User:Joseph Zernik

Dr Zernik has gained substantial experience in recent years in analyzing banking, courts, and prisons IT systems. Such research documented the important role that large-scale fraud in such systems plays in the current financial crisis and in abuse of Human Rights by governments in California, in the US, and in Israel. His reports (submitted under Human Rights Alert, NGO) in these areas were incorporated into Universal Periodic Review reports of the United Nations Human Rights Council regarding the United States (2010), with the note, “corruption of the courts and the legal profession in California”, and regarding the State of Israel (2013) with the note, “lack of integrity in the electronic records of the supreme court, the district courts and the detainees courts in Israel”. A textbook on "Machine Learning" found Dr Zernik's application of data-mining to Human Rights research among "Notable uses", and summarized it as follows: [i] Data mining of government records - particularly records of the justice system (i.e., courts, prisons) - enables the discovery of systemic human rights violations in connection to generation and publication of invalid or fraudulent legal records by various government agencies. [ii,iii] Dr Zernik also authored numerous peer-reviewed papers in scientific academic journals, and in Israeli and US news media on subjects ranging from politics to literature. In recent years Dr Zernik has been active in the US and Israeli Social Protest movements. As part of civil disobedience activity, Dr Zernik filed a number of petitions in key courts in the US and Israel, challenging the integrity of such courts. Today Dr Zernik is a permit holder for the Occupy Tel-Aviv camp. Updated short CV is periodically posted onlin. [iv] LINKS: [i] Wiki Nerds, "Machine Learning", Google books http://books.google.co.il/books?id=4ZayAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false [ii] Joseph Zernik. "Design and Operation of the Electronic Record Systems of the US Courts are Linked to Failing Banking Regulation" Data Analytics, 2012 http://www.thinkmind.org/index.php?view=article&articleid=data_analytics_2012_3_50_60059 [iii] Joseph Zernik, "Integrity, or Lack Thereof, of the Electronic Record Systems of the Courts of the State of Israel", Data Analytics, 2012 http://www.thinkmind.org/index.php?view=article&articleid=data_analytics_2012_2_10_60063 [iv] Biographical Sketch – Joseph Zernik, PhD http://www.scribd.com/doc/46421113/