Articles

For Draka NExST:

an interview with Herman Wager, CEO of Glasvezelnetwerk Amsterdam, (Fall 2009),
an article discussing how to measure the environmental impact of FTTH projects (Fall 2009),
a closer look at several glass fiber projects in Africa (Fall 2009),
an interview with EU telcoms commissioner Viviane Reding (Spring 2009)

To KLM's well-known inflight magazine, Holland Herald, I contrbuted an article on the renovation of Amsterdam's Olympic Stadium, a beautiful specimen of the Amsterdam School style of archicture from the 1920s.

For a now-defunct Dutch DTP magazine called Proof, I interviewed a number of prominent graphic designers and typographers. These included renown British typographer Matthew Carter and Dutch designers and typographers Gerard Unger, Max Kisman, and Willem Velthoven. For its sister magazine, the likewise defunct Software Magzine, I interviewed the brilliant programmer and open software guru Richard Stallman.

"Localising the European Union" (PDF file) was published in the summer of 1999 on the Web site of the EU-sponsored e-zine Le Journal.

From Multilingual Computing, "Europe's Language Technology Push" is a brief summary of the European Union's language technology strategy aimed primarily at non-European readers. Also from the same publication: "Jaap van der Meer", a profile of translation industry pioneer.

"Future Tense for Euro Systran?" appeared in slightly different form in the 9.3 issue (summer '97) of Language International. It gives a good picture of the use of translation technology at the European Commission. It is reprinted in Translating Into Success, Robert Sprung (ed.), John Benjamins, 2000.

Here are a couple articles I wrote for Language Industry Monitor:

"Turning METAL into Gold" (Jul/Aug 1993) A look at an overly ambitious machine translation project.
"Oracle's Linguistic Gold Mine" (Mar/Apr 1993) An piece on Oracle's text analysis system.

There are many more of my articles from LIM in the Monitor archives.

Here are a few articles from my Electric Word days:

For "Marvin Minsky: in search of the smart machine" (Jan/Feb 1990), I interviewed Minsky in his office at MIT's Media Lab. This article was the cover story for that issue.
"Can Machines Translate?" (Mar/Apr 1990) is an interview with Dutch computational linguist Jan Landsbergen, then at working at Philips' renown research lab.
"Hyphenation and the good life" (Mar/Apr 1990) is a profile of Margaret and Sasha Nizhnikov, a couple who were linguistic software pioneers.
"Lernout & Hauspie: speech tech with a Flemish accent" (May/Jun 1990) was based on visit to Belgian speech technology company Lernout & Hauspie in its early days.
"Paul Brainerd revisited" (Jul/Aug 1990) is an interview with the founder of Aldus, which developed PageMaker, the innovative DTP program.