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Joe Carvalko Jr.

Joseph Carvalko, Jr. is a technologist, academic, and writer living in New Mexico, who has devoted his career to the field of invention and its intersection with society.

Early life and education
Joseph Carvalko was born and raised in the U.S. northeast. From 1959-mid-1964 he served with the U.S. Air Force, Strategic Air Command, 307th Bomb Wing, after which he continued his education at Fairfield University, (B.S. Electrical Engineering), Quinnipiac University, (Juris Doctor) and Fairfield University, (Master in Fine Arts (writing)).

Technologist
As an inventor/engineer Carvalko has been awarded 15 US patents over the period 1978 through 2018 in fields ranging from computer technology and biomedical, to fuel purification, and financial systems. He co-invented (Richard Kasper, MD) medical products, covered by US patents 4,284,081 and 4,148,319, which have been cited in the patent literature nearly 90 times regarding inventions involving heart, lung or bladder medical devices; and co-invented, US patent 7,610,210 on the acquisition of technology risk mitigation, cited nearly 45 times. Other medical field inventions include a System and Method for Crowdsourcing Biological Specimen Identification (co-inventor, Cara Morris), US Pat. Application, Pub. 20150370985; and a Remote Controlled Telemedical Ultrasonic Diagnostic Device, for forming three dimensional scanned diagnostic anatomical images, (co-inventor, Govindan Gopinathan, MD), US Pat. Application, Pub. 20140180111. As a patent attorney he has obtained over 30 patents for inventors he has represented before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. In the mid-2000s he was a partner at the law firm Duane Morris, New York practicing as a patent attorney in the areas of electronics, computers, software, communications, and pharmaceuticals; and earlier at The Hartford he headed-up the company’s intellectual property program related to insurance, software, and e-commerce patents. In the late 90s at Alxzka, Inc., he served as President and CEO developing fuel purifying products, based on his patent, US 6,432,298, a Purifier for Separating Liquids, and where he invented an anti-paparazzi device, following Princess Diana’s death, which resulted in widespread celebrity interest and interviews on T.V. and radio, (e.g., CNBC, WCBS, PBS). In the mid-90s, at Gateway 2000, Inc., he served as Senior Staff Counsel (director-level) in charge of patent development and licensing, where he was a principle negotiator involving a one-half-billion dollar technology licensing arrangement with IBM. At Farrel Corporation, during the 80s and 90s,  he served as Vice President, General Counsel, advising management on corporate law and patents, where he successfully managed the trade secret ICC Court of Arbitration litigation against Pomini, SpA that resulted in Farrel being compensated $7.3 million. , In the 70’s he served as senior engineering manager for New Product Development, Pitney-Bowes, Inc., Copier Systems Division; and as Director System’s Integration, (Computer based telecommunications) for Pitney-Bowes/Alpex where he worked for Norman Alpert, the earliest inventor of the electronic point-of-sale system, used in the then emerging field of credit files and electronic cash registers;  and prior to that worked for Perkin-Elmer, Inc., Corporate Research, Optical Signal Processing group on artificial intelligence, optical and acoustic holography. , Under the direction of professor Kendall Preston and the notable mathematician and physicist, MJE Golay ,  he advanced two-dimensional cellular automata for pattern recognition of biological specimens. In the mid-60s, Carvalko worked with renowned inventor Emil Bolsey developing the image tracking system used by the Lunar Orbiter spacecraft in photographing landing sites for the Apollo Space missions that would later land on the Moon.

Academic
He is a faculty member at the Yale University Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, and Adjunct Professor of Law (2005-present) and course creator of: Law, Science, Technology, at Quinnipiac University, School of Law. He also serves on the Yale Community Bioethics Forum on Biomedical Ethics, Yale School of Medicine. Formerly, he was Adjunct Professor, Management of Intellectual Property Assets Fairfield University, School of Engineering (2005-2007). In 1997, he traveled to Uganda, under the auspices of the World Bank, for the International Law Institute, to teach international intellectual property protection. He served as Adjunct Professor of Law at University of South Dakota School of Law, computer law (1996), and prior, as Adjunct Professor of Law, Quinnipiac University, School of Law for trial advocacy (1988-1994). He headed the International Institute of Legal Studies, as U.S. representative for Holborn College, London (1994-1996). He was Lecturer, Western Connecticut State University, Ancell School of Business, undergraduate and graduate management studies, teaching Social Responsibility of Business in Society and Diagnosing Organizational Behavior (1984-1987).

He is a content contributor and an associate editor for Society and Technology magazine, published by Institute Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Society on Social Implications of Technology. He is past member of the editorial board for SciTech magazine, a publication of the American Bar Association, Section on Science and Technology. He has widely lectured: e.g., Yale University speaker for commencement of the 2014-2015 lecture series at the Yale Technology and Ethics working research group (New Haven, 2014); Center for Inquiry–Transnational, The Coming of the Cyborg (Amherst, 2015). Presenter at the 2016 Conference on Governance of Emerging Technologies, Law, Policy, Ethics (Tempe, AZ, 2016); and the 2014 Governance of Emerging Technologies, Law, Policy, Ethics (Tempe, AZ, 2014). His paper Law and Policy In An Era Of Cyborg-Assisted-Life was presented at the IEEE International Symposium of Technology and Society Conference, Toronto University (2013). In 2014, he served as moderator/lecturer on Computers, Software, Biology: The USPTO and Supreme Court's Slippery Slope Explored, ABA Webinar. He presented his invention for an aerial tracking and target recognition system, The Evaluation of Golay Transforms as Applied to Aerial Photo Interpretation, to the U.S. Army, Symposium on Automatic Photo Interpretation and Recognition, (1971), Washington D.C.

Writer
He has authored academic books and articles throughout his career: The Techno-Human Shell: A Jump in the Evolutionary Gap (Sunbury Press, 2012, 198pp)  ; co-authored (Cara Morris) The Science and Technology Guidebook for Lawyers (ABA Pub., 2014, 398pp). He has published dozens of articles, such as: Appointment of The Planet’s Policy Custodian, (IEEE, Soc. & Tech Mag., Jan. 2018); Defending Against Opaque Algorithmic Meddling in Free Elections (IEEE, Soc. & Tech Mag., Aug. 2018, Guest Editorial). The Emergence of Pharmaco-Electronics (IEEE, Soc. & Tech Mag., 2015); Co-authored (Cara Morris) Crowdsourcing Biological Specimen Identification, Consumer Technology Applied to Health Care Access, (IEEE Consumer Electronics, Jan. 2015). He authored Introduction to an Ontology of Intellectual Property (ABA, SciTech Mag., 2015) ; Who Should Own In-The-Body Medical Data in the Age of Electronic Medicine? (IEEE Soc. & Tech Mag., 2014); Self-Absorption, Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, (2014);  Law and Policy in an Era of Cyborg-Assisted-Life (2013 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society);  Basic Copyright chapter: Now What? The Creative Writer’s Guide to Success after the MFA (Fairfield U. Press). Have Confidence to Reach Beyond, Interview, Singularity, (2013). Intellectual Property Issues in the Financial and Banking Industries, Including Business Methods and Security Interests (PA Intellectual Property Law Institute, Pub. No. 4533, 2007); Patents Pave Way for Strategies in IP Intensive Environments (Cisco World); An Alternative for Distillate Fuel Filtration, (Diesel & Gas Worldwide). Co-author: On Determining Optimum Simple Golay Marking Transforms for Binary Image Processing (IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. C-21, Issue: 12, 1972); Co-author: Use of the contourograph to evaluate a high-resolution television microscope (Proc. of the IEEE, Vol. 57 Issue: 1, 1969).

In the years leading up to and producing books of fiction and poetry, he was mentored by several bestselling authors, Josip Novakovich, Baron Wormser,  Eugenia Kim. Carvalko’s novel Death By Internet, a Novel (Sunbury Press, 2016) is about a dystopian technological future;  We Were Beautiful Once, Chapters from the Cold War, a Novel (Sunbury Press, 2013), is based in part on Carvalko’s federal trial  against the U.S. government for covering up American POWs left behind in North Korea following the armistice in 1953. The book was a finalist Best Historical Fiction, Military Writers Society of America. He’s authored several poetry books, Behind the Steel, (Amphora Lit. Press, 2015); Detras del Acero (Editorial Trance, 2015, original Spanish poetry, 97pp.); The Interior, book of poetry, finalist (Red Mountain Press, 2012). A Road Once Traveled, Life from All Sides, memoir, (2007); A Deadly Fog, book of poems and essays (2004); Published poems: Mobius Strip, (FLARE: The Flagler Review (2014), and in Anomalie Magazine, RE: mind, Goldsmiths, University of London, (2015); County Road 80, Manifest West (U. Press of CO, fall 2014); Registered Letter, Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, Vol. 2 (MS Hum. Council, and SE MS State University Press, (2013); The Road Home, finalist, (Esurance Poetry prize, 2012) ; Short stories: Crossing the Evolutionary Gap (IEEE, Technology and Society Magazine, 2016);,  Winter Interrupted, All Gave Some (Military Writers Society of America, Anthology, 2014); Road to Suwon (Military Experience and the Arts, 2014);  Reminders of the Next Round, (Storytellers, 2013), The Music Lesson, (Headspace, 2015).

Boards/Committees/Awards
He is a member of Board of Directors, Security Identification Systems Corporation; and serves as Amnesty International, Legislative Coordinator for the State of New Mexico; formerly he was a member of the Patent and Intellectual Property Working Group (Financial Services Roundtable), Washington D.C. (2001-2003); and past member, Board of Directors, Farrel Corporation (1980s). In the mid-80s he was and elected member of the Bethel, Connecticut, Board of Education; and from 1989-1996 he served as Chairman, ABA Section of Science and Technology Behavioral Sciences Committee. He was a member, Board of Directors, Sioux City American Indian Center, (1995-1996) and was a Trustee, University of Bridgeport, School of Law, Inc., (1991-92); and Board member, University of Bridgeport, School of Law Inc., (1991-92), responsible for transferring University of Bridgeport, School of Law to Quinnipiac University, School of Law, $25MM campus. He actively participated in the formation of the University of Bridgeport School of Law (1973-1979), which today is the University of Quinnipiac, School of Law. From 1980-1992, he served as advisor to Dean’s committee, and in mid-80s, President, University of Bridgeport, School of Law Alumni Association. As Counsel, Connecticut Rehabilitation Association (early-mid-80s) he advocated for the rights of the physically challenged. He received the Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Bridgeport, 1989, and as a member of the armed forces, working as an Air Force radar fire control technician, he received the 818th Strategic Aerospace Division, 307th Bomb Wing Outstanding Airman Award (1962); and awarded Admiral in the Great Navy of the State of Nebraska, by Governor Frank Morrison; Distinguished Military Achievement Award, Post 3, American Legion(1962); Commendation Citation, City of Lincoln Nebraska, Mayor Bartlett Boyles (1962).