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November 8-9, 1999, Third Annual Review Meeting for ARO MURI, "An Integrated Approach to Intelligent Systems"

November 9-10, 1999 ARO Workshop: Complex Interactive Networks and Systems"

Directions to Durant Hotel & Visitor Information

ARO MURI Third Annual Program Review Meeting

Date: November 8-9, 1999

Conference Location:

Alumni House
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720

For directions to the meeting location see:
UC Berkeley Campus Map
and zoom in on SW quadrant near the Student Union.

Hotel Accomodations:

Hotel Durant
2600 Durant Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704
Reservations Desk: (800) 238-7268
Phone: (510) 845-8981
Fax: (510) 486-0916

The Durant Hotel has a group room-block of 30 rooms at $99. single and $125. double. Please mention the Electronics Research Lab "MURI Review" when making your reservation so that the concierge will know that you are with the ARO group.

MURI Third Annual Review Agenda:

Monday, November 8:

7:30 am
Registration: There will be a $50 registration fee.
Please make your check payable to the "UC Regents".
Unfortunately, we cannot take credit cards.

8:00 am
Introductions - Linda Bushnell, ARO

8:15 am
MURI Organization and Progress - Shankar Sastry, UCB

Module 1: Perception and Action

9:00 am Cue Integration and Image Grouping - Professor Jitendra Malik, UCB

10:00 am Ambiguities of Reconstruction, Motion Recovery and Camera Self-Calibration from Multiple Views: Geometry and Algorithms - Jana Kosecka, UCB

10:30 Break

10:45 am Bayesian Belief Propagation for Image Understanding - Yair Weiss, UCB

11:30 am Biologically Motivated Pattern Recognition Using Chaotic Dynamical Memories - Robert Kozma, UCB

Module 2: Decision Making in the Presence of Uncertainty"

1:15 pm Learning and Decision Making in Large-Scale Problems - Stuart Russell, UCB

2:00 pm Structured Probabilistic Models for Complex Systems - Daphne Koller, Stanford

2:45 pm Markov Models for High Dimensional Time Series - Michael Jordan, UCB

Module 3: Hybrid and Embedded Intelligent Systems

3:45 pm Logic-based Synthesis of Controllers for Hybrid Systems - Anil Nerode and Jennifer Davoren, Cornell

4:30 pm Interval Numerical Methods for Hybrid Systems Verification - Thomas Henzinger, UCB

5:15 pm Intelligent Flight Management Systems - Claire Tomlin, Stanford

Tuesday, November 9, 1999

Module 4: DEMOS

8:00 - 9:00 am Telesurgery Testbed Demo and Presentation - Frank Tendick and Shankar Sastry, UCB (in 330 Cory Hall)

9:00 am Chartered Bus to Richmond Field Station (departs Hearst Mining Circle)

9:30 am Ad hoc Networks and SHIFT - Anuj Puri and Pravin Varaiya, UCB in Bldg. 452 Richmond Field Station.

10:15 am BEAR Multi-agent Helicopter and Ground Robots - Frank Hoffmann and Hyunchul Shim, UCB in 452 Richmond Field Station

11 am - 12 pm UAV/ UGV Demos at Richmond Field Station

Executive Advisory Board:

Dr. Charles M. Bowden (AMCOM)
Dr. Chester Carroll (AMCOM)
Dr. Jagdish Chandra (ARL)
Dr. Wolf Elber (ARL/NASA Langley Research Center)
LTC Bob Hernandez (Army AI Center)
Dr. Robert Launer (ARO)
Mr. Joseph Lehman (AMSTA-AR)
Dr. Michael R. Macedonia (AMSTI)
Dr. Daniel Willard (SAUS-OR)
EAB Executive Coordinator: Dr. Linda Bushnell (ARO)

Technical Advisory Council:

Dr. Linda Bushnell (ARO)
Dr. Robert Campbell (ARO)
Dr. Aivars Celmins (ARL)
Dr. Norman Coleman (ARDEC)
Maj Patrick J. Delaney (Models & Simulation)
Dr. Joel Davis (ONR)
Dr. Philip Emmerman (ARL)
Dr. Marc Jacobs (AFOSR)
Dr. Richard Maruyama (Models & Simulation)
Dr. George Meyer (NASA Ames Research Center)
Dr. Allen Moshfegh (ONR)
Dr. Brian C. Murphy (USAES Directorate of Combat Developments)
Dr. James Overholt (TACOM)
Dr. Kent Pickett (TRAC)
Dr. Jose Salinas (ARL)
Dr. Alan Schultz (NRL)
LtC Ed Shaffer (EECS, U.S. Military Academy)
Dr. Mihkail Voronstov (ARL)

Following workshop:

ARO WORKSHOP: Complex Interactive Networks and Systems

Date: November 9-10, 1999

Conference Location:

Bechtel
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720

Registration for this conference is $30.00. Please make check payable to "UC Regents."

Workshop will be held Nov. 9 in rooms 120ABC of Bechtel, UC Berkeley. On Nov. 10, we will be in the Sibley Auditorium of Bechtel.
Breakfast and lunch will be served on Wed. Nov. 10.

SCHEDULE

Tuesday Nov. 9, 1999
1300 Registration
1345 Sitharama Iyengar, Computer Science, Louisiana State University; "New Trends in Sensor Fusion"
1430 Mike Kolodny, Army Research Laboratory; The Army Warrior Extended Battlespace Sensor(WEBS) Program
1500 BREAK
1515 P. R. Kumar, Computer Science Laboratory, University of Illinois - Urbana/Champaign; Wireless Networks: Problems and Prospects
1600 ADJOURN

Wednesday, November 10, 1999
1000 Pravin Varaiya, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Economics, University of California -Berkeley; Freeway Congestion: Measurement and Management
1045 Peter Sauer, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois - Urbana/Champaign; A Multi-Layer Approach to Complex Interactive DoD Networks and Systems
1130 BREAK
1145 Prof. Venkat Anantharam, Electronic Research Lab, Berkeley, University of California - Berkeley; Communication Networks as Complex Interactive Systems
1230 ADJOURN - LUNCH

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Directions to the Hotel Durant

From San Francisco Airport by car

Take the US-101 North/I-380 West ramp towards I-280/San Francisco/San Bruno

Keep Left at the fork in the ramp

Merge onto US-101 North

Take the I-80 exit towards East Bay Bridge/Oakland

Take the Powell Street exit towards Emeryville

Turn Right onto Powell Street

Turn slight Left onto Stanford Avenue

Stanford Avenue becomes Adeline Street

Turn slight Right at the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Way to stay on Adeline Street

Adeline Street becomes Shattuck Avenue

Turn Right onto Durant Avenue

Turn Right onto Bowditch Street

From the East Bay (Oakland, Hayward, Fremont)

Take Hwy 880 North to Hwy 980 East to Hwy 580 West
(If closer to Hwy 580, take it West towards San Francisco)<b/

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Meetings

ARO MURI Third Annual Program Review Meeting

The Durant Hotel has a group room-block of 30 rooms at $99. single and $125. double. Please mention the Electronics Research Lab "MURI Review" when making your reservation so that the concierge will know that you are with the ARO group.

MURI Third Annual Review Agenda:

Monday, November 8:

7:30 am Registration: There will be a $50 registration fee. Please make your check payable to the "UC Regents". Unfortunately, we cannot take credit cards.

8:00 am Introductions - Linda Bushnell, ARO

8:15 am MURI Organization and Progress - Shankar Sastry, UCB

Module 1: Perception and Action

9:00 am Cue Integration and Image Grouping - Professor Jitendra Malik, UCB

10:00 am Ambiguities of Reconstruction, Motion Recovery and Camera Self-Calibration from Multiple Views: Geometry and Algorithms - Jana Kosecka, UCB

10:30 Break

10:45 am Bayesian Belief Propagation for Image Understanding - Yair Weiss, UCB

11:30 am Biologically Motivated Pattern Recognition Using Chaotic Dynamical Memories - Robert Kozma, UCB

Module 2: Decision Making in the Presence of Uncertainty"

1:15 pm Learning and Decision Making in Large-Scale Problems - Stuart Russell, UCB

2:00 pm Structured Probabilistic Models for Complex Systems - Daphne Koller, Stanford

2:45 pm Markov Models for High Dimensional Time Series - Michael Jordan, UCB

Module 3: Hybrid and Embedded Intelligent Systems

3:45 pm Logic-based Synthesis of Controllers for Hybrid Systems - Anil Nerode and Jennifer Davoren, Cornell

4:30 pm Interval Numerical Methods for Hybrid Systems Verification - Thomas Henzinger, UCB

5:15 pm Intelligent Flight Management Systems - Claire Tomlin, Stanford

Tuesday, November 9, 1999

Module 4: DEMOS

8:00 - 9:00 am Telesurgery Testbed Demo and Presentation - Frank Tendick and Shankar Sastry, UCB (in 330 Cory Hall)

9:00 am Chartered Bus to Richmond Field Station (departs Hearst Mining Circle)

9:30 am Ad hoc Networks and SHIFT - Anuj Puri and Pravin Varaiya, UCB in Bldg. 452 Richmond Field Station.

10:15 am BEAR Multi-agent Helicopter and Ground Robots - Frank Hoffmann and Hyunchul Shim, UCB in 452 Richmond Field Station

11 am - 12 pm UAV/ UGV Demos at Richmond Field Station

Executive Advisory Board:

Technical Advisory Council:

Following workshop:

ARO WORKSHOP: Complex Interactive Networks and Systems

SCHEDULE

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Directions to the Hotel Durant

From San Francisco Airport by car

Take the US-101 North/I-380 West ramp towards I-280/San Francisco/San Bruno

Keep Left at the fork in the ramp

Merge onto US-101 North

Take the I-80 exit towards East Bay Bridge/Oakland

Take the Powell Street exit towards Emeryville

Turn Right onto Powell Street

Turn slight Left onto Stanford Avenue

Stanford Avenue becomes Adeline Street

Turn slight Right at the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Way to stay on Adeline Street

Adeline Street becomes Shattuck Avenue

Turn Right onto Durant Avenue

Turn Right onto Bowditch Street

From the East Bay (Oakland, Hayward, Fremont)

Take Hwy 880 North to Hwy 980 East to Hwy 580 West (If closer to Hwy 580, take it West towards San Francisco)<b/

Proceed to I-80 East towards Berkeley

Exit at Powell Street exit towards Emeryville

Follow directions above from this point.

Visitor Information

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Directions to Campus and Cory Hall

UC Berkeley Visitor Information Center (campus map)

UC Berkeley Webserver

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7:30 am
Registration: There will be a $50 registration fee.
Please make your check payable to the "UC Regents".
Unfortunately, we cannot take credit cards.

8:00 am
Introductions - Linda Bushnell, ARO

8:15 am
MURI Organization and Progress - Shankar Sastry, UCB

Take Hwy 880 North to Hwy 980 East to Hwy 580 West
(If closer to Hwy 580, take it West towards San Francisco)<b/