Biography: Dr. Ruzena Bajcsy is the Director of CITRIS at the University of California, charged with shaping the vision and scientific strategy of CITRIS. Dr. Bajcsy is a pioneering researcher in machine perception, robotics and artificial intelligence. She is also a member of the Neuroscience Institute and the School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the former Director of the University of Pennsylvania's General Robotics and Active Sensory Perception Laboratory, which she founded in 1978. She has also served as the Assistant Director of the Computer Information Science and Engineering Directorate (CISE) at the NSF. 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 a member of the National Academy of Engineering, as well as the Institute of Medicine. She has held professorships at Penn, Slovak Technical University and the University of California, Berkeley. In 2001 she was a recipient of the ACM A. Newell award. Discover Magazine named her to its list of the 50 most important women in science in November 2002. In April 2003 she received the CRA Distinguished Service Award and in May 2003 she was became a member of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee. She is also a fellow of the American Association of Aritificial Intelligence and of the Association of Computing Machinery.

CSE Colloquium

Thursday, September 9, 2004
Refreshments: 3:30-4:00, 348 Avery Hall
Talk: 4:00-5:00,115 Avery Hall

CITRIS - The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society, Accomplishments, New Opportunities and Challenges

In this presentation we shall first describe the genesis of the Center, its scientific goals and organization. The second half describes the most recent technical accomplishments, notably related to the network of MOTEs, and their applications, but also other applications of IT to humanities and social science. A MOTE is an assembly of sensors, a small computer and a radio. It has the capability of sensing some physical property, such as temperature, light, velocity or acceleration, chemical sensors, strain gage sensor and their like. The computer has a small operating system, called TinyOS, which enables the user to program and control some of their activity. The radio transmits the sensed and processed information in 36 byte packets. The MOTEs operate on 2AA batteries. We shall present several examples of applications of these reconfigurable networks. However we shall also show the outstanding technical problems and issues of privacy and reliability.

Lecture at CSCE421/821

Friday, September 10, 2004
10:30--11:20 am, 111 Avery Hall