Computer Science

Law as a tool for social regulation - its homeostatic function. Law as the emergence of recognition and protection of subjectivity. Language production as emergence from original chaos. The formation of words and thoughts - relevant brain areas. Communication - linguistic community - signifier and signified - meaning. The word as a linguistic code and as a vehicle of illocutionary intention and the emotional journey embodied within it. Mental images - mind - consciousness: distinction and connections. Word processing in AI systems: tokens - token embedding - the attention mechanism. The computer representation of legal knowledge. Expert systems and AI systems: common and distinctive elements. The Daedalus PM Assistant system. Data as representation. Data and information - Information science: its object and recent developments up to Data Science and AI. Data and communication. The crime - Linguistic disambiguation of the term "reato" - The structure of the crime Material element of the criminal conduct. Psychological element of the criminal conduct.

Good knowledge of the Italian language, with specific reference to the grammatical and logical analysis of linguistic statements. Familiarity with dedicated applications and the resulting ability, albeit basic, to use and cross-reference data to generate knowledge. Basic legal knowledge.

Carmelo Asaro - Crime Analysis and Representation: A Theoretical Basis for Applied Research, Pacini Giuridica Pisa 2023 Carmelo Asaro - Interview with ChatGPT. Notebook No. 1: How I Work, Amazon 2025 Carmelo Asaro - The Daedalus System - The (still unfinished) dawn of artificial intelligence in decision-making systems in the Italian criminal justice system, Amazon 2024

Student attendance in the classroom. Remote student participation is not normally expected, except when required for specific events.

The exam will be oral. The student will be asked to present a topic from the program. The exam will be structured in a dialogue and will aim to highlight the student's level of preparation and ability to organize the content of the topics studied both culturally and expositorily. The student may submit a short research topic relevant to the program. The evaluation will take the above elements into account.

Carmelo Asaro - Legal Knowledge Engineering, Amazon 2024 Carmelo Asaro - The Itaca System of the Court of Cassation, Amazon 2024 Giuseppe Corasaniti - Data Science and Law, Giappichelli Turin 2022 Carmelo Asaro - On the Path Traced by "Evidence," in the journal "Informatica e diritto," 2 - Florence 2016 Carmelo Asaro - The Important Path Opened by the Evidence Project, in "Processing and Exchange of Digital Evidence in Europe," Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, ISSN 0390-0975, Naples 2015 Carmelo Asaro - A Quarter of a Century in Artificial Intelligence and Law, in collaboration with E. Nissan and others, Springer, Berlin 2013 Carmelo Asaro - Daedalus, a Procedural-Support Tool for the Italian Examining Magistrate and Prosecutor, in collaboration with E. Nissan and A.A. MARTINO, in Carmelo Asaro - “Computer applications for handling legal evidence, police investigation, and case argumentation,” vol. 1, Springer, Berlin 2012 Carmelo Asaro - A Domain Ontology: Italian Crime Ontology, in collaboration with M. A. Biasiotti and others, ICAIL, Edinburgh 2003. Progetto Daedalus, in “New Information Technology and Internet Law,” edited by G. Cassano, Milan 2002 Carmelo Asaro - Daedalus P.M. Assistant, in “Legal Informatics, New Themes in Information Technology and Internet Law,” Simone, Naples 2001. Carmelo Asaro - The Daedalus system: a tool for the Italian Investigating Magistrate and the Prosecutor. A sample session: an extortion case, in collaboration with E. Nissan and A.A. MARTINO in “Computing and Informatics”, Vol. 20, 2001, 1 – 40, V 15. 3, London 2001

The program is essentially taught through explanations of the topic, most often accompanied by slide presentations. These are made available to students through public access via the dedicated website. Lectures are open to student contributions and requests for clarification and/or further information. Some hours will be dedicated to classroom exercises or to illustrating and commenting on student reports.