2012   June George J. Pappas will be an invited speaker at the 22nd International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) in Sao Paolo, Brazil. More June George J. Pappas will be an invited speaker at the 4th IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems (ADHS) in Eindhoven, Netherlands. More.     2011   December George J. Pappas will be a semi-plenary speaker at the 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference. More June Wireless control networks wins Honeywell's OneWireless Competition in Phoenix, AZ. More. May Paper on wireless manipulation of single cells is a finalist for the Best Manipulation Paper award at the 2011 IEEE ICRA at Shanghai, China. More. April George J. Pappas will be a plenary speaker at CPSWEEK 2011. More.     2010   December George J. Pappas Receives Ruberti Young Researcher Prize May George J. Pappas will be a semi-plenary speaker at the 22nd Chinese Control and Decision Conference (CCDC). More.     2009   December George S. Axelby Award     2008   November Elected IEEE Fellow   Nokia lecture @ Berkeley July Kathimerini article on ISER 2008 on cover page (in greek). June Philadelphia Inquirer article on getting robots to act more naturally.   RSS 2008 workshop May Robotics Trends Insights article on MAST project. April CNET article on bio-inspired cooperation of multiple robots.   Daily Pennsylvanian article on two major research grants.   CPSWEEK 2008 March ONR MURI award on heterogeneous unmanned network teams. February GRASP leads $22M center on autonomous micro-systems (MAST).     2007   February Daily Pennsylvanian article on MSE in Robotics.     2006   August Philadelphia Inquirer article on fighting fire with robots.   New MSE in Robotics   Robotics 2006 at Penn     2005   October Matisse is released August Workshop on Swarming June Workshop on Medical Devices April Student Workshop on Nonlinear and Hybrid Systems March Daily Pennsylvanian article on multi-university swarming project.   Penn leads MIT, Berkeley, Santa Barbara, and Yale to MURI award!     2004   November Penn Engineering News article on Talent Takes Wing. June Hakan Yazarel is a finalist for the best student paper award at ACC 2004 May NSF Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering (PECASE)   Daily Pennsylvanian article on PECASE award.   National Science Foundation press relase on 2002 PECASE award.   White House press release on 2002 PECASE award.   University of Pennsylavnia press release on 2002 PECASE award. April NSF press release on our NSF ITR project with Caltech and Minnesota.   Wired News article on our NSF ITR project with Caltech and Minnesota. March HSCC 2004 at Penn     2001   August University of Pennsylvania press release on NSF ITR project.     2000   August University of Pennsylvania press release on DARPA MoBIES project. June SIAM News article on the future of air traffic control.