Which will be the newest extraterrestrial body humans will set foot on? (Aside from the moon, of course.) According to Pascal Lee of the Mars Institute, “[Phobos and Deimos] are the most accessible planetary bodies in our solar system.” New Scientist has a report on the conference at Ames Research Center on Wednesday where ideas [...]
Archive for 8 November 2007
Mars, Phobos, or Deimos?
Posted: 8 November 2007 in UncategorizedTags: asteroids, deimos, mars, moons, nasa, phobos, space, spaceflight
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Old English Translator
Posted: 8 November 2007 in UncategorizedTags: computational morphology, dictionaries, historical linguistics, languages, machine translation, morphology, old english, open source
Phil Barthram recently announced on the ENGLISC mailing list a new Old English translator. For those unfamiliar with Old English, this is not the really cheap malt liquor. This is the grandmother of Modern English (by way of its mother, Middle English and a few others, chiefly Norman French). Whereas an Olde English (the malt [...]
