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Friday, April 05, 2002
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992115 Distributed program to translate many languages NewScientist.com news service A US software designer plans to harness the brains of the world's computer users to build a multilingual translation database. Brian McConnell believes it could provide a free way to translate the many languages not included in existing online translators. McConnell is releasing a new distributed computer program, which works like programs such as SETI@home. However, while most distributed computer projects make use of spare computer power to perform complex computational tasks, in this case people will be asked to provide short translations themselves....
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