Georgetown–IBM experiment

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Debut, Jan 7, 1954
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The Georgetown-IBM experiment marked the first public demonstration of a machine translation system at IBM's headquarters in New York. In collaboration between Georgetown University and IBM, the experiment showcased the fully automatic translation of over sixty Russian sentences into English, proving to be an influential milestone in the development of machine translation.

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The 701 at IBM’s New York headquarters

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Hurd, Dostert and Watson at the demonstration

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Example of a punched card

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Flowchart of part of the dictionary lookup procedures (from Sheridan 1955)

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Input of punched cards

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Operating the computer

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‘The first public demonstration of machine translation: the Georgetown-IBM system, 7th January 1954’ by John Hutchins

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