Planetary Rover Demonstration Will Be Part of Symposium at U of M Feb. 27
For release: Feb. 27, 2003
For press information, contact Gabrielle Maxey

A California aerospace executive will demonstrate a prototype planetary rover today at The University of Memphis as part of the Symposium on the Dynamics of Perception and Cognition at The U of M. The talk and demonstration will begin at 4:15 p.m. in Dunn Hall Room 351. The symposium runs Feb. 27-March 1.

David Sanchez of California Aerospace Enterprises Inc. will demonstrate the rover.

"We're creating a control mechanism based on brain studies," said symposium organizer Robert Kozma. "Networks of neurons are the basis of the understanding and construction of biologically-inspired computing systems for sensing, control and navigation."

Kozma is an associate professor of computer science at The U of M and director of the Institute for Intelligent Systems Computational Neurodynamics Laboratory, which will become a part of the FedEx Technology Institute when it opens this fall.

The symposium is sponsored by the Institute for Intelligent Systems, the National Aeronautics and Space Agency and the National Science Foundation.

For more information, contact Kozma at 678-2497 or rkozma@memphis.edu

More details on the symposium are available at http://cnd.memphis.edu/symposium2003.htm.

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