A Look into the Past and Future of
Robotics, Vision and AI:

A Tribute to Ruzena Bajcsy
and the GRASP Lab


Former students, colleagues and friends of the GRASP Lab are gathering to celebrate Professor Ruzena Bajcsy's 70th birthday.

In gathering, we pay tribute to the multi-disciplinary work and environment that Ruzena created and fostered in the areas of computer vision, robotics, image processing, medical imaging, AI, and more.

Invitation card


Location Wu and Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall, 3330 Walnut St.
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Preliminary Program
Saturday, October 4
9:00-9:25 Opening comments (Vijay and Fernando)
9:25-9:50 Peter Allen "R2D2: Ruzie/Robotics Divine/Diva"
9:50-10:15 Takeo Kanade "RuzenaVision"
10:15-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-11:10 Henry Fuchs "Tele-Immersion with Ruzena"
11:10-11:35 Eero Simoncelli "Active Experimental Techniques for the Study of Sensory Perception"
11:35-12:00 Roger Mohr "Visual Recognition: Finding the Needle in the Haystack"
12:00-1:20 Lunch
1:20-1:45 Dan Koditschek "Symbols for Programming Work: Pursuing Bajcsy's Vision for a Formal Synthesis of Robotic Behavior"
1:45-2:10 Arvind Joshi "Early days of CIS with Ruzena and/or some random thoughts about natural language processing and computational vision"
2:10-2:35 Yiannis Aloimonos "From Active Vision to ActionVision"
2:35-3:05 Coffee Break
3:05-3:30 Stephane Mallat "Geometric Representation And Scale Processing"
3:30-3:55 Jim Gee "Digital Anatomy Atlases + Elastic Matching = Computational Anatomy"
3:55-4:15 Shankar Sastry "Ruzena Bajcsy in the Interest of Society"
4:15-4:40 Joe Bordogna
6:00-7:00 Cocktails, Lower Egyptian Gallery University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 3260 South St., Philadelphia, PA
7:00- Dinner, Lower Egyptian Gallery

Registration The registration deadline is September 15th. To help defray costs we are asking for a $75 registration fee. To register please:
  1. send an e-mail with your name and contact address to rb-event@grasp.cis.upenn.edu (if you require a vegan or vegetarian meal, please specify so in your email).

  2. Send a check for $75 made payable to "Trustees of University of Pennsylvania" to (non-US people may pay on site): 
       Ms. Emily Hoover
       Office of Research
       School of Engineering and Applied Science
       220 S. 33rd Street
       Towne 111
       University of Pennsylvania
       Philadelphia, PA 19104-6315
       Phone:  215.898.5771
       Fax:    215.573.5577
       ehoover@seas.upenn.edu
For general questions, send email to rb-event@grasp.cis.upenn.edu. We have some discretionary funds to support the $75 registration fee. If you require support, or will not be able to attend the dinner, please let us know.

Call for Submission Participants including speakers are encouraged to submit a new or existing paper in pdf format as well as any other anecdotic material like photos, audio, older scanned documents etc. The material will be collected into a CD-ROM to be distributed on October 4th. There will be no copyright claim on the content of the CD-ROM. Hence, participants are urged to submit a paper even a very old one in a form of dedication. Please send material to rb-event@grasp.cis.upenn.edu.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Sept. 21, 2003.

Directions/Accommodations General information about the U. Penn area

Organizing Team Kostas Daniilidis (kostas @ grasp . cis . upenn . edu)
Hany Farid (farid @ cs . dartmouth . edu)
Jim Gee (gee @ grasp . cis . upenn . edu)
Greg Hager (hager @ cs . jhu . edu)
Jana Kosecka (kosecka @ cs . gmu . edu)
Vijay Kumar (kumar @ grasp . cis . upenn . edu)