U-M speaker will discuss Google’s translation service

November 19, 2012
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EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

DATE: 7 p.m. Nov. 26, 2012

EVENT: “The Story of Google Translate: Past, Present, and Future”

Breaking down language barriers, Google provides free, automatic translation between 64 of the world’s languages. U-M alum Josh Estelle, lead developer of Google Translate, will discuss six years of progress toward bringing fast, accurate translation to hundreds of millions of people and what this means for the future of communication.

PLACE: 2435 North Quad, 105 S. State St., Ann Arbor
Campus map: http://uuis.umich.edu/cic/map/central/index.cfm?region=B2
North Quad: http://uuis.umich.edu/cic/buildingproject/index.cfm?BuildingID=553

SPONSORS: Department of Comparative Literature, School of Information, Institute for the Humanities and the Fall 2012 LSA Translation Theme Semester

INFORMATION: Megan Berkobien, mmberkobien@gmail.com

WEB LINKS: Google Translate: http://translate.google.com/about/intl/en_ALL

Translation at Michigan: http://translation.lsa.umich.edu