This article from the BBC showcases a gadget that seems almost too good to be true: a pair of glasses that translates overheard speech and projects subtitles directly on to the viewer’s retina. NEC said the Tele Scouter was intended to be a business tool that could aid sales staff who would have information about [...]
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SAIVUS is an online non-profit organization that teaches Native American languages currently spoken within the United States. Founded in 2008 by Mathias Bullerman, a student linguist at Rutgers University, it provides comprehensive grammar tutorials, word lists, practice exercises and other materials vital to modern language survival and health in order to help Native American people [...]
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Date & Time: Saturday, March 7, 2009, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm Location: Teachers College, Columbia University Theme: Second/Foreign Language Research: Information Technology, Inquiry and Interaction Plenary Speaker: Dr. John Liontas “From Prescribing and Describing Linguistics to Analyzing Applied Linguistics Research and Practice: A Multiplicity of Perspectives from Language Teaching, Technology, and Idiomaticity” The conference [...]
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Bridging ten millenia
Slate ran an article a few days ago on an interesting linguistic problem: how do we communicate with distant future generations? The problem is simple enough: every country in the world that has the resources and the expertise to harness the power of the atom (whether to produce energy or to build bombs) is churning [...]
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