Love and Sex With Robots: A Retrospective Through Science and Science Fiction In this blog post, I’ll provide some of my thoughts on David Levy’s “Love and Sex with Robots”, and provide some commentary from recent science and science f...
(Re)designing an Introductory AI Course: Post-Semester Analysis IN WHICH I compare my planned AI course to reality.
The Five Stages of Grief: An HRI Lab Christmas Carol Warning: Less than Serious Material Ahead – Happy Holidays!
Is Robot Telepathy Acceptable? One of my tertiary research interests involves whether there is an ‘uncanny valley of actions’, that is, are there certain robot behaviors that may be useful...
Learning Objectives for an Introductory AI Course IN WHICH I write new learning objectives for Intro to AI
Brainstorming the Ideal Class Rhythm A major part of GIFT training has been learning various active learning strategies…
Initial Thoughts on (Re)designing an Introductory AI Course A month or so ago, I was accepted to the Tufts GIFT (Graduate Institute for Teaching) program
A Study in Chrome: The Ethics of Silverside [PAX East 2015] This PAX East was my fourth as an attendee, but my first as a ‘special guest’. This year, I was designated a ‘special guest’ because I organized and sat on a...
Should Fully Autonomous Weapons Systems Be Banned? A recount of the 2015 AAAI Debate on Autonomous Weapons
Philadelphia Beerlytics Part Two: ABV In this post, I’m continuing on that topic with an eye toward one of the more-requested statistics: Alcohol By Volume(ABV)
Philadelphia Beerlytics, Part One As a follow up to my previous Beerlytics posts, I wanted to take a look at what beers are actually on tap at the various bars in a particular city.
Could You Maybe Possibly Explain Indirect Speech Acts? My work in the human-robot interaction laboratory focuses on making dialogue between humans and robots as natural as possible.
A Guided Tour of HRI In a series of blog posts, I’d like to discuss some of the big topics in HRI. As I add new posts in the series, I will link to them on this page.
Book and Article Recommendations From time to time, people ask me for book recommendations pertaining to my research area (Natural Language Dialogue meets Robotics meets Artificial Intellige...
High Density Beerlytics: Data Visualization of Beer Neighborhoods I love beer. I love data. This is a dangerous combination.
“Is There A Place for The Mind in Physics” Response My sister recently tweeted a link to an article entitled ‘Is There A Place For The Mind In Physics’. I largely agree with the reviewer, but am quite incredul...
D.C.Dennett, B.F.Skinner and H.P.Lovecraft Today was my last lecture in the ‘Philosophical Foundations of Cognitive Science’ class I took this semester with Dan Dennett.
