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Joseph Carvalko Jr.

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Joseph Carvalko Jr.
NationalityAmerican
EducationBachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, a Juris Doctor from Quinnipiac University, and later a Master in Fine Arts from Fairfield University
Occupation(s)technologist, academic, patent lawyer, and writer

Joseph Carvalko Jr. is an American technologist, academic, patent lawyer and writer. As an inventor and engineer, Carvalko has been awarded eighteen U.S. patents in various fields, including computer technology, biomedical, fuel purification, and financial systems. He has authored academic books and articles throughout his career. In 2019, he was appointed to chair the Technology and Ethics Working Group, Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Yale University.[1]

Biography

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Carvalko was born and raised in the northeastern United States. He served in the U.S. Air Force as a B-47 bomber radar fire control technician from 1959 through 1964.[2] After his discharge he continued his education, receiving a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a Master in Fine Arts at Fairfield University, in addition to a Juris Doctor at Quinnipiac University.

In the mid-1960s, Carvalko assisted inventor Emil Bolsey in the development of an image tracking system that was used by the Lunar Orbiter spacecraft in photographing landing sites for the Apollo Space missions that would later land on the Moon.[3]

In the 1970s, he assisted Marcel J. E. Golay and Kendall Preston develop television microscopes and artificial intelligence technologies for Perkin-Elmer.[4][5][6][7] Since 1980 he has practiced law, first admitted to the Connecticut bar and the U.S. patent bar in 1980, and then admitted to the New York bar in 1989.[8][9][10]

Since 2005, he has been an adjunct professor of law at Quinnipiac University, School of Law, teaching law, science and technology.[11] In 2018 he served as a faculty member at Yale University's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics.[12][13]

As a member, ABA, Section of Science & Technology Law, he served on the editorial board, SciTech Lawyer. From 1989 to 1996 he served the ABA in a leadership position as chair, Behavioral Sciences Committee.[14] As a member, Institute Electrical, Electronic, Engineers (IEEE), Society on Social Implications of Technology, he serves as Associate Editor of IEEE Society and Technology magazine.[15]

Carvalko is a frequent contributor of papers and articles about artificial intelligence and the future of posthuman technology. His engagements include science/technology forums as a presenter, moderator or keynote speaker, interviewee on podcasts and blogs, press and television.[16][17][18][19][20]

According to Google Scholar Carvalko's patents, and his articles, books on science, technology, and law have been cited over 1384 times, garnering an h-index of 14 and an i10-index rating of 15.[21] He has also written extensively on the future of technology cyborg, posthuman, and dystopian themes.[22][23][24][25]

As a trial attorney Carvalko has been lead attorney or a member of a trial team in cases throughout his career.[26][27][28] He served as the lead trial attorney who prosecuted the U.S. government for concealing that it left American POWs in North Korea following the 1953 Armistice.[29] The trial resulted in a Federal District Court judgment, which was the first of its kind to order the Army to change the classification of a soldier from Missing in Action to a Prisoners of War.[30] The trial was the subject of a Congressional investigation and subsequent hearing in 1995-96, where Carvalko's client, the POW's brother, testified about the trial before the United States House of Representatives, Committee on National Security, Military Personnel Subcommittee, Washington, DC, Thursday, June 20, 1996.[31] In 2005, a documentary recounting the trial and congressional hearing, entitled Missing, Presumed Dead: The Search For America's POWs, featured actor Ed Asner as narrator, Carvalko, as the lawyer who tried the case among others.[32][33]

Carvalko's inventions deal with a range of technologies used in copiers, medical arts, fuel filtering and artificial intelligence as it relates to remote sensing for smart buildings and vehicles. Among one of his inventions was in response to the death of UK's Princess Diana, killed in an accident as she fled the paparazzi. Carvalko invented a device to thwart successful photographing.[34][35] He appeared in a documentary produced by the Associated Press.[36] Other inventions, such as Carvalko's fuel purifier, covered under U.S Pat. No. 6,432,298, have been sold under the ALXZKA brand to the transportation and marine industry.[37]

Carvalko has also produced works in the creative writing genres of novels and poetry, where he frequently returns to historical, cultural and dystopian themes. We Were Beautiful Once, Chapters from a Cold War, is a novel inspired by his involvement in revealing that the US government abandoned POWs in North Korea following the cessation of hostilities in 1953. His Death by Internet considers how social media might create a virtual colosseum, where life or death of an individual depends on a vote of the masses, who agree or disagree with a social or political point of view. The novel was a 2014 finalist in the Military Writers Society of America award for historical fiction.[38] His poetry has appeared in numerous publications, such as The Flare Flagler Review, and University Press of Colorado.[39][40] His poem The Road Home won third-place finalist, in the Esurance Poetry prize, 2012.[41]

Selected works

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Books

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  • Conserving Humanity at the Dawn of Posthuman Technology (2019)[42]
  • The Techno-Human Shell: A Jump in the Evolutionary Gap (2012)[43][44]
  • We Were Beautiful Once, Chapters from the Cold War, a Novel (2013)[45][46]
  • The Science and Technology Guidebook for Lawyers (2014) – with Cara Morris[47]
  • Death By Internet, a Novel (2016)[48]
  • A Road Once Traveled (2015)[49]

Short stories

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  • "Road to Suwon" (2014)[50]
  • "Crossing the Evolutionary Gap" (2016)[51]

Poetry collections

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  • A Deadly Fog (2004)[52]
  • Behind the Steel (2015)[53]
  • Detras Del Acero (2015)[54]

References

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  1. ^ "Technology and Ethics | Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics". bioethics.yale.edu. Retrieved January 9, 2022.
  2. ^ Carvalko, Joseph (December 23, 1962). "AF, City, State Shower Honors on Outstanding Airman of Division". The Bridgeport Post. p. 44.
  3. ^ "Moonviews: Lunar Orbiter Archives". www.moonviews.com. Retrieved October 3, 2018.
  4. ^ Preston, K.; Carvalko, J. (1969). "Use of the contourograph to evaluate a high-resolution television microscope". Proceedings of the IEEE. 57 (1): 104–106. doi:10.1109/proc.1969.6896. ISSN 0018-9219.
  5. ^ Preston, K.; Carvalko, J.R. (December 1972). "On Determining Optimum Simple Golay Marking Transformations for Binary Image Processing". IEEE Transactions on Computers. C-21 (12): 1430–1433. doi:10.1109/T-C.1972.223519. ISSN 0018-9340. S2CID 21050445.
  6. ^ Preston Jr., K. (1972). "Advances in Acoustical Holography". Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English. 11 (4): 279–87. doi:10.1002/anie.197202791. PMID 4626421.
  7. ^ Kaufman, Nester, G.J. (1972). "Automation of the Fluorescent Treponemal Antibody Absorption Test". The Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry. 20 (4): 255–60. doi:10.1177/20.4.255. PMID 4555669. S2CID 32960219.
  8. ^ Carvalko. "CT bar admissions".
  9. ^ Carvalko. "U.S. PATENT bar admission".
  10. ^ Carvalko. "NY bar admission".
  11. ^ "Joseph Carvalko, Jr". www.qu.edu. December 2, 2020. Retrieved January 9, 2022.
  12. ^ "2018 Faculty | Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics". bioethics.yale.edu. Retrieved October 3, 2018.
  13. ^ Joe Carvalko on the Intersection of Law, Science, and Technology, retrieved January 9, 2022
  14. ^ "About the Authors" (PDF). www.americanbar.org. Retrieved January 9, 2022.
  15. ^ "IEEE Technology and Society Magazine - June 2017 - 4". www.nxtbook.com. Retrieved January 9, 2022.
  16. ^ Joe Carvalko at SINS21, retrieved January 9, 2022
  17. ^ Joseph Carvalko on the Techno-Human Shell: Have Confidence To Reach Beyond!, retrieved January 9, 2022
  18. ^ "Joseph Carvalko On His Fiction Piece "Crossing The Evolutionary Gap"". Katina Michael. Archived from the original on January 9, 2022. Retrieved January 9, 2022.
  19. ^ "Starts Thursday November 12 - IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society 2020 (ISTAS '20)". IEEE Technology and Society. November 11, 2020. Retrieved January 9, 2022.
  20. ^ "understanding — Seminars". Katina Michael. Archived from the original on January 9, 2022. Retrieved January 9, 2022.
  21. ^ "Joseph Carvalko; J R Carvalko; J Carvalko ; Carvalko; Joe Carvalko; JR Carvalko". scholar.google.com. Retrieved January 9, 2022.
  22. ^ "Intelligence Amplification | Innovation Hub". October 9, 2023. Archived from the original on October 9, 2023. Retrieved January 8, 2024.
  23. ^ "No, los bebés que aparecen en este vídeo no son "transhumanos" porque sus madres se han vacunado frente a la COVID-19 ni sus "genes" pertenecen a las farmacéuticas". www.msn.com. Retrieved January 9, 2022.
  24. ^ "A Review of The Techno-Human Shell, by Joseph Carvalko". archive.ieet.org. Retrieved January 9, 2022.
  25. ^ "If You Are Rethinking Your Ethics - In Line With Developments In Digitalisation, Artificial Intelligence, Superintelligence And Singularity". bbv Consultancy (in German). Retrieved January 9, 2022.
  26. ^ "State v. Payton".
  27. ^ "Dumas v. President Of United States, 554 F. Supp. 10 (D. Conn. 1982)".
  28. ^ "CSL Silicones, Inc. v. Midsun Grp. Inc".
  29. ^ Paul, Frisman (July 20, 1983). "Dumas Says Evidence Shows Brother a POW". The Hartford Courant. p. B7.
  30. ^ Gombossy, George (June 15, 1974). "Army Grants New Status for Soldier". The Hartford Courant. p. B7A.
  31. ^ Status Of Pow/Mia Negotiations With North Korea, House of Representatives, Committee on National Security, Military Personnel Subcommittee, Washington, DC, Thursday, June 20, 1996, p. 172
  32. ^ "Missing, Presumed Dead: The Search for America's POWs". IMDb.
  33. ^ "Missing, Presumed Dead: The Search For America's POWs". Youtube. Retrieved January 9, 2022.
  34. ^ Maremont, Mark (September 10, 1997). "And if these Ploys Don't Work, Celebs could Try Staying Home". The Wall Street Journal. p. B 1:1.
  35. ^ Reed vanHoornbeek, Lena (1997). "Protection from Paparazzi: Possible or Preposterous?". Saint Louis University Public Law Review. 17 : No. 1, Article 13.
  36. ^ Associated Press (July 21, 2015). "USA - Paparazzi shield". Youtube. Retrieved January 9, 2022.
  37. ^ ALXZKA FUEL PURIFIER. "Oil and Gas Online".
  38. ^ Military Writers Society of America (Summer 2014). "Awards Finalist for Historical Fiction". Dispatches: 22.
  39. ^ Carvalko, Joseph (January 9, 2022). "Mobius Strip".
  40. ^ Carvalko, Joseph (Fall 2014). "County Road 80". Manifest West – via University Press of Colorado.
  41. ^ Esurance (April 5, 2012). "Esurance Kicks Off Nationwide Poems of the Road Contest". PRNewswire.
  42. ^ Conserving Humanity at the Dawn of Posthuman Technology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. December 5, 2019. ISBN 978-3-030-26406-2.
  43. ^ "A Review of The Techno-Human Shell, by Joseph Carvalko". ieet.org. Retrieved October 3, 2018.
  44. ^ McGee, Ellen (2014). "Reviewed work: THE TECHNO-HUMAN SHELL: A JUMP IN THE EVOLUTIONARY GAP, Joseph Carvalko". Jurimetrics. 54 (2): 201–209. JSTOR 24395616.
  45. ^ "Missing, Presumed Dead: The Search For America's POWs". Vimeo. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
  46. ^ Carvalko, Joseph (February 19, 2013). We Were Beautiful Once: Chapters from a Cold War. Sunbury Press, Inc. ISBN 978-1620-06171-8.
  47. ^ Carvalko, Joseph R.; Morris, Cara (June 7, 2015). The Science and Technology Guidebook for Lawyers. American Bar Association. ISBN 978-1627226721.
  48. ^ Carvalko, Joseph (April 27, 2016). Death by Internet. Sunbury Press, Inc. ISBN 978-1620067055.
  49. ^ Carvalko, J.R. (April 6, 2018). A Road Once Traveled. Cat Paw Press. ISBN 978-1987437263.
  50. ^ "Road to Suwon". Military Experience & The Arts. September 29, 2014. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
  51. ^ "Crossing the Evolutionary Gap - IEEE Technology and Society". IEEE Technology and Society. June 29, 2017. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
  52. ^ Carvalko, Joseph (July 2, 2004). A Deadly Fog. Authorhouse, Inc. ISBN 1-4184-3043-9.
  53. ^ Carvalko, Joseph (July 2, 2004). Behind the Steel. Anaphora Literary Press. ISBN 978-1-68114-005-6.
  54. ^ Carvalko, Joe (July 2, 2015). Detras Del Acero (in Spanish). Catpawspress & Co. ISBN 978-1-329-19467-0.