​Thomas Powers, Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the School of Public Policy and Administration, Research Fellow with the Delaware Biotechnology Institute, is currently Director of the Center for Science, Ethics, and Public Policy. He has published widely on issues of ethics and morality in the computer age, with essays appearing in leading journals such as Topoi, Journal of Nano Education, IEEE Robotics and Automation, IEEE Intelligent Systems, and Ethics and Information Technology. He has also held leadership positions in service to a variety of institutions concerned with ethics and technology, including the Committee on Bioethics and Ethics in Science of the Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie, the American Philosophical Association’s Committee on Philosophy and Computers, the Board of Management for the Consortium for Socially-Relevant Philosophy of/in Science and Engineering, and the Ethics and Human Rights Working Group convened by the Science & Human Rights Coalition of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.