John Hutchins

The Origins of the Translator‘s Workstation

The first proposals for various component tools of what is now called the “translators workstation” or “translators workbench” are traced back to the 1970s and early 1980s in various, often independent, proposals at different stages in the development of computers and in their use by translators.

From First Conception to First Demonstration: the Nascent Years of Machine Translation, 1947–1954.A Chronology

The early history of applying electronic computers to the task of translating natural languages is chronicled, from the first suggestions by Warren Weaver in March 1947 to the first demonstration of a working, if limited, program in January 1954.