Yale Bulletin and Calendar

September 27-October 4, 1999

Volume 28, Number 6

Robotics researcher to present two talks

Cornell University professor Raffaello D'Andrea, whose research focuses on artificial intelligence and robotics, will give two talks on campus on Thursday, Sept. 30.

At noon, D'Andrea will discuss "Robust and Optimal Control of Complex Interconnected Systems" as part of a Computational Vision and Control Seminar. The event, which is open to members of the University community, will take place in Rm. 500 of Arthur K. Watson Hall, 51 Prospect St. At 3:30 p.m. he will present a Computational Vision and Control Colloquium on the topic "The Robo Files: Building the Best Robot Soccer Team in the World." This talk will take place in Davies Auditorium of Becton Science and Engineering Center, 15 Prospect St. It is free and open to the public.

D'Andrea directed a team of Cornell students who won the world championship in the small-size league in this summer's 1999 RoboCup championship in Stockholm, Sweden. The competition required students to engineer their team's robots incorporating design principles of autonomous agents, multi-agent collaboration, strategy acquisition, real-time reasoning, robotics and sensor-fusion. The ultimate goal of the yearly competition is to create, by the mid-21^st century, a team of fully autonomous humanoid soccer players that can win a game against the human team winners of the World Cup.

Children's book historian and critic will be the guest at master's tea

Leonard Marcus, a historian and critic of children's books, will be the guest at a tea on Thursday, Sept. 30, at 4:30 p.m. at the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St. The event is free and open to the public.

Marcus will also be on campus Oct. 1 & 2 for a symposium on children's literature (see related story).

Marcus is a biographer of Margaret Wise Brown, author of the children's classics "Goodnight Moon" and "The Runaway Bunny." His numerous books include "The Making of Goodnight Moon: A 50^th Anniversary Retrospective," and "A Caldecott Celebration: Six Artists Share Their Paths to the Caldecott Medal." He coauthored "Mother Goose: Little Misfortunes" and is editor of "Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon," "The Penguin Book of Classic Children's Characters" and "75 Years of Children's Book Week Posters: Celebrating Great Illustrators of American Children's Books." Marcus is also a book critic for Parenting magazine.

For further information, call 432-0740.

Media coverage of children's issues is topic of correspondent's talk

Betty Ann Bowser, a correspondent with PBS's "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," will speak on the topic "The Media and Children's Issues" on Friday, Oct. 1. Her talk, part of the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series, will begin at noon in Rm. 211 of the Hall of Graduate Studies. It is free and open to the public.

Bowser has been a correspondent on "NewsHour" since 1988. From 1988 to 1993, she covered the Southwest, providing documentaries on Ross Perot's presidential campaign and the election of Texas governor Ann Richards, among other reports. During the period 1993-95, she covered such major news stories as the standoff between federal government and the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas, and the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City.

For further information, call 432-9935.

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