ISAAC ASIMOV- Three Laws of Robotics - Died April 6, 1992

Isaac Asimov

AsimovOnThrone by Rowena Morrill

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 
2. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the FirstLaw. 
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

According to Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov

Isaac Asimov Born January 2, 1920 Died  April 6, 1992.

Asimov wrote or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards.

His books have been published in 9 of the 10 major categories of the Dewey Decimal Classification.

Asimov's most famous work is the Foundation Series;his other major series are the Galactic Empire series and the Robot series. The Galactic Empire novels are explicitly set in earlier history of the same fictional universe as the Foundation series. Later, beginning with Foundation's Edge, he linked this distant future to the Robot and Spacer stories, creating a unified "future history" for his stories.

His short story "Nightfall" was voted by the Science Fiction Writers of America the best short science fiction story of all time.

Asimov believed his most enduring contributions would be his "Three Laws of Robotics" and the Foundation series.