Any interest in a panel on ICT (broadly defined) pushing lawmakers to create policy? The goal would be to give some historical context to the ongoing efforts to create government regulation/oversight of AI, digital data, &c. This recent presentation by Edward Felten, the director of Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy, was his call for action. https://media.neurips.cc/Conferences/NIPS2018/Slides/Felten_NeurIPS_2018.pdf Jonathan Jonathan Coopersmith Visiting Professor School for the Future of Innovation in Society Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona Professor Department of History Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4236 979.739.4708 (cell) 979.862.4314 (fax) Latest article: https://theconversation.com/what-fax-machines-can-teach-us-about-electric-ca... *FAXED. The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine* (Johns Hopkins University Press) is the co-recipient of the 2016 Business History Conference Hagley Prize for best book in business history.