Going Overseas? Get your Vaccination Certificates up to Date
If you and your family are moving overseas or are going to spend a considerable amount of time overseas, one of the things you are likely to do is to think of getting vaccinations up to date before you leave. There are many parts of the world where vaccinations are more important than others. It’s […]
Coming from China? Do you need a Chinese NAATI Translator?

If you are coming to live in Australia or spend a lot of time here on business you may already have thought of everything. You probably realize that you are coming to a country that has a very good health record and appreciate being able to use the modern health services here. Of course, you […]
Keeping Translations On Target
Back in the 1950s, IBM calculated that translating a short piece of text required more than double the number of computing instructions needed to simulate a guided missile in flight. While computing power has increased literally exponentially since then, improvements in machine translation have not kept pace. That there have certainly been improvements is beyond […]
What The Cold War Can Teach Us About Translation
Back in the days of the cold war, two diplomats, who’d both been athletes in their youth, decided to have a race. In the U.S. it was reported as follows: yesterday a U.S. diplomat and a Russian diplomat had a race. The U.S. diplomat won. In Russia it was reported as follows: yesterday there was […]
Translation And The Rise Of The Machines
Computers have undoubtedly changed the world, although often not in the ways people initially imagined. IBM for example confidently predicted a world where computers would be better than humans in numerous ways. Their famous Deep Blue computer finally best chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, although that game was far from without controversy as there […]