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Volume 28 Number 1
Spring 2009
Lethal Robots

DEPARTMENTS

3 President’s Message

4 Editorial

5 Letter 

5 News and Notes

6 ISTAS'09

7 Book Review

SPECIAL SECTION ON LETHAL ROBOTS

12 "You've just been disarmed. Have a nice day!”*
John S. Canning

16 Death Strikes from the Sky: The Calculus of Proportionality*
Noel Sharkey

20 Modeling the Moral User*
Peter M. Asaro

25 Predators or Plowshares? Arms Control of Robotic Weapons*
Robert Sparrow

30 Ethical Robots in Warfare*
Ronald C. Arkin

FEATURES

34 Commercializing Public Sector Information: Privacy and Security Concerns*
Mark Burdon

41 The Internet and the Changing Nature of Intelligence*
Lucy Resnyansky

48 Interpersonal Communication and Gender in the ICT Profession*
Melih Kirlidog, Meric Aykol, and Sevinc Gulsecen

*Refereed articles.
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