by Jane Grimson, Trinity College. Representative on ERCIM’s Board of Directors

• ERCIM welcomes Trinity College by Jane Grimson, Pádraig Cunningham and Carol O’Sullivan
• Developing the European Research Area by Gerard van Oortmerssen
• ERCIM’s Latin American Action by Marie-Christine Imbert

• Trends in Robotics by Liliane Peters
• International Workshops on Human Centered Robotics by Georges Giralt
• European Robotics Research Network - EURON by Henrik I. Christensen
• Evolutionary Robotics: Developing Robots through Artificial Evolution by Stefano Nolfi and Dario Floreano
• Map Building and Robot Localization by Patrick Rives and Alessandro Corrêa-Victorino
• Plan-Based Control of Autonomous Robots by Joachim Hertzberg and Frank Schönherr
• Large Adaptive Critics and Mobile Robotics by Rudolf Jaksa and Peter Sincák
• Modelling Non-linear Phenomena in Joints of Robots with Neural Networks by Jozef Suchy
• High Performance Haptic and Teleoperative Interfaces by Ron Daniel
• JERRY: An Interactive Planning Tool for Space Robotics by Amedeo Cesta, Enrico Giunchiglia, Paola Riccucci, Paolo Traverso
• Mobile Robots with Dual Dynamics by Ansgar Bredenfeld, Herbert Jaeger and Thomas Christaller
• Self-reconfigurable Modular Robots by Martin Nilsson
• A Hybrid Model-Based Vision System for Autonomous Navigation of a Sewer Inspection Robot by Marina Kolesnik and Gregory Baratoff
• Motion Planning for Autonomous Car-like Vehicles by Thierry Fraichard
• TOURBOT - Interactive Museum Tele-presence through Robotic Avatars by Panos E. Trahanias
• ServiceBots - Mobile Robots in Cooperative Environments by Liliane Peters, Michael Pauly and Klaus Beck
• AI-based modelling and optimisation of coupled production processes by Zsolt János Viharos and László Monostori
• Environmental and Life Cycle Issues in Agent-based Manufacturing by Elizabeth Ilie Zudor and László Monostori
• Robotics in Surgery by Eve Coste-Manière
• The Design of the MIPS Micro-Robot for Endoscopy Applications by Jean-Pierre Merlet
• Stability Issues in the Control of Anthropomorphic Biped Robots by Bernard Espiau

• Rigid Body Dynamics Algorithm for Parallel Computers by Roy Featherstone
• doFSR - Optical High-speed Packet Switched Networking by Kari Seppänen, Ulf Betlehem, Risto Mutanen, and Juha Zidbeck
• E-Grid - Toward the Creation of a European Grid Community by Domenico Laforenza
• Fast Graph Clustering Algorithm by Flow Simulation by Henk Nieland
• Fuzzy Neural Networks for Geomagnetic Storm Prediction by Gabriela Andrejková, Henrich Tóth and Karel Kudela

• Software Reuse in GIS Domain by Jyrki Haajanen, Robin Berglund, Ville Kotovirta, and Markus Laakso
• TOWER: Theatre of Work Enabling Relationships by Wolfgang Prinz and Uta Pankoke-Babatz
• Vision System for a Light-tube Production Line by Tamás Lédeczi and György Ákos
• New Version of BSCW Groupware System Released by Wolfgang Appelt
• Firmitas - Structural Monitoring of Ancient Buildings by Maurizio Brocato
  

Reports

• INRIA led Worldwide Calculation for Biggest Public-key Cryptography Crack by Catherine Girard
• WWW9 attracted over 1400 Participants to Amsterdam by Ivan Herman
• 6th ERCIM Environmental Modelling Workshop by Brian Read
• Interactive Learning Environments for Children by Constantine Stephanidis

Announcements

• Scalable Coherent Interface Summer School, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, 2-4 October 2000
• ECAL 2001 - 6th European Conference on Artificial Life, Prague, Czech Republic,
  10-14 September 2001
• EMMCVPR 2001 - Third International Workshop on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Sophia Antipolis, France, 3-5 September 2001
• ACM SIGCOMM 2000, Stockholm, 28 August - 1 September 2000
• SSSC’01 - 1st IFAC Symposium on System Structure and Control, Prague, 27-31 August 2001
• 6th ERCIM Workshop on ‘User Interfaces for All’ - Special Theme: ‘Information Society for All’, Florence, Italy, 25-26 October 2000
• ESSIR’2000 - European Summer School in Information Retrieval, Varenna, Italy, 11-15 September 2000
  
• International Conference on Shape Modelling and Applications, Genova, Italy, 7-11 May 2001

• Ulf Lindqvist from VTT has been awarded with the Graphic Arts Developer’s prize..
• The United Kingdom is replacing its pioneering synchrotron source..
• SZTAKI established a new computer laboratory..
• CNR-GMD Workshop..
• SZTAKI was recognised as a Centre-of-Excellence..
• GMD: Worldwide the first CAVE-like installation with olfactoric display..