These case studies reflect the wide range of activities of people who are all labelled ‘translator’. Three of the writers, John Alvey, John Craddock and Albin Tybulewicz, are…
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These case studies reflect the wide range of activities of people who are all labelled ‘translator’. Three of the writers, John Alvey, John Craddock and Albin Tybulewicz, are members of the Committee of Aslib's Technical Translation Group. The fourth, Douglas Embleton, is a Group member but less able to participate actively because he is based some considerable distance from London.
I could quote many more examples of linguistic difficulties facing the managers, research workers, salesmen and other staff for whom we provide a service. You are all familiar…
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I could quote many more examples of linguistic difficulties facing the managers, research workers, salesmen and other staff for whom we provide a service. You are all familiar with the problem. Some of you cope with it using the resources at your disposal, sometimes scanty, sometimes considerable. Others would like to help their colleagues but are deterred, and I can almost hear them say ‘Am I taking on more than I can cope with? How do I set about it? Can I do it at a time when my budget is limited and it is a struggle to maintain services and standards, let alone embark upon a new venture?’
The work of E.F. Schumacher is addressed in the broad context ofeconomic philosophy. His economics present a frontal attack onneo‐classical economics. He likewise rejects a…
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The work of E.F. Schumacher is addressed in the broad context of economic philosophy. His economics present a frontal attack on neo‐classical economics. He likewise rejects a Marxist analysis of society. And while he shares some of the concerns of the institutionalists, he nonetheless stands apart from them in his questioning of the moral and philosophical foundations of the discipline. Schumacher can be considered a member of a fourth school – philosopher/economists.
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Automated programming of a robot automated assembly cell was one feature of the Alvey large scale demonstrator, Design to Product, unveiled in its final form in March at Lucas…
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Automated programming of a robot automated assembly cell was one feature of the Alvey large scale demonstrator, Design to Product, unveiled in its final form in March at Lucas Diesel Systems in Gillingham.
Only the best translator working in a narrow specialist field and in only one or perhaps two foreign languages can do without dictionaries. For most of us dictionaries and other…
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Only the best translator working in a narrow specialist field and in only one or perhaps two foreign languages can do without dictionaries. For most of us dictionaries and other works of reference are essential tools. It is often thought that translators can get by on two or three dictionaries—more than once a client has asked me, when I told him that I was unable to find a word: ‘Why don't you look it up in the dictionary?’ And it is not only non‐translators who think in this way. I have come across freelance translators who work with a general Cassell's dictionary and an out‐of‐date multilingual technical dictionary. One freelance translator told me he used Patterson's (not very good and not very comprehensive) French‐English Dictionary for Chemists for all his French work!
Normal calcium metabolism may be considered under six main headings, each closely related to, and dependent on one another. These divisions are: (1) The skeleton; (2) The level of…
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Normal calcium metabolism may be considered under six main headings, each closely related to, and dependent on one another. These divisions are: (1) The skeleton; (2) The level of calcium in the blood; (3) The intake of calcium; (4) The output of calcium; (5) The factors which regulate the absorption of calcium from gut; (6) Certain endocrine glands which have a controlling influence on the output of calcium in the urine.
Information technology ‐ Alvey news is published since the end of 1983 as the official newsletter of the Alvey Directorate who manage ‘the Alvey programme of advanced information…
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Information technology ‐ Alvey news is published since the end of 1983 as the official newsletter of the Alvey Directorate who manage ‘the Alvey programme of advanced information technology’. The directorate consists of staff seconded from UK industry and representatives of the three governing funding bodies: the Department of Trade, the Ministry of Defence, and the Science and Engineering Research Council. The Alvey programme aims to mobilise the UK's technical strengths in information technology (IT) in order to improve the UK's competitive position in world IT markets. The Alvey news is published by the Institution of Electrical Engineers in association with the British Computer Society, and the editor is the very helpful and intelligent Janet Tomlinson who can give further information about the publication; she may be contacted at the iee, Savoy Place, London WC2R 0BL, tel 01 240 1871.
The focal point of the Information Technology Skills shortage problem has been the Butcher committee, which first met in June of 1984. This Department of Trade & Industry…
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The focal point of the Information Technology Skills shortage problem has been the Butcher committee, which first met in June of 1984. This Department of Trade & Industry committee, chaired by John Butcher MP, arose from several sources. First NEDO and its electronics committee has been saying for some time that there is an acute problem which was not being tackled. Secondly the Alvey committee, organising important research activities, became alarmed that its plans were at risk because it could not see where the human resources necessary to carry out the additional work were to be found. Thirdly the CBI took up the problem and, led by Sir Austin Bide, made representations to Kenneth Baker MP who was then the Minister of Information Technology in the DTI.
Recently Dr Erik Arnold, a consultant with Booz, Allen and Hamilton International produced an Evaluation Report which reviewed the UK Alvey Intelligent Knowledge‐Based Systems…
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Recently Dr Erik Arnold, a consultant with Booz, Allen and Hamilton International produced an Evaluation Report which reviewed the UK Alvey Intelligent Knowledge‐Based Systems (IKBS) programme. The report gives a history of the programme and indicates its main aims and strategies. Its recommendations and evaluation are based on a comprehensive discussion of the programme's achievements as well as its weaknesses. The evaluation report says that the programme has been a big success in reviving the fortunes of Artificial Intelligence in the UK. For various reasons AI lost its initial impetus in the UK in the early 1970s and there were very few scientists and probably only one university department that could undertake research and development when the Japanese announcements brought the field to the fore. Indeed there was very little interest and support from UK industry and commerce at that time.
Mainstream economists now consider their discipline to be a technical one that is free from ethical concerns. I argue that this view only arose in the twentieth century. In this…
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Mainstream economists now consider their discipline to be a technical one that is free from ethical concerns. I argue that this view only arose in the twentieth century. In this paper I set out a brief history of economics as a moral science. First, I sketch the evolution of economics before Adam Smith, showing that it was generally (with the exception of the mercantilists) conceived of as a part of moral philosophy. Second, I present elements of the new interpretation of Smith, which show him as a developer of economics as a moral science. Third, I show that even after Smith, up to the beginning of the twentieth century, a number of leading economic theorists envisioned economics as a moral science, either in theory or in practice. Fourth, I sketch the decline of economics as a moral science. The key factor was the emergence and influence of positivism. Overall, I show that the current view of the detachment of economics from morals is alien to much of the history of the discipline.