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Harnessing the Beast: Litigation Readiness for Big Data
December 27, 2013
Today, almost all business communications are created and stored electronically, and subject to legal discovery regardless of format. This wholesale shift means that traditional paper-based litigation practices and discovery have disappeared and electronic data discovery is here to stay. Through pioneering work to systematically parse and aggregate massive volumes of information, Big Data analytics have provided corporations with greater insight into case dynamics without attorney review of each...
December 27, 2013
Today, almost all business communications are created and stored electronically, and subject to legal discovery regardless of format. This wholesale shift means that traditional paper-based litigation practices and discovery have disappeared and electronic data discovery is here to stay. Through pioneering work to systematically parse and aggregate massive volumes of information, Big Data analytics have provided corporations with greater insight into case dynamics without attorney review of each...
Journal of Online Access to Law
December 26, 2013
Today brought the launch of the Journal of Open Access to Law, an open-access, peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to promoting...
December 26, 2013
Today brought the launch of the Journal of Open Access to Law, an open-access, peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to promoting...
Cool Technologies From 2013 and for 2014 to Check Out
December 24, 2013
I used to make a year-end list of technologies to investigate. Now I make a list of lists and check it throughout the new year. Here’s a start to my list. Technolawyer’s NewsWire readers selected theirtop 25 products of 2013 last week. Noteworthy items include: Connected Data Transporter, which was debuted at the ABA Techshow in April; Fijitsu’s ScanSnap SV600 and iX500 scanners; and the Livescribe Inc.’s Livescribe 3 Smartpen. But read through the entire list, don’t stop...
December 24, 2013
I used to make a year-end list of technologies to investigate. Now I make a list of lists and check it throughout the new year. Here’s a start to my list. Technolawyer’s NewsWire readers selected theirtop 25 products of 2013 last week. Noteworthy items include: Connected Data Transporter, which was debuted at the ABA Techshow in April; Fijitsu’s ScanSnap SV600 and iX500 scanners; and the Livescribe Inc.’s Livescribe 3 Smartpen. But read through the entire list, don’t stop...
Entitle Books: Netflix Meets the Public Library
December 23, 2013
Book of the month club is back! It’s like Netflix meets the public library—a new e-book subscription service called Entitle was...
December 23, 2013
Book of the month club is back! It’s like Netflix meets the public library—a new e-book subscription service called Entitle was...
NORAD: Santa to be Accompanied by Fighter Jets This Year
December 22, 2013
Santa is to get a US military escort on his big night this year. But (don’t tell the kids) it’s not entirely real. There’s no point getting out your telescope as the escort in question will only be visible on a streaming video operated by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). NORAD (and its predecessor CONAD) has run the tracker in various forms since 1955. The story goes that a department store published a number for a “phone Santa” line but a misprint meant calls...
December 22, 2013
Santa is to get a US military escort on his big night this year. But (don’t tell the kids) it’s not entirely real. There’s no point getting out your telescope as the escort in question will only be visible on a streaming video operated by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). NORAD (and its predecessor CONAD) has run the tracker in various forms since 1955. The story goes that a department store published a number for a “phone Santa” line but a misprint meant calls...
Google Adds to Its Menagerie of Robots
December 22, 2013
<nyt_text> BigDog, Cheetah, WildCat and Atlas have joined Google’s growing robot menagerie. Google confirmed on Friday that it had completed the acquisition of Boston Dynamics, an engineering company that has designed mobile research robots for the Pentagon. The company, based in Waltham, Mass., has gained an international reputation for machines that walk with an uncanny sense of balance and even — cheetahlike — run faster than the fastest humans. It is the eighth robotics company...
December 22, 2013
<nyt_text> BigDog, Cheetah, WildCat and Atlas have joined Google’s growing robot menagerie. Google confirmed on Friday that it had completed the acquisition of Boston Dynamics, an engineering company that has designed mobile research robots for the Pentagon. The company, based in Waltham, Mass., has gained an international reputation for machines that walk with an uncanny sense of balance and even — cheetahlike — run faster than the fastest humans. It is the eighth robotics company...
25 Years Later, PACER, Electronic Filing Continue to Change Courts
December 21, 2013
Twenty-five years ago, computers were hurtling America into the Information Age. From 1987 to 1989, the nation’s PC sales tripled, as consumers gained unprecedented power to process words, crunch numbers and print documents at home. The World Wide Web was still being invented, but early adopters were discovering personal email. In federal courts, the revolution also was getting under way. Documents were still kept on paper, and law firm couriers lined up daily in clerk’s offices, waiting to pore...
December 21, 2013
Twenty-five years ago, computers were hurtling America into the Information Age. From 1987 to 1989, the nation’s PC sales tripled, as consumers gained unprecedented power to process words, crunch numbers and print documents at home. The World Wide Web was still being invented, but early adopters were discovering personal email. In federal courts, the revolution also was getting under way. Documents were still kept on paper, and law firm couriers lined up daily in clerk’s offices, waiting to pore...
President Obama Urges Students to Learn to Code
December 21, 2013
“Don’t just buy a new video game. Make one!” President Barack Obama urged on a YouTube video uploaded on the non-profit group Code.org’s website in honor Computer Science Education Week from December 9 to 15. “No one’s born a computer scientist. But with a little hard work, and some math and science, just about anyone can become one,” said Obama. Indeed, we’ve recently reported on initiatives for inmates at prisons to learn the skill, as well as NBA star Chris Bosh’s quest...
December 21, 2013
“Don’t just buy a new video game. Make one!” President Barack Obama urged on a YouTube video uploaded on the non-profit group Code.org’s website in honor Computer Science Education Week from December 9 to 15. “No one’s born a computer scientist. But with a little hard work, and some math and science, just about anyone can become one,” said Obama. Indeed, we’ve recently reported on initiatives for inmates at prisons to learn the skill, as well as NBA star Chris Bosh’s quest...
The Science of Social Connections
December 19, 2013
The part of human nature that I'd like to talk about today is that part of our human nature that is relevant to our interactions...
December 19, 2013
The part of human nature that I'd like to talk about today is that part of our human nature that is relevant to our interactions...
How Influenced Are We By Images of Brain Scans? Maybe Not As Much As We Used To Be?
December 16, 2013
While visions of brain scans dance in our head, we may not be as impressed by them as we were a few years ago. Or maybe we never were all that impressed? Just how impressed were we—and how impressed are we now? These are questions to which we have yet to find clear answers. Here are some pieces of that puzzle though. From "'Brain Porn' Not So Seductive After All?" (NPR): There's something deeply compelling about "seeing" the mind at work with the help of relatively new neuroscientific tools,...
December 16, 2013
While visions of brain scans dance in our head, we may not be as impressed by them as we were a few years ago. Or maybe we never were all that impressed? Just how impressed were we—and how impressed are we now? These are questions to which we have yet to find clear answers. Here are some pieces of that puzzle though. From "'Brain Porn' Not So Seductive After All?" (NPR): There's something deeply compelling about "seeing" the mind at work with the help of relatively new neuroscientific tools,...
