作者乌戈‧帕加罗，意大利都灵大学法学院教授。出版著作十部，发表多篇论文，主要研究领域为人工智能与法律、网络理论、机器人学和信息技术法（特别是数据保护法和版权）。曾任欧洲区域规划指导小组（European RPAS Steering Group）成员（2011—2012）、欧洲委员会发起的Onlife倡议专家组成员（2012—2013）、由研究和技术发展第七框架项目资助的CAPER项目伦理委员会委员（2013—2014），以及地平线2020机器人项目方案评估专家（2015）。还担任设在英国伦敦的跨国法律研究中心研究员、意大利法律信息学协会副主席、都灵理工大学互联网与社会中心研究员。

Called to the Spacer world to solve a case of roboticide, New York City detective Elijah Baley teams up with humanoid robot R. Daneel Olivaw to prove that the prime suspect, a renowned roboticist, is innocent of the crime. Reprint.

Many of the great minds of the past used mathematics to explore and then define the principal laws of nature. In this way

The posthumous publication of The Argument and the Action of Plato's "Laws" was compiled shortly before the death of Leo Strauss in 1973. Strauss offers an insightful and instructive reading through careful probing of Plato's classic text. "Strauss's The Argument and the Action of Plato's 'Laws' reflects his interest in political thought, his dogged method of following the argu...(展开全部)

The posthumous publication of The Argument and the Action of Plato's "Laws" was compiled shortly before the death of Leo Strauss in 1973. Strauss offers an insightful and instructive reading through careful probing of Plato's classic text. "Strauss's The Argument and the Action of Plato's 'Laws' reflects his interest in political thought, his dogged method of following the argu...(展开全部)

"The Laws," Plato's longest dialogue, has for centuries been recognized as the most comprehensive exposition of the "practical" consequences of his philosophy, a necessary corrective to the more visionary and utopian "Republic." In this animated encounter between a foreign philosopher and a powerful statesman, not only do we see reflected, in Plato's own thought, eternal questi...(展开全部)

Despite its haphazard growth, the Web hides powerful underlying regularities -- from the organization of its links to the patterns found in its use by millions of users. Many of these regularities have been predicted on the basis of theoretical models based on a field of physics -- statistical mechanics -- that few would have thought applicable to the social domain.In this book...(展开全部)

克雷斯蒂安·冯·巴尔（CHRISTIAN VON BAR），1952年出生于汉诺威，先后就读于弗赖堡大学、基尔大学和哥廷根大学，获法学博士学位。1981年就任奥斯纳布吕克大学法学院教授，1987年创建该校私法与国际法比较研究所并一直担任所长至今。其著述等身，代表作有《社会生活一般义务》、《国际私法》和《欧洲比较侵权行为法》。巴尔教授是欧洲当代最著名的私法学者之一，其所担任主席的“欧洲民法典”研究项目是欧洲私法界最引人注目的研究项目。除了教学和研究所的工作外，他还担任众多兼职和客座职务。