Organizer: Robin Murphy
Affiliation: Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering & Cognitive and Neural Sciences, Department of Psychology, University of South Florida
Country: U.S.A.
Personal Website: Robin R. Murphy
Research Group Website:
Institute for Safety Security Rescue Technology

Organizer: Nancy Amato
Affiliation: Algorithms & Applications Group, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University
Country: U.S.A.
Personal Website: Nancy Amato
Research Group Website:
Parasol laboratory

Organizer: Aude Billard
Affiliation: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne EPFL
Country: Switzerland
Personal Website: Aude Billard
Research Group Website:
Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory (LASA)

Organizer: Danica Kragic
Affiliation: Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Country: Croatia, Sweden
Personal Website: Danica Kragic
Research Group Website:
Centre for Autonomous Systems
Computer Vision and Active Perception Lab

Date: 2007.4.12(Thu)
Time: 12:20-13:50
Place: Aula Minor at the Angelicum University, Roma, Italy
Title: BOF (Birds of a Feather) Women Lunch
Event: 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'07)
Type: Special Event
Topic: Gender Diversity in Robotics
Organizers: Allison Okamura, Danica Kragic, Aude Billard, Nancy Amato, Mihoko Otake, Robin Murphy

Special Lecture and Party to celebrate the First Anniversary of IEEE Japan Council WIE Affinity Group is held on Saturday, July 22, 2006.
Women in Robotics Community coorporates this anniversary.

For more information, please see:

• IEEE Japan Council WIE Affinity Group
• Special Lecture and Party Celebrating the First Anniversary of IEEE Japan Council WIE Affinity Group

Author: Li Cao
Affiliation: Tsinghua University
Country: China
Personal Website: Li Cao

Bibliography: Li Cao, "Information Acquisition and Processing Technique by Integrating Internal Sensors into External Sensing", Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, Vol. 24, No. 5, pp.600-603, 2006.

Author: Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann
Affiliation: University of Geneva
Country: Switzerland
Personal Website: Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann
Research Group Website: MIRALab

Bibliography: Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, "Virtual humans: Their Past, Their Present and Their Future", Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, Vol. 24, No. 5, pp.597-599, 2006.

Author: Alícia Casals
Affiliation: Technical University of Catalonia
Country: Spain
Personal Website: Alícia Casals
Research Group Website: Intelligent Robotics and Systems Group

Bibliography: Alícia Casals, "Medical Robotics: An Exciting Field", Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, Vol. 24, No. 5, pp.594-596, 2006.

Author: Cynthia Breazeal
Affiliation: MIT
Country: USA
Personal Website: Cynthia Breazeal
Research Group Website: Robotic Life Group

Bibliography: Cynthia Breazeal, "Sociable Robots", Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, Vol. 24, No. 5, pp.591-593, 2006.

Author: Allison M. Okamura
Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University
Country: USA
Personal Website: Allison M. Okamura
Research Group Website: Haptic Exploration Laboratory

Bibliography: Allison M. Okamura, "Robotics with a Human Touch: Haptics and Medical Applications", Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, Vol. 24, No. 5, pp.588-590, 2006.

Author: Yoky Matsuoka
Affiliation: Carnegie Mellon University
Country: USA
Personal Website: Yoky Matsuoka
Research Group Website: Neurobotics Laboratory

Bibliography: Yoky Matsuoka, "Neurobotics for Women Recruitment and Retention", Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, Vol. 24, No. 5, pp.585-587, 2006.

Author: Lynne E. Parker
Affiliation: University of Tennessee
Country: USA
Personal Website: Lynne E. Parker
Research Group Website: Distributed Intelligence Laboratory

Bibliography: Lynne E. Parker, "Why Autonomous Robotics and Artificial Intelligence? One Researcher's Perspective", Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, Vol. 24, No. 5, pp.582-584, 2006.

Author: Julie A. Adams
Affiliation: Vanderbilt University
Country: USA
Personal Website: Julie A. Adams
Research Group Website: Human-Machine Teaming laboratory

Bibliography: Julie A. Adams, "Supporting multiple robot systems", Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, Vol. 24, No. 5, pp.579-581, 2006.

Author: Maja J Matarić
Affiliation: University of Southern California
Country: USA
Personal Website: Maja J Matarić
Research Group Website: Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems (CRES)

Bibliography: Adriana Tapus and Maja J Matarić, "Toward Socially Assistive Robotics", Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, Vol. 24, No. 5, pp.576-578, 2006.