Board Meeting Highlights
From the Executive Director Walter Bacak, CAE walter@atanet.org The American Translators Association’s Board of Directors met January 30–31, 2016 in Atlanta, Georgia. The meeting…
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Planning is well underway for ATA’s 57th Annual Conference, November 2-5, 2016 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco
From the President-Elect Corrine McKay corinne@translatewrite.com San Francisco. Our 56th Annual Conference in Miami was a huge success by all measures, with higher than expected…
Read MoreCharting Our Progress…
From the President David Rumsey nordictranslator@gmail.com In my last column, I made the analogy that running ATA is like steering a very large ship. We…
Read MoreMarilyn Gaddis Rose, 1930-2015
Portions of the following were published on the website of Binghamton University, State University of New York. Marilyn Gaddis Rose, 85, a distinguished service…
Read MoreATA Names Two New Honorary Members
ATA Names Two New Honorary Members Honorary membership is conferred upon individuals who have distinguished themselves in the translation or interpreting professions by a…
Read MoreRethinking Payments
Machine translation (MT) and post-editing are inextricably connected for many within the translation world. No matter how good MT output might be, it cannot…
Read MoreZen and the Art of Interpreting (When You Really Wish You Could Say What You’re Thinking!)
The following was originally published in Proteus, the quarterly publication of the National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators. During a pre-sentencing interview with…
Read MoreWelcome and Board Meeting Highlights
From the Executive Director Walter Bacak, CAE walter@atanet.org As we welcome the new year, we also welcome a new ATA Board of Directors. David…
Read MoreCharting a Course Forward
From the President David Rumsey nordictranslator@gmail.com ATA is often compared to a large ship, which makes changes slowly and deliberatively. There have been a lot…
Read MoreSpreading the Word about Translation and Interpreting within the Journalism Community
A few months ago, the board of directors of the Association of Translators and Interpreters of Florida (ATIF), ATA’s Florida chapter, received a request…
Read MoreSpeech Recognition to Go
Repetitive stress injuries have a long history in medical literature. The first known report of this condition appeared more than 300 years ago, written…
Read MoreTranscending the Legacy of Jerome
Jerome, the illustrious theologian and linguist we celebrate as the patron saint of translators, may have been canonized after his death, but while he…
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