Elaine Adolfo

Position / Title:

Associate Director, Center for Internet and Society

Contact:

eadolfo (at) law (dot) stanford (dot) edu

Blog Posts

Robot Block Party 2012

By Elaine Adolfo • April 11, 2012 at 7:30 pm

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The Center for Internet and Society once again participated in National Robotics Week, organized by the Robotics Caucus of the U.S. Congress and leading robotics companies, schools, and organizations. We hosted a Robot Block Party & Job Fair today at VAIL. This event showcased cutting edge robotics technology from throughout the Bay Area.

Watch video and view pictures from today's awesome robot block party. Read more » about Robot Block Party 2012

Robots on the Rise

By Elaine Adolfo • August 14, 2011 at 7:41 am

Consumer robotics and Ryan Calo, director of Robotics at CIS, profiled in this SF gate article.

Technical manuals and popular fiction helped thrust robots into the popular imagination in the late 1970s, cast in the twin archetypes of mechanical monsters or tin sidekicks.

But for technical, financial and other reasons, the grand promise - or grave threat - of the rise of robots never came to pass. (We're still waiting on our jetpacks, too.) Read more » about Robots on the Rise

Netflix, Facebook and the law

By Elaine Adolfo • July 27, 2011 at 8:53 am

Ryan Calo, Director of the Consumer Privacy Project at CIS, discusses the effect of the Video Privacy Protection Act on the Facebook/Netflix deal.

Listen to this American Public Media Marketplace story. Read more » about Netflix, Facebook and the law

Video: Ryan Calo - Personalization and Privacy

By Elaine Adolfo • June 6, 2011 at 9:37 am

Ryan Calo, Director of the Consumer Privacy Project, spoke in the Personalization and Privacy panel at the 2011 Personalization Summit. Watch the full panel video below.

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