The document, said to be the single most influential publication in the early days of machine translation, outlined a series of ambitious goals for the field, despite appearing at a time when few people knew what computers may be capable of. In the following years, his colleagues encouraged him to elaborate on his ideas, resulting in his 1949 memorandum “Translation”. Booth which inspired him to believe that machine translation was just around the corner. In 1946 he read a report by English physicist Andrew D. One of its early proponents was American scientist Warren Weaver, director of the Natural Sciences Division of the Rockefeller Foundation. But, as is so often the case, war was the catalyst for serious effort in the field.Įlectromechanical cipher machines used during WWII, such as the German Enigma, inspired scientists after the war to dive head first into the bold new era of computer translation machines. In 1933 patents were filed independently in both France and Russia which used different mechanical means of translating languages through paper tape. His idea was seemingly never capitalised on. In fact, you have to go back to 1629, when French philosopher and mathematician Rene Descartes proposed a series of universal symbols that any language could be converted into. And, as I discovered, our interest in multilingual machines and trouble-free translation goes back much further than the 1950s. My discovery got me hunting for the origins of this technology that we now take for granted. And, had the original quote been in one of the 63 languages supported by Google, the process would have been just as quick. A quick copy and paste into Google Translate and I quickly confirmed the translation - no need for a super computer or access to the laboratories of a computing giant. “Lights flash, there is a subdued clinking and clanking, and in 10 seconds you’ve got the translation,” it said.Ĭurious to see if it had got it right, I copied the Russian text from the story and opened a new tab in my browser. The reporter, in suitably sensational language, explained “the brain” was fed a sentence in Russian to translate into English. The short Associated Press article about an IBM computer, trumpeted as the first computer capable of translation between different languages, ended with an example of its skills. It happened to me most recently when, browsing an online newspaper archive, I came across a 1954 article in the Los Angeles Times about the dawning age of language translation by computers. The City of Grand Island shall not be liable for damages or losses of any kind arising out of, or in connection with, the use or performance of such information, including but not limited to, damages or losses caused by reliance upon the accuracy, reliability or timeliness of any such information, or damages arising from or in connection with use of the Google™ Translate Service.There are times when I feel as if I’m truly living in the future.
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