Category «Education»

LLRX May 2025 Issue – Articles and Columns

LLRX May 2025 Issue – Articles and Columns The fallacy of the calculator – Jordan Furlong Safeguarding the Docket: A Roadmap for AI Agent Integration into Patent Docketing Workflows – This paper by John Schulte outlines the potential benefits of using AI agents in docketing workflows and proposes an implementation roadmap, including three key safeguards for …

Subjects: AI, Censorship, Civil Liberties, Climate Change, Cryptocurrency, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Government, Education, Environmental Law, Financial System, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation, Patent and Trademark, Recommended Books

Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans

The New York Times [no paywall] – “The Trump administration has expanded Palantir’s work with the government, spreading the company’s technology — which could easily merge data on Americans — In March, President Trump signed an executive order calling for the federal government to share data across agencies, raising questions over whether he might compile …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, E-Government, E-Records, Economy, Education, Financial System, Free Speech, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research

Information Ecosystems and Troubled Democracy: A Global Synthesis of the State of Knowledge on News Media, AI and Data Governance

Tech Policy Press – “Recently, an entity called the Observatory on Information and Democracy released a major report called “Information Ecosystems and Troubled Democracy: A Global Synthesis of the State of Knowledge on News Media, AI and Data Governance.” The report is the result of a combination of three research assessment panels comprised of over …

Subjects: Censorship, Climate Change, Education, Environmental Law, Government Documents, Legal Research

Which Legal AI Tools Are Law Firms Actually Using, How They Use Them, And Trends in AI Use

Artificial Lawyer: “A survey by Skills of which legal AI tools law firms are actually using provides multiple insights into where we are today. For example, Kira – which is part of Litera – remains by far the most popular tool for due diligence review. But, it’s followed by Harvey’s Vault feature – a relatively …

Subjects: AI, Courts, Economy, Education, Financial System, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

This website shows what 8 billion people are doing right at this moment

BoingBoing: “Seven billion people are doing a lot of things right now — sleeping, caring for their families, working, relaxing, eating, learning, socializing, commuting, shopping, etc. — and there’s a website that tries to track it all, including some rather personal moments. The What The Hell Are People Doing? dashboard offers a playful peek at …

Subjects: E-Government, E-Records, Education, Food and Nutrition, Internet, Knowledge Management

Most of us will leave behind a large ‘digital legacy’ when we die.

The Conversation – Here’s how to plan what happens to it: “Imagine you are planning the funeral music for a loved one who has died. You can’t remember their favourite song, so you try to login to their Spotify account. Then you realise the account login is inaccessible, and with it has gone their personal …

Subjects: AI, E-Mail, E-Records, Education, Financial System, Knowledge Management, Social Media

These historians oversee unbiased accounts of U.S. foreign policy

Washington Post – Trump fired them all. The volumes of the Foreign Relations of the United States have been written since Abraham Lincoln’s time [no paywall] The Historical Advisory Committee — “the HAC,” in Washington lingo — is made up of nine academics nominated to serve rotating terms by the biggest and most prestigious associations …

Subjects: Congress, Education, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Over 700 and $1.7 billion in previously undisclosed grant terminations published by NIH

Grant Watch: “726 additional additional terminated grants were reported by NIH this week, amounting to over $1.70 billion in total grant value, with $780 million remaining unspent. This brings the total number of terminations in our NIH database to over 1500 and $7.5 billion in total value. Thanks to scientists self-reporting these terminations, we know …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Financial System, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research, Medicine, Search Engines

Discover Europe’s digital cultural heritage

“Search, save and share art, books, films and music from thousands of cultural institutions. The Europeana website provides cultural heritage enthusiasts, professionals, teachers, and researchers with access to Europe’s digital cultural heritage. Why? To inspire and inform fresh perspectives and open conversations about our history and culture. To share and enjoy our rich cultural heritage. …

Subjects: E-Government, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

The New Dark Age – The Trump administration has launched an attack on knowledge itself

The Atlantic no paywall: “The warlords who sacked Rome did not intend to doom Western Europe to centuries of ignorance. It was not a foreseeable consequence of their actions. The same cannot be said of the sweeping attack on human knowledge and progress that the Trump administration is now undertaking—a deliberate destruction of education, science, …

Subjects: Education, Government Documents, Health Care, Intellectual Property, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Trump Administration Continues Scrubbing Statistics and Disappearing Data

Via LLRX – Trump Administration Continues Scrubbing Statistics and Disappearing Data – What is the status of the official data published by U.S. federal statistical agencies? As the current administration continues its disassembling of huge swaths of the federal government, not only are the workers and services gone, so of course is much of the data …

Subjects: Censorship, Climate Change, E-Government, E-Records, Economy, Education, Energy, Environmental Law, Government Documents, Health Care, Housing, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Medicine