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From: gary%desi@UCSD.EDU (Gary Cottrell)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.digest
Subject: Re: Need info on new CMU sidewalk rover
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Date: 3 May 88 18:48:55 GMT
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In article <8804301216.AA23619@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> jbn@GLACIER.STANFORD.EDU
(John B. Nagle) writes:
>
>      I hear that CMU has a new autonomous vehicle, a sidewalk rover
>like the Terregator, but improved.  Who is doing the work, and are there
>any papers yet?
>
>					John Nagle

I don't know who is working on it, but I heard from a usually reliable
source that Dean Pomerleau (grad student at CMU, inventor of meta-connection
networks) has a 3-layer back-prop network driving the thing better than the
CMU vision group's system. Anyone care to confirm or deny this information?

gary cottrell				
Computer Science and Engineering C-014
UCSD, 
La Jolla, Ca. 92093
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