Cohen

AARON is the world’s first cybernetic artist: an artificially intelligent system that composes its own paintings. Incredibly, the system is the work of one man, Harold Cohen, who had no background in computing when he began the effort.

Jerome Cohen, a key adviser to Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng says he’s hoping to welcome the blind activist to New York University’s School of Law.

Elizabeth Edward’s latest round of interviews about her husband’s affair has gotten our friend Randy Cohen thinking: Is she wrong to put her family through this again, just to promote her book? Randy Cohen is a columnist for The New York Times Magazine.

Are we ethically obliged to cover our mouths when we cough? To wash our hands after we sneeze? These questions prompted a column by our friend and New York Times Ethicist Randy Cohen, and he joins us with more.

Roger Cohen is among those who view passage of the health care bill as a boon for President Obama’s foreign policy. Cohen wrote about the issue in today’s New York Times.