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For High Court, a Fantasy League of Their Own
March 11, 2014
In many ways, it's a fantasy league like any other, with players obsessing over mounds of data and minutia, teams sporting a variety of colorful names like "RISK It for the Biscuit" and projections that are bound to be way off. But in this fantasy league, it's not the NFL's Calvin Johnson or Peyton Manning who are the stars but a group known for its skills not on the playing field but in the courtroom: the nine justices on the U.S. Supreme Court. In FantasySCOTUS, participants try to predict...
March 11, 2014
In many ways, it's a fantasy league like any other, with players obsessing over mounds of data and minutia, teams sporting a variety of colorful names like "RISK It for the Biscuit" and projections that are bound to be way off. But in this fantasy league, it's not the NFL's Calvin Johnson or Peyton Manning who are the stars but a group known for its skills not on the playing field but in the courtroom: the nine justices on the U.S. Supreme Court. In FantasySCOTUS, participants try to predict...
The New York Times is Creating a New Data-Driven Journalism Venture
March 9, 2014
The New Republic has this story: [David] Leonhardt will take over a new Times website located “at the nexus of data and news [that] will produce clear analytical reporting and writing on opinion polls, economic indicators, politics, policy, education, and sports” Initial contributors will include Nate Cohn, Justin Wolfers, Amanda Cox and Michael Beschloss. We’re happy at The Monkey Cage to see this get off the ground. Political and policy journalism is going through a quiet transformation,...
March 9, 2014
The New Republic has this story: [David] Leonhardt will take over a new Times website located “at the nexus of data and news [that] will produce clear analytical reporting and writing on opinion polls, economic indicators, politics, policy, education, and sports” Initial contributors will include Nate Cohn, Justin Wolfers, Amanda Cox and Michael Beschloss. We’re happy at The Monkey Cage to see this get off the ground. Political and policy journalism is going through a quiet transformation,...
Copyright Office Ex-GC Calls Foul on Google Books
March 8, 2014
What does the former general counsel of the Copyright Office, Jon Baumgarten, think about the Southern District of New York’s...
March 8, 2014
What does the former general counsel of the Copyright Office, Jon Baumgarten, think about the Southern District of New York’s...
Exponentials: Artificial Intelligence
March 7, 2014
Artificial intelligence Computer science researchers have been studying Artificial Intelligence (AI) since John McCarthy introduced the term in 1955.5 Defined loosely as the science of making intelligent machines, AI can cover a wide range of techniques, including machine learning, deep learning, probabilistic inference, neural network simulation, pattern analysis, decision trees and random forests, and others. For our purposes, we focus on how AI can simulate reasoning, develop knowledge, and allow...
March 7, 2014
Artificial intelligence Computer science researchers have been studying Artificial Intelligence (AI) since John McCarthy introduced the term in 1955.5 Defined loosely as the science of making intelligent machines, AI can cover a wide range of techniques, including machine learning, deep learning, probabilistic inference, neural network simulation, pattern analysis, decision trees and random forests, and others. For our purposes, we focus on how AI can simulate reasoning, develop knowledge, and allow...
“iLitigation”: Essential Apps and Websites for Litigators
March 5, 2014
Searching the thousands of apps available in the App Store for the “needle in the haystack” you can use in your law practice...
March 5, 2014
Searching the thousands of apps available in the App Store for the “needle in the haystack” you can use in your law practice...
Click Fraud Detection: Adversarial Pattern Recognition Over 5 Years at Microsoft
March 3, 2014
Abstract. Microsoft adCenter is the third largest Search advertising platform in the United States behind Google and Yahoo, and services about 10% of US traffic. At this scale of traffic approximately 1 billion events per hour, amount-ing to $2.3 billion ad dollars annually, need to be scored to determine if it is fraudulent or bot-generated [46], [51], [58]. In order to accomplish this, adCenter has developed arguably one of the largest data mining systems in the world to score traffic quality,...
March 3, 2014
Abstract. Microsoft adCenter is the third largest Search advertising platform in the United States behind Google and Yahoo, and services about 10% of US traffic. At this scale of traffic approximately 1 billion events per hour, amount-ing to $2.3 billion ad dollars annually, need to be scored to determine if it is fraudulent or bot-generated [46], [51], [58]. In order to accomplish this, adCenter has developed arguably one of the largest data mining systems in the world to score traffic quality,...
Analyzing LTNY: Lawyers Want Easy Tech With More Tools – Picture It Settled
March 3, 2014
Donald Philbin, a dispute resolution expert, showed me the latest version of the Picture It Settled website featuring the Settlement...
March 3, 2014
Donald Philbin, a dispute resolution expert, showed me the latest version of the Picture It Settled website featuring the Settlement...
Why Google Kept Motorola’s Research Lab
March 1, 2014
Google’s $2.9 billion sale of Motorola Mobility to Chinese PC maker Lenovo might seem like lousy business, given Google’s $12.5 billion purchase in 2012 and losses in the interim. But it leaves Google with a mobile research unit and a war chest of patents arguably bought at a very good price. And it gives a boost to Android in developing countries. Google earlier sold off the Motorola Mobility Home unit for $2.35 billion (see “Why Google Wants Motorola”). With losses and other factors...
March 1, 2014
Google’s $2.9 billion sale of Motorola Mobility to Chinese PC maker Lenovo might seem like lousy business, given Google’s $12.5 billion purchase in 2012 and losses in the interim. But it leaves Google with a mobile research unit and a war chest of patents arguably bought at a very good price. And it gives a boost to Android in developing countries. Google earlier sold off the Motorola Mobility Home unit for $2.35 billion (see “Why Google Wants Motorola”). With losses and other factors...
Big Data and Analytics: Opportunities and Challenges
February 27, 2014
Big Data and Big Analytics can be used for a wide array of purposes, including increasing sales, improving competitive intelligence and managing workforces, by all sorts of entities. McKinsey reports that retailers adopting Big Data can increase operating margins by more than 60 percent. During the past holiday season, for example, Macy’s and J.C. Penney partnered with a shopping app provider to reward customers with discounts, or song downloads, for trying on clothes and making purchases. Best...
February 27, 2014
Big Data and Big Analytics can be used for a wide array of purposes, including increasing sales, improving competitive intelligence and managing workforces, by all sorts of entities. McKinsey reports that retailers adopting Big Data can increase operating margins by more than 60 percent. During the past holiday season, for example, Macy’s and J.C. Penney partnered with a shopping app provider to reward customers with discounts, or song downloads, for trying on clothes and making purchases. Best...
Patent Reform Needs Fee Shifting Provisions, Because Judges Almost Never Award Attorneys’ Fees
February 22, 2014
One of the key parts of the attempts to reform the patent system is the fee shifting provision, which would make it so patent...
February 22, 2014
One of the key parts of the attempts to reform the patent system is the fee shifting provision, which would make it so patent...
