Carnegie Mellon Will Induct Four Robots into Newly Established Robot Hall of Fame
27 October 2003 - 9:46PM
PR Newswire (US)
Carnegie Mellon Will Induct Four Robots into Newly Established
Robot Hall of Fame PITTSBURGH, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Carnegie
Mellon University will induct four robots into its newly
established Robot Hall of Fame(TM) in a ceremony at Pittsburgh's
Carnegie Science Center at 8 p.m. Monday, November 10. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020422/CMULOGO ) The robots
to be honored fall into two categories--robots from science and
robots from science fiction. Their creators or others with a close
relationship to the robots will attend the ceremony to accept a
certificate in their honor. The Robot Hall of Fame was established
earlier this year to honor noteworthy robots, both real and
fictional, along with their creators in recognition of the
increasing benefits robots are bringing to society. A Robot Hall of
Fame Web site will be unveiled at the induction ceremony. The goal
is to create a permanent, interactive exhibition involving robots
that will educate and entertain a wide variety of audiences. A
panel of experts, each serving for a two-year term, will choose
robots in each category to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. The
first panel includes: - Minoru Asada, professor of engineering,
Osaka University, Japan, and founder of the International RoboCup
Federation. - Rodney Brooks, director, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and author of "Flesh
and Machines." - Ellsworth Brown, president, Carnegie Museums of
Pittsburgh. - Ruzena Bajcsy, director, Center for Information
Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), University
of California at Berkeley. - Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction
writer, futurist and author (with Stanley Kubrick) of "2001." -
Henrik Christensen, computer science professor and director, Centre
for Autonomous Systems, Royal Institute of Technology, KTH
Stockholm, Sweden. - Ray Jarvis, director, Intelligent Robotics
Research Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. - Donald
Marinelli, professor of drama and co-director, Entertainment
Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon. - James H. Morris, dean, School
of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, assembled and moderated the
panel of experts. - Raj Reddy, Simon University Professor and
founder of the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon. - Charles
Thorpe, director, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon. - Sherry
Turkle, director, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Initiative
on Technology and Self. - Will Wright, creator of SimCity, a
popular video game environment that features robots. The next
selection of robots for induction into the Robot Hall of Fame is
scheduled to take place in conjunction with the 25th anniversary
celebration of Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute, Oct. 13-16,
2004. Contact: Anne Watzman 412-268-3830
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Carnegie Mellon University CONTACT: Anne Watzman of Carnegie Mellon
University, +1-412-268-3830 Web site: http://www.cmu.edu/
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