Our programs are held both live at the Church of the Redeemer, 5700 Forbes Avenue, Squirrel Hill, and on Zoom, on the second Tuesday of each month at 7:30 p.m. We ask that you do not attend our live programs if you are not vaccinated. Masks are optional.
If you cannot attend our live programs, we offer a hybrid Zoom version. SHHS members will be sent a link to the Zoom program no later than the weekend before the program. If you are not a SHHS and would like the link to the program, please contact the SHHS at sqhillhist@shhsoc.org.
NOTE for Zoom participants: Our programs are recorded and archived on our website using YouTube, so please turn off your video if you do not want to appear on the recording. YouTube guidelines do not permit sending pictures of people to others without their permission.
Tuesday, May 14th, 7:30 p.m.
“Our Futuristic Murray Avenue Neighbor: An Overview of CMU’s Robotics Institute”
Speaker: Dr. Matthew Johnson-Roberson, Director of the Robotics Institute and Professor of Computer Science in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU).
Dr. Matthew Johnson-Roberson will discuss the origins of the Robotics Institute, the Institute’s role in recent developments in robotics, exciting challenges for the future, and societal concerns about robotics and artificial intelligence (AI). Dr. Johnson-Roberson previously co-directed the University of Michigan Ford Center for Autonomous Vehicles (FCAV) and founded and leads the DROP (Deep Robot Optical Perception) Lab, which researches 3D reconstruction, segmentation, data mining, and visualization. He received his Bachelor’s degree in computer science from CMU and his Ph.D. in robotics from the University of Sydney and has held prior postdoctoral appointments with the Centre for Autonomous Systems – CAS at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and Australian Centre for Field Robotics at the University of Sydney. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award (2015).
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