Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Postscript: Future Lightnings

Great first set of Lightnings!! Thanks to the delicious cupcakes!! Oh yeah, and to our speakers too: Randy, Saman and Heather.

Desired Future Topics
=Resource Scarcity in the context of large-scale usage of Electronics (Pras)
=Social Robots
=A Survey of currently existing Military Robots (Dey)
=The Singularity
=Mixed Autonomy: Ethics and Liability
=Fukashima Robots
=Robots and the Law
=Asimov's Laws under uncertainty

Speakers to Invite
=Bring in a Tepper Economist
=Duquesne University Philosopher

Related Talks
=Sebastian Thrun giving a video-cast lecture on Tuesday, December 6 about robot futures
=Peter Singer's recent CMU talk

Three claimed topics above will make up our mid-January Lightning!! Stay tuned!

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