Two New Research Groups Formed
September 1999
JRI is pleased to announce that two new research groups have recently been added to those currently carrying out research at JRI. The two research groups are the first two research groups headed by Research Mentors not directly affiliated with JRI, and have the potential to serve as models for future research groups at JRI.
The first research group is dedicated to the study of chaos as a predictor in recognition tasks. Recognition tasks are tasks in which a particular object, class of objects, etc. must be recognized and identified. This can be difficult because the object may appear in a distorted or rotated view, yet must still be identified. This research group is dedicated to the study of the application of chaos methods to object recognition. The Research Mentor is Shaheen M. Hoque, a scientist at Raytheon Systems Company . Shaheen may be reached for questions at shaheen@neta.com .
The second research group is dedicated to learning about realistic human motion. Currently, there is no standard method for measuring the quality of a motion. In order to determine whether or not a motion "seems realistic", it must be qualitatively evaluated. We seek to develop a method of measuring the quality of a motion that makes it realistic. The Research Mentor for this research group is Dr. Maja Mataric of the University of Southern California . She may be reached for questions at mataric@usc.edu .
Sanza Kazadi is serving as the JRI Research Mentor on both projects.
Acceptance of First Paper
January 1999
JRI's first paper, entitled "Conjugate Schema in Protein Folding and Protein Design" has been accepted for publication in the Australian journal Complexity International . This paper is JRI's first in what promises to be a long line of important scientific papers. Students who participated in this project are Henry Lin, Juri Ogita, Paul Hung, Victor Huang, and Daniel Lee. All students have taken a first important step in the development of their scientific careers. In publishing this work, these students have become one of a small group of scientists who are or are in the process of becoming experts in their fields.
