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Submission + - Remembering Alan Turing on his 99th birthday (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Blacklaw on Thursday June 23, 2011 @05:41AM

Blacklaw writes: Today marks the 99th anniversary of the birth of Alan Turing, a noted polymath and cryptanalyst who is regarded by many as being the grandfather of modern computing.

Comment Re:Yes we can. (Score 1) 186

by rainbow127 on Tuesday June 21, 2011 @06:09PM (#36520686) Attached to: Kurzweil: Human-Level Machine Translation By 2029

'Some things just can't be expressed in another language.'

Then it's not a human idea, and probably wasn't expressed in the original language.

Well, while that may be the case for a lot of technical documents, a lot of puns can't be translated into another language. So the original statement true for that matter.

Kurzweil: Human-Level Machine Translation By 2029 186

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday June 21, 2011 @06:00PM from the still-no-klingon dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In a video interview with the Huffington Post, noted futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts that machines will reach human levels of translation quality by the year 2029. However, he was quick to highlight that even major technological advances in translation do not replace the need for language learning. 'Even the best translators can't fully translate literature,' he pointed out. 'Some things just can't be expressed in another language.'"

Submission + - Is the Rise of Wearable Electronics Finally Here? (makezine.com)

Submitted by

ptorrone

on Tuesday June 21, 2011 @04:23PM

ptorrone writes: "MAKE Magazine takes a look at the last ten years or so of "wearable electronics". From wireless watches to LCD goggles, MAKE predicts we are collectively entering a new era of wearables. As the price for enabling components drops, always-on connectivity in our pockets and purses increases, and access to low-costmanufacturing resources and know-howrises we’ll see innovation continue to push into these most personal forms of computing."

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