IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
Central New England Chapter

Meeting Schedule

• May 15, 2008 - Note: unusual date and location -- Grand Challenges for Engineering in the 21st Century
  (Special Joint meeting with the IEEE Computer Society and the ACM)
  Ray Kurzweil, Founder
  Kurzweil Technologies
• April 8, 2008 -- Handling Complexity in the Real World Through Symbolic Control
  Sean B. Andersson, Assistant Professor, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department
  Boston University
• March 11, 2008 -- Colliding Into the Future
  William T. Townsend, President & CEO
  Barrett Technology
• February 12, 2008 -- Engineering a Robotics Program From Scratch
  Michael Gennert, Director of the Robotics Engineering Program
  Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• January 8, 2008 - Note: unusual location -- Meeting the Fulfillment Challenge
  Matt Verminski, Director of Hardware Engineering
  Benge Ambrogi, Hardware Program Manager
  Kiva Systems

• December 11, 2007 -- Annual Robotics Roundtable and social meeting
  
• November 13, 2007 - Note: unusual location -- Global Trends in the Personal, Service, and Mobile Robotics Market
  (Special Joint meeting with the IEEE Computer Society and the Association for Computing Machinery)
  Dan Kara
  Robotics Trends
• October 9, 2007 - Note: unusual location -- Marine Structure Inspection Using Autonomous Underwater Robots
  Franz S. Hover
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• September 11, 2007 -- Exercise Equipment for the New Gymnasium
  Michael Bastoni
  Gears Educational Systems, LLC
• April 10, 2007 - Note: unusual location -- Factory Automation in Demanding Environments
  Ulysses Gilchrist and Martin Hosek
  Brooks Automation
• March 13, 2007 - Note: first meeting in our new regular location -- Robots that control their mechanical impedance
  Gill Pratt
  Olin College of Engineering
• February 20, 2007 - Note: unusual date and location -- Automation in Life Sciences
  John A. Masciola
  Caliper Life Sciences
• January 9, 2007 -- Moving intelligently from here to there
  Rory MacKean
  MobileRobots, Inc.

• December 12, 2006 -- Annual Robotics Roundtable and social meeting
  
• November 14, 2006 -- Flight control experiments with multiple UAVs in uncertain and dynamic environments
  Jonathan How
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• October 10, 2005 -- Wheelchair for the 21st Century: Independence iBot Mobility System
  Stuart Coulter
  DEKA Research and Development Corporation
• September 12, 2006 -- How the nature of the underwater environment has shaped the evolution of Bluefin AUVs
  Christopher Wallsmith
  Bluefin Robotics Corporation
• June 13, 2006 -- BotBall 2006: Winners from the New England Tournament
  Holly Yanco
  University of Massachusetts, Lowell
• May 9, 2006 -- Self-Organizing Robots
  Daniela Rus
  MIT CSAIL
• April 11, 2006 -- Robots at the Tipping Point: The Road to the iRobot Roomba(r)
  Joseph Jones
  iRobot Corporation
• March 14, 2006 -- Moving Robots out into the world: How Robotics is evolving
  Nicholas Roy
  Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
• February 21, 2006 -- Should Your Next Doctor be a Robot?
  Pierre E. Dupont
  Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Boston University
• January 17, 2006 -- Social Implications of Computational Intelligence: Will We Better Understand the Mind, Art, and Religion?
  Leonid I. Perlovsky
  Air Force Research Laboratory

• October 11, 2005 -- Steering committee meeting
  
• June 14, 2005 -- Robotics Roundtable, Steering Committee, and Social Meeting
  
• May 10, 2005 -- Reshaping Health Care Using Wearable Technology
  Paolo Bonato
  Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and Harvard Medical School
• April 12, 2005 -- Improving Human-Robot interaction for Urban Search and Rescue
  Holly Yanco
  University of Massachusetts, Lowell
• Thursday, Feb 17, 2005 -- Autonomous Vision Systems and Human Vision
  John Merchant
  RPU Technology
• January 11, 2005 -- Computational Intelligence - Integrating Lanuage and Cognition
  Leonid I. Perlovsky
  Air Force Research Laboratory, Hanscom AFB

• December 14, 2004 -- Robotics Roundtable, Steering Committee, and Social Meeting
  
• November 9, 2004 -- Robotics Roundtable, Steering Committee, and Social Meeting
  
• October 10, 2004 -- Color Machine Vision: Challenging Human Perception
  Robert McConnell
  WAY-2C
• September 14, 2004 -- FUNdaMENTALs of Designing Machines and MEMS
  Alexander Slocum
  MIT Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
• September 9, 2004 - Note: unusual date and location -- Ad hoc Networks for Robots (Special Joint meeting with the IEEE Communications Society )
  Jason Redi
  BBN Technologies
• June 8, 2004 -- Annual Steering Committee Meeting and Social
• May 11, 2004 -- New Horizons for Orthotic & Prosthetic Technology: Merging Body and Machine
  Hugh Herr
  MIT Media Laboratory and the MIT-Harvard Division of Health Sciences and Technology
• April 13, 2004 -- Swarms are the Future of Robotics
  Jennifer Smith
  iRobot Corporation
• March 24, 2004 - Note: unusual date and location -- HRI: Human-Robot Interaction -- Properties of Robotics, Principles of Design
  Jonathan Klein
  iRobot Corporation
• March 9, 2004 -- meeting cancelled to allow attendance at ERTAC '04
• February 10, 2004 -- Precision Mechatronics: From Wafer Steppers to Flying Broomsticks
  David Trumper
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• January 13, 2004 -- Understanding the Literal Meaning of a Sentence
  Mike Brenner
  MITRE Corporation

• 9 December 2003 -- Robotics Roundtable, Steering Committee, and Social Meeting
• 18 November 2003 -- Roomba: Developing the First Practical Consumer Robot
  Joseph L. Jones
  iRobot Corp.
• 21 October 03 (Cancelled) -- Designing the User Experience for Consumer Robots
  Jonathan Klein
  Vice President, iRobot
• 14 October 2003 -- RoboCup: Mechatronic Systems in a Robot Soccer Team
  Ton Peijnenburg
  Philips Center for Industrial Technology
• 9 September 2003 -- Boston IEEE intro and the Pixie Lisp-based robot
  Ralph Masciulli, Boston Section, IEEE
  Rich Maynard
• 10 June 2003 -- Annual Steering Committee Meeting and Social
  
• 15 May 2003 -- Relational Agents -- joint meeting with Education Society
  Timothy W. Bickmore
  MIT Media Lab's Affective Computing Group
• 13 May 2003 -- Automation in the Handling and Packaging of MEMS Devices
  Faycal Benayad-Cherif
  Intelligent Automation Systems
• 8 April 2003 -- Large-Volume Coordinate Metrology based on Coherent Laser Radar: An Emerging Technology for an Expanding Market
  David M. Dozo
  MetricVision, Inc.
• 11 March 2003 -- The Talon/Solem Robot Systems
  Dan Deguire
  Foster-Miller
• 11 February 2003 -- Medical Devices, a Regulated Industry from an Engineer's Perspective
  Luis J. Maseda
  Boston Scientific Corporation
• 7 January 2003 -- Using Micro-machined Sensors in Autonomous Navigation
  Joseph Rothweiler
  http://www.myown1.com/

• 10 December 2002 -- Robotics Roundtable and Social Meeting
  
• 12 November 2002 -- True, Spatial 3D - Actuality's Perspecta Platform - Design and Applications
  Gregg Favalora
  Actuality Systems, Inc.
• 8 October 2002 -- Autonomous Robot Competitions as an Educational Motivator
  Contest Organizers and others
• 10 September 2002 -- Designing for Designers: A Vision of Learning, Technology, and Computational Media
  Fred G. Martin
  Gleason Research
• July and August - Summer break
• 11 June 2002 -- Annual Steering Committee meeting
  
• 14 May 2002 -- Rescue Me! The Opportunities and Challenges Faced in Creating Rescue Robots
  Laurel Riek
  MITRE
  
• 9 April 2002 -- Shared User-Computer Control of a Robotic Wheelchair System
  Prof. Holly A. Yanco
  University of Massachusetts, Lowell
• 12 March 2002 -- It's a game, it's a toy, it's a robotics platform! No, it's MindRover!
  Kent Quirk
  CTO and Game Architect, CogniToy
• 12 February 2002 -- The Case For Kinematically Simple Models Of Robotic Joints
  Dr. Robert E. Parkin
  Founder of the Robotics Chapter and expert on kinematics
  Senior Member of IEEE
• 8 January 2002 -- Demonstration of the PackBot Robot
  Dr. Andrew Bennett
  iRobot

• 11 December 2001 -- Annual Social and Chapter Election
• 13 November 2001 -- The NameConnector Auto-Attendant
  Mindy Garber
  Parlance Corporation
• 9 October 2001 -- Visualizing Artificial Intelligence
  Dr. Mike Brenner
  Senior Mathematician, MITRE Corporation
• 11 September 2001 - meeting cancelled, and rescheduled for March 2002
• Summer break
• 15 May 2001 -- Three-Dimensional Imaging Using Accordion Fringe Interferometry
  Lyle G. Shirley
  Dimensional Photonics
• 10 April 2001 -- Telerobots and Telepresence: Making Distance Disappear
  Prof. Thomas B. Sheridan
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 13 March 2001 -- Haptics: A Telerobotics Enabling Technology
  Michael D. McPartland, Ph.D.
  Senior Research Engineer, SensAble Technologies
  
• 13 February 2001 -- Beyond Physics: Implications of the Failed Vision of Artificial Intelligence for the Robotics Community
  Norman R. Guivens, Jr.
  SPARTA, Inc.
• 9 January 2001 -- The Second Most Powerful Robot in the World
  Dr. Mike Brenner
  MITRE Corporation

• 12 December 2000 -- Robotics Roundtable, Steering Committee, and Social Meeting
• 14 November, 2000 -- How To Know Where Your Head's At, and Why You Should Care -- An Introduction to Intersense Motion Tracking Technology
  Eric Foxlin, CTO and Founder
  InterSense
• October 2000 -- Co-Evolutionary Robotics
  Hod Lipson and Jordan B. Pollack
  Computer Science Department, Brandeis University
• September 2000 -- Is That You, Master Luke?
  Dr. William D. Ross
  Viisage Corp.
• Summer break
• March 14, 2000 -- CONAC (Computerized Opto-electonic Navigation and Control) -- Navigating the Future
  Edward N. MacLeod P.E.
  MTI Research Corp.
• February 8, 2000 -- The Miros TrueFace Recognition Technology
  James Kottas and Benjamin M. Dawson
  Miros, Inc.
  
• January 11, 2000 -- Voronoi Diagrams and Collision Avoidance (Presentation and Tour)
  Dr. Mike Brenner
  MITRE Corporation

• November 9, 1999 - Intelligent CMOS Image Sensor -- Features, Capabilities, and Opportunities (Presentation and Plant Tour)
  Bill Yerazunis and Darren Leigh
  Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (MERL)
• October 12, 1999 - United States Postal Service - Presentation and Plant Tour
  Arthur Dionne and Rick Cirulli
  United States Postal Service
• September 14, 1999 - Micromouse
  Gim Soon Wan
  1999 Graduate, Merrimack College
• July and August - no meetings; summer break.
• June 8, 1999 - Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
  Joseph Ayers
  Director, Marine Science Center, Northeastern University
• May 11, 1999 - Chapter elections
  
• April 13, 1999 - What Math Does a Robot Need to Learn
  Mike Brenner
  The Mitre Corporation
• March 1999 - no meeting
• February 9, 1999 - "SARD", Small Aerial Reconnaissance Demonstrator
  Paul DeBitetto
  Charles Stark Draper Laboratory
• January 12, 1999 - The Use of Piezoelectric Devices to Control Snowboard Vibrations
  Emanuele Bianchini
  Active Control eXperts, Inc.

• December 8, 1998 -- Social
• November 10, 1998 - The Vorticity Control Unmanned Undersea Vehicle -- An Autonomous Robot Tuna
  Dr. Jamie Anderson
  Charles Stark Draper Laboratory
• October 13, 1998 - Passive Dynamics in Human Locomotion
  Dr. Louis Piscitelle, Mr. Timothy McGilvreay and Mr. Christopher Maloof
  US Army SSCOM Natick RD&E Center, Natick, MA
• September 8, 1998 - Autonomous Instrumentation for Ocean Research -- Adventures in Ocean Engineering
  Archie Todd Morrison III, Ph.D.
  Senior Engineer for Electronic Systems
  McLane Research Laboratories, Inc.
• July and August - no meetings; summer break.
• June 9, 1998 - Elections at the semi-annual dinner and social at Houlihan's
  
• May 12, 1998 - Meeting to nominate next year's officers (Regular time and place)
  
• There was no meeting in April.
  
• March 10, 1998 - Robot Animals and Cricket Computers: Technologies for Learning about Engineering, Design, and Systems
  Dr. Fred G. Martin
  MIT Media Laboratory
• February 10, 1998 - Robots and Explosive Contamination: The Development of an Autonomous Cleanup System
  Joe Jones
  IS Robotics

• December Social
• November 18, 1997 - "Train by Show" in Color Based Inspection and Control
  Dr. Robert K. McConnell
  Wayland Research
• October 14, 1997 - Functional Verification of Microprocessors
  Scott Taylor
  Digital Semiconductor (DEC)
• September 9, 1997 - Using Java in Image Processing Application Development
  Dr. Jacob S. Nikom
  HP
• May Social
• There was no meeting in April.
  
• March 11, 1997 - The MIT AI Lab Intelligent Room
  Dr. Polly Pook
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• February 11, 1997 - If I only had a brain ... Successful application of neural networks to real problems
  Mark Laird
  Nestor, Inc.
• January 14, 1997 - An Overview of Motor Technology and a Tour of Motor Manufacturing
  Dick Matz, Product Manager Dan Jones, Vice President of Engineering
  CMC Torque Systems

• December 10, 1996 - December Social at Houlihan's Restaurant
• November 12, 1996 - Finding and Analyzing Cells via Deformable Models and Polygon-based Volume Visualization
  Lawrence M. Lifshitz, Ph.D.
  University of Massachusetts Medical Center
• October 8, 1996 - The Challenges of High Performance Optical Metrology
  Dr. Philip D. Henshaw
  SPARTA, Inc.
• September 10, 1996 - DSP -- an Overview of Theory and Application
  Mr. Joe George and Mr. David Fuchs
  Texas Instruments
• May 14, 1996 - Designing Automated Material Handling Systems for Semiconductor Wafer Fabs
  Dr. Leonard E. Kay
  PRI Automation, Inc., Billerica, MA 01821 USA
• April 9, 1996 - Robotics Research at Northeastern University
  Prof. Jill D. Crisman, Ph.D.
  Director, Robotic and Vision System Laboratory, Northeastern University
• March 12, 1996 - The Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) Project and its Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) System for Laser-Radar Imagery
  Dr. Jacques G. Verly
  MIT Lincoln Laboratory
• February 13, 1996 - A Robot System that Observes and Replicates Grasping Tasks
  Dr. Sing Bing Kang
  Digitial Equipment Corp., Cambridge Research Laboratory
• THURSDAY, January 11, 1996 - Draper Robotics for Unmanned Exploration
  Dr. David S. Kang
  Draper Unmanned Vehicle Laboratory
  This is a joint meeting with the National Space Society. The meeting is at 7:30 pm at 545 Technology Square (MIT Bldg NE43), Cambridge, 8th Floor. If you need additional information, contact Larry Klaes at LKlaes@aol.com or 617-643-4927.

• December 6, 1995 - Robotics Roundtable and Social Meeting
• November 14, 1995 - Computer Vision for Smart Machines of the Future
  Avi Kak
  Purdue University
• October 10, 1995 - Tetrobots, Transformers, and Modular Robotics
  Arthur C. Sanderson
  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
• September 12, 1995 - Modeling Surfaces from Profiles
  Richard S. Weiss, Ph.D.
  University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• May 16, 1995 - Modular Software Architecture for Control of Robots and Peripheral Equipment
  Norman R. Guivens, Jr.
  SPARTA, Inc.
• May 3, 1995 - Special meeting in conjunction with IEEE Control Systems Society
  The Role of Pattern Generations in Solving Nonlinear Control Problems
  Roger Brockett
  Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University
• April 25, 1995 - Robots as Human Partners in the Manufacturing Industry
  William Townsend
  
• March 21, 1995 - The MIT LEGO Robot Design Contest and other experiences with Kids Building Robots
  Randy Sargent
  MIT Edgerton Center
• February 21, 1995 - Dynamic Balance of a Biped Walking Robot: Adaptive Gait Modulation Using Neural Networks
  Prof. W. Thomas Miller, III
  University of New Hampshire
• January 17, 1995 - How Birds Flock and Traffic Jams: Understanding Swarm Behaviors
  Mitchel Resnick
  MIT Media Lab.

• December 6, 1994 organizing committee meeting.
• November 8, 1994 - Robotics Technology Development For Waste Clean Up
  Raymond W. Harrigan
  Sandia National Laboratories
• October 18, 1994 - Passive Dynamics In The Control of Gymnastic Maneuvers
  Rob Playter, Ph.D.
  MIT AI Laboratory
• September 1994 - The state of the art in robotics
  Prof. Jill Crisman
  Robotics and Vision Systems Lab, Northeastern University

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