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 (
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 (
IBM press
release, 7 Jan 1954: 701 translator [PDF, 69KB]
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 (
Washington
Times Herald, 8 Jan 1954: ‘Robot
brain’ translates Russian into King’s English, by Harry Gabbett
[PDF, 73KB]