Hall of Fame of the Visual and Autonomous Exploration Systems Research Laboratory:
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- July 2008
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Dr. Wolfgang Fink and the Visual and Autonomous Exploration Systems Research Laboratory are featured by Planetary Society in an interview on "Wall-E and the Future of Robots in Space", discussing future space exploration.
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Dr. Wolfgang Fink and the Visual and Autonomous Exploration Systems Research Laboratory are featured in Tech World in an article "Curious robots could search for intelligent life on distant planets", discussing future space exploration.
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Dr. Wolfgang Fink and the Visual and Autonomous Exploration Systems Research Laboratory are featured on SPACE.COM in an article on "The Future of Space Robots" by Jeremy Hsu, discussing "Tier-Scalable Reconnaissance" and Disney/Pixar's WALL-E with respect to future space exploration.
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Dr. Wolfgang Fink and the Visual and Autonomous Exploration Systems Research Laboratory are featured in Reel Science - Chemical & Engineering News in a review about Disney/Pixar's WALL-E by Rachel Petkewich.
- June 2008
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Dr. Wolfgang Fink and the Visual and Autonomous Exploration Systems Research Laboratory are featured in the Investor's Business Daily on the topic of "NASA Gives Pixar's Wall-E A Big Mission" by Patrick Seitz. WALL-E is the center figure of the computer animated science fiction movie Wall-E produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.
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Dr. Wolfgang Fink and Mark A. Tarbell of the Visual and Autonomous Exploration Systems Research Laboratory at Caltech
invited to the Wall-E World Premiere Red Carpet Event on June 21, 2008 at the Greek Theatre, Griffith Park, Los Angeles.
- April 2008
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Dr. Wolfgang Fink named Session Chair and Peer Reviewer for the 5th Astrobiology Science Conference (AbSciCon), Santa Clara, California, 2008, Approaches and Technologies to Detect Life on Mars (S3)
- February 2008
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3D Computer-automated Threshold Amsler Grid Test (3D-CTAG), devised by Dr. Wolfgang Fink and Dr. Alfredo Sadun, featured in the February 2008 issue of the Journal
Klinische Monatsblätter für Augenheilkunde in the article "Computertest verbessert frühe Detektion" by Britta Brudermanns (full reference: Klin Monatsbl Augenheilkde 2008; 225: 119).
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Dr. Wolfgang Fink together with Dr. Robert Grubbs, Nobel Laureate and Atkins Professor of Chemistry at Caltech, and Dr. Julia Kornfield, Professor of Chemical Engineering at Caltech, to give Expert Panel Presentation at the Executive Forum at Caltech on the topic:
"To See or Not to See...
Detection, Diagnosis, and Remedies for Eye Disorders"
- April 2007
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Dr. Wolfgang Fink named Session Chair and Peer Reviewer for SPIE Defense & Security Symposium, Orlando, Florida, 2007, MICRO (MEMS) AND NANOTECHNOLOGIES FOR SPACE APPLICATIONS II (DS17)
- March 2007
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Dr. Wolfgang Fink named Program Committee Member and Peer Reviewer for 22nd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Seoul, Korea, 2007, Computer Applications in Health Care track
- 24 August 2006
- Dr. Wolfgang Fink is awarded NASA Tech Brief Award on: "Spectral retrieval and degeneracy analysis by means of Evolutionary Computational Methods (ECM)"
- 14 April 2006
- Dr. Wolfgang Fink is awarded NASA Tech Brief Award on: "Parallel, Global, and Pareto Optimization of Low-Thrust Trajectories with the Primer Vector Theory"
- 26 January 2006
- Dr. Wolfgang Fink is awarded NASA Tech Brief Award on: "Stochastic Evolutionary Algorithms (Simulated Annealing) for Deployment Path Planning and Optimization for Joint-based Robotic Limbs"
- 01 July 2004
- Dr. Wolfgang Fink is awarded NASA Tech Brief Award on: "Field-Deployable Integrated Air-Ground Multi-Agent Autonomous Remote Planetary Surface Exploration"
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Contact Information
Wolfgang Fink, Ph. D.
Senior Researcher at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Visiting Research Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at University of Southern California (USC)
Visiting Research Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at University of Southern California (USC)
Visiting Associate in Physics at California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Mailing Address:
California Institute of Technology
Visual and Autonomous Exploration Systems Research Laboratory
15 Keith Spalding (corner of E. California Blvd & S. Wilson Ave)
Mail Code 103-33
Pasadena, CA 91125
USA
Phone: 1-626-395-4587
Fax: 1-626-395-4587
E-mail: wfink@autonomy.caltech.edu.
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