Terror and Talks

Veto players and terror

Democratic regimes have been linked to terrorism for contending reasons, with some scholars claiming democracy increases terrorism and others claiming it decreases terror. Corroborating evidence has been used for both relationships leading to the following puzzle: why do some democratic regimes seem to foster terrorism while others do not? We offer an explanation based on Tsbelis’s veto players...

Liberty and Terror

Globalization, Poverty, and Terror

Invited Talks and Panels

Artificial intelligence focuses on agents carrying out tasks in an environment. Consider the evolution of the agent-task-environment triple. In Good Old Fashioned AI and Robotics (GOFAIR), a single agent typically solved a puzzle in a fully-observable, fully-predictable world. Constraintbased agents were initially proposed in that paradigm. Robot soccer, developed in our lab in 1991, caught on ...

Invited Talks and Panels

Over the past few months, NASA has been in the news numerous times both for the exciting discoveries of the pair of Mars Rovers as well as the country’s “Vision for Space Exploration.” This vision focuses on the joint human and robotic exploration of the solar system starting with a return to the moon and then the human exploration of Mars. In addition, the vision includes a continued array of ...