Joseph Carvalko Jr.

Joseph Carvalko, Jr. is an American technologist, academic, patent lawyer and writer. As an inventor and engineer, Carvalko has been awarded seventeen U.S. patents in various fields, including computer technology, biomedical, fuel purification, and financial systems.[1] 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.

Biography

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, after which 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.[2]

In the 1970s, he assisted Marcel J. E. Golay and Kendall Preston develop artificial intelligence technologies for Perkin-Elmer, eventually transferring to Pitney-Bowes/Alpex where, as Director of Systems Integration, he helped develop point of sale communication systems.[3][4] He began lecturing at the Western Connecticut State University in 1984, teaching Social Responsibility of Business in Society and Diagnosing Organizational Behavior. From 1988-1992, he was Adjunct Professor of Law, Bridgeport University, School of Law, teaching Trial Practice, and from 1992-1994, Adjunct Professor of Law, Quinnipiac University, teaching Trial Practice. In 1996, he taught as Adjunct Professor of Law, University of South Dakota, where he taught computer law. In 1997, he traveled to Uganda for the International Law Institute to teach international intellectual property protection.

From 2001 to 2003, he was a member of the Patent and Intellectual Property Working Group in Washington, D.C. In the mid-2000s, he was a partner at the New York branch of the Duane Morris law firm, practicing as a patent attorney in the areas of electronics, computers, software, communications, and pharmaceuticals.

Since 2005, he has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at Quinnipiac University, School of Law, teaching Law, Science and Technology, and in 2018, served as a faculty member at Yale University's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics.[5] From 2005 to 2007, he lectured at Fairfield University, teaching Management of Intellectual Property Assets.

As a member, ABA, Section of Science & Technology Law, he served on the editorial board, SciTech Lawyer and chair, Behavioral Sciences Committee); 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.

Carvalko's articles and books focus on science, technology, and law. He has also written extensively on cyborg, posthuman, and dystopian themes.

Selected works

Books
  • Conserving Humanity at the Dawn of Posthuman Technology (2019)[6]
  • The Techno-Human Shell: A Jump in the Evolutionary Gap (2012)[7][8]
  • We Were Beautiful Once, Chapters from the Cold War, a Novel (2013)[9][10]
  • The Science and Technology Guidebook for Lawyers (2014) – with Cara Morris[11]
  • Death By Internet, a Novel (2016)[12]
  • A Road Once Traveled (2015)[13]

Short stories
  • "Road to Suwon" (2014)[14]
  • "Crossing the Evolutionary Gap" (2016)[15][16]

Poetry collections
  • A Deadly Fog (2004)[17]
  • Behind the Steel (2015)[18]
  • Detras Del Acero (2015)[19]

References
  1. "Patent Database Search Results: IN/carvalko in US Patent Collection". patft.uspto.gov.
  2. "Moonviews: Lunar Orbiter Archives". www.moonviews.com. Retrieved October 3, 2018.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. "2018 Faculty | Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics". bioethics.yale.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-03.
  6. Conserving Humanity at the Dawn of Posthuman Technology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. ISBN 978-3-030-26406-2.
  7. "A Review of The Techno-Human Shell, by Joseph Carvalko". ieet.org. Retrieved 2018-10-03.
  8. McGee, Ellen (2014). "Reviewed work: THE TECHNO-HUMAN SHELL: A JUMP IN THE EVOLUTIONARY GAP, Joseph Carvalko". Jurimetrics. 54 (2): 201–209. JSTOR 24395616.
  9. "Missing, Presumed Dead: The Search For America's POWs". Vimeo. Retrieved 2018-10-07.
  10. Carvalko, Joseph (2013-02-19). We Were Beautiful Once: Chapters from a Cold War. Sunbury Press, Inc. ISBN 978-1620-06171-8.
  11. Carvalko, Joseph R.; Morris, Cara (2015-06-07). The Science and Technology Guidebook for Lawyers. American Bar Association. ISBN 978-1627226721.
  12. Carvalko, Joseph (2016-04-27). Death by Internet. Sunbury Press, Inc. ISBN 978-1620067055.
  13. Carvalko, J.R. (2018-04-06). A Road Once Traveled. Cat Paw Press. ISBN 978-1987437263.
  14. "Road to Suwon". Military Experience & The Arts. 2014-09-29. Retrieved 2018-10-07.
  15. "Crossing the Evolutionary Gap - IEEE Technology and Society". IEEE Technology and Society. 2017-06-29. Retrieved 2018-10-07.
  16. Diogenes Christopher (2016-06-20), Joseph Carvalko Speaks With Katina Michael On His Fiction Piece "Crossing The Evolutionary Gap", retrieved 2018-10-07
  17. Carvalko, Joseph (2004-07-02). A Deadly Fog. Authorhouse, Inc. ISBN 1-4184-3043-9.
  18. Carvalko, Joseph (2004-07-02). Behind the Steel. Anaphora Literary Press. ISBN 978-1-68114-005-6.
  19. Carvalko, Joe (2015-07-02). Detras Del Acero (in Spanish). Catpawspress & Co. ISBN 978-1-329-19467-0.
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