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Warren Weaver (July 17, 1894 – November 24, 1978) was an American scientist, mathematician, and science administrator. He is widely recognized as one of the pioneers of machine translation and as an important figure in creating support for science in the United States.
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See moreWeaver received three degrees from the University of Wisconsin–Madison: a Bachelor of Science in 1916, a civil engineering degree in 1917, and a Ph.D. in 1921. He became an assistant professor of mathematics at Throop
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See moreWeaver had first mentioned the possibility of using digital computers to translate documents between natural human languages in March 1947 in a letter to the cyberneticist
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See moreWeaver was fascinated by Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. In 1964, having built up a collection of 160 versions in 42 languages, Weaver wrote a book about the translation history of Alice, called Alice in Many Tongues: The Translations of Alice in
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See moreWeaver early understood how greatly the tools and techniques of physics and chemistry could advance knowledge of biological processes,
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See more• Hutchins, W. J. (2000). Early years in machine translation: Memoirs and biographies of pioneers. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Shannon, Claude E. & Weaver, Warren (1949). The Mathematical Theory of Communication. Urbana: The University of Illinois Press....
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