[fa.arpa-bboard] Conference Announcement / Call for Papers

arpa-bboard@ucbvax.ARPA (01/19/85)

From: William K. Erickson <WKE@SU-AI.ARPA>


                     Call For Papers

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                  SPACE STATION AUTOMATION

  to be held in conjunction with the International Conference on

         INTELLIGENT ROBOTS AND COMPUTER VISION II

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Part of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers' (SPIE)
1985 Cambridge Symposium on Optical and Electro-Optical Engineering


15-20 September 1985
Hyatt Regency Cambridge
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Chairman:  Wun C. Chiou, Sr., NASA/Ames Research Center

In the next decade an increasing amount of research will be
devoted to the applications of artificial intelligence and
robotics technology to space station automation.  The purpose
of the conference is to bring together researchers in the areas
of artificial intelligence, image science and robotics who are
working on various aspects of space station automation.  Papers
on the following and related topics as applied to this unique
microgravity, high vacuum, high radiation environment are invited.

Topics of interest include:

        * Space automation and tele-science
        * Image understanding and scene analysis
        * Machine/computer vision
        * Autonomous/self-organizing systems
        * Hardware architecture designs
        * Knowledge-based expert systems

If you are interested in participating in this conference, please
leave your name and address at the SPIE Registration Desk, or
contact:

        Cambridge 1985
        SPIE
        P.O. Box 10
        Bellingham  WA.

        telephone:  (206)676-3290


Abstract Due Date:    April 15, 1985
Manuscript Due Date:  August 19, 1985

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