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