Jump to content

Peter Toma

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by CRKingston (talk | contribs) at 05:28, 16 November 2006 (added category). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Dr. Peter Toma is a Hungarian-born computer scientist and linguistics researcher.

Toma developed and commercialised the SYSTRAN machine translation system. Between 1984 and 1987, approximately, he resided in Dunedin, New Zealand, where he led Textus, a company dedicated to bringing MT to the personal computers that were just being introduced at the time.

Further reading

  • Toma, Peter (2000). “From Serna to Systran”, in Early Years in Machine Translation, Hutchins, W. John (editor).