James
Barron, The New York Times;
Einstein’s
‘God Letter,’ a Viral Missive From 1954
[Kip
Currier: This
article is interesting in and of itself, but as someone teaching IP, where
we frequently look at issues of digitization, I was especially intrigued to
learn about the ongoing Einstein Papers Project. Knowing
how phenomenally useful Cambridge University's Darwin Correspondence Project's
digitized letters were for my own dissertation research exploring Charles
Darwin's information behaviors, I can imagine the treasure trove of insights
relevant to many disciplines that will be gleaned--and now made accessible to
diverse worldwide users--from Einstein's digitized writings.
These
kinds of massive "knowledge access for the public good" projects
(--like Harvard's recently inaugurated Caselaw
Access Project) are commendable exemplars of the positive intersections
that technology, academic scholarship, and research institutions like CalTech
and Cambridge can promote and achieve on behalf of global audiences.]
"Diana
L. Kormos-Buchwald, a professor of history at the California
Institute of Technology and the director of the Einstein Papers Project, said that
Einstein was “not particularly thrilled at the special place that Gutkind
devotes to Einstein’s science as the — how shall we put it — the best example of
Jewish deterministic thought.”"
Issues and developments related to ethics, information, and technologies, examined in the ethics and intellectual property graduate courses I teach at the University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information. My Bloomsbury book "Ethics, Information, and Technology" will be published in Summer 2025. Kip Currier, PhD, JD
Monday, December 3, 2018
Einstein’s ‘God Letter,’ a Viral Missive From 1954; The New York Times, December 2, 2018
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