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Licensing Autonomous Cars

This post is about licensing partly autonomous cars. Not legally speaking, autonomous cars are those which can drive themselves without any human input, and par…

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CIS Affiliates 2012-2014 Announced

We are happy to announce the new 2012-2014 CIS Affiliates. The new affiliates are the following: Affiliate ScholarsMarvin AmmoriPeter AsaroRyan CaloDanielle Ci…

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Self-Driving Cars

A green light in California this week for self-driving cars.  Not flooding the highways yet, no.  But on their way.  Cars where your hands are not on the wheel.…

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A Tool Without a Handle

This is a short essay to introduce three topics I’ll be exploring in various ways, including writing, talking, and reading: 1) How metaphor powerfully shapes t…

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Deadlier drones are coming

"There's no plan for humans to be totally out of the loop," says Ryan Calo, a Stanford University researcher. "But there are pressures that c…