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 and include a nice picture of Minsky. Here is what it looked like: cover of EW 17
• “Can Machines Translate?” is an interview with Dutch computational linguist Jans Landsbergen, then at working at Philips' renown research lab.
• “Hyphenation and the good life” is a profile of Margaret and Sasha Nizhnikov, a couple who were linguistic software pioneers.
• “Lernout & Hauspie: Speech tech with a Flemish accent” was based on visit to Belgian speech technology company Lernout & Hauspie in its early days.
• “Paul Brainerd revisited” is an interview with a desktop publishing pioneer.

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 on the Language Industry Monitor web pages.

“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. This piece is reprinted in Translating Into Success, Robert Sprung (ed.), John Benjamins, 2000.

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

“Localising the European Union” (PDF file) was published in the summer of 1999 on the Web site of the EU-sponsored e-zine HLT News (formerly Le Journal). If this link doesn’t work, try this local copy “Localising the European Union”

For a now-defunct Dutch DTP magazine called Proof, I interviewd 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.

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