From: torrance@ai.mit.edu (Mark Torrance)
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 93 10:08:34 EDT
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To: abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: SIPB Computer Tours
References: <9308170401.AA27762@steve-dallas.MIT.EDU>


I would be happy to give a talk and demo as short as 10 minutes or as
long as 20 minutes.  I believe I will be able to demonstrate a working
mobile robot for each group, as well as showing other robots and
explaining the design philosophy of the lab.

If there is more time, I'm happy to talk some about other parts of the
AI lab, to put the mobot lab into context, before I go into detail
about the mobots.  I can borrow some of Lukas Reucker's transparencies
for that part of the presentation, which we could hold in the 8th
floor playroom.  That would be appropriate if there was as much as
half an hour for each group to see the AI Lab/Mobot lab.  I'm equally
happy not to try to cover that ground if time is shorter.

My best guess is that you should plan on 15 minute demos+questions
with 5 minutes between to move within the building, and that should
leave 15 minutes at the end of the hour to get to the next campus
site.  It's also my guess that, like previous years, the tour will get
behind schedule.

If you have already coordinated times with the CAM and CM-5 people,
that's fine, but if not I would be happy to make up a schedule (a
"program") for the times of the parts of the tour that are in our
building.  I'm also happy to chaparone a group around to the different
stops within our building, if there isn't another person to do that.

It would be helpful if you could tell me soon whether each of the
three big groups will be split for the AI/LCS part of the tour, or if
they will remain whole.  That is, will I be giving the Mobot Lab talk
3 times, 6 times or 9 times?

--Mark