By Sharon K. Gilbert [R]unning beneath the cutting edge, brand spanking new sections of the ever-growing and possibly proto-sentient Internet lies a language that few outside the coding world know–it’s called ‘R’, and it is owned by Revolution Analytics. Microsoft has been a major user of this ‘predictive programming’Continue Reading

[L]ast night’s ‘State of the Union’ speech contained loads of platitudes, congratulatory back-pats, and perhaps a few misleading statements (jobs numbers, for one—and the implication that Americans are better off now for another), but that’s not what I intend to write about this morning. Instead, I’d like to take aContinue Reading

I’ve just spent nearly 45 minutes listening to this year’s Mahdi speech by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. This was the president’s eighth appearance at the UN podium in as many years, and it is likely to be his last, since he does not plan to seek reelection. Citing a worldContinue Reading