Ethics, Info, Tech: Contested Voices, Values, Spaces

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 January 2026. Kip Currier, PhD, JD

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Monday, June 26, 2017

Teaching Machines to Understand – and Summarize – Privacy Legalese; The Conversation US via Scientific American, June 24, 2017

Karuna Pande Joshi, Tim Finin, The Conversation US via Scientific American; Teaching Machines to Understand – and Summarize – Privacy Legalese

"As computer science researchers, we are working on ways artificial intelligence algorithms could digest these massive texts and extract their meaning, presenting it in terms regular people can understand."
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Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information. Education: PhD, University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences (2007); Juris Doctor (JD), University of Pittsburgh School of Law; Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS), University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences. Member of American Bar Association (ABA), ABA IP Law Section, ABA Science & Technology Section
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