Kate Darling

Katherine 'Kate' Irene Maynard Darling (January 27, 1982) is an American-Swiss academic. She works on the legal and ethical implications of technology. As of 2019, she is a Research Specialist at the MIT Media Lab.[1][2][3]

Katherine Irene Maynard Darling
Born1982 (age 40–41)
Alma materETH Zurich, University of Basel
Scientific career
FieldsLaw, ethics, technology
Thesis

Academic career

Darling was born in the US, but grew up in Basel, Switzerland. Darling received degrees in Economics and Law from the University of Basel. After completing her 2014 dissertation titled Copyright and new technologies: theoretical and empirical analysis of copyright transfers and content production incentives at ETH Zurich, Darling returned to the US, to teach a robot ethics course at Harvard Law School with Lawrence Lessig.[1] In Darling's robot ethics course, she touches upon how law and robotics work together. However, she primarily focuses on the legal and social issues with robotics.[4] Darling is a former fellow at Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society,[5] the Yale Information Society Project[1] and the Center for Law & Economics.[6]

Darling has an honorary doctorate of sciences from Middlebury College.[7][8] Darling has published academic work on topics such as human-robot interaction and, in her thesis, copyright transfer.[9][10] She was awarded with a Mark T Banner Award in Intellectual Property.[11]

References
  1. "Bio". Kate Darling.
  2. "Person Overview ‹ Kate Darling". MIT Media Lab.
  3. "Kate Darling | Robohub".
  4. "Person Overview ‹ Kate Darling". MIT Media Lab. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
  5. "Kate Darling". Berkman Klein Center. 30 August 2019.
  6. "Former Members". lawecon.ethz.ch.
  7. "Class of 2017 Celebrates Commencement". Middlebury. 28 May 2017.
  8. "ALU Founder Receives Honorary Doctorate from Middlebury College, Vermont, USA". 28 May 2017.
  9. Darling, Kate; Nandy, Palash; Breazeal, Cynthia (31 August 2015). "Empathic concern and the effect of stories in human-robot interaction". 2015 24th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN). pp. 770–775. doi:10.1109/ROMAN.2015.7333675. hdl:1721.1/109059. ISBN 978-1-4673-6704-2. S2CID 23572305.
  10. Maynard Darling, Katherine Irene; Bechtold, Stefan; Burk, Dan L. (2014). Copyright and new technologies: theoretical and empirical analysis of copyright transfers and content production incentives. ETH Zurich (Doctoral Thesis). doi:10.3929/ethz-a-010105360. hdl:20.500.11850/154479.
  11. "Mark Banner Award". American Bar Association. 2022. 2017 Award Recipients - Dr. Kate Darling MIT Media Lab Research Specialist, Harvard Berkman Center Fellow, Robot Ethics Expert


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