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Katz and Bommarito: Measuring the Complexity of the Law: The United States Code
October 16, 2014
Daniel Martin Katz and Michael J. Bommarito II have published Measuring the Complexity of the Law: The United States Code, forthcoming in Artificial Intelligence and Law. A preprint of the paper is available on SSRN. Samuel Arbesman has published a post about the paper at Wired Science. Here is the abstract of the paper: Einstein’s razor, a corollary of Ockham’s razor, is often paraphrased as follows: make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. This rule of thumb describes...
October 16, 2014
Daniel Martin Katz and Michael J. Bommarito II have published Measuring the Complexity of the Law: The United States Code, forthcoming in Artificial Intelligence and Law. A preprint of the paper is available on SSRN. Samuel Arbesman has published a post about the paper at Wired Science. Here is the abstract of the paper: Einstein’s razor, a corollary of Ockham’s razor, is often paraphrased as follows: make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. This rule of thumb describes...
Solving Legal Problems Will Take Multidisciplinary Help, Says Richard Susskind
October 16, 2014
Asked how legal issues may change under the influence of technology, Richard Susskind, a futurist for the legal profession, sees lawyers’ roles as being part of a solution, but not the solution itself. Lawyers “have to stop thinking of problems as only legal,” Susskind told attendees of the Clio Cloud Conference 2014 in Chicago on Monday. Working on a new book with his son, Susskind said, he is coming to believe that problems must be solved in a “multidisciplinary” fashion involving...
October 16, 2014
Asked how legal issues may change under the influence of technology, Richard Susskind, a futurist for the legal profession, sees lawyers’ roles as being part of a solution, but not the solution itself. Lawyers “have to stop thinking of problems as only legal,” Susskind told attendees of the Clio Cloud Conference 2014 in Chicago on Monday. Working on a new book with his son, Susskind said, he is coming to believe that problems must be solved in a “multidisciplinary” fashion involving...
Two Courts Permit Defendants to be Served on Facebook
October 16, 2014
When the defendants could not otherwise be located and served by paper, face-to-face, two Judges ordered service on Facebook...
October 16, 2014
When the defendants could not otherwise be located and served by paper, face-to-face, two Judges ordered service on Facebook...
Social Networks as a Forum for Legal Notice
October 14, 2014
In a fascinating development, albeit packed with potential problems, a judge in New York has allowed serving legal notice via social network. The New York Post article reported that “in a groundbreaking court ruling, a Staten Island man got permission to use Facebook to serve his ex-wife legal notice that he doesn’t want to pay any more child support.” The article quoted lawyer Michael Stutman of Mishchon de Reya in Manhattan as saying "the idea that physically handing someone a piece of paper...
October 14, 2014
In a fascinating development, albeit packed with potential problems, a judge in New York has allowed serving legal notice via social network. The New York Post article reported that “in a groundbreaking court ruling, a Staten Island man got permission to use Facebook to serve his ex-wife legal notice that he doesn’t want to pay any more child support.” The article quoted lawyer Michael Stutman of Mishchon de Reya in Manhattan as saying "the idea that physically handing someone a piece of paper...
IBM Launches Watson Tool for Business Clients
October 12, 2014
IBM is rolling out a cognitive tool powered by its Watson supercomputer that uses companies’ internal data to answer questions about performance and efficiency and predict outcomes. IBM said the tool — the latest in a series of Watson products — will make more widely available data analytics capabilities long reserved for research scientists. The move is part of IBM’s effort to shift resources away from a slumping hardware sector into more profitable fields like cloud computing and analytics. In...
October 12, 2014
IBM is rolling out a cognitive tool powered by its Watson supercomputer that uses companies’ internal data to answer questions about performance and efficiency and predict outcomes. IBM said the tool — the latest in a series of Watson products — will make more widely available data analytics capabilities long reserved for research scientists. The move is part of IBM’s effort to shift resources away from a slumping hardware sector into more profitable fields like cloud computing and analytics. In...
Amazon.com buys .Buy for $4.6 million, .Tech sells for $6.8 million
October 12, 2014
Amazon.com paid $4.6 million to win rights to .buy top level domain name, but that wasn’t the most expensive TLD auction on Wednesday. You might think new top level domain names aren’t meeting early expectations, but applicants still apparently value the opportunity very high. ICANN held its second “auction of last resort” for new top level domain names today. Three contention sets were resolved at multi-million dollar prices. Here are the results: .Tech sold for $6,760,000 to Dot Tech...
October 12, 2014
Amazon.com paid $4.6 million to win rights to .buy top level domain name, but that wasn’t the most expensive TLD auction on Wednesday. You might think new top level domain names aren’t meeting early expectations, but applicants still apparently value the opportunity very high. ICANN held its second “auction of last resort” for new top level domain names today. Three contention sets were resolved at multi-million dollar prices. Here are the results: .Tech sold for $6,760,000 to Dot Tech...
Time In App Increases by 21% Across All Apps
October 11, 2014
Though 20% of apps are opened only once, people are becoming more attached to apps overall. According to Localytics data, the amount of time people spend in apps has increased by 21% over the last year. People are engaging with mobile so frequently that time spent with mobile apps now exceeds time spent on traditional desktop web. Certain categories are driving this increased time spent in apps. Here is a summary of the findings: Overall time in app has increased by 21% Users open an app on average...
October 11, 2014
Though 20% of apps are opened only once, people are becoming more attached to apps overall. According to Localytics data, the amount of time people spend in apps has increased by 21% over the last year. People are engaging with mobile so frequently that time spent with mobile apps now exceeds time spent on traditional desktop web. Certain categories are driving this increased time spent in apps. Here is a summary of the findings: Overall time in app has increased by 21% Users open an app on average...
FTC Enlists Hackers to Zap Robocallers
October 10, 2014
The Federal Trade Commission held a contest at hacking convention DEF CON22 in Las Vegas this month, calling on participants to help the agency combat illegal, prerecorded telemarketing calls known as robocalls. The contest asked designers to create something called a “honeypot,” an information system designed to attract robocallers, and help law enforcement research and gain insight into robocalling tactics, according to a recent release. The “Zapping Rachel” contest attracted a total of 60 teams...
October 10, 2014
The Federal Trade Commission held a contest at hacking convention DEF CON22 in Las Vegas this month, calling on participants to help the agency combat illegal, prerecorded telemarketing calls known as robocalls. The contest asked designers to create something called a “honeypot,” an information system designed to attract robocallers, and help law enforcement research and gain insight into robocalling tactics, according to a recent release. The “Zapping Rachel” contest attracted a total of 60 teams...
U of Michigan, Carmakers Fund Research Toward Communicating Cars
October 9, 2014
A group of companies, including several large automakers, have joined a public-private research initiative to lay the groundwork for a system that wirelessly connects vehicles and helps smooth the flow of traffic, the University on Michigan said. The university’s Mobility Transformation Center will help develop and implement technology that allows vehicles to talk to each other and surrounding infrastructure like stoplights to reduce traffic congestion and vehicle accidents. The program includes...
October 9, 2014
A group of companies, including several large automakers, have joined a public-private research initiative to lay the groundwork for a system that wirelessly connects vehicles and helps smooth the flow of traffic, the University on Michigan said. The university’s Mobility Transformation Center will help develop and implement technology that allows vehicles to talk to each other and surrounding infrastructure like stoplights to reduce traffic congestion and vehicle accidents. The program includes...
IBM’s Watson: A Natural Assistant for Patent Attorneys?
October 8, 2014
From a patent attorney’s perspective, we could use Watson’s expertise in quickly and successfully completing many of the tasks we’re required to do, such as evaluating inventions, searching for prior art or discovering infringers. The area that we’re exploring right now at IBM is improving patent quality—an area that our company has long endeavored to help enhance through projects such as Peer to Patent, International Collaborative Examination and Patent Quality Index. In order to improve...
October 8, 2014
From a patent attorney’s perspective, we could use Watson’s expertise in quickly and successfully completing many of the tasks we’re required to do, such as evaluating inventions, searching for prior art or discovering infringers. The area that we’re exploring right now at IBM is improving patent quality—an area that our company has long endeavored to help enhance through projects such as Peer to Patent, International Collaborative Examination and Patent Quality Index. In order to improve...
