New App Banks on the Human Element of Translation
We have countless machine translation options at our fingertips at any given moment, but many of these comically fail to capture nuance and cultural context. By bringing live, human translators…
New Words in the Digital Age: Q&A with Grant Barrett
Has the internet changed the way new words enter our collective vocabulary? How do dictionary makers figure out what words having staying power and which will be obsolete in a…
Q&A with Naomi Baron: Print or Screen Reading?
Can physical books and eBooks coexist, or are they hopelessly at odds? Linguist Naomi Baron weighs in.
Peter Wegner’s Wall of Words
Peter Wegner blends art and language in this adverb-inspired installation.
Sosolimited Shares Their Broadcast Visualization Exhibit
Set Top Box, part of a series of artworks that deconstructs a television broadcast in real time to reveal hidden patterns of language
Q&A with Ed King: talkobamato.me
An interview about talkobamato.me with Ed King, who describes creating this wildly popular website, his inspiration, the implications of the website, and the potential applications of the technology