Rapid Prototyping of Parallel Robot Vision Systems Using Virtual Reality and Systems Simulation

The University of Rochester is a small, private University established in 1850, originally as a Baptist-sponsored institution. During the early 20th century, the University grew significantly, in part due to the efforts of George Eastman, the founder of Eastman Kodak. During this period, the Medical School, the Institute of Optics, and the Eastman School of Music, all currently nationally known, were established. Today, the University is home to 4600 undergraduates and 2500 graduate students, and operates with a philosophy of providing the academic opportunities of a renowned research institution in an environment scaled to the individual. The Department of Computer Science at the University of Rochester offers an intense, researchoriented program leading to the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, with particular emphasis on the areas of computer vision and robotics, knowledge representation and natural language understanding, systems software for parallel computing, and the theory of computation. The focused research interests reflect our desire to achieve excellence in a core of important issues, rather than to try to cover all areas.