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David A. Mindell
MIT Professor of engineering and the history of technology, author of Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy.
David Mindell is a professor of aeronatics and astronautics and the Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing at MIT. He has twenty five years of experience as an engineer in undersea robotic exploration, as a veteran of more than thirty oceanographic expeditions, and as a pilot and engineer of autonomous aircraft. He is the award-winning author of Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight and of Iron Coffin: War, Technology and Experience aboard the USS Monitor. His latest book, Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy is published by Viking/Penguin in October of 2015. He is founder of Humatics Corporation, which creates technologies to render autonomy transparent,s are, and trustworthy by transforming how robots and autonomous system work in human environments.