IBM gift of translator technology poses an ethical problem for US govt.</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="IBM gift of translator technology poses an ethical problem for US govt."> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="IBM,gift,of,translator,technology,poses,an,ethical,problem,for,US,govt,"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">21-05-2007</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>IBM gift of translator technology poses an ethical problem for US govt.</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/img_news/img_bCKr4MQ5jLZbgVd2Z25n_0.jpg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" ><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Washington, USA (NJ Ledger): Last month, IBM offered free software and portable devices to U.S. forces in Iraq – where interpreters are scarce – to translate English and Arabic on the fly. The offer has posed a curious challenge for Pentagon officials, who covet the technology but worry about the propriety of accepting freebies from a contractor. […] The software is called MASTOR, short for Multilingual Automatic Speech-to-Speech Translator. While it cannot top Star Trek's universal translator, it seems light years beyond Pictionary. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-11/117963541745470.xml&coll=1 " target="blank">www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-11/117963541745470.xml&coll=1 </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show