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Using Vision to Guide an Hors d’Oeuvres Serving Robot

This paper describes the vision system used on the robot that took first place in both the technical and popular categories of the 1998 American Association of Artificial Intelligence Hors d’Oeuvres Anyone? competition. The robot used visual input to execute multiple tasks: 1) locate people to serve, 2) determine if someone was reaching for food from the robot’s tray, 3) determine if the person...

A Symmetry Theorem on a Modified Jeu De Taquin

For their bijective proof of the hook-length formula for the number of standard tableaux of a fixed shape Novelli, Pak and Stoyanovskii [2] define a modified jeu de taquin which transforms an arbitrary filling of the Ferrers diagram with 1, 2, . . . , n (tabloid) into a standard tableau. Their definition relies on a total order of the cells in the Ferrers diagram induced by a special standard t...

Jeu-de-Joule: a conceptual earthly energy model

Present fuel prices trigger a renewed interest in the energy debate. The paper extends the debate beyond the present boundaries with a descriptive model that maps two parallel processes on earth: (1) the stocks & flows of energy, developing between the earth’s main energy source: the sun, and its main energy sink: outer space, and (2) the accumulation of a collective memory on earth in the form...