Word: toshiba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...machine clearly does not like poetry. It won't touch the stuff. Nor is it very fond of novels. Theoretically, it could cope with some of Hemingway's short, simple sentences, though it could never make anything of long, convoluted passages from Faulkner. But give the Toshiba AS-TRANSAC computer a thoroughly dull, straightforward instruction manual, and it will earnestly chomp its way through page after page. What it does with those pages is the amazing part. The Toshiba machine has linguistic ability far beyond the powers of past generations of computers: it can translate, at least crudely, one language...
...more than half a dozen machine-translation systems being energetically developed in Japan. With their strong thirst for information from other nations and a growing need to disseminate their documents around the world, the Japanese urgently require computers that can translate. A few machines, such as the Toshiba model and Fujitsu's Atlas system, are already in operation, helping Japanese companies like Mazda translate technical material. A powerful computer called SHALT, designed by IBM Japan, is being used extensively for in-house translations. In 1988 SHALT converted four IBM manuals from English into Japanese. This year the target...
...text and render it unerringly into a different language without the aid of a bilingual editor who can fine-tune the output for ambiguities in the ) vocabulary, to say nothing of shades of meaning. "A truly automatic system is a dream at the moment," admits Makoto Ihara, manager of Toshiba's computer product-planning department. Says Kazunori Muraki, a leading researcher at NEC: "Machine translation is only to reduce the work involved in human translation...
...belated admission by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration that almost identical alerts had been circulated to American airlines for more than a month before the December warning. On Nov. 18 an "aviation security bulletin" urged airlines to be on the lookout for explosive-packed cassette recorders, painstakingly describing the "Toshiba bomb." On Nov. 22 the British issued a similar alert, but only to British airlines and airports...
...relatives of the Flight 103 victims know only too well, even those warnings were not the first. In October, West German police arrested a member of a Syrian-backed guerrilla group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, and discovered a Toshiba Boombeat Model 453 radio- cassette player fitted with explosives and a barometric device designed to explode at high altitudes. In the first week of November, the West Germans held a conference in Wiesbaden to distribute information about the construction of the bomb. Security specialists from Britain and the rest of Europe attended...