Publications

Articles and Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers

Generative Misinterpretation
(w/ James Grimmelmann & Benjamin Sobel)
63 Harv. J. Legis. __ (forthcoming 2026)

Building a Long Text Privacy Policy Corpus with Multi-Class Labels
F. Marotta-Wurgler*, D. Stein*
Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics, Vol. 63, no. 906 (forthcoming 2025)

Hot Apps: Recalibrating IP to Address Online Software
2024 Wis. L.J. 1013

Data Insecurity Law
39 Santa Clara High Tech. L.J. 445 (2023)

Multi-Attribute Tradespace Exploration for Survivability
A. Ross*, D. Stein*, D. Hastings
Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets vol. 51 no. 5 (2014)

Constraint-aware Coordinated Construction of Generic Structures
D. Stein (presenter), T. Schoen, D. Rus
International Conference on Intelligent Robots (2011)

Experiments in Decentralized Robot Construction with Tool Delivery and Assembly Robots
A. Bolger*, M. Faulkner*, D. Stein* (presenter), L. White*, S. Yun*, D. Rus
International Conference on Intelligent Robots (2010)

Multi-Attribute Tradespace Exploration for Survivability: Application to Satellite Radar
M. Richards*, A. Ross*, D. Stein*, D. Hastings
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics SPACE Forum (2009)

* shared first authorship, listed alphabetically

Theses

Efficient Homomorphically Encrypted Privacy-Preserving Automated Biometric Recognition, MIT M. Eng. Thesis (Sept. 2020)

Constraint-Aware Coordinated Robotic Construction of Generic Structures, MIT M. Eng. Thesis (not filed - see linked note) (June 2011)

Book Chapters

Toronto Tomorrow: The Master Innovation and Development Plan for the Quayside District Vol. 2 Ch. 5: "Digital Innovation" (2018)

Patents

Methods, Systems, And Media For Secure Authentication Of Users Based On A Biometric Identifier And Knowledge-Based Secondary Information
David Stein, Ryan Vilim, John Wittrock
U.S. Patent 11,711,215 (issued July 25, 2023)

Secure methods, systems, and media for generating and authenticating user credentials
John Wittrock, David Stein
U.S. Patent 11,652,819 (issued May 16, 2023)

Methods, systems, and media for recovering identity information in verifiable claims-based systems
David Stein, John Wittrock
U.S. Patent 11,108,760 (issued Aug. 31, 2021)

Identity systems, methods, and media for auditing and notifying users concerning verifiable claims
David Stein, John Wittrock
U.S. Patent 11,115,207 (issued Sept. 21, 2021)

Authorization review system
U.S. Patent 9,497,253 (issued Nov. 15, 2016)

Presenting data in response to an incomplete query
U.S. Patent 9,235,636 (issued Jan. 12, 2016)

Unified interface for querying data in legacy databases and current databases
U.S. Patent App. 13,737,322 (published July 10, 2014)