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Figure 10. Summer School attendees
participating in a hands-on minimally invasive
general surgery lab at CSTAR under the guidance
of a Surgical Fellow. (Photo by M.D. Naish.)

Figure 12. Participant showing his work to
Prof. Peter Corke during the Poster Session.

The RAS Technical Education Program consisted of a series of lectures
given by invited experts and leaders in
the field; a full day of hands-on laboratory activities involving both simulators and animals in the Surgical and
Simulation Laboratories at CSTAR;
the opportunity to view two live surgery cases: a robotics-assisted cardiac
surgery case using the da Vinci surgi-

cal system from Intuitive Surgical
Inc. and a laparoscopic abdominal
surgery case; and an industry forum,
which allowed the 56 invited attendees
to interact with representatives
from various companies in medical
robotics, imaging and related areas
(Figures 9 and 10).
The RAS Technical Education
Program on Robot Vision and Appli-

Figure 11. Dr. Rodrigo Verschae giving
the tutorial course "Strategies for Efficient
Object Detection."

Figure 13. Demonstration of the AMTC's
autonomous vehicle during the demo
session.

cations took place in Santiago, Chile,
3-7 December 2012. Robot vision
was chosen as the main topic due to
the large amount of Chilean researchers working in the field.
Over 80 students, professionals,
speakers, and organizers attended the
event, which included tutorials, plenary talks, a poster session, and live
demonstrations (Figures 11-13). The
program's student participants came
from Latin America, the United
States, Finland, Germany, Switzerland, Russia, Italy, France, Brazil,
Argentina, Ecuador, and Colombia.
More information, including on presentations, can be found at http://
www.amtc.cl/summerschool/index.
php (Figure 14).
New Technical Committees
At the 13 October 2012 RAS AdCom
meeting, three new technical committees (TCs) were approved. TCs
are charged with sponsoring workshops, tutorials, and special sessions
at conferences, organizing special
issues of RAM, transactions, and
other journals, and providing a focal
point for researchers interested in
collaborations in new and emerging
fields of research.
Joining the established committees
are the following.

2013 IEEE Fellows Class
Congratulations to the following RAS members who have been
elevated to to Fellow status.
* Rodney Brooks of Heartland Robotics, for contributions
to theory and practice of behavioral robotics and artificial
intelligence
* Martin Buehler of Vecna Technologies, for contributions to
design and control of legged robots
* Franois Chaumette of Inria Rennes-Bretagne-Atlantique, for
contributions to vision-based robot control
* Raja Chatila of ISIR-CNRS and UPMC, for contributions to
robot navigation and cognitive robotics
* Jonathan Connell of the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center,
for contributions to security and privacy in biometrics
* Clément Gosselin of Université Laval, for contributions to
parallel robotic mechanisms and to underactuated robotic
hands
* Karl Johansson of the Royal Institute of Technology, for
contributions to applications of hybrid and networked
systems
* Rolf Johansson of Lund University, for contributions to
system identification and adaptive control

* Yoram Koren of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, for
contributions to flexible automation and manufacturing
systems
* Kenneth Kreutz-Delgado of the University of California,
San Diego, for contributions to sparse signal recovery
algorithms and dictionary learning
* Yi Ma of Microsoft Research Asia, for contributions to
computer vision and pattern recognition
* Frank Park of Seoul National University, for contributions to
geometric methods in robot mechanics
* Weiming Shen of National Research Council Canada, for
contributions to agent-based collaboration technologies
and applications
* Jing Xiao of the University of North Carolina-Charlotte,
for contributions to robot compliant motion and haptic
interaction.
The grade of Fellow is conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors
to a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments
in any of the IEEE fields of interest. The total number of
individuals recognized with this honor each year does not
exceed one tenth of 1% of the total voting membership.

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