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May 10 (Tuesday), 2011
Shanghai InternaƟonal ConvenƟon Center
(SHICC)
Organizer: Dr. Peter B. Luh, University of
ConnecƟcut, USA

Initiatives
This forum introduces the latest trends in
automaƟon, including life science, business and
soŌware, semiconductor, transportaƟon, and
control and opƟmizaƟon. Panelists are:

Although the event was not restricted
to girls, the prize-winning teams
ended up being exclusively all-girl
teams. The girls and their teachers
assured the organizers that we had,
in fact, interested the girls in considering careers in STEM. The girls
completed the surveys for their attitudes toward careers in STEM at the
beginning of the program and after
the games, and this data will be used
in a paper for the American Society
for Engineering Education Annual
Conference in 2011.
Two guest speakers gave their presentation in a conference room to
create an intimate setting, but the audio-
video was broadcasted to the entire
(hanger) space during the lunch break.
Carlo Menon from Simon Fraser University (www.ensc.sfu.ca/~cmenon/)
spoke about his group's effort to build
a wall-climbing hexapod robot using

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a gecko-inspired design. Then, Mahdi
Tavakoli from the University of Alberta
(people.seas.harvard.edu/~tavakoli/)
spoke about the latest developments in
surgical robotics and haptics research.
Both speeches were received with enthusiasm by the audience.
Deadline for RAS Local
Chapter Development Grants
The RAS MAB awards a limited number of Chapter Development Grants
to local RAS Chapters for professional development, educational outreach,
and other programs. Grant proposals
will be reviewed by MAB at their
meeting in Shanghai in May 2011 and
funds up to US$2,000 will be awarded
on a competitive basis. The deadline
for proposals is 30 April 2011. For
submission details, see http://www.ieeeras.org/chapters.

Magazine [1], the name of one of the
authors was misspelled. The correct
name of the author is Jonathan Bohren.
We apologize for the error.

Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MRA.2011.940895
Date of publication: 14 April 2011

IEEE ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION MAGAZINE

Mr. S. V. Subrahmanya, Senior Vice President,
Infosys
Dr. John Du, Director, China Science Lab, GM
China, China
Dr. Joseph Zhifeng Xie, Chief ExecuƟve Oﬃcer,
Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing
CorporaƟon (ASMC), China
Dr. Jian Chu, Chairman of the Board, Supcon,
Professor of InsƟtute of Cyber-Systems and
Control (CSC) and Vice-President, Zhejiang
University, China
hƩp://www.ieee-ras.org/news/show/id/276

Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MRA.2011.941108

n the article "The SMACH HighLevel Executive" of the "ROS Topics" column of the December 2010
issue of IEEE Robotics & Automation

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Dr. Tianwei Jing, Director of R&D, Nano
Measurements Division, Agilent Technologies,
Inc, USA

MARCH 2011

Reference
[1] J. Boren and S. Cousins, "The SMACH highlevel executive," IEEE Robot. Automat. Mag.,
vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 18-20, Dec. 2010.

http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~tavakoli/ http://www.ensc.sfu.ca/~cmenon/ http://www.ieee http://www.ras.org/chapters

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