While Isaac Asimov officially celebrated his birthday as 2 January 1920, his birth date is uncertain. Records were not well kept in the U.S.S.R. in the period between World War I and World War II, particularly if the records concerned Jews. By the time A...

By the time of his death in 1992, Isaac Asimov was widely regarded as one of the most productive and versatile writers of all time. Asimov was best-known for his science-fiction novels and popularized accounts of science, but he worked in a number of oth...

The author of nearly five hundred books, Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) is esteemed as one of the finest writers of science fiction and scientific fact in the twentieth century. Asimov was born on January 2, 1920, to middle-class Jewish parents in Petrovichi,...

36 616 I, Robot Isaac Asimov war ein fanatischer Science Fiction-Autor - mit einem Ph. D. der Columbia University. Als 13-Jähriger schrieb er an das Pulp-Magazine "Astounding Stories" seinen ersten Leserbrief, der prompt gedruckt wurde. Darin listete er jene Storys auf, die...

The Essay AS HARVARD PREZ IGNITES WOMEN-IN-SCIENCE FLAP, THIS WRITER RECALLS HER PATH TO M.I.T. Harvard president Lawrence Summers is facing his latest-and biggestpublic relations disaster. Ever since he suggested in a speech last month that the lack of top female scientists...

A court ordered a Beijing company on Wednesday to pay 195,000 yuan ($25,000) in damages to six U.S. movie studios for selling pirated DVDs, a court official said, in the latest in a string of lawsuits over Chinese film piracy.The ruling was the second this...

RoboCops and robot soldiers got a little closer to reality Thursday as a maker of floor-cleaning automatons teamed up with a stun-gun manufacturer to arm track-wheeled 'bots for the police and the Pentagon.By adding Tasers to robots it already makes for the military, iRobot Corp....

Beauchamp is an American critic and educator, who has written extensively on science fiction. In the following essay, he examines the way in which technology is characterized in Asimov's robot novels and stories, including I, Robot.

Hassler is an educator, poet, and author of Comic Tones in Science Fiction (1982) and Isaac Asimov (1989). In the following essay which focuses on I, Robot and the Foundation trilogy, he explores Asimov's use of Enlightenment philosophy, with particular emphasis on the law and order ideas of John Locke, William Godwin's principle of Necessity, and John Calvin's religious determinism.

Fiedler is an educator and author of children's and young adult books. Mele is a poet, editor, and journalist. In the following essay, they examine the development of robots and robotics in I, Robot, and explore some of the ethical consequences of Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics.

A critique of Isaac Asimov's "I, Robot."  

The role of technology, robotics and the human theme of making the right decisions are key themes in Isaac Asminov's "I, Robot."