Georgetown-IBM experiment

Demonstration on 7 January 1954 at IBM headquarters, New York

contemporary newspaper reports

[for other accounts see under 'Georgetown-IBM experiment' in the index of Systems and projects]

 

Canadian Machinery and Manufacturing News, May 1954; pp.123-124 : Can machines really translate from one language to another? [PDF, 60KB]

Chemical and Engineering News, 25 Jan 1954: Electronic brain translates Russian [PDF, 158KB]

Chemical Week, 30 Jan 1954: Polyglot brainchild [PDF, 370KB]

Christian Science Monitor, 11 Jan 1954: Robot translates nimbly, by Harry C. Kenny [PDF, 79KB]

Christian Science Monitor, 13 Jan 1954: A translating machine [editorial] [PDF, 61KB]

Daily Mail (London), 6 Feb 1954: Noel Barber meets the brain [PDF, 105KB]

Electrical Engineering, March 1954: Russian translated into English by electronic computer in a few seconds [PDF, 76KB]

Financial Times, 1 March 1954: The electronic translator [PDF, 79KB]

Globe and Mail (Toronto), 12 Feb 1954: Electronic translations possible in five years [PDF, 65KB}

IBM press release, 7 Jan 1954: 701 translator [PDF, 69KB]

Jamestown Post-Journal (N.Y.), 15 jan 1954: Electronic brain translates Russian into English [PDF, 99KB]

Journal of the Franklin Institute, March 1954: Electronic translation [PDF, 92KB]

Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan 1954: Electronic brain may be near as translator [PDF, 68KB]

Newsweek, 18 Jan 1954: The bilingual machine [PDF, 67KB]

New York Herald Tribune, 8 Jan 1954: It’s all done by machine: words go in in Russian, English sentences come out, by Earl Ubell [PDF, 82KB]

New York Herald Tribune, 10 Jan 1954: Electronic linguistics [editorial] [PDF, 64KB]

New York Herald Tribune, 15 Jan 1954: A word on languages [letter to editor from] Mario Pei [PDF, 56KB]

New York Times, 8 Jan 1954: Russian is turned into English by a fast electronic translator, by Robert K.Plumb [PDF, 88KB]

Science News Letter, 23 Jan 1954: Language translation by electronic “brain [PDF, 69KB]

The Times (London), 9 Jan 1954: Language machine demonstration: texts translated [PDF, 61KB]

Washington Times Herald, 8 Jan 1954: ‘Robot brain’ translates Russian into King’s English, by Harry Gabbett [PDF, 73KB]