From jmarshall at slc.edu Mon Sep 21 21:47:03 2009 From: jmarshall at slc.edu (Jim Marshall) Date: Mon Sep 21 21:34:50 2009 Subject: [Pyro-users] CFP: FLAIRS-2010 Special track on Artificial Intelligence Education Message-ID: <50034.69.119.239.113.1253584023.squirrel@mail.slc.edu> [apologies for cross-postings] *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** Special Track on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE EDUCATION The 23rd International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS-2010) Daytona Beach, Florida, USA The Shores Resort and Spa May 19-21, 2010 IMPORTANT DATES - Submission deadline: November 23, 2009 - Acceptance notification: January 22, 2010 - Final versions due: February 22, 2010 Papers are being solicited for a special track on AI Education at the 23rd International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS-2010). The FLAIRS Special Track on AI Education is intended to provide a setting in which educators and researchers from all areas of AI can come together to share ideas and approaches for teaching AI at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. We are especially interested in submissions that describe innovative curricular materials, teaching methods, pedagogical experiences, or ways to promote student interest in AI and the participation of underrepresented groups. We welcome submissions on all aspects of AI pedagogy, including, but not limited to: - Model assignments, course syllabi, software, or other curricular resources - Implementation of the Computing Curricula 2001 Intelligent Systems area - AI classroom techniques or innovations for undergraduate and/or graduate instruction - Intelligent applications for instruction of AI and assessment of such applications - The use of robots or other hands-on equipment for teaching AI - Strategies for incorporating AI research into AI courses - Strategies for encouraging wider student interest and participation in AI - Descriptions or case studies of successful class projects or other pedagogical experiences Note: There is a separate special track for Intelligent Tutoring Systems. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Interested authors must submit completed manuscripts for double-blind review by November 23, 2009. Papers should follow AAAI formatting guidelines (http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Templates/AuthorKit.zip). Submission guidelines can be obtained by referring to the conference website (http://www.flairs-23.info/). Papers will be refereed and those accepted for presentation will appear in the conference proceedings which will be published by AAAI Press. Authors may be invited to submit a revised copy of their paper to a special issue of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT). Questions regarding the track should be addressed to Todd Neller (http://cs.gettysburg.edu/~tneller/) or Jim Marshall (http://science.slc.edu/~jmarshall/). ONLINE RESOURCES - FLAIRS: http://www.flairs.com - FLAIRS 2010: http://www.flairs-23.info/ - AI Education Track: http://cs.gettysburg.edu/~tneller/flairs10/ PROGRAM COMMITTEE Todd Neller, co-chair (Gettysburg College) Jim Marshall, co-chair (Sarah Lawrence College) Bob Aiken (Temple University) Steven Bogaerts (Wittenberg University) Eric Chown (Bowdoin College) Zachary Dodds (Harvey Mudd College) Susan Fox (Macalester College) David Furcy (University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh) Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis (University of Patras, Greece) Ellen Hildreth (Wellesley College) Tim Huang (Middlebury College) Frank Klassner (Villanova University) Simon Levy (Washington and Lee University) Chun Wai Liew (Lafayette College) Shieu-Hong Lin (Biola University) Derek Long (University of Strathclyde, UK) Myles McNally (Alma College) R. Mark Meyer (Canisius College) Dave Mooney (Shippensburg University) Dave Musicant (Carleton College) Jeffrey Pfaffmann (Lafayette College) John Rager (Amherst College) Anita Raja (University of North Carolina, Charlotte) Ingrid Russell (University of Hartford) Mehran Sahami (Stanford University) Rebecca Thomas (Bard College) Ellen Walker (Hiram College) Richard Wyatt (West Chester University) Sarah Zelikovitz (College of Staten Island of CUNY) We look forward to your participation at next year's FLAIRS! - Todd Neller and Jim Marshall From dblank at cs.brynmawr.edu Fri Sep 25 12:35:41 2009 From: dblank at cs.brynmawr.edu (Douglas S. Blank) Date: Fri Sep 25 12:22:54 2009 Subject: [Pyro-users] Updated Pyro Repositories Message-ID: <4ABCF15D.5050402@cs.brynmawr.edu> Pyro users, We've updated the Pyro 5.0.2 package for Fedora 11. Here is a Yum Repo: [pyrobot] name=Python Robotics baseurl=http://165.106.10.249/pyro/fedora/$releasever/$basearch gpgkey=http://165.106.10.249/pyro/fedora/RPM-GPG-KEY-dblank enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 This includes all C and C++ code, including vision, clustering, self-organizing maps, etc. This version contains: * new graphics for neural networks * updates to work on Mac OSX * reworked graphics to work interactively with ipython/idle * a new robot model for the Rovio robot and camera * fixes for Simple Recurrent Network * Everything.py world for Pyrobot Simulator * YUYV webcams * Logitech webcam * Growing Neural Gas * Aibo cleanup * removed requirement for PYROBOT env variable * removed requirement for DISPLAY * fixes for CanonPTZ Python interface * fixed corrupt images * fixed angle error in simulated directional microphone Thanks to: Jim Marshall, Lisa Meeden, Nik Swoboda, Ryan Walker for code and fixes, and for all of the people who have reported issues! If I forgot anyone, please let me know, and I'll add you to the list. -Doug -- Douglas S. Blank Director, Institute for Personal Robots in Education (IPRE) http://www.roboteducation.org Chair, and Associate Professor, Computer Science, Bryn Mawr College http://cs.brynmawr.edu/~dblank (610)526-6501