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Agents,

On Thursday (March 7th), we will be hosting a special event featuring Ronald Arkin. The meeting will be in Klaus 2447 at 6:30 and there will be food and drink. The talk will be about the ethics of creating intelligent systems and should be a good talk for anyone looking to one day work in the industry.

Dr. Arkin has a lot of exposure with some of the technologies we're looking to implement for the car so this will be a very interesting meeting. He is director of the Mobile Robot Laboratory and part of the School of Interactive Computing at Tech. Dr. Arkin was a professor at the Centre for Autonomous Systems at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and was a member of the Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Group in France.

His research interests include behavior-based reactive control and action-oriented perception for mobile robots and unmanned aerial vehicles, hybrid deliberative/reactive software architectures, robot survivability, multiagent robotic systems, biorobotics, human-robot interaction, robot ethics, and learning in autonomous systems and he has over 170 technical publications in these areas.

See you there!