Blawx v1.0.0-alpha is now available on GitHub. Version 1 is nearly a complete rewrite of Blawx in order to introduce a number of major improvements all at the same time: Blawx now relies on the s(CASP) language and SWI-Prolog reasoner in the back end, giving Blawx users access to features such as natural language explanations …
As of August 31, 2021, Blawx version 0.2.4Alpha is live on the Blawx.com website. For details on the changes in this version you can see our post about the release candidate. The main changes since then are to the documentation. Part of this release involves moving our documentation off of Blawx.com and into the Blawx …
One of the design objectives for Blawx is readability. Blawx code is readable if a non-programmer who speaks English can look at the code on the screen and have a reasonable intuition of what it means. We have added a feature to the development version of Blawx that makes your Blawx code much more readable: …
Blawx version 0.2.4-alpha release candidate 1 is now available on GitHub, and live at dev.blawx.com/blawx.html! In addition to bug fixes and interface improvements, version 0.2.4-alpha RC1 has the following major new features: Dates, Times, and Durations Blawx now supports dates, times, and durations as basic data types! In addition to the data type and value …
The OECD’s Observatory for Public Sector Innovation has released a report on “Rules as Code” called “Cracking the Code” that is sure to become the definitive starting point for conversations around automating legal reasoning in public services going forward. Blawx is listed alongside CSIRO’s Regulation as a Platform and Oracle Intelligent Advisor (and Excel!) as …
We are delighted to learn today that Blawx was named “runner up” in the startup category of the inaugural American Legal Technology Awards. The startup award for “a legal technology startup company that has created a product or service that shows significant promise in providing outsize benefits to its users” was awarded to LegalMation, which …
This has a been a week of wonderful surprises for Blawx. On Monday, Blawx was named as a finalist in the American Legal Technology Awards. Today, Blawx is featured twice in release 1.2 of the MIT Computational Law Report. My paper “Blawx: Rules as Code Demonstration” is an interactive introduction to Rules as Code and …
On Monday it was announced that Blawx has been named as a finalist in the first-ever American Legal Technology Awards, in the category of “startup.” The other two finalists in the startup category, Luminance and Legalmation are both inspiring companies, doing impressive things with the newer generation of data-based artificial intelligence. That Blawx, an open …
Since moving the live demo to the open source version of Blawx in early June, we have not had SSL available on the new demo server. As of today that has been fixed. You can now access the live demo over SSL, which will make it safer to test with private information, and will also …
I had the pleasure of demonstrating Blawx and docassemble-blawx at Docacon 2020, which was held online in late June. I demonstrated an encoding of the rules of Rock Paper Scissors being used to power a docassemble interview that determines the winner of games. The video is about 6 minutes, and is embedded below.