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Jack Cushman

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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. 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.


News

Nov 20, 2014

Berkman Community Newcomers: Jack Cushman

Meet Berkman fellow Jack Cushman, who works on Perma.cc to support digital preservation at university libraries.


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Archivists Work to Identify and Save the Thousands of Datasets Disappearing From Data.gov

Affiliate Jack Cushman works to archive datasets that have disappeared from data.gov in the days since Trump's inauguration.

Jan 30, 2025
Library Innovation Lab

LLMs are universal translators: on building my own translation tools for a foreign language conference

BKC Affiliate Jack Cushman frames large language models (LLMs) as universal translators.

Nov 29, 2023
Library Innovation Lab

Conference talk: disruptive innovation in libraries

BKC Affiliate Jack Cushman discusses how libraries must innovate to emerging needs of the community.

Nov 28, 2023
Fastcase

Jack Cushman named a 2019 “Fastcase 50” Award Winner

BKC fellow honored for his work on Perma.cc and Caselaw Access Project

Jul 10, 2019