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Will Your Job Be Done By A Machine?
July 15, 2015
Machines can do some surprising things. But what you really want to know is this: Will your job be around in the future? We...
July 15, 2015
Machines can do some surprising things. But what you really want to know is this: Will your job be around in the future? We...
Will Legal Tech Eventually Disrupt Biglaw?
July 14, 2015
Now, despite the famous-in-tech-circles-only Marc Andreessen quote, “Software is eating the world,” not every industry...
July 14, 2015
Now, despite the famous-in-tech-circles-only Marc Andreessen quote, “Software is eating the world,” not every industry...
Technology Is Necessary to Serve Client Needs
July 12, 2015
Technology can be the key, but lawyers need to see it as an important part of solving the client's issue. Luckily, there is a lot of promise in the marketplace. When I speak to companies and law firms that deal with large amounts of litigation, many of them understand that technology has a role to play and is critical to transforming e-discovery at their company or firm. The idea that the combination of smart people with smart technology can completely change the game often resonates with the general...
July 12, 2015
Technology can be the key, but lawyers need to see it as an important part of solving the client's issue. Luckily, there is a lot of promise in the marketplace. When I speak to companies and law firms that deal with large amounts of litigation, many of them understand that technology has a role to play and is critical to transforming e-discovery at their company or firm. The idea that the combination of smart people with smart technology can completely change the game often resonates with the general...
Getting To Google Now
July 5, 2015
Google Now project manager Aparna Chennapragada presented a vision for Now in which it not only provides all the information you could possibly need, but also knows when you need it and in what form. That’s always been the logical path forward for Android’s digital assistant. But Now was limited by its ability to draw info primarily from Google services like Gmail and Maps. No longer. Last month, the company announced new integrations with 70 services; at I/O, Chennapragada confirmed the number...
July 5, 2015
Google Now project manager Aparna Chennapragada presented a vision for Now in which it not only provides all the information you could possibly need, but also knows when you need it and in what form. That’s always been the logical path forward for Android’s digital assistant. But Now was limited by its ability to draw info primarily from Google services like Gmail and Maps. No longer. Last month, the company announced new integrations with 70 services; at I/O, Chennapragada confirmed the number...
Google Rolls Out New Automated Helpers
July 4, 2015
Users of mobile devices powered by Android are set to get a lot more help from Google’s artificial-intelligence algorithms. Who needs a personality? Not Google’s artificial-intelligence technology. Apple and Microsoft offer virtual personal assistants that answer questions and control phone functions with a combination of smart algorithms and programmed sass. New artificial-intelligence products announced by Google today are faceless by comparison. But they suggest the search company has more...
July 4, 2015
Users of mobile devices powered by Android are set to get a lot more help from Google’s artificial-intelligence algorithms. Who needs a personality? Not Google’s artificial-intelligence technology. Apple and Microsoft offer virtual personal assistants that answer questions and control phone functions with a combination of smart algorithms and programmed sass. New artificial-intelligence products announced by Google today are faceless by comparison. But they suggest the search company has more...
Here’s How Managers Can Be Replaced by Software
July 3, 2015
iCEO illustrates another fact we need to face now: Corporate organizations are themselves a technology, one that has only existed in its current form for around 200 years, a fragment of human history. The corporate structure was created around the tools we had back in the 18th century to maximize scale while minimizing transaction costs. Now that structure is being disrupted by the advent of technologies which can accomplish many (if not most) of the projects we associate with corporations. With...
July 3, 2015
iCEO illustrates another fact we need to face now: Corporate organizations are themselves a technology, one that has only existed in its current form for around 200 years, a fragment of human history. The corporate structure was created around the tools we had back in the 18th century to maximize scale while minimizing transaction costs. Now that structure is being disrupted by the advent of technologies which can accomplish many (if not most) of the projects we associate with corporations. With...
Competition to Cooperation
July 1, 2015
When I started mediating cases, I never thought that I would have to be aware of or learn advanced mathematics. But a book that I recently finished has shown me otherwise. Entitled, Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life, its author, Len Fisher, PhD. (Basic Books (2008)) explains how game theory applies to everyday life. In turn, game theory is predicated on the Nash equilibrium, named after John Nash who won a Nobel Prize in 1949 for discovering that all social dilemmas arise from the same...
July 1, 2015
When I started mediating cases, I never thought that I would have to be aware of or learn advanced mathematics. But a book that I recently finished has shown me otherwise. Entitled, Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life, its author, Len Fisher, PhD. (Basic Books (2008)) explains how game theory applies to everyday life. In turn, game theory is predicated on the Nash equilibrium, named after John Nash who won a Nobel Prize in 1949 for discovering that all social dilemmas arise from the same...
Mediation Games
June 30, 2015
John Nash died this week, in a tragic car accident. John Nash was the Nobel-prize winning mathematician whose theory of non-cooperative games published in 1950 has been described as one of the top ten ideas in economics in the 20th century. His theory introduced and explored the concept of what is known as Nash equilibrium. According to the New York Times obituary, Nash equilibrium provides a conceptually simple but powerful mathematical tool for analysing a wide range of competitive situations,...
June 30, 2015
John Nash died this week, in a tragic car accident. John Nash was the Nobel-prize winning mathematician whose theory of non-cooperative games published in 1950 has been described as one of the top ten ideas in economics in the 20th century. His theory introduced and explored the concept of what is known as Nash equilibrium. According to the New York Times obituary, Nash equilibrium provides a conceptually simple but powerful mathematical tool for analysing a wide range of competitive situations,...
Google’s Self-Driving Cars Tested This Summer
June 27, 2015
Google Inc will begin testing self-driving cars of its own design on public roads this summer, but they will have steering wheels and brakes, which is not what the company described a year ago. Engineers will operate 25 prototype vehicles, which use the same software as Google’s self-driving Lexus RX450h sport utility vehicles that have been in operation for several years, the company said on Friday. When the Internet search company announced a year ago that it planned to build a fleet of self-driving...
June 27, 2015
Google Inc will begin testing self-driving cars of its own design on public roads this summer, but they will have steering wheels and brakes, which is not what the company described a year ago. Engineers will operate 25 prototype vehicles, which use the same software as Google’s self-driving Lexus RX450h sport utility vehicles that have been in operation for several years, the company said on Friday. When the Internet search company announced a year ago that it planned to build a fleet of self-driving...
Empirical Legal Studies at Harvard Law
June 26, 2015
While I never quite know what to make of "in-house" promotional publications, the current issue of the Harvard Law School alumni magazine (Spring 2015) includes an interesting piece on The New Empiricists at HLS. In an introductory note, Dean Martha Minow notes that HLS is "increasing" its "investment in empirical research." The small cadre on the HLS faculty engaged in empirical research includes Jim Greiner whose work includes interesting efforts to randomize field experiments (previously discussed...
June 26, 2015
While I never quite know what to make of "in-house" promotional publications, the current issue of the Harvard Law School alumni magazine (Spring 2015) includes an interesting piece on The New Empiricists at HLS. In an introductory note, Dean Martha Minow notes that HLS is "increasing" its "investment in empirical research." The small cadre on the HLS faculty engaged in empirical research includes Jim Greiner whose work includes interesting efforts to randomize field experiments (previously discussed...
