1-6/1954.
Dates
- From the Collection: 1949-1971
Extent
From the Collection: 3 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Container Summary
Includes: program from and text of address by Frank L. Fadner, S.J., at Fifth Annual Round Table on Linguistics and Language Teaching, 04/30-05/01/1954; release re Fulbright Award to ILL student Arthur D. Avedesian to study in Germany, 05/18/1954; release re trip to Turkey by ILL team to teach English to Turkish Technical trainees ("the project was set up as an aid to the Foreign Operations Administration's productivity and technical assistance program for that country", 03/16/1954; carbons of letters to IBM re machine translation, 01/19/1954 ("The University feels deeply indebted to you for your generous cooperation in making possible the electronic conversion of Russian into English. I was very much impressed and inspired by your vision for the use and development of the machine for translating other languages for the purpose of bringing the people of troubled countries in Europe closely together"); sample of Russian sentence translated by IBM Type -701 Data processing Machines; photograph of IMB Electronic Data Processing Machines-Type 701 and punch card; and IBM release : "Russian was translated into English by an electronic brain for the first time today . . . ", 01/08/1954.
Repository Details
Part of the Georgetown University Archives Repository
Lauinger Library, 5th Floor
37th and O Streets, N.W.
Washington DC 20057
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