Translation by a machine demonstrated for the first time

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7 January, 1954

A public demonstration of translation by a machine was held for the first time on 7th January 1954. The system was developed jointly by Georgetown University and IBM. The Georgetown-IBM experiment, as it has come to be known, involved translating over 60 Russian sentences into English.