If I had to guess what percentage of the readings assigned in liberal-arts colleges and universities were translated works, I’d say at least 50 percent. While I have no specific data to back up such a ...

Jeff Glor talks to Nataly Kelly about "Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World." Jeff Glor: What inspired you to write the book? Nataly Kelly: This book was ...

Called LOGAN, the deep neural network, i.e., a machine of sorts, can learn to transform the shapes of two different objects, for example, a chair and a table, in a natural way, without seeing any ...

In geometry, the word translation means moving. It can help to think of translating a shape as sliding the shape. When you translate a shape: every point on the shape moves the same distance and in ...

From the Lutheran Bible to Tintin and from Aristotle to the Rosetta Stone, translation has shaped Mediterranean culture for centuries, despite the vast array of untranslatable material in existence.

Turning a chair into a table, or vice versa, might sound like somewhat of a magic trick. In this case, zero magic is involved, just plenty of complex geometry and machine learning. Called LOGAN, the ...