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QoLT Center Events Calendar
June 30 - July 1, 2009 - Pittsburgh PA
International Symposium on Quality of Life Technology: Intelligent Systems for Better Living Technologies to support quality of life and to maintain social and productive activities of every person are most demanded for the sustainability of the society. Focusing technology on various applications of robot services and intelligent sensing systems to prepare for demographic change and support quality of life is timely and of interest for scientists, engineers and society. In this conference, the leading researchers in the fields will exchange their scopes, activities and most recent developments and open discussion to the participants.
News Announcements
September 3, 2008 QoLT Summer'08 Newsletter: Welcome to our first newsletter! [more]
August 27, 2008 Fall '08 QoLiTY Undergraduate Research Program Seeks Applications: Fall '08 QoLiTY Undergraduate Research Program Seeks Applications [Apply now!]
August 27, 2008 James Kuffner Featured in "NextWorld" Series on Discovery Channel: Episodes air August 13 and August 27 at 8:00 pm [read story]
July 23, 2008 Kanade Wins Longuet-Higgin Prize: Schneiderman and Kanade Win Longuet-Higgins Prize for Seminal Paper on Face Detection Technology [read story]
May 18, 2007 QoLT in the news: CNET has a cutting edge story about CMU and its Robotics Institute, including a mention about QoLT. [read story]
April 1, 2007 Takeo Kanade IEEE award: Takeo Kanade has received the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society's Pioneer Award in recognition of outstanding contributions to the fields of computer vision, manipulation, autonomous mobile robots and medical robotics. [IEEE Robotics and Automation Society]
July 16, 2006 Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh Awarded NSF Grant: Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh Receive $15 Million from NSF To Establish A Center Focused on Improving Americans Quality of Life [see press release]