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Subject: Luncheon with Dr. Camillo Taylor Feb 10th

Attention ECE Grads!

In conjunction with the ALCOA African American Speaker Series speaker Dr.
Camillo J. Taylor's visit, we will be hosting a lunch for grad students in
ECE and RI in Smith Hall 101 from 12:30-2 PM.  All ECE grads are invited,
please RSVP to kst@andrew.cmu.edu and klancher@andrew.cmu.edu, we look
forward to seeing you there!  Also, please read the information about Dr.
Taylor and the talk he will be giving Thursday from 4:30-6 PM in teh
Adamson Wing.

Thank you,
Katie Tarara
Logistics and Publicity
ALCOA African American Speaker Series


ALCOA African American Speaker Series
With the Robotics Institute presents:

Dr. Camillo J. Taylor

Thursday, February 10, 2000
4:30-6:00 PM
Adamson Wing (Baker Hall 136A)
Refreshments will be served following th talk

  "Applications of Computer Vision Research"

 It is not difficult to argue that vision is the most valuable of all
 our five senses. It provides us with information that we use to
 navigate through our world, identify our friends and detect threats
 to our safety and wellbeing (like stampeding elephants). The goal of
 the research being conducted in the field of Computer Vision is to
 endow computer systems with a sense of vision by developing
 algorithms that allow them to extract meaningful information from
 the data acquired from camera systems.   A challenging field
 with deep connections to other disciplines such as mathematics,
 statistics and cognitive science--This talk will provide a brief
 introduction to the Computer Vision and describe some of the canonical
 problems.


Dr. Taylor received his A.B. degree in Electrical Computer and
Systems Engineering Magna cum Laude from Harvard College in 1988. He
received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University in 1990 and
1994 respectively. Dr. Taylor was the Jamaica Scholar in 1984, a
member of the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa and held a Harvard
College Scholarship from 1986-1988. From 1994 to 1997 Dr. Taylor was
a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer with the Department of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley. He
joined the faculty of the Computer and Information Science
Department at the University of Pennsylvania as an Assistant
Professor in September 1997 and received an NSF Career Award in
1999. His research interests center around the problem of recovering
geometric models from video sequences and the applications of
Computer Vision techniques to the control of robotic systems.