Jaap van der Meer
Jaap van der Meer, founder and CEO of TAUS, is a language industry pioneer. He launched early translation software, set industry standards, and speaks and writes widely on translation tech and globalization
Translation as Infrastructure
Since 2004, TAUS has played many roles in the language industry. Driving all of its changes has been a mission of transforming translation from an exclusive service into an ordinary infrastructure feature. This article recounts how the organization adapted to meet the needs of a complex industry and concludes by presenting its next step towards achieving its founding vision.
Translation Economics of the 2020s
The long-expected technical revolution is here. Automatic translation is no longer just a freebie on the internet. It is now entering the “real” economy of the translation sector, and it changes everything. The fundamental economic laws of intellectual property or of scarcity, for instance, do not apply in a world in which machines autonomously generate an abundance of translated material.