What's next for the fields of computer vision and natural language understanding? This question was originally answered on Quora by Alexandr Wang.

Speech-to-text is not natural language understanding. While the computer is transcribing what the human is saying, it is taking waveforms that it understands and converting them to words.

Linguistics and computer science intertwined in the mid-20th century. Computers help linguists better understand and analyze languages and computer scientists use linguistics to advance programming.

Why can't computers read human language? Why do some source files look like crazy character noise? Are computer programmers magicians?

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Thomas E. Kurtz, a Creator of BASIC Computer Language, Dies at 96 At Dartmouth, long before the days of laptops and smartphones, he worked to give more students access to computers.