This is a call for participation for "Veni Vidi Vici 2010",
the fifth iCub Summer School. Those who would like to
participate should email their name, affiliation, and
(if you are not a member of an iCub project) a CV to:
vvv10-admin@icub.org
no later than:
   May 30th, 2010
Places are limited. Your application will be acknowledged
within two business days, and notification of placement
will be made on June 1st, 2010.  If placed, you will be
expected to register and pay by June 30th. The
school website is available at:
http://www.icub.org/summerschool
Best regards,
   The VVV 2010 team

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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VVV 2010, the Fifth iCub Summer School

Aim:
The iCub Summer School, "Veni Vidi Vici", serves to
consolidate and disseminate skills in software engineering
for humanoid robots. Our goal is to foster long-lived
academic collaboration on robot software across the
boundaries and lifetimes of individual projects.
The iCub summer school is a peer-to-peer event; there are
no lectures, and no strict division of instructors and
students. All participants are expected to be competent
C/C++ programmers with an interest in working
with others (and an agenda of their own). The school
schedule will be organized flexibly around informal
tutorials from participants on modules they are working on
or interested in.

Format:
The school is structured as a series of hands-on practical
laboratory sessions, and informal talks. There will be real
robots to work with (including at least two full humanoids).
We will have a dedicated local network, with wireless.
Participants are expected to bring their own laptop.

Topics:
Motor control, robot design, image processing,
communication, software engineering, machine learning.

Location:
This year the school will be hosted at the Mediaterraneo
Foundation in Sestri Levante, Liguria, Italy.  See the
school website for venue details.  Comments on this venue
from other years -

   Vincent: "Nice and creative people"+"Dedicated organizers"+
   "Perfect location"+"Wonderful robot and software" = VVV08.
   Thanks for this well balanced summer school.

   Giacomo: Great experience! I really enjoyed accessing such
   advanced robots, and working together with great guys.
   The location was beautiful too.

   Alexis: Such an amazing time with such wonderful people!
   Interesting discussions, helpful and giving people and an
   awesome location. :) Thanks everyone! It was a good time
   living deeply and intensively, just what I needed! I hope to
   see you again soon. Pura vida!

Timetable:
We begin the school in the morning of Monday, July 19 2010,
and finish in the evening of Wednesday, July 28 2009 (with
people leaving during Thursday, July 29 2009). Sunday the
25th will be a free day.

Cost:
The summer school registration fee is 1300 euro. This fee
includes the school itself, food, and accommodation. Rooms
are shared between two people. A single room is 300 euro
extra (and subject to availability).

Our sponsors:
This year, the school is sponsored by ITALK, a project to
develop artificial embodied agents able to acquire complex
behavioural, cognitive, and linguistic skills through
individual and social learning.
http://www.italkproject.org
In previous years, the school was funded by RobotCub, a
project to study cognition through robotics. Along the way,
this project created a completely open design for a
humanoid robot - open hardware, open software, open mind:
the iCub.
http://www.robotcub.org
http://www.icub.org