Jack Cushman is the director of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab, a software and design lab at the Harvard Law School Library bringing library principles to technological frontiers.
His work explores ways libraries can better collect, preserve, and share knowledge to empower people, at present focusing on fragility of digital cultural memory and on AI as a new form of knowledge.
A software engineer and appellate attorney, he previously worked as lead developer of the Caselaw Access Project, and has served as a lecturer on computer programming at Harvard Law School, as a fellow at Berkman and as a board member of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts.
