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History of literary translation
Friday, September 18th, 2009
The first important translation in the West was that of the Septuagint,[1] a collection of Jewish Scriptures translated into Koine Greek in Alexandria between the 3rd and 1st centuries BCE. The dispersed Jews had forgotten their ancestral language and needed Greek versions (translations) of their Scriptures.
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History of DivX
Monday, May 4th, 2009
The “DivX” brand is distinct from “DIVX” (Digital Video Express), an unrelated attempt by the now defunct U.S. retailer Circuit City to develop a video rental system requiring special discs and players[1]. The winking emoticon in the early “DivX ;-)” codec name was a tongue-in-cheek reference to the failed DIVX system[2]. [...]
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History of the machine translation
Monday, January 19th, 2009
The idea of machine translation may be traced back to 17th century. In 1629, René Descartes proposed a universal language, with equivalent ideas in different tongues sharing one symbol. In the 1950s, The Georgetown experiment (1954) involved fully-automatic translation of over sixty Russian sentences into English. The experiment was a great [...]
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