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DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Howard Hall

Room 219

(2nd level of Howard Hall)

Monmouth University

West Long Branch, NJ 07764

Phone:732-571-7501

Fax:732-263-5253

General Inquiries

Roseanne Gunter

Patricia Lamarca

Department Chair

Jiacun Wang

CS Undergraduate Director

Allen Milewski

CS Graduate Director (acting)

Richard Scherl

SE Undergraduate Director

Allen Milewski

SE Graduate Director

Daniela Rosca

IT Program Director (acting)

Bill Byrne

Events Archive

12/13/07 - Talk:

New Techniques for Off-Road Autonomous

Ground Robots

Time: Thursday, December 13, 2007, 6:45 p.m. (6 p.m. dinner)

Place: Magill Commons Club Dining Room

Reservations: ewh.ieee.org/r1/njcoast/

IEEE Monmouth University Student Branch (Software Engineering)

IEEE NJ Coast Section Signal Processing/Circuits and System Chapter

present

New Techniques for Off-Road Autonomous

Ground Robots

By Urs Muller

Abstract:

In the last four years, Net-Scale Technologies, Inc., has been working in partnership with New York University on improving the performance of autonomous ground vehicle navigation systems through the application of machine learning algorithms and other innovative techniques. This work was funded by DARPA who also conducted regular independent performance tests. These tests indicate that the system performance increased by more than a factor of three compared to a traditional baseline system. The talk will review this work, present the methods used and recall the most important lessons learned.

About the Speaker

Urs Muller's background is in electrical engineering and computer science. In March 2002, he co-founded Net-Scale Technologies, Inc., a software development company focused on high-tech innovative and custom software in the fields of carrier grade messaging and video communication, as well as machine learning and computer vision applications. Before founding Net-Scale, Urs worked at AT&T Labs Research. He has designed and implemented a Universal Message Access infrastructure which is still in use by millions of end users today. Before that, Urs designed the architecture of a parallel DSP chip for real-time video and speech compression at Bell Labs. He wrote one of the first optical character recognition programs for the PC, implemented a 3-D vision system for robots, worked on a reading machine for the blind, and was involved with building a high performance parallel supercomputer, at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. Urs received a “Doctor of Technical Sciences” degree (Ph.D.) from ETH in 1993.

9/7/07 - Start of Term Orientation

Time: 2:30 - 5 p.m.

Place: Howard Hall 543 (new “wireless” lab)

You are invited to the Computer Science Department's Start-Of-Term Orientation. Come learn about Department services such as tutoring and ExED/internships.

Learn about our labs and systems and how to best utilize them for your studies and projects. Get software for remote UNIX desktop access from on/off campus and for using the Eclipse IDE for C++ on your own PC.

Learn about the Department's online help pages and new Website. Sign up for ACM membership or to nominate yourself for ACM offices. Meet staff and faculty. Beat staff and faculty (at video games).

Pizza and other refreshments will be served.

A door prize raffle will be held for all students signing in.

To submit meeting and event announcements, please contact Roseanne Gunter.