Does Legal Mediation Really Work?

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No one likes to go to court. Not only is it expensive and time-consuming, it often leads to frustrating results and damaged relationships. So is court-sponsored mediation a better route?
The answer is “sometimes,” according to a comprehensive study of court-affiliated mediation programs by Roselle L. Wissler of Arizona State University’s College of Law in Tempe.

Designing Slides That Don’t Suck: 20 questions to ask before you present

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All too often, speakers rely on information-loaded slides that are too dense for audiences to process or pretty presentations that are as visually appealing as they are empty. Read on to learn the 20 questions to ask yourself before your next slide presentation.

Fei-Fei Li: How we're teaching computers to understand pictures

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When a very young child looks at a picture, she can identify simple elements: "cat," "book," "chair." Now, computers are getting smart enough to do that too. What's next? In a thrilling talk, computer vision expert Fei-Fei Li describes the state of the art -- including the database of 15 million photos her team built to "teach" a computer to understand pictures -- and the key insights yet to come.

How Does Mediation Work?

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How does mediation work in practice? As compared with other forms of dispute resolution, mediation can have an informal, improvisational feel. Mediation can include some or all of the following six steps, writes Kimberlee K. Kovach in The Handbook of Dispute Resolution (Jossey-Bass, 2005):
1. Planning. Before mediation begins, the mediator helps the parties decide where

Are You Ready for Do It Yourself Mobile Apps?

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We’ve gotten to a point at which the power of mobile devices, pervasive high quality wireless networks, and the power of automated software development have created a huge opportunity for a kind of app that we all want but that has been missing. These are apps that are as easy to make as a presentation but can be deployed on the mobile devices that we all carry around. The kind of self-service experience I’m talking about is being created by companies like doForms, and a few others, who are bringing self-service creation of mobile apps to a far wider audience.

When your body becomes your password, the end of the login is nigh

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Soon you will be the key. face scan by Franck Boston/www.shutterstock.comPasswords are a pain. I’ve just had to rummage around for the password required in order to post this article. I seem to have 100 or more different identities on different websites to manage. Whenever I book a flight or buy a concert ticket this often means setting up yet another persona and coming up with a password to authenticate it.

EMC pools enterprise smarts to create data 'lakes'

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EMC is drawing on its “federation” of companies to help customers build data lakes using EMC storage, VMware virtualization and Pivotal big-data smarts.The Federation Business Data Lake will ingest and analyze data from diverse sources to give enterprises new insights that can help them make better decisions, EMC says.

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