From aaai97-owner@cc.gatech.edu Mon Jun 16 08:06:07 1997
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 07:38:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: arkin@cc.gatech.edu (Ronald Arkin)
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To: aaai97@cc.gatech.edu, arkin@cc.gatech.edu
Subject: Re:  Information requested for the Competition invited talk
Cc: firby@cs.uchicago.edu
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Status: RO
last call for slides for the AAAI general talk. If you cannot do a slide
but have a text version and/or images of your robot - that'll work too.
Thanks. - Ron
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 > From: arkin@cc.gatech.edu (Ronald Arkin)
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 > To: aaai97@cc.gatech.edu, arkin@cc.gatech.edu
 > Subject: Re:  Information requested for the Competition invited talk
 > Cc: firby@cs.uchicago.edu
 > Status: RO
 > 
 > I neglected to mention that we need this by 6/15 or we cannot
 > guarantee that we will discuss your entry. 
 > 
 > BTW for those in the exhibition, while time precludes us from
 > giving a detailed description of your demo,  we would like to mention
 > your exhibit, so if you can forward me an image of your robot and
 > a one-line name/description we'll try and fit it in. Thanks! - Ron
 > 
 >  > From arkin Mon Jun  2 11:44:45 1997
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 >  > Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 11:44:40 -0400 (EDT)
 >  > From: arkin@cc.gatech.edu (Ronald Arkin)
 >  > Message-Id: <199706021544.LAA24541@arkin.cc.gatech.edu>
 >  > To: aaai97@cc.gatech.edu
 >  > Subject: Information requested for the Competition invited talk
 >  > Cc: arkin@cc.gatech.edu, firby@cs.uchicago.edu
 >  > Status: RO
 >  > 
 >  > 
 >  > This year, we have the opportunity to do some advertising for
 >  > the competition early on. Jim and I will be giving an invited talk
 >  > on Tuesday from 2-3 PM on, among other things, what people can
 >  > expect to see over the next several days of the competition.
 >  > In that talk, we'd like to include the various approaches that
 >  > people will be using during the competition and photos of
 >  > your robots.
 >  > 
 >  > We'd like to request from each team, for each event, that you
 >  > provide us with material for a single slide summarizing your
 >  > approach. I have the abstracts that many of you submitted, but
 >  > I'd prefer that each of you summarize your work, as you can
 >  > do it best. I'd also like one or more images to include on 
 >  > the slide. remember only *one* slide per entry per event.
 >  > It should include:
 >  >    approach: brief statement (bullets) of how you are solving the problem
 >  >    research content: what AI is being used and folks should be able to see
 >  >    architectural design
 >  >    robot photograph (in lieu of hardware description) but send Jim and me
 >  >       a description anyway in text.
 >  >    any other relevant things that the audience should look out for or 
 >  >     points that you are trying to make with your entry (intellectual points
 >  >      not scoring points :-).
 >  > 
 >  > If you can whip something up in Powerpoint that'd be ideal - but we'll
 >  > try and handle text submissions as well.
 >  > This is your chance to educate the audience as to what is really going on - 
 >  > please help us help you.
 >  > 
 >  > Send the info to both arkin@cc.gatech.edu and firby@cs.uchicago.edu.
 >  > 
 >  > Thanks.
 >  > 
 >  > - Ron
 >  > 
 >  > ******************************************************
 >  > Ronald C. Arkin
 >  > Professor and Director of the Mobile Robot Laboratory
 >  > College of Computing
 >  > Georgia Institute of Technology  Phone: (404) 894-8209
 >  > Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0280      Fax:   (404) 894-0957
 >  >     WWW: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/ai/robot-lab/
 >  > ******************************************************
 >  > 
 >