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Entries from February 2009

Private Cloud Computing: The Only Thing Real so Far is the Desire

February 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment

My colleague, Tom Bittman, recently wrote this provocative post: Private Cloud Computing is Real – Get Over It. While I roughly agree with the body of the post — "internal IT providers want to make fundamental changes so that they behave and provide similar benefits (on smaller scale) as cloud computing providers" [emphasis added] — [...]

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AI and Law

February 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment

My colleague Mark Raskino has written a thought provoking piece (Could recession speed up lawyer automation?) in which he predicts "‘expert systems’ are coming into legal practice situations. These systems can take away much of the simpler work previously undertaken by legally qualified people at significant hourly rates."
This mention of "expert systems" replacing attorneys brought [...]

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