http://mcrcim.mcgill.edu CIM STUDENTS WIN PRECARN FUNDING daily 1 2006-03-04T16:32:16Z http://mcrcim.mcgill.edu/cim-reparti-member-professor-tal-arbel-featured-bio-engineering-is-booming-fall-2011 CIM-REPARTI member Professor Tal Arbel and members of her group at CIM are featured in the Faculty of Engineering Dean's Newsletter Fall 2011. Bioengineering is booming at McGill! Professor Arbel's Probabilistic Vision Group works with Montreal Neurological Institute researcher Louis Collins to find ways to match ultrasound images acquired during brain operations to the pre-op MRI, thus providing the surgeon with updated MRI pictures to use for guidance — pictures that have been corrected for the shift. Her lab is also collaborating with Collins and Dr. Doug Arnold, a neurologist, to develop new imaging techniques for multiple sclerosis, a degenerative disease that attacks and leaves lesions in the brain, predominantly in the white matter. No publisher manager 2012-02-02T01:45:41Z CIM News http://mcrcim.mcgill.edu/Members/manager/cim-reparti-member-professor-tal-arbel-featured-in-faculty-of-engineering-newsletter-september-2011-new-bioengineering-program Preparing for the Bioengineering Revolution! Professor Tal Arbel, accompanied by her PhD student Nagesh Subbana, are featured in the inaugural Engineering eBulletin, September 2011 edition. This article highlights some of the collaborative work in image-guided neurosurgery that Professor Arbel and her group do with researchers and neurosurgeons at the Montreal Neurological Institute. No publisher manager 2011-10-03T17:15:30Z CIM News http://mcrcim.mcgill.edu/Members/manager/cim-reparti-phd-graduate-carmen-au-featured-in-new-scientist-september-2011-find-your-way-around-virtual-mirrors CIM-REPARTI PhD graduate Carmen Au's work, under the supervision of Professor Jim Clark, was featured in New Scientist recently -- Find your way around in a world of virtual mirrors 9 September 2011 No publisher manager 2011-09-30T20:30:02Z CIM News http://mcrcim.mcgill.edu/Members/manager/cim-reparti-members-p-giguere-professor-gregory-dudek-and-members-of-the-mrl-featured-in-canal-savoir-june-2011 Aqua robot and Mobile Robotics Laboratory featured on Canal Savoir No publisher manager 2011-09-30T18:03:34Z CIM News http://mcrcim.mcgill.edu/Members/manager/congratulations-to-cim-and-reparti-member-professor-joelle-pineau-featured-in-headway-magazine-summer-2011 Congratulations to Prof. Joelle Pineau, who is both a CIM and REPARTI member! Dr. Pineau's work the Smartwheeler, a smart wheel chair that is designed to help people with disabilities get around, is featured in the Summer 2011 edition of McGill Headway magazine. No publisher manager 2011-09-30T17:57:14Z CIM News http://mcrcim.mcgill.edu/Members/manager/cim-welcomes-new-associate-member-professor-aditya-mahajan CIM is extremely pleased to announce the addition of Prof. Aditya Mahajan as Associate Member of our Centre. No publisher manager 2011-01-18T14:07:45Z CIM News http://mcrcim.mcgill.edu/Members/manager/cim-researcher-yon-visell-of-the-sre-group-wins-best-paper-award-at-ieee-haptics-in-march-2010 Congratulations are in order for Yon Visell, PhD candidate under the supervison of Prof. Jeremy Cooperstock, Director of the Shared Reality group of CIM, who received a Best Paper Award for his paper entitled Design of a Vibrotactile Display via a Rigid Surface (Yon Visell, Jeremy R. Cooperstock ) No publisher manager 2011-01-27T14:35:26Z CIM News http://mcrcim.mcgill.edu/Members/manager/cim-mrl-robotic-drone-featured-in-ieee-spectrum Our own MRL group has developed a robotic drone that flies itself by looking at landscape below. Featured in IEEE Spectrum, December 12, 2010. No publisher manager 2011-01-08T19:04:51Z CIM News http://mcrcim.mcgill.edu/Members/manager/cim-mrl-group-with-aqua-are-front-row-centre-at-the-g-20-summit-in-june-2010 What an achievement!! No publisher manager 2011-01-08T19:00:24Z CIM News http://mcrcim.mcgill.edu/Members/manager/cim-welcomes-new-member-professor-joelle-pineau We are most pleased to report that our colleague, Professor Joelle Pineau from the School of Computer Science, joined CIM as a full member in May 2009, after having been a CIM Associate member for four years. Joelle is also a member of Regroupment REPARTI. No publisher manager 2009-11-03T16:29:25Z CIM News http://mcrcim.mcgill.edu/Members/manager/cim-welcomes-new-associate-member-professor-paul-kry We were very pleased that Paul Kry, Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science, joined CIM as an Associate member this past year. No publisher manager 2009-10-26T22:39:29Z CIM News http://mcrcim.mcgill.edu/Members/manager/new-cim-associate-member-dr-renzo-cecere We are pleased to announce that Dr. Renzo Cecere has recently been accepted as a new Associate Member of CIM. No publisher manager 2009-10-25T21:37:56Z CIM News http://mcrcim.mcgill.edu/Members/manager/gazette-feb-20-09-teaching-the-world-to-sing-as-one-live-opera-in-cyberspace-with-cim-s-jeremy-cooperstock-1 TEACHING THE WORLD TO SING - AS ONE An ambitious experiment at McGill University is trying to bring live opera to cyberspace, through an unlikely pairing of engineers and classical singers. The idea is to simulate what it would be like if each were performing in different countries simultaneously over the Net for millions of spectators. The World Opera Project, the brainchild of Norwegian historian and opera aficionado Niels Lund, who was also on hand for the experiment Wednesday, hopes to be able to broadcast such an online opera by 2012. For the engineers, the project is about serving the artists' technological needs. But opera's jump into 21st century technology would also provide lessons for less challenging cyber-endeavours, improving everything from video conferencing to telesurgery, said Jeremy Cooperstock, an engineer with McGill's Centre for Intelligent Machines. No publisher manager 2009-03-04T16:56:23Z CIM News http://mcrcim.mcgill.edu/Members/manager/gazette-feb-20-09-teaching-the-world-to-sing-as-one-live-opera-in-cyberspace-with-cim-s-jeremy-cooperstock SURVIVAL OF THE MACHINES: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND SINGULARITY In the movie The Terminator, set in the not-too-distant future, computers become smart enough to break free of the tyranny of their human masters. Of course, the computers round up and kill the humans. It doesn't look like a lot of fun in the movie. A few researchers at McGill's Centre for Intelligent Machines are working toward a moment that feels inspired by science fiction: a tipping point when smart computers themselves become capable of creating smarter computers, at a speed and in a direction we cannot predict. That moment is the Singularity. Among the scientists who see the Singularity as, at least, plausible is Benoit Boulet, a robotics researcher and director of the McGill Centre for Intelligent Machines. Boulet's colleague at CIM, Jeremy Cooperstock, teaches AI at McGill. He has a more guarded view of the Singularity than does Boulet, but, as he explains, "The potential for one of these areas to do harm is such that we should look at these doomsday scenarios and consider them." No publisher manager 2009-03-04T16:50:24Z CIM News http://mcrcim.mcgill.edu/Members/manager/cim-s-haptics-lab-featured-in-new-scientist-oct-25-08 I am thrilled to announce that some of the work done by Vincent Levesque and members of our Haptics Laboratory, under the direction of Professor Vincent Hayward, is featured in the New Scientist Print Edition, 25 October 2008. The article features joint work being done by our Haptics group and colleagues at UdeM on tactile graphics for the blind. The article is entitled: "Pinching display lets you feel the data", and is based on a paper presented at ASSETS 2008. No publisher manager 2008-11-05T13:00:46Z CIM News