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  • Associate Editor, MIT Press series on Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents. Please contact me for information about this series.
  • International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09) Program Committee Member
  • Co-organizer of the Advanced Life Support Systems Control session at the 2009 International Conference on Environmental Systems
  • Member, External Review Panel for the Office of Naval Research Code 34 Discovery and Invention Program, 2009
  • International Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Space (IWPSS-09) Organizing and Program Committee Member
  • National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-08) Program Committee Member for special track on Integrated Intelligent Capabilities
  • Special Awards Judge, 2008 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
  • Chair, External Review Panel for Naval Research Laboratory's Information Technology Program, 2007
  • PhD thesis committee member for Joseph Modayil, University of Texas Austin, Computer Science Department. Ben Kuipers committee chair.
  • Senior Program Committee Member, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2007
  • National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07) Program Committee Member for special track on Integrated Intelligent Capabilities
  • Special Awards Judge, 2007 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
  • Co-chair, 2006 AAAI Fall Symposium on Spacecraft Autonomy . For more information go here.
  • Panelist, AIAA Space 2005 Panel on New Frontiers in Human and Robotic Exploration Talk title: Implications of Robotic Capabilities for Human Space Exploration
  • Invited lecture in the Vanderbilt University Spring 2004 EECS Lecture Series.
  • Co-chair, AAAI 2003 Spring Symposium on Human Interaction with Autonomous Systems in Complex Environments.
  • Tutorial at IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (with Liam Pedersen, NASA Ames): Worlds to Explore: An Introduction to Current Capabilities and Key Challenges in Space Robotics .
  • Invited talk at Texas Tech University: Using Machine Learning to Control Coupled, Dynamical Life Support Systems .
  • Opponent, PhD thesis at Linkoping University, Linkoping Sweden. Here is my opponent talk . I gave a second talk on adjustable autonomy. And a third talk on space robotics, which included videos of Robonaut, EVA Robotic Assistant, and Skyworker.
  • Invited speaker, RIACS Workshop on the Verification and Validation of Autonomous and Adaptive Systems , Pacific Grove California, Distributed, Adaptive Control of Advanced Life Support Systems .
  • Invited speaker, International Seminar on Informatics, Tampico Mexico, Intelligent Robots for Space Applications.
  • Invited speaker, 2000 National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Robots: Successes and Challenges.
  • Tutorial, 2000 Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (with Greg Dorais, NASA Ames Research Center), Designing Human Centered Autonomous Agents.
  • Co-editor, Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Robots, a AAAI/MIT Press book.
  • Co-editor, special issue of the Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence (Volume 9, Number 1-2) devoted to robot architectures.
  • Organizing Committee, IJCAI-99 Workshop on Robot Action Planning .
  • Co-chair, AAAI 1998 Spring Symposium on Integrating Robotic Research: Taking the Next Leap .
  • Organizer, AAAI 1996 Mobile Robot Competition. Picture of me with other organizers and Alan Alda at the 1996 AAAI Robot Competition.