A Matter of Design – Welcome address

Event: A Matter of Design. 5th STS Italia Conference. Date: 2014 06 12 Time: 47 min. Place: Politecnico di Milano, Campus Bovisa, Milano. Language: English. url Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/100512127 Photos: Album in Flickr. Report: A Matter of Design: Our Common Future. 5th STS Italia Conference A Matter of Design. Making Society through Science and Technology Milano ... A Matter of Design – Welcome address

Arturo Dell’Acqua Bellavitis
Giovanni Azzone
Luca Guerrini
Manuela Perrotta
Paolo Volonté
Silvia Piardi

Bernd Stahl, Recent Articles of Interest

I would like to draw readers’ attention to two recently published articles on Responsible Innovation. Both are written or co-authored by Bernd Carsten Stahl of De Montfort University, are freely available through open access platforms and offer plenty of food for thought. The first article is entitled Responsible research and innovation: The role of privacy ... Bernd Stahl, Recent Articles of Interest

Jonathan Hankins

How Automation is Changing the Economy, a Debate.

On Thursday September 27th I attended an event hosted by Kara miller of the local TV and radio station WGBH (Western Great Blue Hill) here in Boston. Miller hosts a Radio show that I follow regularly called Innovation Hub, and the event was a live discussion forum entitled “The New Economy: How Automation is Changing ... How Automation is Changing the Economy, a Debate.

Jonathan Hankins

Drones and other robots of war

Recently the press has been full of articles addressing the legality or illegality of the military use of unmanned drone aircraft in the war against terror. Their use as well as the use of other human controlled robot weaponry presents a series of ethical, moral, technical and legal problems, often more down to the way ... Drones and other robots of war

Fiorella Operto
Jonathan Hankins

Springer Handbook of Robotics

On 5th February 2009 in Washington DC the Professional and Scholarly Division of the Association of American Publishers announced the winners of the prestigious American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence for 2008 known as the "PROSE Awards 2008", that are the equivalent of the Oscars in the American field of professional and scientific ... Springer Handbook of Robotics

Fiorella Operto

Robotics. A new science

Fiorella Operto offers some reflections on the conference “Robotics. A new science” that took place in Rome in February at the Accademia dei Lincei. A growing international debate proposes the re-thinking in ethical terms of a research area, robotics, that has been profoundly influenced by recent scientific and technological developments in the informatics, telecommunication, software ... Robotics. A new science

Fiorella Operto

Robotics: a new science

The International Symposium “Robotics: a new science” takes place on Wednesday 20th of February 2008 at Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Via Della Lungara 10 in Rome. The conference is not conceived as a technical workshop, but as a seminar whose aim is to discuss the current robotics development in the frame of the general ... Robotics: a new science

Fiorella Operto
Jonathan Hankins
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