"Once you build an octocopter that can make a 10-mile trip in half an hour and create a system to manage it, you start getting to the really interesting qu…
"“I think of this as yet another indication that robotics is the next transformative technology after the Internet,” said Ryan Calo, an assistant professor…
"Although she spent several years as a criminal defense attorney, defending “all kinds” of interesting characters, Jennifer Stisa Granick, the director of…
"Ryan Calo is an assistant professor of law at the University of Washington. He wonders if Jeff Bezos’ plan for drones will fall inside the existing law.…
"Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington who has written extensively about drones, said that this is precisely the kind of application C…
Cross-posted from Forbes. One big issue with regulating new technology is defining it. An early version of the Nevada driverless car law appeared, on my read,…
"Stanford researchers are trying to act like the NSA in order to learn about the NSA. Researchers Jonathan Mayer and Patrick Mutchler created MetaPhone, an…
Cross-posted from Just Security. In the latest news report based on documents revealed by Edward Snowden, we’ve learned that the NSA creates profiles of porn v…
In the latest news report based on documents revealed by Edward Snowden, we’ve learned that the NSA creates profiles of porn viewing, online sexual activity and…
Listen to the full interview over at KCRW. The cars of today are almost fully automated, and the smart technology for driverless cars has now been developed. W…
"“Schools are competing feverishly for good students. An applicant who, a few years ago, would have been wait-listed at a top twenty school, may now find h…
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by Center for Internet & Society Resident Fellow David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on…