Greetings everyone, I've long been a spectator of the SIGCIS mailing list and thought now would be a good time to formally introduce myself. My name is Salem Elzway and I'm a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan. I'm currently researching and (slowly) writing my dissertation that will explore the history and political economy of industrial robots. Although robots are the fulcrum of the dissertation, I'm equally interested in rethinking how industrial and national security policy formation and implementation became mutually-oriented around specific processes and technologies in the post war world. (And speaking of "mutual orientation," Paul Edwards said I could drop his name as one of my committee members, just to give myself some street cred!) The dissertation is essentially envisioned as a follow-up to David Noble's *Forces of Production.* And, like all good sequels, I'm picking up where Noble left off with the hope that the next phase of the story will lead to new insights and constructive complications of the original. Also, I'll be presenting a paper in Milano (shameless plug, I know!) called "Arming the Artificial Intelligentsia: AI, Robots, and the Design of National Security" that's essentially an extremely condensed version of two in-progress dissertation chapters: one on MIT and the other on Stanford. Please come to what I'm sure will be an excellent panel (Session #S18, "Controlling the AI Future: Shaping Emerging Technologies") chaired by Jonathan Coopersmith, and featuring talks by Andrew Meade McGee, Ramesh Subramanian, and myself. Excited to meet any and all of you in Italy, and looking forward to some great conversations in the years ahead! Best, Salem -- Salem Elzway PhD Candidate Department of History University of Michigan (402)730-4775 selzway@umich.edu