Joseph S. Fulda was educated at Yeshiva Hirsch High School for Boys and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at The City College of New York, where he received a B.S. summa cum laude with research honors in biology. He earned his master’s in computer science from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University and received his professional degree (Computer Systems Engineer) from Columbia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science in 1986. In 1990, he was granted a doctorate in computer science by the Graduate School of the City University of New York, based on dissertation research he performed at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, while serving there as Research Assistant Professor of Biomathematical Sciences. Fulda has taught computer science while serving on faculties of engineering, arts and sciences, and continuing education, and has prepared questions for all three sections of the Law School Admission Test (logical reasoning, analytical reasoning, and reading comprehension).

His technical publications are in theoretical population ecology, artificial intelligence (philosophical artificial intelligence, logic-based artificial intelligence, and knowledge engineering), symbolic logic (Fulda defends the truth-functionality of the conditional and believes logical form is the key to how much meaning is captured in text), and privacy theory. He has written over four dozen reviews for Computing Reviews since 1988.

Fulda has also written extensively on public matters publishing two books on classical liberal thought, as well as numerous articles, notes, and reviews for the educated public. He is a contributing editor of The Freeman (since 1994), an associate editor of Transaction's Sexuality & Culture (since 1997), and is a columnist for the St. Croix Review (since 2000). He served on the editorial board of Computers and Society for five years (until it ceased print publication in 2002).