About

Richard Taylor is a faculty member associated with the Media Effects Research Lab at Penn State. The provided page text does not include specific details about his research focus, background, or key contributions. Therefore, there is no available biographical information to summarize.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Sociology
• Political Science
• Artificial Intelligence
• Law
• Business
• Physics
• Quantum mechanics
• Economics
• Political economy
• Mathematics
• Law and economics
• Risk analysis (engineering)
• Management science

Selected publications

• Triadic communication with young adults with cancer: "Make me feel like I'm not the third person"

  Patient Education and Counseling · 2025-07-15

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• Same goal, different paths: Contrasting approaches to AI regulation in China and India

  Telecommunications Policy · 2025-07-02 · 1 citations

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• Consciousness as the Foundation of Legal Agency in AGI

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025-01-01

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• Same Goal, Different Paths: Contrasting Approaches to Ai Regulation in China and India

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025-01-01 · 1 citations

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• Saving Global Human Rights: A “Global South AI” Strategy

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2024-01-01 · 1 citations

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• Accelerating Fragment Based Drug Discovery using Grand Canonical Nonequilibrium Candidate Monte Carlo

  ChemRxiv · 2024-09-30

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  Fragment-based drug discovery is a popular approach in academia and industry for the early stages of drug development. Computational tools have become integral to these campaigns and provide a route to library design, virtual screening, the identification of putative small molecule binding sites, the elucidation of binding geometries, and the prediction of accurate binding affinities. Molecular dynamics-based simulations have become increasingly popular, but are often limited by sampling issues related to the simulation timescales obtainable. Here, we expand the use of grand canonical nonequilibrium candidate Monte Carlo (GCNCMC) to overcome these limitations and accurately predict the binding sites, modes, and affinities of fragment-like molecules. GCNCMC has been used previously to accurately predict the location of water molecules in protein-ligand systems, by attempting the insertion and deletion of water to, or from, a region of interest; each proposed move is subject to a rigorous acceptance test based on the thermodynamic properties of the system. Here, we demonstrate the ability of fragment-based GCNCMC to rapidly and reliably find occluded experimental fragment binding sites. We also show that the method can accurately sample multiple fragment binding modes without any prior knowledge of their existence. Finally, we calculate the binding affinities for fragment molecules to three systems. We find that our results are in agreement with a more established method, namely absolute binding free energy calculations. Notably, GCNCMC does not require the use of complex restraints, the handling of multiple binding modes, or post-hoc symmetry corrections. Rather, binding sites, geometries and affinities all arise naturally from a series of GCNCMC simulations.

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• Same goal, different paths: Contrasting approaches to AI regulation in China and India

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2024-01-01

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• Saving global human rights: A “Global South + AI” strategy

  The Information Society · 2024-12-26 · 1 citations

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• The educational context

  2024-05-01

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  Not surprisingly, the curricular provision of the WMC has changed out of all recognition since its foundation in 1854. The analysis here focuses upon the programme developments from the 1950s to the 2020s, and the social, educational and policy changes underlying such developments. There was a wide range of provision in the 1950s and 1960s – from arts, social studies and modern languages, to science and mathematics, fine art, architecture and sculpture, and a small number of GCE ‘O’ and ‘A’ level courses, though it was restricted to adult male students. By the 1970s, the programme began to reflect the profound social changes that characterised post-war British society. Following a critical Inspection Report in 1996, and the developing emphases upon ‘vocationalism’, accreditation, and a more sensitive approach to the ethnically and culturally diverse local communities, the WMC’s programme changed radically – and expanded in size and range of provision.

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• Rethinking Reliance Damages for Breach of Contract

  2023-11-30

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  Abstract This chapter reviews the negative treatment of the reliance interest whereby reliance damages for breach of contract have come to be seen as expectation damages in disguise, dependent on a rebuttable presumption of recoupment. It seeks to show that this now orthodox consensus is not justified by the case law, much of which is concerned with pre-contractual wasted expenditure which is not reliance based. A long-standing error is revealed, that of equating the reliance interest with the position as though the contract had not been entered into when, at least for reliance damages for breach of contract, it should be concerned with the position as though the contractual promise had not been relied on post-contractually. The promisor’s voluntary assumption of responsibility for such reasonable reliance is posited as the basis of an independent measure of reliance damages for breach of contract, distinct from expectation damages in disguise.

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Frequent coauthors

• Won W. Koo

  261 shared

• Marvin R. Duncan

  46 shared

• Andrew L. Swenson

  Cornell University

  40 shared

• Dwight G. Aakre

  24 shared

• Bruce L. Dahl

  North Dakota State University

  13 shared

• William W. Wilson

  North Dakota State University

  11 shared

• Jeremy W. Mattson

  Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute

  10 shared

• Eric A. DeVuyst

  Oklahoma State University

  9 shared

Labs

• Media Effects Research LabPI

  Investigates social and psychological effects of technological elements unique to web-based mass-communication.

Education

• JD, School of Law

  New York University

  1983

• Ed.D., languages, literature, speech and theater

  Columbia University

  1978

Awards & honors

• IBM Faculty Partner (2002)
• President Obama's Technology, Media and Telecommunications A…
• Fellow of the American Bar Association
• Fellow of the New York State Bar Association
• Fellow of the Federal Communications Bar Association