{"id":748,"date":"2016-03-30T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T13:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robots.law.miami.edu\/2016\/?p=748"},"modified":"2016-03-30T12:03:55","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T16:03:55","slug":"discussants-and-moderators-day-one-april-1st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robots.law.miami.edu\/2016\/discussants-and-moderators-day-one-april-1st\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussants and Moderators: Day One \u2013 April 1st"},"content":{"rendered":"

We Robot 2016 presentations feature Discussants and Moderators who are in integral part of the conference. Discussants are the lead speakers in their session and are responsible for presenting the main themes of the paper and offering their views. Moderators are the ringmasters of their panels.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Rebecca<\/a>

Rebecca Crootof<\/p><\/div>Rebecca Crootof is the We Robot 2016 Discussant for Madeleine Elish\u2019s paper Moral Crumple Zones: Cautionary Tales in Human Robot Interaction<\/a>\u00a0on Friday, April 1st\u00a0at 8:45 AM at the\u00a0University of Miami\u00a0Newman Alumni Center in Coral Gables, Florida.\u00a0Rebecca Crootof is a Ph.D. in Law candidate at Yale Law School and a Resident Fellow with the Yale Information Society Project. She specializes in legal evolution and the interplay between law and new technology, with a focus on how regulation can channel technological developments to promote socially desirable aims. Crootof is currently teaching a course on regulating disruptive technology, and she has recently written on how customary international law may modify treaties, the implications of new weaponry for the U.S. war powers debate, institutional means of determining state responsibility for unlawful cyberattacks, and how autonomous weapon systems may foster the development of international tort law.<\/p>\n

\"Ashkan<\/a>

Ashkan Soltani<\/p><\/div>Ashkan Soltani\u00a0is the We Robot 2016 Discussant for Matthew Reuben and William D. Smart\u2019s paper Privacy in Human-Robot Interaction: Survey and Future Work<\/a> on Friday, April 1st\u00a0at 10:15 AM at the\u00a0University of Miami\u00a0Newman Alumni Center in Coral Gables, Florida.\u00a0Ashkan Soltani is an independent researcher and technologist specializing on issues relating to privacy, security, and behavioral economics. His work draws attention to privacy problems online, demystifies technology for the non-technically inclined, and provides data-driven insights to help inform policy.\u00a0He\u2019s previously served a brief stint as a Senior Advisor to the U.S. Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and as the Chief Technologist for the Federal Trade Commission, advising the commission on its technology related policy as well as helping to create its new Office of Technology Research and Investigation. He also served at the FTC in 2010 as one of the first staff technologists in the Division of Privacy and Identity Protection, helping to lead investigations into major technology companies such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, HTC, and PulsePoint.\u00a0Ashkan was also recognized as part of the 2014 Pulitzer winning team for his contributions to the Washington Post\u2019s coverage of National Security issues. He was also the primary technical consultant on the Wall Street Journal\u2019s investigative series: \u201cWhat They Know\u201d, which was a finalist for 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting.<\/p>\n

\"Peter<\/a>

Peter Asaro<\/p><\/div>Peter Asaro is the We Robot 2016 Discussant for Jason Millar and AJung Moon\u2019s paper How to Engage the Public on the Ethics and Governance of Lethal Autonomous Weapons<\/a>\u00a0on Friday, April 1st\u00a0at 11:45 AM at the\u00a0University of Miami\u00a0Newman Alumni Center in Coral Gables, Florida.\u00a0Dr. Peter Asaro is a philosopher of science, technology and media. His work examines artificial intelligence and robotics as a form of digital media, and the ways in which technology mediates social relations and shapes our experience of the world.\u00a0<\/span>His current research focuses on the social, cultural, political, legal and ethical dimensions of military robotics and UAV drones, from a perspective that combines media theory with science and technology studies. He has written widely-cited papers on lethal robotics from the perspective of just war theory and human rights. Dr. Asaro’s research also examines agency and autonomy, liability and punishment, and privacy and surveillance as it applies to consumer robots, industrial automation, smart buildings, and autonomous vehicles. His research has been published in international peer reviewed journals and edited volumes, and he is currently writing a book that interrogates the intersections between advanced robotics, and social and ethical issues.\u00a0<\/span>Dr. Asaro has held research positions at the Center for Cultural Analysis<\/span><\/a> at Rutgers University, the HUMlab<\/span><\/a> of Ume\u00e5 University in Sweden, and the Austrian Academy of Sciences<\/span><\/a> in Vienna. He has also developed technologies in the areas of virtual reality, data visualization and sonification, human-computer interaction, computer-supported cooperative work, artificial intelligence, machine learning, robot vision, and neuromorphic robotics at the National Center for Supercomputer Applications (NCSA)<\/span><\/a>, the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology<\/span><\/a>, and Iguana Robotics, Inc.<\/span><\/a>, and was involved in the design of the natural language interface for the Wolfram|Alpha<\/span><\/a> computational knowledge engine for Wolfram Research<\/span><\/a>–this interface is also used by Apple’s Siri<\/i> and Microsoft’s Bing<\/i> to answer math queries, and won two 2010 SXSW Web Interactive Awards for Technical Achievement and Best of Show.\u00a0<\/span>He is completing an Oral History of Robotics project<\/span><\/a> that is funded by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society<\/span><\/a> and the National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities<\/span><\/a>. He has also just initiated a new three-year project on Regulating Autonomous Artificial Agents: A Systematic Approach to Developing AI & Robot Policy<\/span><\/a>, funded by the Future of Life Institute<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span>Dr. Asaro received his PhD in the History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<\/span><\/a>, where he also earned a Master of Arts from the Department of Philosophy<\/span><\/a>, and a Master of Computer Science from the Department of Computer Science.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Daniel<\/a>

Daniel Sciliano<\/p><\/div>Dan Siciliano\u00a0is the We Robot 2016 Moderator for the Hot Topics Panel on Autonomous Cars, comprising Harry Surden\u00a0and Mary-Anne Williams\u2019 paper Autonomous Vehicles, Predictability, and Law<\/a> and Fran\u00e7oise Gilbert and Raffaele Zallone\u2019s paper Connect Cars \u2013 Recent Legal Developments<\/a> on Friday, April 1st\u00a0at 3:00\u00a0PM at the\u00a0University of Miami\u00a0Newman Alumni Center in Coral Gables, Florida.\u00a0F. Daniel Siciliano, JD \u201904, is a legal scholar and entrepreneur with expertise in corporate governance, corporate finance, and immigration law. He assumes a variety of leadership roles at the law school, including faculty director of the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance, associate dean for executive education and special programs and co-director of Stanford\u2019s Directors\u2019 College. He is also the co-originator of the OSCGRS (Open Source Corporate Governance Reporting System) Project. Previously, Siciliano was a teaching fellow for the law school\u2019s international LLM degree program in Corporate Governance and Practice and executive director of the Program in Law, Economics and Business. He is the senior research fellow with the Immigration Policy Center and a frequent commentator on the long-term economic impact of immigration policy and reform. His work has included expert testimony in front of both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Prior to joining Stanford Law School, Siciliano co-founded and served as executive director of the Immigration Outreach Center in Phoenix, Arizona. He has launched and led several successful businesses, including LawLogix Group\u2014named three times to the Inc.<\/i> 500\/5000 list. Siciliano serves as a governance consultant and trainer to board directors of several Fortune 500 companies and is a member of the Academic Council of Corporate Board Member<\/i> magazine.<\/p>\n

\"A.<\/a>

A. Michael Froomkin<\/p><\/div>A. Michael Froomkin<\/a> is the We Robot 2016 Discussant for Ryan Calo\u2019s paper Robots In American Law<\/a>\u00a0on Friday, April 1st\u00a0at 4:30\u00a0PM at the\u00a0University of Miami\u00a0Newman Alumni Center in Coral Gables, Florida.\u00a0In addition to being the Chair of this year’s Program Committee, Michael<\/span><\/a> is the Laurie Silvers & Mitchell Rubenstein Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Miami, specializing in Privacy Law and Administrative Law. He founded We Robot in 2012. Michael is also the founder-editor of the online law review Jotwell, The Journal of Things We Like (Lots)<\/span><\/a>. He serves on the Editorial Board of Information, Communication & Society and of I\/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society. He is on the Advisory Boards of several organizations including the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Michael Froomkin writes primarily about privacy, Internet governance, electronic democracy, and cryptography.\u00a0He is one of the editors (with Ryan Calo and Ian Kerr) of the forthcoming “Robot Law” (Edward Elgar, 2016)<\/span><\/a>, a collection of papers primarily drawn from past editions of We Robot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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