Viola Schiaffonati teaches Computer Ethics and Philosophical Issues of Computer Science. She is a member of the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Lab of Politecnico di Milano. She obtained a PhD in Philosophy of Science at the Università degli Studi di Genova and has been a Visiting scholar at University of California at Berkeley and a Visiting researcherat Stanford University. Her research interests include the philosophical issues of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Computer Science and are focused, in particular, on the epistemology of experiments in autonomous robotics, on computer simulations, and on the ethical issues of intelligent systems.