Being a hype word, AI has many definitions & expectations. The following description is refreshing in the midst of a hype! So what is artificial intelligence? The truth is, it’s not a science in the common sense of the word. Rather, it’s an aspirational concept that doesn’t quite fit today’s realities. Modern artificial intelligence is … Continue reading What is artificial intelligence?
VQ Knowledge and Strategy Forum 2012
Virtual Intelligence | VQ Knowledge and Strategy Forum 2012Welcome to the future of legal service on 14 November 2012 in Stockholm This year VQ and Regi combine their annual events VQ Knowledge an...Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Google Share on LinkedinShare by emailVqab0 likes · 0 comments#VQForum trending on Twitter .....Amazing! #VQForum top trending Twitter hash … Continue reading VQ Knowledge and Strategy Forum 2012
Isaac Asimov on education and learning
1988 Bill Moyers' interview with Isaac Asimov, rather beautiful thoughts on learning and education. HT @brainpicker
Quote of the month: Concepts and keywords
After teaching legal information retrieval to first year law students for a few weeks, I started thinking about how we actually search for legal sources. Barbara Bintliff’s thoughts were very interesting in this regard: Legal research no longer requires beginning with knowledge of the law because the emphasis of electronic research is on facts and … Continue reading Quote of the month: Concepts and keywords
Plagiarism as tension between creativity and sharing
Excellent post on The Plagiarism Perplex by Barbara Fister on plagiarism and the grey area between creativity and sharing, writing and reading: There is an extraordinary tension in our culture between individual creativity and the creative community, between originality and a shared body of knowledge, between the acts of reading culture and writing culture. And our students … Continue reading Plagiarism as tension between creativity and sharing
Legal education as an app
As apps increasingly find their way into everyday life, they also accompany students, lawyers and teachers in their everyday tasks. The idea of Law as an App can certainly help to create better learning and professional environments if applied in the right way. Pam Storr and I recently published a blog post on apps in … Continue reading Legal education as an app
Context goes mobile
It seems context is not only a buzzword within information retrieval: One of the hottest concepts in mobile right now is the idea of context. The thought process goes something like this: because the modern smartphone comes equipped with all kinds of sensors, is always on, and tends to be touched by its owner quite … Continue reading Context goes mobile
Quote of the month: Legal information retrieval vs jigsaw puzzles
Though there are different theories on why people search for information - suggesting uncertainty, satisfying a goal or simple curiosity - a gap in knowledge seems rather convincing in a legal setting. Assuming that lawyers generally search for legal sources in order to deal with a working task, the following statement is very persuasive: Some … Continue reading Quote of the month: Legal information retrieval vs jigsaw puzzles
Quote of the month: Delete the law
Information overload is apparently not a new phenomena but was already noticed by Morris L Cohen, co-author of How to Find the Law (pdf), in 1968: […] the materials of our law seem to be marked by an accelerating birth rate, an almost non-existent mortality rate, and a serious resistance to contraception on the part … Continue reading Quote of the month: Delete the law
Where legal sources meet technology and their users
Two questions are of importance when discussing legal information retrieval: Where legal sources meet technology and their users and When legal sources meet technology and their users In my opinion, the triad of these building blocks - legal theory, technology and users - has to be taken into consideration when one asks how legal information … Continue reading Where legal sources meet technology and their users
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