I recently had the pleasure and honor of being the opening keynote for a very tech-savvy conference. XTM Live, The Translation Technology Summit really made me appreciate the enormously important work this relatively young industry performs. In today’s modern business world, it’s increasingly important to have a true global presence […]
After defeating the all-time human champions of the game show, Jeopardy in 2011, IBM’s Watson supercomputer was scheduled for an upgrade. Wanting to give it access to a broader vocabulary, its programmers introduced the AI to the Urban Dictionary, a web-based collection of cultural phrases and slang. Unfortunately, because of […]
I love technology. Good. Now that that’s out of the way, allow me to clarify. I love good technology. Jetpacks. Flying cars. Meal-in-a-pill. Not good. These won’t fly (some of them literally) because they don’t meet all of the criteria of good technology. Consider that in order to move all […]