Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just spring up out of nowhere. They were developed by people for explicit ...

In today’s interconnected world, the technological revolution has introduced a new form of language: computer programming. Early machine languages, such as binary and assembly code, required ...

So that’s how Revolution Analytics was founded,” says Smith. To call Smith an R enthusiast is an understatement. He is a co-author of the programming manual An Introduction to R that comes ...

Programming languages, believe it or not, have existed for over 200 years, since the invention of the punch-card-programmable Jacquard loom (Opens in a new window).

Microsoft plans to integrate Revolution's R programming language implementation and platform for statistical computing and analytics into SQL Server, Azure HDInsight and Azure Machine Learning.

Since Smalltalk-80 there hasn't been all that much development in programming languages. Lisp was in 1958, so functional programming dates back to then. Hindley-Milner was complete by 1982 and had ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That's when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran ...

In a move to beef up its portfolio of analysis software and services, Microsoft is acquiring Revolution Analytics, a major commercial distributor of the R statistical programming language.