eugene@ames.UUCP (Eugene Miya) (09/13/85)
Lately, there have been significant technical advances from non-English
speaking countries: Japan and the Continent. How many know the Japanese
equivalent to the CACM? What is the German equivalent of the IEEE?
It is too easy to say that such organizations and publications are
not significant. We have been accused of parochialism.
Our problems in the computer industry are rather unique as colleagues in other
fields such as nuclear fusion report that most of their colleagues are,
for all practical purposes, forced to come to the U.S. This is not the case
with computing
Just as we have file servers and process servers, we have a
distributed system. Our greatest resource are not the machines, but
the people with special skills. To this end I propose the following:
Propose:
1) to identify individuals who are capable of providing simple
translation. It would help if the Universities could do this, but
languages requirements in most graduate CS and EE programs has been dropped.
Perhaps, Universities could get assistance from foreign language
departments.
2) Identify various foreign language publications of technical interest.
Quickly identify articles of wide interest. This information could
be posted to general interest Usenet newsgroups such as net.research
and net.mag as well as the special interest groups such as the AI List,
net.lang, and so forth. We should not create news grops, but work
on top of existing groups.
3) Help fund subscription and translations. Perhaps, individuals
without technical translation expertise can get together to pay for
technical translations [commercial], and/or help fund the subscription
of those with technical translation expertise. This information
could be posted to the standard news groups addressed above.
Dymond@nbs-vms.ARPA has started an info-japan and a nihongo discussion
group on the ARPAnet, but it would be difficult to get Usenet
participation. I specfically do not want to create new newsgroups.
This structure can be placed atop the existing new group structure.
It appears our most critical needs are in the Eastern Asian languages
such as Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. Other useful work would include
French, German, and the other European languages. We have to look to
the Universities for much of our assistance, but private organizations
and government can also help. We can certainly make inquires.
The Usenet extends into Japan, France, and other non-English native
countries. We must take benefit of these contributors.
Similarly, we can contribute to these countries by tagging significant
English language documents.
I am willing to act as a clearing house for determining finding
individuals and groups, and specific journals. For this purpose,
I am giving my address an ARPA, uucp gateway. Send the mail inquires
there. More in a couple of weeks.
From the Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers:
--eugene miya
NASA Ames Research Center
{hplabs,ihnp4,dual,hao,decwrl,allegra}!ames!amelia!eugene
eugene@ames-naseugene@ames.UUCP (Eugene Miya) (10/17/85)
This is one last call before I attempt to organize people together.
I've been travelling and the response I received from my earlier posting
on foreign language technical material was good. Next week,I should be
able to deal with all the mail which came in, and I figure the universities
should all be back.
If you missed my earlier posting, I am trying to locate people with
foreign language skills who would be willing to monitor various foreign
language journals, posting information about potentially significant
articles to various net.news groups to speed identification for translation.
The first phase will be complete with this mailing. The next phase will
identify significant journals to monitor. The last phase involves volunteers
posting information like TOCs in net.mag. Critical languauges include
Japanese, Chinese, French, and so on.
We have an ARPAnet gateway here which will simplify problems. So if you
are interested and did not see my first posting, send me mail to
the address below. Thanks again for all those who responded the first
time, and I WILL get back to you.
--eugene miya
NASA Ames Research Center
{hplabs,ihnp4,dual,hao,decwrl,allegra}!ames!amelia!eugene
eugene@ames-nas.ARPAbs@faron.UUCP (Robert D. Silverman) (10/19/85)
> This is one last call before I attempt to organize people together. > I've been travelling and the response I received from my earlier posting > on foreign language technical material was good. Next week,I should be > able to deal with all the mail which came in, and I figure the universities > etc.... What has this garbage got to do with mathematics? Are you sure that 11 different newgroups are enough to post the same message to? Maybe you'd like to try for 20 more?? Please restrict postings to this group to mathematics and closely related areas. Bob Silverman (they call me Mr. 9) > should all be back. > > If you missed my earlier posting, I am trying to locate people with > foreign language skills who would be willing to monitor various foreign > language journals, posting information about potentially significant > articles to various net.news groups to speed identification for translation. > The first phase will be complete with this mailing. The next phase will > identify significant journals to monitor. The last phase involves volunteers > posting information like TOCs in net.mag. Critical languauges include > Japanese, Chinese, French, and so on. > > We have an ARPAnet gateway here which will simplify problems. So if you > are interested and did not see my first posting, send me mail to > the address below. Thanks again for all those who responded the first > time, and I WILL get back to you. > > --eugene miya > NASA Ames Research Center > {hplabs,ihnp4,dual,hao,decwrl,allegra}!ames!amelia!eugene > eugene@ames-nas.ARPA *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE ***