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Seated at an International Business Machines Corp. electronic computer last week, a girl who understands not a word of Russian punched out the message: Mi pyeryedayem mislyi posryedstvom ryech-yi. In a few seconds the mechanical "brain" spewed out a translation from Russian to English: "We transmit thoughts by means...
It was a big step for a computer to venture from the relatively precise fields of mathematics and physics into the more nebulous realm of language translation. But the IBM scientists and Georgetown University linguists who had helped set up the experiment thought it was an auspicious start. With a...
The computer is far from ready to translate a book from Russian to English. But, says Georgetown Scholar Leon Dostert: "Five, perhaps three, years hence, interlingual meaning conversion by electronic process . . . may well be an accomplished fact."
Star Plotter. Astronomers think large thoughts, but astronomy also involves a tremendous amount of the dullest kind of drudgery. The most tedious job is figuring out the true position of stars from their swarming images on photographic plates. ,The Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory at Columbia University has developed an electronic...
A new "speedometer" built by Raytheon Manufacturing Co. eases the Job of the LSO. It watches the approaching jet by radar and measures its speed accurately. This information, fed into an electronic computer, is combined with wind data. The final figure, displayed on a dial, tells the LSO accurately whether...