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5 Things To Know About Cognitive Systems
October 20, 2013
The growth in big data is increasing dramatically as more and more activity is represented digitally. Now data comes in both structured (identifiable because it organized into a format) and unstructured forms such as video, images, symbols, and natural language. Big data is forcing IT to look for a new computing model in order to help organizations and their decision makers take advantage of all the information available. Here are 5 things to know: 1. Cognitive systems are... 2. Cognitive systems...
October 20, 2013
The growth in big data is increasing dramatically as more and more activity is represented digitally. Now data comes in both structured (identifiable because it organized into a format) and unstructured forms such as video, images, symbols, and natural language. Big data is forcing IT to look for a new computing model in order to help organizations and their decision makers take advantage of all the information available. Here are 5 things to know: 1. Cognitive systems are... 2. Cognitive systems...
Is Your Salary Fair? Calculator Will Help Lawyers Decide
October 19, 2013
How does your lawyer salary compare to those of others in your field? Soon you may be able to find out using a web-based lawyer salary and intelligence tool calledPayCloud. Currently seeking lawyers to join the beta version of its site, PayCloud aims to provide lawyers with the ability to compare their salaries against those of others in comparable fields and locations and to obtain regularly updated data on how salaries are developing within a given field.
October 19, 2013
How does your lawyer salary compare to those of others in your field? Soon you may be able to find out using a web-based lawyer salary and intelligence tool calledPayCloud. Currently seeking lawyers to join the beta version of its site, PayCloud aims to provide lawyers with the ability to compare their salaries against those of others in comparable fields and locations and to obtain regularly updated data on how salaries are developing within a given field.
Opening up Course Builder Data
October 19, 2013
Course Builder is an experimental, open source platform for delivering massive online open courses. When you run Course Builder, you own everything from the production instance to the student data that builds up while your course is running. Part of being open is making it easy for you to access and work with your data. Earlier this year we shipped a tool called ETL (short for extract-transform-load) that you can use to pull your data out of Course Builder, run arbitrary computations on it, and load...
October 19, 2013
Course Builder is an experimental, open source platform for delivering massive online open courses. When you run Course Builder, you own everything from the production instance to the student data that builds up while your course is running. Part of being open is making it easy for you to access and work with your data. Earlier this year we shipped a tool called ETL (short for extract-transform-load) that you can use to pull your data out of Course Builder, run arbitrary computations on it, and load...
Rebirth of IT
October 19, 2013
Yesterday I had the chance to deliver the keynote at the Gartner ITExpo in Orlando. I took this opportunity to reflect on how business technology has evolved in the three years since I last spoke on this stage — and, as part of that, how Google’s commitment to enterprise customers has grown. In 2010, the suggestion that a company could move all of its employees to the cloud was often met with skepticism. People relied on desktop computers and Exchange servers because that was what they’d...
October 19, 2013
Yesterday I had the chance to deliver the keynote at the Gartner ITExpo in Orlando. I took this opportunity to reflect on how business technology has evolved in the three years since I last spoke on this stage — and, as part of that, how Google’s commitment to enterprise customers has grown. In 2010, the suggestion that a company could move all of its employees to the cloud was often met with skepticism. People relied on desktop computers and Exchange servers because that was what they’d...
Open Records: A Look at Attorney General Greg Abbott’s Tenure
October 18, 2013
When Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott first campaigned for his office 12 years ago, he promised a new era of government...
October 18, 2013
When Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott first campaigned for his office 12 years ago, he promised a new era of government...
IBM Researcher Can Decipher Your Personality From Looking at 200 of Your Tweets
October 17, 2013
An IBM researcher says she can make a good educated guess about your personality just from looking at 200 of your Twitter messages. That may seem obvious, as people typically express their personalities through the 140-character messaging service. But Michelle Zhou, a researcher at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif., can do this personality analysis in a disciplined and automated fashion using the science of data analytics. Companies that pay attention to this research could...
October 17, 2013
An IBM researcher says she can make a good educated guess about your personality just from looking at 200 of your Twitter messages. That may seem obvious, as people typically express their personalities through the 140-character messaging service. But Michelle Zhou, a researcher at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif., can do this personality analysis in a disciplined and automated fashion using the science of data analytics. Companies that pay attention to this research could...
The Role of the Internet in the Conduct of Litigation
October 15, 2013
Much has been written (in this column and elsewhere) regarding lawyers' adoption of social media and other Internet-enabled applications for such diverse purposes as discovery, advertising, client communication, research and the like. Indeed, due to the proliferation of portable devices, including laptops, smartphones and tablets, whether in their offices or not, lawyers now rely on ubiquitous and pervasive Internet access to perform a host of practice-related tasks. It has become such an integral...
October 15, 2013
Much has been written (in this column and elsewhere) regarding lawyers' adoption of social media and other Internet-enabled applications for such diverse purposes as discovery, advertising, client communication, research and the like. Indeed, due to the proliferation of portable devices, including laptops, smartphones and tablets, whether in their offices or not, lawyers now rely on ubiquitous and pervasive Internet access to perform a host of practice-related tasks. It has become such an integral...
NSA Collects Millions of E-mail Address Books Globally
October 15, 2013
The National Security Agency is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the world, many of them belonging to Americans, according to senior intelligence officials and top-secret documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. The collection program, which has not been disclosed before, intercepts e-mail address books and “buddy lists” from instant messaging services as they move across global data links. Online...
October 15, 2013
The National Security Agency is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the world, many of them belonging to Americans, according to senior intelligence officials and top-secret documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. The collection program, which has not been disclosed before, intercepts e-mail address books and “buddy lists” from instant messaging services as they move across global data links. Online...
Law Firm Associates’ Social Media Use Up, but Uneven
October 14, 2013
When Michael Visconti III, an associate in the intellectual property group at Boston’s Nutter McClennen & Fish, wants...
October 14, 2013
When Michael Visconti III, an associate in the intellectual property group at Boston’s Nutter McClennen & Fish, wants...
Google is Joining the Open edX Platform
October 13, 2013
A year ago, we released Course Builder, an experimental platform for online education at scale. Since then, individuals have created courses on everything from game theory to philanthropy, offered to curious people around the world. Universities and non-profit organizations have used the platform to experiment with MOOCs, while maintaining direct relationships with their participants. Google has published a number of courses including Introduction to Web Accessibility which opens for registration...
October 13, 2013
A year ago, we released Course Builder, an experimental platform for online education at scale. Since then, individuals have created courses on everything from game theory to philanthropy, offered to curious people around the world. Universities and non-profit organizations have used the platform to experiment with MOOCs, while maintaining direct relationships with their participants. Google has published a number of courses including Introduction to Web Accessibility which opens for registration...
