Loading ...Edward Stroz, CBA ’79, founder and co-president of the global consulting firm Stroz Friedberg, LLC, said that the field of information science—known as informatics—has become critical to the collection, delivery and analysis of data now that millions of documents exist electronically. Stroz delivered the 2010 Clavius Distinguished Lecture presented by Fordham's Department of Computer and Information Science.
Informatics is a science that studies the gathering, interpreting and transforming of information into connected computer networks and complex systems. While certain fields of science have begun to use informatics to further their disciplines, the justice system lags behind, Stroz said.
“I know a fair amount about evidence, and it has struck me that the use of informatics in our justice system has been rather unexplored,” said Stroz, a former special agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation who specializes in computer crime. “Many lawyers who have a little gray hair are still in the Stone Age when it comes to understanding how electronic documents compare to paper documents.”
In his lecture, “The Role of Informatics in Our Justice System,” Stroz outlined some pitfalls of having an inexperienced team parse electronic data to present as fact in a case:
• Some lawyers misunderstand the term “create date” in a document’s metadata and, therefore, may make an innocent, yet mistaken, analysis of how long a document has existed;
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Source: fordham.edu
By: Janet Sassi
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