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World of IBM’s Watson
May 17, 2015
How Cognition Works Watson is built to mirror the same learning process that we have - through the power of cognition. What drives this process is a common cognitive framework that humans use to inform their decisions: Observe, Interpret, Evaluate, and Decide.
May 17, 2015
How Cognition Works Watson is built to mirror the same learning process that we have - through the power of cognition. What drives this process is a common cognitive framework that humans use to inform their decisions: Observe, Interpret, Evaluate, and Decide.
IBM’s Bold Prediction About Artificial Intelligence
May 17, 2015
"In the future, every decision that mankind makes is going to be informed by a cognitive system like Watson," she said, "and our lives will be better for it." Listening in were the crowds of engineers, designers, doctors, bankers, researchers, and reporters that IBM had ferried over to a massive glass-and-steel structure on the banks of the East River in Brooklyn. The occasion was a new event, World of Watson, designed to showcase the "ecosystem" of innovation happening around Watson, IBM's...
May 17, 2015
"In the future, every decision that mankind makes is going to be informed by a cognitive system like Watson," she said, "and our lives will be better for it." Listening in were the crowds of engineers, designers, doctors, bankers, researchers, and reporters that IBM had ferried over to a massive glass-and-steel structure on the banks of the East River in Brooklyn. The occasion was a new event, World of Watson, designed to showcase the "ecosystem" of innovation happening around Watson, IBM's...
The Internet of Things – A Primer
May 16, 2015
By the year 2020, over 26 billion things – cars, coffee machines, even cows – will be connected to the internet. They’re calling this next upgrade to the web ‘The Internet of Things’. But how does it work, and why should you care? Discover the tech & meet the main players in our interactive dataviz tour. » Explore the interactive » Discover our new book Knowledge is Beautiful and the original Information is Beautiful
May 16, 2015
By the year 2020, over 26 billion things – cars, coffee machines, even cows – will be connected to the internet. They’re calling this next upgrade to the web ‘The Internet of Things’. But how does it work, and why should you care? Discover the tech & meet the main players in our interactive dataviz tour. » Explore the interactive » Discover our new book Knowledge is Beautiful and the original Information is Beautiful
USAA Finds Older Adults Adopting New Tech Too
May 16, 2015
About half of USAA customers who have opted to utilize the new biometric features on the company’s mobile banking application are age 35 or older. That comes as a surprise to USAA exeuctive Rick Swenson, who told American Banker that he thought the demographic adopting biometrics — such as the use of fingerprint scans to secure data — would skew more towards millennials. “It’s about half and half with the median age being 35,” he said of the 400,000 USAA customers who have opted...
May 16, 2015
About half of USAA customers who have opted to utilize the new biometric features on the company’s mobile banking application are age 35 or older. That comes as a surprise to USAA exeuctive Rick Swenson, who told American Banker that he thought the demographic adopting biometrics — such as the use of fingerprint scans to secure data — would skew more towards millennials. “It’s about half and half with the median age being 35,” he said of the 400,000 USAA customers who have opted...
Time is on your side—welcoming Timeful to Google
May 16, 2015
With the proliferation of mobile phones and greater access to technology, it should be easy to get things done quickly and effortlessly. That’s why with tools like Gmail, Inbox, Calendar and Docs, we’ve built smart features to help you organize your life and take the work out of work—Inbox makes it easy to get started on your to-do list, Calendar automatically adds events from your Gmail, and Search gives you simple, concise answers about information that’s important to you. But even...
May 16, 2015
With the proliferation of mobile phones and greater access to technology, it should be easy to get things done quickly and effortlessly. That’s why with tools like Gmail, Inbox, Calendar and Docs, we’ve built smart features to help you organize your life and take the work out of work—Inbox makes it easy to get started on your to-do list, Calendar automatically adds events from your Gmail, and Search gives you simple, concise answers about information that’s important to you. But even...
New PacerPro Service Automatically Retrieves and Delivers Federal ‘Free Look’ Documents
May 15, 2015
If I were to tell you that a new service could help you avoid a $40 million mistake in litigation, would you be interested? The mistake to which I refer was Sidley Austin’s failure to timely read orders referenced in a notice of electronic filing (NEF). The orders denied Sidley’s post-trial motions filed on behalf of AT&T after it was hit with a $40 million verdict in a patent infringement case. Because Sidley did not read the orders in time, it missed the deadline to file an appeal. Claiming...
May 15, 2015
If I were to tell you that a new service could help you avoid a $40 million mistake in litigation, would you be interested? The mistake to which I refer was Sidley Austin’s failure to timely read orders referenced in a notice of electronic filing (NEF). The orders denied Sidley’s post-trial motions filed on behalf of AT&T after it was hit with a $40 million verdict in a patent infringement case. Because Sidley did not read the orders in time, it missed the deadline to file an appeal. Claiming...
A Clear View of the Brain
May 15, 2015
Increasingly, neuroscientists believe that the key to understanding how the brain works lies in its over-all neural circuitry, and the way that widely separated brain regions communicate through the long-range projection of nerve fibres. In this view, mental disorders result from the shorting-out or disruption of the larger circuit wiring of the brain—and it is in defining and describing those circuit connections that Deisseroth’s innovations promise to be especially helpful. Christof Koch,...
May 15, 2015
Increasingly, neuroscientists believe that the key to understanding how the brain works lies in its over-all neural circuitry, and the way that widely separated brain regions communicate through the long-range projection of nerve fibres. In this view, mental disorders result from the shorting-out or disruption of the larger circuit wiring of the brain—and it is in defining and describing those circuit connections that Deisseroth’s innovations promise to be especially helpful. Christof Koch,...
Negotiation Ethics and Bias in Negotiation
May 15, 2015
As we’ve discussed in previous articles about negotiation examples in business, a negotiator’s beliefs concerning negotiation...
May 15, 2015
As we’ve discussed in previous articles about negotiation examples in business, a negotiator’s beliefs concerning negotiation...
Texas Law Firms Fight for Talent, Revenues and Survival
May 14, 2015
Despite record revenues and profits, the Texas legal market is in turmoil. Even as elite law firms experience phenomenal growth in revenues and profits, many large, full service Texas law firms struggle to tread water and could face major restructuring or even extinction. There's a fierce battle over talent. Law firms that pay the most get the best lawyers. The best talent gets the best clients. The best clients pay the highest rates, which leads to greater revenues and profits. “The deck...
May 14, 2015
Despite record revenues and profits, the Texas legal market is in turmoil. Even as elite law firms experience phenomenal growth in revenues and profits, many large, full service Texas law firms struggle to tread water and could face major restructuring or even extinction. There's a fierce battle over talent. Law firms that pay the most get the best lawyers. The best talent gets the best clients. The best clients pay the highest rates, which leads to greater revenues and profits. “The deck...
Review: ‘The Upside of Stress’, by Kelly McGonigal
May 14, 2015
Kelly McGonigal is a convert. A health psychologist who teaches at Stanford University, for years she had held to the conventional view that stress is bad for you. But when a few years ago she came across research which suggested that stress is bad for you only when you believe it to be damaging, she had to reconsider. Indeed, the same research found that people who lived with stress but did not view it as harmful were the healthiest people of all. She suggests a three-step approach to change...
May 14, 2015
Kelly McGonigal is a convert. A health psychologist who teaches at Stanford University, for years she had held to the conventional view that stress is bad for you. But when a few years ago she came across research which suggested that stress is bad for you only when you believe it to be damaging, she had to reconsider. Indeed, the same research found that people who lived with stress but did not view it as harmful were the healthiest people of all. She suggests a three-step approach to change...
