by Giovanna Lester | Apr 30, 2012 | Uncategorized
Industry news: Remote Interpreting: Who’s in control? ATIF news: Elections, Bylaws update and more Professional Tool Review: Mayeluz comments on Glenn Roger’s Medical Dictionary Member Showcase: Meet Diana Israel And much more! Get your copy of ...
by Giovanna Lester | Apr 29, 2012 | Uncategorized
Tulsa to host annual medical interpreter forum | Tulsa World. Advocates are trying to expand the national certification beyond Spanish and persuade hospitals to require their interpreters to be nationally certified. “It’s really a meeting to...
by Giovanna Lester | Apr 28, 2012 | Uncategorized
Culture, Not Biology, Shapes Human Language : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR. If you’re familiar with Noam Chomsky’s theorizing on language, you by now will have intuited that Everett’s data directly challenge it.
by Giovanna Lester | Apr 28, 2012 | Uncategorized
Google Now Translates as Much Text in a Day as Human Pros Can in a Year – Alexis Madrigal – Technology – The Atlantic. A key question over the next six years is how far Google’s current techniques can take them.
by Giovanna Lester | Apr 27, 2012 | Uncategorized
Interpreting in Conflict Zones. And just as international business requires multilingual communication, so too does war.
by Giovanna Lester | Apr 26, 2012 | Uncategorized
Want to Make Rational Decisions? Think About Them In a Foreign Language. | 80beats | Discover Magazine. Even when we understand a foreign language, what should be emotionally charged phrases, such swears or expressions of love, just don’t register the same emotional...
by Giovanna Lester | Apr 26, 2012 | Uncategorized
Bricolage and the Tangled Bank: Happy Mistranslations of Evolution | The Loom | Discover Magazine. One of the most interesting parts of writing a book is seeing what emerges from the mind of your translator. I’ve usually had good luck with translators.
by Giovanna Lester | Apr 25, 2012 | Uncategorized
A few ways to customize Excel to increase your productivity | TechRepublic. Customizing a new install of Excel can help you work more efficiently from the get-go. How you customize Excel depends on you, but here are a few tweaks that most users will benefit...
by Giovanna Lester | Apr 25, 2012 | Uncategorized
Reducing the risk of contracting malware on Macs | TechRepublic. It’s unlikely that Apple will ever completely protect Macs from the harsh realities of the web, but the Mac is indeed a very secure platform and with a little effort, you can reduce yours or your...
