Samir Chopra is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. Prior to taking up his current position, he completed a Research Fellowship in Artificial Intelligence at the University of New South Wales. Samir did his BA (Mathematical Statistics) from Delhi University, MS (Computer Science) from NJIT and PhD (Philosophy) from the CUNY Graduate Center; his research interests include logics for artificial intelligence, philosophical foundations of artificial intelligence, the legal theory of artificial agents, and the politics and ethics of technology. His teaching responsibilities span the Departments of Computer and Information Science and Philosophy. In his spare time, Samir is a military historian, most recently co-authoring The India-Pakistan Air War of 1965 (with PVS Jagan Mohan), published in 2005. He is currently working on a book on the philosophical implications of free software (co-authored with Scott Dexter, also of the CIS Department).