The Program

October 10, 2014 at UC San Diego
Presented by the Jacobs School of Engineering

Each invited speaker will give a 20 minute talk followed by Q&A. Extended networking breaks enable maximum interaction among participants.

All talks will take place in the main auditorium in Atkinson Hall.

Schedule

8:30 AM	ARRIVAL, CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
9:00–9:30 AM	Welcome Remarks	Pradeep K. Khosla Chancellor, UC San Diego Albert P. Pisano Dean, Jacobs School of Engineering Ramesh R. Rao Director, Qualcomm Institute
9:30–10:00 AM	Smartphone-powered Robots	Matt Grob Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
10:00–10:30 AM	Robot Swarms	Vijay Kumar UPS Foundation Professor, University of Pennsylvania
10:30–11:00 AM	NETWORKING BREAK
11:00–11:30 AM	Airborne Big Data	Chris Anderson Co-Founder and CEO, 3D Robotics
11:30 AM–12:00 PM	Printable Robots	Daniela Rus Professor of Electrical and Computer Science Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), MIT
12:00–1:30 PM	NETWORKING LUNCH
1:30–2:00 PM	The Three “M”s as Robotic Research Challenges: Mobility, Manipulations, and Messiness	Rodney Brooks CTO, Rethink Robotics
2:00–2:30 PM	MicroRobotics and NanoMedicine	Brad Nelson Professor of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, ETH-Zürich
2:30–3:00 PM	Talk Title to Come	Gill Pratt Program Manager, DARPA
3:00–3:30 PM	NETWORKING BREAK
3:30–4:00 PM	Creating and Forming Future Technology Leaders	Dean Kamen Founder, DEKA Research Founder, FIRST competitions
4:00–4:10 PM	Closing Remarks	Pradeep K. Khosla Chancellor, UC San Diego
4:10 PM	Reception