As a number of you have pointed out, the address I gave yesterday was incomplete.
It should be: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/WJHutchins My apologies to all ... John Hutchins 8 Jan ================================ >From: John Hutchins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 11:13 AM To: MT-list Subject: [MT-List] first public demonstration of MT Fifty years ago today (7 January 1954) the first public demonstration of a MT system was held in New York at the head office of IBM. The demonstration was widely reported in the newspapers and received much public interest. The system itself, however, was no more than what today would be called a "toy" system, having just 250 words and translating just 49 carefully selected Russian sentences into English -- mainly in the field of chemistry. Nevertheless it encouraged the view that MT was imminent -- and in particular stimulated the financing of MT research, not just in the US but worldwide. John Hutchins 7 Jan 2004 < -- For MT-List info, see http://www.eamt.org/mt-list.html
