Peter Stone

RoboCup 2010: Austin Team shines in International Competition

June 29, 2010

Peter Stone's UT Austin Villa RoboCup team won third place in an international robotic soccer competition in Singapore. The team placed third out of 24 teams in the RoboCup standard platform league, which concentrates on writing software to control Nao mini-humaniod robots. The team also finished 2nd place in the challenge events which tested passing and dribbling skills as well as a demonstration of scientific advances. Earlier this spring, the team won the US Open for the second year in a row. ...

Tags: Peter Stone, RoboCup

Robots Play Winning Soccer

July 3, 2009

Texas Computer Science students are programming robots to play soccer... and winning. Current robots are only 2-feet high, but the goal is to develop robotic players large and skillful enough to beat a real-live World Cup team by 2050. Students from Texas Tech (TT) and The University of Texas at Austin (UT) use C++ to program robots to play without human interaction during the games. The robots play as a team and make individual decisions. ...

Tags: AIBO, Artificial Intelligence, Faculty, Innovation Series, Nao, Peter Stone, Research, robot

Computer Scientist Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

April 8, 2008

AUSTIN, Texas — Peter Stone, associate professor of computer sciences at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship for his work on teams of mobile robots. ...

Tags: AI, artifical intelligence, Awards & Honors, DARPA, Faculty, Guggenheim Fellowship, Peter Stone, technology, Urban Challenge

Peter Stone named winner of the Tech Innovations Award by the Austin Business Journal

November 30, 2007

Peter Stone, Associate Professor of Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin, was named one of eight winners of the Tech Innovations Award by the Austin Business Journal. ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, Faculty, Peter Stone

The 2007 Visions of Computing Lecture Series, November 5, 2007

November 5, 2007

The UT Department of Computer Sciences held the annual Visions Lecture, the latest in a series of lectures by CS faculty who have been recognized by their community for notable achievements in research, teaching or service. ...

Tags: Events, Fred Chang, Peter Stone, Visions of Computing Lecture Series

2007 Major Department Awards and Recognition

August 29, 2007

UTCS is pleased to note a number of recent, significant awards and honors. The department is deeply honored by the peer and public recognition of our work. ...

Self-Driving SUV Advances to DARPA Urban Challenge Semifinals

August 9, 2007

Marvin, a self-driving Isuzu SUV programmed by University of Texas at Austin computer scientists and members of Austin Robot Technology (ART), passed a recent driving test and will advance to the semifinals of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) 2007 Urban Challenge race. ...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Awards & Honors, Marvin, Peter Stone, Press Release, Research

UTCS Professor Peter Stone Received the 2007 IJCAI Computers and Thought Award

January 18, 2007

Dr. Peter Stone, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin, received the 2007 Computers and Thought Award from the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). ...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Awards & Honors, Peter Stone, Research

UTCS Awards and Honors for Spring 2004

July 30, 2004

UTCS recognizes faculty and graduate students who earned awards in honors in 2004. ...

Tags: Austin Villa, Awards & Honors, Ben Kuipers, Dan Machold, David Zuckerman, E. Allen Emerson, Faculty, Graduate Students, Greg Johnson, Inderjit Dhillon, James C. Browne, Jayadev Misra, Peter Stone, Seth Pettie, Simon Lam, Stephen Keckler

UT Austin Villa takes their Soccer Robots to Europe

July 12, 2004

After a successful RoboCup US Open 2004, the UT Austin Villa took their team to RoboCup 2004. ...

Tags: artifical intelligence, Austin Villa, Peter Stone, Press Release, RoboCup

University of Texas at Austin Team Finishes First in Coached Simulation League at International Robotic Championship

July 12, 2003

Dr. Peter Stone, assistant professor of computer sciences, and his student team won first place in a computer-simulated soccer competition at RoboCup 2003 in Italy. ...

Tags: AIBO, Artificial Intelligence, Awards & Honors, Faculty, Graduate Students, Peter Stone, RoboCup

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