Gengo-dō: Engineering the Japanese way
The Gengo engineering team worked incredibly hard in 2013, so as a combined year-end celebration and opportunity for engineers to work on special projects, we organized an overnight hackathon for our team of twelve. In Japanese, such a hackathon is known as a 開発合宿, or kaihatsu gasshuku (devel...
Faces of Gengo: Ivan
Ivan began learning English when he was nine years old after his mother took him to a private tutor in his native Russia. Since then, English grew to be a huge part of Ivan’s life, later becoming the cornerstone of his career. At present, his is a balancing act: with a young daughter and full-tim...
Gengo Pulse on globalization: A LocWorld and TAUS founder interview
Localization World and Translation Automation User Society (TAUS) events are core venues for globalization professionals to share ideas, exchange stories and unveil new tools and services. Respective founders Ulrich Henes and Jaap van der Meer have been at the cutting edge of the translation and ...
Gengo Pulse on crowdsourcing: A crowd for every purpose
Crowdsourcing is distributed problem solving. You take one task (or many smaller ones) and spread it across a crowd of hundreds to thousands to solve. In our case, it’s translation, but you can also use a crowd for reviews, design, research… nearly anything. You’ll find crowds these days almost e...
Faces of Gengo: Misty
Misty discovered the French language while studying opera during college. Dazzled by its beauty, she took every French course available and then went on to study it on her own. And here began her French adventures. With Gengo’s flexible schedule and online workspace, she translated her way up and...
Gengo Pulse on tech: The exploding API ecosystem
If my travel schedule was any indication, the conference season was in full swing in October. Each week was spent either absorbing new information or speaking at conferences (two in the translation industry and three in technology). Jessica did a great recap on our observations from the translati...
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