immediately follows the lecture
Directions:
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Abstract: This lecture describes the joint work between Prof. Ruzena
Bajcsy of U.C. Berkeley with Prof. Klara Nahrstedt , University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign. In this presentation, Dr. Bajcsy shall describe:
- Tele-immersive environment that can capture in semi-real time three dimensional physical activity of humans;
- Challenges of realization of meeting in Cyberspace of dancers from two remote places;
- Philosophical and cognitive questions as they relate to the fact: what does it mean to be in Virtual vs. Real/Physical World., using Dance as the paradigm?
- Lessons learned and Open problems
About the Speaker: Dr. Ruzena Bajcsy ("buy chee") was appointed Director of
CITRIS (Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society) at
the University of California, Berkeley on November 1, 2001 and stepped down in August
2005. Prior to coming to Berkeley, she was Assistant Director of the Computer
Information Science and Engineering Directorate (CISE) between 1998 and 2001.
At NSF, Dr. Bajcsy managed a $500 million annual budget.
Dr. Bajcsy is a pioneering researcher in machine perception, robotics and
artificial intelligence. She is a professor in the EECS Department at Berkeley.
She was also Director of the University of Pennsylvania's General Robotics and
Active Sensory Perception Laboratory, which she founded in 1978.
Dr. Bajcsy has done seminal research in the areas of human-centered computer
control, cognitive science, robotics, computerized radiological/medical image
processing and artificial vision. She is highly regarded, not only for her
significant research contributions, but also for her leadership in the creation
of a world-class robotics laboratory, recognized world wide as a premiere research
center. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute
of Medicine.
She received her Ph.D. degree in EE from Slovak Technical University in 1967 and a
Ph.D. in computer science in 1972 from Stanford. In 2001 she received the ACM
Allen Newell award.
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