Warren Weaver

Warren Weaver ( born July 17, 1894 in Reedsburg (Wisconsin ), † November 24, 1978 in New Milford (Connecticut) ) was an American mathematician and father of machine translation. Along with Claude Shannon, he was the founder of information theory.

In 1949 he presented a series of essays on the machine translation with the help of computers, which are known as Weaver memorandum. In this he formulated goals and ideas for the implementation of machine translation, before most people had ever understood what would be unable to afford computers. He made four basic assumptions in order to overcome the simplistic word - for-word translation:

Weaver was married and had two children. Warren Weaver was in 1964 awarded the Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science.

Writings

  • With CE Shannon: The Mathematical Theory of Communication. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1949.
  • "Science and Complexity ", American Scientist, 36: 536 (1948 ).
  • Alice in Many Tongues: The Translations of Alice in Wonderland. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1964.
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