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Seated at an International Business Machines Corp. electronic computer last week, a girl who understands not a word of Russian punched out the message: Mi pyeryedayem mislyi posryedstvom ryech-yi. In a few seconds the mechanical "brain" spewed out a translation from Russian to English: "We transmit thoughts by means of speech."
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The computer is far from ready to translate a book from Russian to English. But, says Georgetown Scholar Leon Dostert: "Five, perhaps three, years hence, interlingual meaning conversion by electronic process . . . may well be an accomplished fact."
TIME, Jan. 18, 1954
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The computer is far from ready to translate a book from Russian to English. But, says Georgetown Scholar Leon Dostert: "Five, perhaps three, years hence, interlingual meaning conversion by electronic process . . . may well be an accomplished fact."
TIME, Jan. 18, 1954