Each year, besides predicting what will happen in the coming 12 months, we review what we thought would happen in the prior year. How many of our predictions from December 2008 came true? Let’s take a look.

Finding that many of the visitors to Barnum’s American Museum in New York City would stay longer than they were wanted and thus keep new customers from entering (and paying), P.T. Barnum famously posted signs “This way to the egress.” His less sophisticated visitors would go in search of the exotic creature, only to find […]

Calling to mind the man versus machine theme of The Terminator films, President Obama’s call for increased investment in machine translation has created the latest flurry in this rapidly evolving market sector.

The E.U. has stated that all of its citizens should learn at least two foreign languages, in support of linguistic diversity. Many residents of countries like Denmark, Finland, and Sweden boast near-native proficiency in English, but could their bilingual behavior be putting their mother tongues at risk? This week, we attended a seminar in […]