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The New Stuff from Google Lawyers Will Care About
June 2, 2013
Google I/O 2013 continues, but yesterday was the big keynote speech highlighting changes to some of Google’s programs and services. While some rumors came true – there was a “new” phone announced, just not the X Phone – others did not – no Android 4.3. Some view I/O 2013 as Google’s act of cleaning up its mess. I think the clean up is certainly part of the focus, but I also think Google’s trying to unify services and designs – as Larry Page said, “show what’s possible.” Lawyers...
June 2, 2013
Google I/O 2013 continues, but yesterday was the big keynote speech highlighting changes to some of Google’s programs and services. While some rumors came true – there was a “new” phone announced, just not the X Phone – others did not – no Android 4.3. Some view I/O 2013 as Google’s act of cleaning up its mess. I think the clean up is certainly part of the focus, but I also think Google’s trying to unify services and designs – as Larry Page said, “show what’s possible.” Lawyers...
Launching the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab
June 2, 2013
We believe quantum computing may help solve some of the most challenging computer science problems, particularly in machine...
June 2, 2013
We believe quantum computing may help solve some of the most challenging computer science problems, particularly in machine...
Google Is Making Search For The Future
June 1, 2013
Google has 'lapped Siri' with sci-fi-like search - Computerworld. Google has always been the king of search. Now, the biggest announcement yesterday may be what is to come. How about a futuristic conversation with your phone or computer, and a real thinking computer talking to you about your questions? Google Now is already better than anything else out there, and I already talk to it about my day. It either answers me immediately with relevant information, or points me to websites with the answers...
June 1, 2013
Google has 'lapped Siri' with sci-fi-like search - Computerworld. Google has always been the king of search. Now, the biggest announcement yesterday may be what is to come. How about a futuristic conversation with your phone or computer, and a real thinking computer talking to you about your questions? Google Now is already better than anything else out there, and I already talk to it about my day. It either answers me immediately with relevant information, or points me to websites with the answers...
The “MIT School of Law” – Keynote Presentation @Stanford CodeX FutureLaw Conference
May 31, 2013
Dan Katz has a proposal for an MIT School of Law grounded in computational legal studies. How many professors at Yale or Harvard Law, he asks, "seriously know anything about legal information engineering, not normative argumentation or policy making." What better place to reimagine law in computational terms than MIT? Of course, MIT might simply start a Department of Legal Engineering. Or LE, as it would presumably be known among the locals.
May 31, 2013
Dan Katz has a proposal for an MIT School of Law grounded in computational legal studies. How many professors at Yale or Harvard Law, he asks, "seriously know anything about legal information engineering, not normative argumentation or policy making." What better place to reimagine law in computational terms than MIT? Of course, MIT might simply start a Department of Legal Engineering. Or LE, as it would presumably be known among the locals.
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (Rome 2013 – Registration is Now Open!)
May 30, 2013
As a member of the AI+Law 2013 Program Committee it is my pleasure to invite you to attend the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law – Rome 2013 — June 10-14. The conference will feature the core program of peer reviewed papers, research abstracts and project demos. In addition, the conference features two days of workshops and tutorials in topics such as Computational Models of Natural Argument, Textual Extraction from Legal Resources, Machine Learning in E-Discovery,...
May 30, 2013
As a member of the AI+Law 2013 Program Committee it is my pleasure to invite you to attend the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law – Rome 2013 — June 10-14. The conference will feature the core program of peer reviewed papers, research abstracts and project demos. In addition, the conference features two days of workshops and tutorials in topics such as Computational Models of Natural Argument, Textual Extraction from Legal Resources, Machine Learning in E-Discovery,...
Sergey Brin: Why Google Glass?
May 28, 2013
It's not a demo, more of a philosophical argument: Why did Sergey Brin and his team at Google want to build an eye-mounted camera/computer, codenamed Glass? Onstage at TED2013, Brin calls for a new way of seeing our relationship with our mobile computers -- not hunched over a screen but meeting the world heads-up.
May 28, 2013
It's not a demo, more of a philosophical argument: Why did Sergey Brin and his team at Google want to build an eye-mounted camera/computer, codenamed Glass? Onstage at TED2013, Brin calls for a new way of seeing our relationship with our mobile computers -- not hunched over a screen but meeting the world heads-up.
IBM CEO Ginni Rometty Touts Watson, New ‘Golden Era of Technology’
May 27, 2013
Watson, IBM’s Jeopardy!-winning supercomputer, is about to become an advisor to research-oriented industries, says IBM Chief Executive Officer Ginni Rometty. Speaking in San Francisco this week to the annual meeting of the National Venture Capital Association, she said that Watson is part of a third era of technology, in which computers learn. In fact, given today’s confluence of cloud, mobile, social and big data technologies, future historians may regard this era as “a golden era of technology,”...
May 27, 2013
Watson, IBM’s Jeopardy!-winning supercomputer, is about to become an advisor to research-oriented industries, says IBM Chief Executive Officer Ginni Rometty. Speaking in San Francisco this week to the annual meeting of the National Venture Capital Association, she said that Watson is part of a third era of technology, in which computers learn. In fact, given today’s confluence of cloud, mobile, social and big data technologies, future historians may regard this era as “a golden era of technology,”...
When Corporate Legal Departments Use Business Analytics to Measure Law Firms
May 27, 2013
This session is entitled “How corporate legal departments are using analytics to measure the value of the products and services they buy.” The panelists are Bob Ingato (Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary, CIT Group); James Partridge (Chief Counsel, Outside Counsel Relations, Ally Financial (formerly GMAC)); and Anne Sonnen (Deputy General Counsel & Chief Amdinistrative Officer, Legal, Corporate & Compliance Goup, BMO Financial Group). Timothy B. Corcoran (Corcoran...
May 27, 2013
This session is entitled “How corporate legal departments are using analytics to measure the value of the products and services they buy.” The panelists are Bob Ingato (Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary, CIT Group); James Partridge (Chief Counsel, Outside Counsel Relations, Ally Financial (formerly GMAC)); and Anne Sonnen (Deputy General Counsel & Chief Amdinistrative Officer, Legal, Corporate & Compliance Goup, BMO Financial Group). Timothy B. Corcoran (Corcoran...
Justice Flunks Math
May 22, 2013
With the Amanda Knox trial re-engaged in Italy, an op-ed in today's New York Times, "Justice Flunks Math," underscores a regrettable point: Lawyers' (and judges') unfamiliarity with even basic probability theory can fuel "grave errors of law" (not to mention casts even more unflattering light onto the legal profession generally). The op-ed authors even manage to rough-up one of Lawrence Tribe's (Harvard) early articles where he laments the "overbearing impressiveness" of numbers used in the trial...
May 22, 2013
With the Amanda Knox trial re-engaged in Italy, an op-ed in today's New York Times, "Justice Flunks Math," underscores a regrettable point: Lawyers' (and judges') unfamiliarity with even basic probability theory can fuel "grave errors of law" (not to mention casts even more unflattering light onto the legal profession generally). The op-ed authors even manage to rough-up one of Lawrence Tribe's (Harvard) early articles where he laments the "overbearing impressiveness" of numbers used in the trial...
Big Data Could Transform Global Financial Markets
May 17, 2013
Big Data is a big topic in academic and high-tech circles. And in case you haven't noticed, it's a big -- and growing -- topic in financial services too. In the next few years, expect big data to change the way financial services firms approach almost every part of the business, from asset and risk management to determine credit worthiness and trading, according to a new white paper from BNY Mellon. The paper, titled "The Transformational Influence of 'Big Data' on the 21st Century Global Financial...
May 17, 2013
Big Data is a big topic in academic and high-tech circles. And in case you haven't noticed, it's a big -- and growing -- topic in financial services too. In the next few years, expect big data to change the way financial services firms approach almost every part of the business, from asset and risk management to determine credit worthiness and trading, according to a new white paper from BNY Mellon. The paper, titled "The Transformational Influence of 'Big Data' on the 21st Century Global Financial...
