Law Searching By Computer
(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) PHILADELPHIA, (Pennsylvania.) Lawyers may soon be using “instant law” to speed their work. Their tool will be an electronic brain which can reduce law books to a handful of magnetic tapes and unwind the right information at the touch of a button. The system has been tried with success at the University of Pittsburg by a non-profit making organisation known as Automated Law searching. The new system uses a computer to memorise and classify entire law libraries, including books, court reports, statutes and ordnances. All a lawyer has to do is to feed the computer a certain catchphrase designed to fit his specific case, and out pops the right information.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31062, 18 May 1966, Page 6
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