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May 4, 2013
Announcing the ReInvent Law Channel — Free Talks By Leading Thinkers at the Intersection of Law, Technology, Innovation & Entrepreneurship
May 4, 2013
Announcing the ReInvent Law Channel — Free Talks By Leading Thinkers at the Intersection of Law, Technology, Innovation & Entrepreneurship
The Winning “ReInvent Law London” Talk Proposals
April 30, 2013
Larry Bridgesmith "Letting Technology Process and Lawyers Practice" Andrew Burgess "Legal Department as an Evolutionary...
April 30, 2013
Larry Bridgesmith "Letting Technology Process and Lawyers Practice" Andrew Burgess "Legal Department as an Evolutionary...
Google Now Includes Severe Weather Warnings & Public Alerts
April 27, 2013
For the first time in a very long time, the National Weather Service issued several severe weather alerts for Oklahoma City....
April 27, 2013
For the first time in a very long time, the National Weather Service issued several severe weather alerts for Oklahoma City....
Circuits Split on Computer-Based Personal Jurisdiction
April 26, 2013
At first blush, two personal jurisdiction decisions, issued on the same day by different federal circuit courts, seem at odds with one another. The defendants in both lived in Canada and had no connections with the forum states other than a few discrete electronic interactions. Yet in one, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed dismissal for lack of personal jurisdiction, while in the other, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit found personal jurisdiction to be present,...
April 26, 2013
At first blush, two personal jurisdiction decisions, issued on the same day by different federal circuit courts, seem at odds with one another. The defendants in both lived in Canada and had no connections with the forum states other than a few discrete electronic interactions. Yet in one, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed dismissal for lack of personal jurisdiction, while in the other, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit found personal jurisdiction to be present,...
Establishing That Text Messages Are Admissible
April 24, 2013
Sending text messages or short electronic messages from one cellular phone to another is a very popular form of communication. “Text messaging users send or receive an average of 41.5 messages on a typical day,” concluded the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. This number is even greater for cellular phone owners between the ages of 18 and 24. They “exchange an average of 109.5 messages on a normal day.” Given the volume of text messages, it is important that...
April 24, 2013
Sending text messages or short electronic messages from one cellular phone to another is a very popular form of communication. “Text messaging users send or receive an average of 41.5 messages on a typical day,” concluded the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. This number is even greater for cellular phone owners between the ages of 18 and 24. They “exchange an average of 109.5 messages on a normal day.” Given the volume of text messages, it is important that...
Can Super Mario Save Artificial Intelligence?
April 23, 2013
Human brains are remarkably inefficient in some key ways: our memories are lousy; our grasp of logic is shallow, and our capacity...
April 23, 2013
Human brains are remarkably inefficient in some key ways: our memories are lousy; our grasp of logic is shallow, and our capacity...
Law Enforcement Requests Report from Microsoft
April 22, 2013
World-wide law enforcement agencies requested information regarding 137,424 Microsoft and Skype accounts in 2012 based 75,378 requests for customer information. Microsoft’s General Counsel Brad Smith blogged that the Microsoft’s first Law Enforcement Report includes customer requests for: Skype, Hotmail, Outlook.com, SkyDrive, Xbox LIVE, Microsoft Account, and Office 365. In an effort of transparency the Report disclosed that approximately 79.8% of requests to Microsoft resulted in the disclosure...
April 22, 2013
World-wide law enforcement agencies requested information regarding 137,424 Microsoft and Skype accounts in 2012 based 75,378 requests for customer information. Microsoft’s General Counsel Brad Smith blogged that the Microsoft’s first Law Enforcement Report includes customer requests for: Skype, Hotmail, Outlook.com, SkyDrive, Xbox LIVE, Microsoft Account, and Office 365. In an effort of transparency the Report disclosed that approximately 79.8% of requests to Microsoft resulted in the disclosure...
Legal informatics papers at We Robot 2013 Conference
April 21, 2013
Some legal informatics papers or panels are included in the program for the 2013 We Robot Conference, to be held 8-9 April 2013 at Stanford Law School, in Stanford, California, USA: Panel: Law as Algorithm Speakers: Peter Asaro, Lisa Shay, Woodrow Hartzog Moderator: Harry Surden Related Papers: On Implicit and Explicit Legal Requirements for Human Judgment Do Robots Dream of Electric Laws? An Experiment in Law as Algorithm Panel: Designing Values Speakers: Ergun Calisgan, AJung Moon, Aneta...
April 21, 2013
Some legal informatics papers or panels are included in the program for the 2013 We Robot Conference, to be held 8-9 April 2013 at Stanford Law School, in Stanford, California, USA: Panel: Law as Algorithm Speakers: Peter Asaro, Lisa Shay, Woodrow Hartzog Moderator: Harry Surden Related Papers: On Implicit and Explicit Legal Requirements for Human Judgment Do Robots Dream of Electric Laws? An Experiment in Law as Algorithm Panel: Designing Values Speakers: Ergun Calisgan, AJung Moon, Aneta...
DataRobot’s App for Data Mining
April 21, 2013
DataRobot created an app for making sense out of data. It mines the data to create accurate models that can predict future behavior. It’s the same type of analysis that Nate Silver with the New York Times’ FiveThirtyEight political blog used to predict the outcome of the last presidential election in favor of President Obama. DataRobot plans to use its proprietary algorithms to solve all kinds of problems for customers by analyzing their data sets. DataRobot was the only TechStars...
April 21, 2013
DataRobot created an app for making sense out of data. It mines the data to create accurate models that can predict future behavior. It’s the same type of analysis that Nate Silver with the New York Times’ FiveThirtyEight political blog used to predict the outcome of the last presidential election in favor of President Obama. DataRobot plans to use its proprietary algorithms to solve all kinds of problems for customers by analyzing their data sets. DataRobot was the only TechStars...
TyMetrix Leadership Team Adds Two Executives to Drive Growth in Legal Technology Solutions
April 21, 2013
Key Leadership Additions Support Innovation and Operational Excellence to Help Fast Growing TyMetrix Client Base Better Manage the Business of Law HARTFORD, CT, Apr 17, 2013 (Marketwired via COMTEX) -- TyMetrix, the global leader in intelligent enterprise legal management solutions for managing the business of law, today announced it has appointed Deepthi Bathina as vice president of product management and marketing, and Andre K. Jett in a newly created role as vice president of global...
April 21, 2013
Key Leadership Additions Support Innovation and Operational Excellence to Help Fast Growing TyMetrix Client Base Better Manage the Business of Law HARTFORD, CT, Apr 17, 2013 (Marketwired via COMTEX) -- TyMetrix, the global leader in intelligent enterprise legal management solutions for managing the business of law, today announced it has appointed Deepthi Bathina as vice president of product management and marketing, and Andre K. Jett in a newly created role as vice president of global...
