We had a small salon last night in the beautiful city of Zhuhai. Initially, we had plans for translate@thon in mind. But the majority of the audience - all of them students - didn’t bring in their laptops, or to be more exact, they do not own a laptop. Thus the translate@thon event could not [...]

Inspired by the translate@thon events in the free software world, I recently came up with the idea of introducing the translate@thon concept into the field of knowledge mining. The idea is, we will invite some people into a room, get them familiar with the idea of TED and the concept of translate@thon, then we will kick off and immerse ourselves in the ecstasy brought about in all these brilliant TEDTalks and possibly have our brain blown away by the talks. But that’s not our goal. Our goal is to put the talks into Chinese and help blow away people’s brain through translating!

Since TEDtoChina was launched six months ago, many friends asked us a question when TED would come to China. We couldn’t give an answer at the time. Now it is finally happening! The news seems to be getting brighter, lighter.