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Speaker

Gerardo Con Diaz, University of California-Davis

Title

"Monkeys, Artificial Intelligence, and Personhood in U.S. Copyright Law"

Abstract - TBD

Biography

Gerardo Con Diaz researches how law and policy have shaped the digital world. His first book, Software Rights, examines software patenting in the United States.

 
 
About Me
I research how law and policy have shaped the digital world. My first book, Software Rights, examines software patenting in the United States. My next book, on Internet copyright, is under contract with Yale University Press. I also have a few side projects on the histories of medical algorithms, the California oil industry, and the U.S. music industry. His research is funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is an Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the University of California, Davis, and the Editor in Chief of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. With Jeff Yost, he edits the Johns Hopkins Series Studies in Computing and Culture. He received a Ph.D. from Yale University and additional degrees from the University of Cambridge (Trinity College) and Harvard University.