IPRE Kickoff Meeting

Bryn Mawr CollegeDoug Blank and Deepak Kumar

Status Report

IPRE BMC Status Report

• BMC Activities• Software Development• Community Development

Status Report: BMC Activities

• Cost sharing, student summer research

• BMC Foundation Grants looking to leverage IPRE investments

• IPRE BMC Laboratory and Office space

• BMC IPRE Research Fellows program

• Robots and… Lauren Bacall?

Student Summer Research

IPRE Facilities at BMC

IPRE Research “Fellow”

Robots and… Lauren Bacall

Lauren Bacall and Blythe Danner

…and friends

Status Report: Software Development

• CVS Repository• Myro-developers Mailing List• Myro prototype controlling

simulator and Scribbler• Myro User’s Guide• Blog

blog.roboteducation.org

Status Report: Community Development

• AAAI 2007 Spring Symposium co-organizer, presentation; IPRE possible sponsor

• SIGCSE 2007 Workshop Proposal; IPRE possible sponsor

• ACM Communications Viewpoint Article• Alternative CS Pathway Initiative• IPRE Associates and Advisors Proposal• Nifty Robot Assignments, SIGCSE 2008• E-puck Discussions with Mondada

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