Call for Participation
This is a call for participation for "Veni Vidi Vici 2009", the fourth RobotCub Summer School. Those who would like to participate should email their name, affiliation, and (if you are not already a RobotCub participant) a CV to: vvv09-admin@robotcub.org no later than: May 6th, 2009 Places are limited. Your application will be acknowledged within two business days, and notification of placement will be made on May 7th, 2009. If placed, you will be expected to formally register and pay by May 16th. The school website is available at: http://www.robotcub.org/summerschool Best regards, The VVV 2009 team ---------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ---------------------------------------------------------- VVV 2009, the Fourth RobotCub Summer School Aim: The RobotCub Summer School, "Veni Vidi Vici", serves to consolidate and disseminate skills in software engineering for humanoid robots. Our goal is to foster long-lived academic collaboration on robot software across the boundaries and lifetimes of individual projects. The school is hosted by the RobotCub consortium, a collection of institutions working towards an open platform for humanoid research. The RobotCub summer school is a peer-to-peer event; there are no lectures, and no strict division of instructors and students. All participants are expected to be competent C/C++ programmers with an interest in working with others (and an agenda of their own). The school schedule will be organized flexibly around informal tutorials from participants on modules they are working on or interested in. Format: The school is structured as a series of hands-on practical laboratory sessions, and informal talks. There will be real robots to work with (including at least two full humanoids). We will have a dedicated local network, with wireless. Participants are expected to bring their own laptop. Topics: Motor control, robot design, image processing, communication, software engineering, machine learning. Location: This year the school will be hosted at the Mediaterraneo Foundation in Sestri Levante, Liguria, Italy. See the school website for venue details. Comments on this venue from last year - Vincent: "Nice and creative people"+"Dedicated organizers"+ "Perfect location"+"Wonderful robot and software" = VVV08. Thanks for this well balanced summer school. Giacomo: Great experience! I really enjoyed accessing such advanced robots, and working together with great guys. The location was beautiful too. Alexis: Such an amazing time with such wonderful people! Interesting discussions, helpful and giving people and an awesome location. :) Thanks everyone! It was a good time living deeply and intensively, just what I needed! I hope to see you again soon. Pura vida! (for more, see school website) Timetable: We begin the school in the morning of Monday, July 20 2009, and finish in the evening of Wednesday, July 29 2009 (with people leaving during Thursday, July 30 2009). Sunday the 26th will be free. Cost: The summer school registration fee is 1250 euro. This fee includes the school itself, food, and accommodation. Rooms are shared between two people. A single room is 250 euro extra (and subject to availability). About RobotCub: RobotCub is a project to study cognition through robotics. Along the way, we are creating a completely open design for a humanoid robot - open hardware, open software, open mind. Our hardware designs and software are free and open source. The RobotCub consortium is composed of 16 partners, 11 from Europe, 3 from Japan and 2 from the USA. The coordinator is the LIRA-Lab at the University of Genoa, Italy