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Events for January 28, 2005
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Last Day to Add or Drop Classes
Fri, Jan 28, 2005
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
University Calendar
Audiences: All Undergraduate and Graduate Students
Contact: Monica De Los Santos
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A POSC Update: perspectives on information, collaboration and standardization
Fri, Jan 28, 2005 @ 09:00 AM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
This presentation describes the key activities and the standards developed during Petrotechnical Open Standards Consortium (POSC's) 14 year history. Dr. David Archer will focus on the value delivered to the industry via the consortium's work on information management standards and XML-based data exchange standards for real time systems including the popular WITSMLstandard for drilling. New information standards will be required as the industry embraces smart systems. This presentation will address the evolution of the WITSML framework to provide XML standards for production operations.David Archer is President and CEO of POSC. In this role, he is the leader of
the consortium with responsibility for its direction, operation and
communication with both the POSC Community and the industry at large. Dr. Archer is a well-known industry spokesman ˆ frequently playing the role of
organizer, moderator and/or speaker in seminars and conferences.Throughout his professional career, he has had strong interests in
collaborative efforts across both disciplines and organizations. He has also
been very interested in new technologies and has helped pioneer several for
the industry ˆ among these are graphical user interfaces, 3D visualization,
XML and Web Services. The two themes of collaboration and new technologies. (repeated Jan. 28 on the University Park Campus)
have been central to his tenure at POSC.David is a native Texan, and he holds MA and PhD degrees in Mathematical
Sciences from Rice University as well as a BS degree in Mathematics from TCU. Other academic affiliations include past President of the Rice Engineering Alumni, Adjunct Professor Mathematics at the University of Houston; he is also on the Advisory Board of the College of Technology at UH.Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Eric Mankin
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Self-Reconfigurable Robots and Digital Hormones for Multifunctional Applications
Fri, Jan 28, 2005 @ 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Patrick Pantel hosts a talk by Dr. Wei-Min ShenSelf-reconfigurable modular robots are metamorphic systems that can autonomously change their logical or physical configurations (such as shapes, sizes, or formations), as well as their locomotion and manipulation, based on the mission and the environment in hand. Because of their modularity, versatility, self-healing ability and low cost reproducibility, such robots provide a flexible approach for achieving complex tasks in unstructured and dynamic environments. They are well suited for applications such as search and rescue, reconnaissance, self-assembly, inspections in hazardous environments, and exploration in space and ocean.The construction and control of these robots, however, are very challenging due to the dynamic topology of the module network, the limited resource of individual modules, the difficulties in global synchronization, the preclusion of centralized decision makers, and the unreliability of communication among modules. This talk presents the recent progress in our lab for these challenging tasks and their applications for affordable and sustainable space missions in the near future. Dr. Shen will present the hormone-inspired distributed control architecture and algorithms (US-patented), demonstrate with movies for the ability of plug-and-play and arbitrarily reshuffling modules (body-parts) in systems, discuss theoretical development for self-reconfigurable systems in general, analyze the hardware/software challenges in making such robots for real-world multifunctional applications, and outline current solutions for these challenging tasks. The talk will be interactive and feedback and discussions are most welcome.Bio:Dr. Wei-Min Shen is the director of Polymorphic Robotics Laboratory (http://www.isi.edu/robots) at USC/Information Sciences Institute (ISI), and has over 22 years of experience in research. Dr. Wei-Min Shen is also an Associate Director at the Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems, and a Research Assistant Professor in Computer Science at University of Southern California (USC). He received his Ph.D. under Nobel Laureate Professor Herbert A. Simon from Carnegie Mellon University in 1989, and had extensive training in machine learning and machine discovery. His unique approach to machine learning is published as a 360-page book on surprise-based learning (Shen94), with a remarkable foreword written by Herbert Simon. His current research interests include self-reconfigurable and metamorphic systems, autonomous robots, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Life Science. He has about 100 publications in these areas. He is the recipient of a Silver-Medal Award in 1996 AAAI Robotics Competition, a World Championship Award in 1997 Middle-sized RoboCup Competition, a Meritorious Service Award at ISI in 1997, and a Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award at USC in 2003. He is the author of the book "Autonomous Learning from the Environment" published by W.H. Freeman in 1994, and the inventor of hormone-inspired distributed and decentralized control for self-reconfigurable systems (US Patent #006636781). He has served as chairs and committee members for international conferences and workshops in Robotics, Machine Learning, and Data Mining, and as editorial board members for scientific books and research journals. His research activities have been reported by leading scientific journals such as SCIENCE (9/26/1997 and 8/8/2003) and NATURE (5/28/2004), and media press such as CNN, PBS, Discovery, and other newspapers and magazines in the world. His research has been supported by NSF, AFOSR, DARPA, and NASA. He is on the Editorial Board for the journal of Intelligent Data Analysis, and a special editor for self-reconfigurable robots for IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics. He has reviewed papers for Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Robots, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, IEEE Trans. on Data and Knowledge Engineering, IEEE Trans. on Robotics, IEEE Trans. on Mechatronics, Machine Learning, Decision Support Systems, and Distributed and Parallel Databases. Book editor for Learning Action Models (AAAI Press). Handbook of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (Cambridge University Press). Conference Chair for the 7th International Conference on Autonomous Intelligent Systems. Program committee member for National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Agents Conference, the International Conference of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
Location: 11th Floor Conference Room, ISI
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Eric Mankin
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Microstructure and Internal Stresses in Cyclically Deformed Al and Cu Single Crystals
Fri, Jan 28, 2005 @ 02:45 PM - 04:00 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Presented by: Michael E. Kassner, PhD.
Department Chair
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Refreshments served at 2:30Location: Vivian Hall of Engineering (VHE) - 217
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Petra Pearce
