[Foundation-l] New projects opened

[Michael Peel]

On 23 Aug 2009, at 09:50, Bod Notbod wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Milos Rancic<millosh at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> There won't be new lingua franca. ~30 years is now very small amount
>> of time for changing behavior of the global society, while it is very
>> large amount of time for machine translators. (Translation engines
>> between similar languages are very very good now.)
>
> The Google Wave demo shows real time translation as things are typed.
> I'm sure you'll inevitably end up with some of the very strange
> sentence constructions you get whenever you do an online translation
> but it's still quite a remarkable feat.

I was at a demonstration of Google Wave yesterday, and someone asked  
for a demo of the live translation robot. They weren't able to demo  
it; apparently it's been decommissioned by Google.

Mike