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"Contributors" [2018] ELECD 1371; in Barfield, Woodrow; Blitz, J. Marc (eds), "Research Handbook on the Law of Virtual and Augmented Reality" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018) viii

Book Title: Research Handbook on the Law of Virtual and Augmented Reality

Editor(s): Barfield, Woodrow; Blitz, J. Marc

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781786438584

Section Title: Contributors

Number of pages: 6

Extract:

Contributors Woodrow Barfield served as Professor of Engineering at the University of Washington's Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering with a courtesy appointment in the Departments of Environmental Health and Civil Engineering. He holds a PhD, a JD, and an LLM; is currently Associate Editor for the Virtual Reality Journal, is a former senior editor of the MIT journal Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, and was on the editorial board of the Washington Journal of Law Technology & Arts. Further, he was Visiting Professor in computer science at University College, London, and was on the program committee which established the first conference on wearable computers and augmented reality. He also edited the first academic books on the same topics. He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation's Presidential Young Investigator Award and was an External Fellow for Stanford's Center for Internet and Society. His writings, which include more than 300 scholarly papers, discuss the law of virtual and augmented reality, and how the law applies to artificial intelligence and to humans enhanced with implanted technologies such as neuroprosthesis and brain-computer interfaces. His most recent books are Cyber Humans: Our Future with Machines and the edited collection Fundamentals of Wearable Computers and Augmented Reality (2nd edition), and he is coediting, with Professor Ugo Parallo, the forthcoming Research Handbook on Law and Artificial Intelligence. In addition, he frequently lectures on systems of the future at Duke University and publishes in engineering journals and law reviews, actively reviews for ...