1. FIRA Robot World Cup Australia 2000.

Email - rwc2000@cqu.edu.au
http://fira.cqu.edu.au/rwc2000

The FIRA Robot World Cup 2000 will be held in Australia, in three
venues in Rockhampton and Gladstone from Sept. 18 to 24, 2000,
along with the Summer Olympics. A worskshop is also planned along
with the event. Participants are encouraged to submit papers for
the workshop.

Teams are requested to register for the FIRA CUP. The details of
the registration will be available on the event webpage:
http://fira.cqu.edu.au/rwc2000
by 23rd June.

A special email address has been set up for all correspondence
associated with FIRA CUP 2000. It is .
Please direct correspondence to this address.

Please contact Prof. Russel Stonier (rwc2000@cqu.edu.au) or by fax
to +61-7-49309729 in case a formal invitation is required to process
Australian VISA. PLEASE supply a return fax address, so that this
can be attended to immediately.

Local accommodation information will be put on the web page next
week. Participants should consult the page for the best option for
their team and contact the accommodation provider by fax or
telephone to make bookings for their period of stay.
If you have any difficulty, the local secretrary (Lyn Colyer)
contactable at ,
(fax 61 7 49309729) will be available to help you to make bookings.

Teams should make their own travel arrangements to come to Australia.

Destination is Rockhampton, Queensland Australia. Your airline
should make the appropriate transfers to local airlines to reach
Rockhampton.
The nearest international ports to local airlines are Brisbane and
Cairns in Queensland. Please be advised that entering Australia
through Sydney could result in delays due to the expected heavy
traffic during the Olympics.

For further details please contact:
Prof. Russel Stonier (rwc2000@cqu.edu.au)
Prof. Prahlad Vadakkepat (prahlad@nus.edu.sg)



2. The Third FIRA European Cup Poland 2000.

The third FIRA European Cup 2000 in MiroSot was held in Poland,
Poznan from May 22 to 26, 2000. Teams from Germany, Austria, England
and Poland participated. The top three teams are as follows:

1. DREAM TEAM POZNAN (Poland)
2. AUSTRO (Austria)
3. MENSA DORMUND (Germany)

For further details, please contact the organizing chair:
Prof. K.Kozlowski (kk@ar-kari.put.poznan.pl)



3. FIRA Asia-Pacific Cup Singapore 2000 and the International

The FIRA Asia-Pacific Cup 2000 was held in Singapore along with
the Singapore Robotic Games from May 23 to 26. Thirteen (13) teams
from India, Korea, Philippines and Singapore participated.
Competitions were held in two difefrent venues at the Singapore
Polytechnic Campus. An International Symposium on Autonomous Robots
and Agents (ISARA'2000; General Chair Tong-Heng Lee, Program Chiars:
V. Prahlad, K.C. Tan and K. K. Tan, National University of Singapore)
was held on May 26 along with. The FIRA President, Prof. Kim, Jong-Hwan,
of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
delivered a keynote speech on "Micro-Robots for Education and
Entertainment," at the Symposium.

The top three teams are as follows:
1. SOTY IV (KAIST, Korea)
2. Nemesis (NgeeAnn Polytechnic, Singapore)
3. SPECialCubs (Singapore Polytechnic, Singapore)

For further details, please contact the organizing chair:
Prof. Prahlad Vadakkepat (prahlad@nus.edu.sg).
For the event details, please visit



4. Micro-Robot Soccer at Massey University, Albany Campus, New Zealand.

Prof. G. Sen Gupta of Singapore Polytechnic visited Massey University
with his MiroSot Robots from 24th April to 6th May 2000. He and Prof.
Chris Messom of Massey University joinlty did development work for
Mirosot.

A half day seminar cum demonstration was arranged for the engineering
students. The students were very excited to see the robots moving
around and playing a game of soccer as they had never seen it live
before. Massey University plans to develop a Mirosot team in near
future.


5. MiroSot Friendship Match in Shenyang, China, June 2000.

A MiroSot friendship game is scheduled at the special MiroSot venue
of Shenyang Science Museum, China on June 23 during the 3rd Shenyang
Festival of Science and Technology (SFST) (June 18-25, 2000).

The FBI team of KAIST, Korea (Prof. Lee, Ju-Jang) will play
demonstration matches with the NEW NEU CHINA team of the North Eastern
University, PRC(Prof. Xu, Xinhe). Prof. Lee, Ju-Jang of KAIST will
deliver a lecture on "Soccer Robot and Entertainment Robot"
at the venue.

For further details, please contact:
Prof. Xu Xunhe
Prof. Ju-Jang Lee


6. The 1st Philippine Micro-Robot Soccer Games, July 2000.

The Department of Science and Technology (DOST), Philippines will
hold MiroSot friendship matches among three teams of Philippines and
Korea, at the Philippines Trade and Training Center, Pasay City on the
opening day (July 10, 2000) of the annual National Science and
Technology Week celebration and Science and Technology fair on
July 10-24, 2000.

The SOTY IV team of KAIST, Korea will play demonstration matches
with the teams of the De La Salle University (Prof. Elmer Dadios)
and the University of the Philippines (Prof. Pros Naval). Prof. Kim,
Jong-Hwan of KAIST will deliver a lecture on "Soccer Robotics for
Educationa and Entertainment Robot" at the venue.

For further details, please contact:
Prof. Elmer Dadios
Prof. Pros Naval


7. First Announcement of FIRA-ISI Championship 2001, March 2001.

FIRA-ISI Championship 2001 will be held at the American University in
Dubai on March 17-21, 2001 along with the The NAISO International
Congress on Information Science Innovations (ISI'2001), featuring five
symposia on Information Science Innovations in: Clinical Trials (CT'2001),
E-Business and Beyond (EBB'2001), Intelligent Automated Manufacturing
(IAM'2001),Engineering of Natural and Artificial Intelligent Systems
(ENAIS'2001),and Intelligent Quality Management and Metrology (IQMM'2001).
ISI'2001 is sponsored by IEEE R&A, SME, IMIA, IMEKO, ICSC, and other societies.
The workshop on Soccer Robotics shall be organized at ISI'2001.

The Society and University organizing the event are:
The American University in Dubai (AUD), P.O. Box:28282 Dubai, UAE
Tel: +971-4-3999000, Fax: +971-4-3998899, http://www.aud.edu
and The Natural and Artificial Intelligence Systems Organization (NAISO)
5101C - 50 Street, Wetaskiwin, Alberta T9A 1K1, Canada
Phone: +1-780-352-1912, Fax: +1-780-352-1913,
http://www.icsc.ab.ca

For further details, please contact:
Prof. Milad Fares Sebaaly

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Editor-in-Chief - Jong-Hwan Kim, KAIST, Korea
Editor - Prahlad Vadakkepat, NUS, Singapore

Editorial Staffs: Jin-Ah Lee and Hye-Young Park (KAIST, Korea)

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