In a meeting at Google in 2004, the discussion turned to an e-mail message the company had received from a fan in South Korea. Sergey Brin, a Google founder, ran the message through an automatic ...

In the 23rd century, people will use a gizmo that looks suspiciously like a flashlight to communicate with alien species. That’s in the world of “Star Trek.” In the here and now, a small Marina del ...

Imagine you're in a foreign country where you don't speak the language, and you need to decipher a confusing train schedule in a hurry. Wouldn't it be handy to be able to talk into a device, asking ...

The makers of a University of Southern California computer translation system consistently rated among the world's best are teaching their software something new: English grammar. Most modern "machine ...