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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.
Juror Goes to Jail for Texting
May 28, 2013
A juror was held in contempt of court for texting during a trial in violation of standard jury instructions requiring the jury “to pay close attention to all of the witnesses.” On April 16, 2013 Marion County Oregon Judge Dennis Graves sentenced 26 year old Benjamin Kohler to jail for contempt for 2 days for texting while a witness was testifying about the armed robbery defendant. The Salem Statesman Journal reported that Mr. Kohler was caught texting when the courtroom lights were dimmed...
May 28, 2013
A juror was held in contempt of court for texting during a trial in violation of standard jury instructions requiring the jury “to pay close attention to all of the witnesses.” On April 16, 2013 Marion County Oregon Judge Dennis Graves sentenced 26 year old Benjamin Kohler to jail for contempt for 2 days for texting while a witness was testifying about the armed robbery defendant. The Salem Statesman Journal reported that Mr. Kohler was caught texting when the courtroom lights were dimmed...
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...
Have you heard about the ReInvent Law Lab?
May 26, 2013
The ABA Journal Blog's "New Normal" column today features a profile of two Michigan State law profs who have founded something...
May 26, 2013
The ABA Journal Blog's "New Normal" column today features a profile of two Michigan State law profs who have founded something...
Conspire Analyzes Your Inbox to Help Strengthen Relationships
May 26, 2013
Conspire wants to strengthen the relationships with people in your inbox. Alex Devkar and Paul McReynolds, both lawyers with computer science degrees from Stanford, set out to harvest the intelligence in the inbox by analyzing the strength of relationships among a person’s contacts. Email, the world’s largest social network, can provide a lot of information on the strength of a person’s network and how to maintain and improve relationships.
May 26, 2013
Conspire wants to strengthen the relationships with people in your inbox. Alex Devkar and Paul McReynolds, both lawyers with computer science degrees from Stanford, set out to harvest the intelligence in the inbox by analyzing the strength of relationships among a person’s contacts. Email, the world’s largest social network, can provide a lot of information on the strength of a person’s network and how to maintain and improve relationships.
White House Publishes Open Data Policy Memorandum on GitHub, Enabling eParticipation
May 26, 2013
Among the interesting features of the White House’s new Open Data Policy is that the memorandum that provides policy guidance to agencies in complying with the policy (M-13-13) was published on GitHub, using GitHub’s “Pages” service — see the White House’s Project Open Data GitHub page. Publishing the memorandum on GitHub allows citizens to propose revisions to the policy, through GitHub’s “commit” and “pull request” functions. The White House’s publishing...
May 26, 2013
Among the interesting features of the White House’s new Open Data Policy is that the memorandum that provides policy guidance to agencies in complying with the policy (M-13-13) was published on GitHub, using GitHub’s “Pages” service — see the White House’s Project Open Data GitHub page. Publishing the memorandum on GitHub allows citizens to propose revisions to the policy, through GitHub’s “commit” and “pull request” functions. The White House’s publishing...
Lisa Damon: The Evolution of Business Analytics at Seyfarth Shaw
May 26, 2013
Lisa J. Damon is a member of Seyfarth Shaw’s Executive Committee. LEAN. Lean is “a way to think” at Seyfarth. They use it for their high-end work and in their commodity work. They use it to increase efficiency and quality so they can charge less while delivering more. Data is Ridiculously Powerful! The challenge for lawyers and law firms is to understand the value and power of data. This will require moving beyond their natural discomfort with numbers and discomfort with messy data....
May 26, 2013
Lisa J. Damon is a member of Seyfarth Shaw’s Executive Committee. LEAN. Lean is “a way to think” at Seyfarth. They use it for their high-end work and in their commodity work. They use it to increase efficiency and quality so they can charge less while delivering more. Data is Ridiculously Powerful! The challenge for lawyers and law firms is to understand the value and power of data. This will require moving beyond their natural discomfort with numbers and discomfort with messy data....
TechStars Cloud’s Good.co Matches Workers’ Personalities to the Right Job
May 25, 2013
The TechStars Cloud company, Good.co, wants people to be happy in their jobs. The San Francisco-based company has spent the past three months at Geekdom in the TechStars Cloud accelerator program. Its founders will officially pitch their company during TechStars Cloud Demo Day on Thursday at the Charline McCombs Empire Theatre in downtown San Antonio. Good.co is one of 12 TechStar Cloud companies in the 2013 class. The team behind Good.co have created a “professional network and self-discovery...
May 25, 2013
The TechStars Cloud company, Good.co, wants people to be happy in their jobs. The San Francisco-based company has spent the past three months at Geekdom in the TechStars Cloud accelerator program. Its founders will officially pitch their company during TechStars Cloud Demo Day on Thursday at the Charline McCombs Empire Theatre in downtown San Antonio. Good.co is one of 12 TechStar Cloud companies in the 2013 class. The team behind Good.co have created a “professional network and self-discovery...
San Antonio-based TrueAbility Pitches at TechStar Cloud Demo Day
May 25, 2013
TrueAbility’s CEO Luke Owen pitched the San Antonio-based company today at TechStars Cloud Demo Day. The company also announced that it has successfully completed its beta program with Rackspace Hosting. TrueAbility has created a cloud-based technical assessment platform that allows companies to assess the technical abilities of their job candidates.
May 25, 2013
TrueAbility’s CEO Luke Owen pitched the San Antonio-based company today at TechStars Cloud Demo Day. The company also announced that it has successfully completed its beta program with Rackspace Hosting. TrueAbility has created a cloud-based technical assessment platform that allows companies to assess the technical abilities of their job candidates.
