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American Sign Language Honor Society

High school students (and community college or college) who excel in sign language studies have a chance to add something outstanding to their resumes: membership in the American Sign Language...

Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0 Draft Published

2008-11-17: The Math Working Group has published a Working Draft of Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0, which defines the Mathematical Markup Language, or MathML. MathML is an XML application for describing mathematical notation and capturing both its structure and content. The goal of MathML is to enable mathematics to be served, received, and processed on the World Wide Web, just as HTML has enabled this functionality for text. Learn more about the Math Activity. (Permalink)

Pimp My Programming Language

It's hard out here for a programmer! Should programmers be allowed to add personalized bling to their languages of choice? Programming language experts debate to what degree developers should be able to tweak standardized languages. - Should high-end programmers be allowed to modify or add extensions to the programming languages they use? That issue was among the points up for debate by a panel of programming language experts at the Microsoft PDC (Professional Developers Conference) in October. The issue was whether programme...

Blue Shirts, Blue Fingers and Blue Language!

Blue was the order of the day at a raw windswept Headingley on Sunday. Blue team shirts, my brothers blue toes, and more noticeably blue language directed at Mr Martin Fox. The Carnegie express started in what is now a trademark of the current leaders of ND1. Within 2 minutes quick ball saw Leeds with a 2 man overlap, but a shocking pass from Hepworth saw a certain try go begging.

Google Reader translates feeds into your language

Now you can subscribe to an RSS feed in any language and Google Reader will automatically translate it for you.

Microsoft and the 'Unwanted Modeling Language'

Microsoft's off-and-on relationship with the Unified Modeling Language illustrates how the company both competes with and supports various technologies. At first Microsoft refused to support UML, but when the company set its sights on software modeling as a core focus, developer demand for UML proved too strong to ignore. At Microsoft TechEd, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates preannounced Microsoft's intent to support UML, and then the company announced plans to support UML in Visual Studio and via the Microsoft modeling technology code-named Oslo. UML co-creator Grady Booch says he is happy to see Microsoft come around. - Although Microsoft seems to have had an off-and-on relationship with the Unified Modeling Language, the company made plain at its recent Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles that Microsoft has a strategy for delivering modeling technology to developers and supporting UML. Some Microsof...

Town presses for Welsh language opt-out

A town calls for the right to stay out of a "costly and unwanted" scheme requiring it to translate documents into Welsh on demand.

Town wants Welsh language opt-out

A town calls for the right to stay out of a "costly and unwanted" scheme requiring it to translate documents into Welsh on demand.

W3C Invites Implementations of Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.1 (Candidate Recommendation)

2008-11-07: The Voice Browser Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.1. The Speech Synthesis Markup Language Specification is designed to provide a rich, XML-based markup language for assisting the generation of synthetic speech in Web and other applications. The essential role of the markup language is to provide authors of synthesizable content a standard way to control aspects of speech such as pronunciation, volume, pitch, rate, etc. across different synthesis-capable platforms. See the implementation report plan and learn more about the Voice Browser Activity. (Permalink)

Information Literacy for German Language and Literature at the Graduate Level: New Approaches and Models

Library Philosophy and Practice has a new information literacy article written by Peter Kraus of the University of Utah. It is titled Information Literacy for German Language and Literature at the Graduate Level: New Approaches and Models.From the site:The hiring of several new faculty members in the German Language and Literature Section of the Modern Languages department at the University of Utah resulted in an increased demand for library instruction and technical support. A library subject specialist and a faculty member in German collaborated to teach graduate students about important electronic and print resources in German language and literature.