| Warren Weaver |
1832: Death of Jean-François Champollion, who played a major role in the deciphering of Egyptian hieroglyphics.
1947: On this day Warren Weaver, director of the Natural Sciences Division of the Rockefeller Foundation, writes to the cyberneticist Norbert Wiener that “I have wondered if it were unthinkable to design a computer which would translate. Even if it would translate only scientific material (where the semantic difficulties are very notably less), and even if it did produce an inelegant (but intelligible) result, it would seem to me worth while”.
1968: Mauritania declares Arabic as co-official alongside French.
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