Daniel J. Hicks, PhD

A friend of mine sent me a message on Facebook this morning: [Read More]

Over the last few days, several people have brought to my attention this story about two regulatory science bills passed earlier this week in the US House. Since the linked story doesn’t do a very good job of explaining why the two bills are controversial — indeed, it doesn’t even... [Read More]

This is the second of my posts this week about the 2014 HSS/PSA conference. Here, I’d like to think a little about Andrea Woody’s comments on the paper I read at a HSS session on “technoscience as practice.” The session was organized by Tom Stapleford— a friend from my time... [Read More]

Should you love what to do, or “live to work”? This post suggests not: [Read More]

Autonomous automated systems — machines capable of acting on their own for extended periods of time in complex environments — have been a major trope of science fiction for as long as the genre has existed. Over the last ten years or so, autonomous systems research has advanced dramatically, and... [Read More]