OPENING CONFERENCE
MONDAY 27th of FEBRUARY 2006
PALAZZO DORIA SPINOLA, GENOVA |
| WELCOME |
| Mauro Solari (Provincial Administration of Genova) |
| Gianni Vernazza (Dean of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Genova) |
| Manuela Arata (President of the Festival della Scienza) |
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MORNING SESSION: "CULTURAL BACKGROUND"
Co-chairs: Giuseppe O. Longo, Fiorella Operto |
Paolo Rossi (Università di Firenze, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Italy)
Daedalus sive mechanicus: Humankind and Machines |
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Gianmarco Veruggio (School of Robotics, Genova, Italy)
Towards a Roadmap for Roboethics |
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Naho Kitano (Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan)
A comparative analysis of Social Acceptance of Robots between the West and Japan |
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Giuseppe O. Longo (DEEI, University of Trieste, Italy)
The Body-Cody Problem: a bizarre post-human Perspective |
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Flo Conway, Jim Siegelman (Scientific writers, USA)
Norbert Wiener, the Father of Cybernetics and Technological Ethics |
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AFTERNOON SESSION: "ROBOTICS & BEYOND"
Co-chairs: Bruno Siciliano, Gianmarco Veruggio |
Ronald Arkin (Georgia Tech, USA)
Humane-oids: Towards the Ethical Deployment of Autonomous Systems |
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Atsuo Takanishi ( Dept. of Mechanical Engineering & Humanoid Robotics Inst., Waseda University, Japan)
Humanoid Robotics, Culture and Society of Japan |
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Kevin Warwick (University of Reading, UK)
Cyborg Engineering: Linking Human and Machine Brains |
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Paolo Fiorini (University of Verona, Italy)
Pervasive Impact of Robotics in Education |
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Brian O'Connell (Central Connecticut State University, USA)
Social Implications of Technology |
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Paolo Dario (Arts Lab, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy)
Human-Robot Symbiosis in Biorobotics |
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