The Tower of Babel translator is a prototype translation device that functions in a completely different fashion from existing translators. Rather than having users punch in words on a keypad and then ...

When Skype announced its real-time translation program back in May, most of us seized on the sci-fi-ness off it all—Star Trek’s universal translator, Babel fish, etc. But the technology is very real, ...

Why limit yourself to knowing only one language when you pretend to know many more? That’s what a bunch of U.S. scientists figured when they set about to create a “Tower Of Babel” translator. A series ...

Some US researchers at Carnegie Mellon University -- who have clearly missed the basic gist of most traditional tellings of the Tower of Babel story -- are working on a nifty new technology for ...

Fans of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy will remember the Babel Fish. The Babel fish is small, yellow, leech-like – and probably the oddest thing in the universe. It feeds on brain wave energy, ...

Ever stumble upon a site in another language–Mandarin, for instance–but leave disappointed because you can’t read the text? One option, of course, is to try an online “machine” translator like Bing ...

AltaVista (now owned by Yahoo) has had the Babel Fish translation service since the late nineties. The service, which is powered by a French company called Systran, takes bits of text and translates ...

In Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a trilogy by Douglas Adams, different species communicate using the Babel fish, a leech-like creature that facilitates instantaneous universal translation. You ...