Recommended Reading about law, law firm management and how technology is changing the practice of law.
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This is an interesting article about one professor's attempt to measure legal innovation. Michigan State University law professor Daniel W. Linna Jr.'s website Legal Services Innovation Index tracks the frequency of tech terms on law-firm websites. Professor Linna hopes his legal innovation index will serve as a metric to help measure legal innovation.
Microsoft recently revealed a new deep learning acceleration platform, code named Project Brainwave. Microsoft touts that this cutting edge deep learning system will show high actual performance with low latency. Microsoft plans to use Project Brainwave to offer a real time artificial intelligence (AI) solution to its Azure customers.
Interesting article about how PwC is implementing artificial intelligence strategies to help its attorneys with mundane and repetitive tasks.
The Neural Information Processing Systems conference is a machine learning and computational neuroscience conference held every December. This year the NIPS conference will include "NIPS Competitions" related to data-driven challenges to different aspects of Neural Information Processing Systems. The top ranking competitors will win cash prizes.
One interesting competition, from a lawyer's standpoint, is Human-Computer Question Answering Competition. Progress in this area of artificial intelligence and machine learning has the potential to lead to breakthrough legal tech.
This is a very good article that explains the hardware side of artificial intelligence. It is important to understand both the hardware and the software side of this groundbreaking technology.
