Workshop on Intelligent Systems: A Festschrift for Richard Volz Texas A&M University, April 8-10, 2010

On Friday, the technical sessions were held at the Clayton W. Williams, Jr. Alumni Center, on the campus of Texas A&M University. On Saturday, the technical sessions were held in room 124 of the H.R. Bright Building, home of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University. Lunches and breaks were held in the same location as the technical sessions. The banquet on Friday evening was held at Christopher's World Grille.

Thursday April 8, 2010
7:00pm-9:00pm	Opening Reception, hosted by Dick and Mary Volz at their home. Directions will be emailed to conference attendees.
Friday April 9, 2010 All technical sessions, breaks and lunch on Friday will be held at the Clayton W. Williams, Jr. Alumni Center.
8:30am	Registration Opens
9:00am	Opening Remarks
9:05am-9:30am	Session 1: Panel: The Development of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M under Dick Volz Panelists: Jianer Chen (Texas A&M University), Lawrence Rauchwerger (Texas A&M University), Jeff Trinkle (RPI), Jennifer Welch (Texas A&M University)     [Slides (pdf) | Video (not available)]
9:30am-10:30am	Session 2: From Intelligent Networks to Smart Sensor Networks Session Chair: Jing Xiao (UNCC)
	Intelligent Networks,John Lawser (AT&T Labs)     [Slides (pdf) | Video (m4v)]
	Recognition Technology to Support Aging in Place, Marjorie Skubic (U. Missouri, Columbia)     [Slides (pdf) | Video (m4v)]
10:30am-11:00am	Break
11:00am-11:30am	Session 3: Visual Servoing Session Chair: Marge Skubic (U. Missouri, Columbia)
	Visual Servo Through the Pages of the Transactions on Robotics (and Automation), Seth Hutchinson (UIUC)     [Slides (pdf) | Video (m4v)]
11:30am-12:15pm	Session 4: Panel: NASA Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel     [Slides (pdf) | Video (m4v)] Moderator: Richard Blomberg (Dunlap and Associates, Inc.) Panelists: George Gleghorn (retired, NAE member), Richard Volz (TAMU)
12:15pm-2:00pm	Lunch (included)     - Dick's remarks about his photography [ Video (m4v)]
2:00pm-3:30pm	Session 5: Robots in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments Session Chair: Robin Murphy (TAMU)
	Dynamic Maneuvers in a 3D Galloping Quadruped Robot, David Orin     [Slides (pdf) | Video (m4v)]
	Rescue Robotics, Satoshi Tadokoro (Tohoku U.)     [Slides (pdf) | Video (m4v)]
	Real-Time Adaptive Robot Motion Planning in Unknown and Unpredictable Environments, Jing Xiao (UNCC)     [Slides (pdf) | Video (m4v)]
3:30pm-4:00pm	Break
4:00pm-5:00pm	Session 6: Panel: IEEE RAS - What Dick has done for us!     [Slides (pdf) | Video (m4v)] Panelists: John Hollerbach (U. Utah), Kazuhiro Kosuge (Tohoku U.), Bruno Siciliano (U. Napoli), Stefano Stramigioli (U. Twente)
6:30pm	Banquet, Christopher's World Grille     [Full Length Video (m4v)]
	6:30pm   Reception with performance by RASOR (RAS Officers Rock!)   [Video (m4v)]
	7:15pm   Dinner
	8:15pm   From us to Dick, Bruno Siciliano   [ Slideshow (flash) |Slideshow (exe) |Slideshow (mov) |Slideshow (mpg) |Video (m4v) ]
	8:30pm   A few remarks, Dick Volz   [Video (m4v)]
	8:45pm   Other Reminiscences, various participants   [ Ken Goldberg (txt) | Yu Zhang and Dianxiang Xu (txt) ]
Saturday April 10, 2010 All technical sessions, breaks and lunch on Saturday will be held in the H.R. Bright Building, home of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering
9:00am-10:00am	Session 7: Robotics - A Look into the Future Session Chair: Bruno Siciliano (U. Napoli)
	A Roadmap for US Robotics, Henrik Christensen (Georgia Tech)     [Slides (pdf) | Video (m4v)]
	Port Based Robotics, Stefano Stramigioli (U. Twente)     [Slides (pdf) | Video (m4v)]
10:00am-10:45am	Session 8: Panel: How to publish papers in IEEE RAS publications     [Slides (pdf) | Video (m4v)] Moderator: Peter Luh (University of Connecticutt) Panelists: Seth Hutchinson (UIUC), Bruno Siciliano (U. Napoli), Stefano Stramigioli (U. Twente), Ian Walker (Clemson U.) Jing Xiao (UNCC).
10:45am-11:15am	Break     - Dick's remarks [ Video (m4v)]
11:15am-12:15pm	Session 9: Agents! Session Chair: Reza Langari (TAMU)
	From Team Intelligence to Social Intelligence, John Yen (PSU)     [Slides (pdf) | Video (m4v)]
	Holonic Intelligence: A Paradigm Shift, William Gruver (Intelligent Robotics & Simon Fraser U.)     [Slides (pdf) | Video (m4v)]
12:15pm-1:30pm	Lunch (included)
1:30pm-3:00pm	Session 10: From Outer space to the Outside to the Inside! Session Chair: Valerie Taylor (TAMU)
	Robotic Mission to Mars, Rajiv Desai (3Di)
	Collaborative Observation of Natural Environments, Dezhen Song (TAMU)     [Slides (pdf) | Video (m4v)]
	An Introduction to Security Enhanced Linux, Charles Antonelli (U. Michigan)     [Slides (pdf) | Video (m4v)]
3:00pm	Concluding Remarks     [Video (m4v)]