Warren Weaver Quote

One naturally wonders if the problem of translation could conceivably be treated as a problem in cryptography. When I look at an article in Russian, I say: 'This is really written in English, but it has been coded in some strange symbols. I will now proceed to decode.'

"Translation" (1955), in W.N. Locke and A.D. Booth (eds.), Machine Translation of Languages (MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.).

One naturally wonders if the problem of translation could conceivably be treated as a problem in cryptography. When I look at an article in Russian,...

One naturally wonders if the problem of translation could conceivably be treated as a problem in cryptography. When I look at an article in Russian,...

One naturally wonders if the problem of translation could conceivably be treated as a problem in cryptography. When I look at an article in Russian,...

One naturally wonders if the problem of translation could conceivably be treated as a problem in cryptography. When I look at an article in Russian,...