*Makes one wonder what it would sound like to simply speak vector space mathematics aloud, rather than bothering with human language. "Computer science is changing the nature of the translation of ...

Back in 1970, the social activist Irina Dunn scribbled a slogan on the back of a toilet cubicle door at the University of Sydney. It said: “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.” The phrase ...

Computer science is changing the nature of the translation of words and sentences from one language to another. Anybody who has tried BabelFish or Google Translate will know that they provide useful ...

We derive least-change updates of linear mappings that approximate derivatives of functions defined on abstract vector spaces; these correspond to well-known matrix updates. Our approach has the value ...