ACM Crossroads Student Spanish Translation Team Form

Thank your for your interest in becoming a member of the Spanish Translation Team. The team is built of Spanish Speaking representatives from countries all over the world. We work together to provide Spanish translations of all Crossroads articles in a timely and accurate manner.

Full Name:
Email:
School I Attend:
Year in school (freshman, senior, grad, etc):
Area of Study:

What sort of time commitment will you be able to give to Crossroads (approximate hours a week)? Please be realistic. How long do you see your self participating (months, years?)

This following sections list a few topics. Choose a topic and do your best to translate it into Spanish in the text box provided below ( You are welcome to do more than one!). This section is not necessarily used to test you ability moreover its used as a measurement of you potential and helps the Spanish Editor decide which type of articles you are suited for.

Note: Please refrain from using computer aided translators even as a starting point. They are quite ineffective on technical platforms and can quickly change the meaning of a word or the idea of the sentence.

Networking - Network Security, Filters and Firewalls

Within the last five years, businesses have begun to need to share data across wide areas. This has prompted efforts to convert principally LAN-based protocols into WAN-friendly protocols. The result has spawned an entire industry of consultants who know how to manipulate routers, gateways and networks to force principally broadcast protocols across point-to-point links (two very different methods of transmitting packets across networks). Recently (within the last 2 or 3 years) more and more companies have realized that they need to settle on a common networking protocol. Frequently the protocol of choice has been TCP/IP, which is also the primary protocol run on the Internet. The emerging ubiquitousness of TCP/IP allows companies to interconnect with each other via private networks as well as through public networks.

Computers and Society - Should computer scientists worry about ethics? Don Gotterbarn says, ``Yes!''

There are a number of arguments.... One, is that as you gain special knowledge and special talent in society, along with that power comes responsibility to use it for the good of that society.... Many people in computing have not even raised the issue of social responsibility. They have bought into the view that ``Computer science is a theoretical discipline with no moral consequences.'' Some argue that ethics is irrelevant to theoretical disciplines. You don't find an ethics of mathematics course. You might find an ethics of statistics course. I'm not talking about whether statisticians are moral or not. I'm talking about the highly likely possibility that there can be ethical applications of statistics. A theoretician might say ``What do you mean ethical applications? You either do statistics or you don't.'' When you talk about computer science and software engineering, you find the same mistaken view. We computer scientists kept CS separate from actual applications or engineering and we were more interested in theory and efficiency than in applications. That's what we teach our students. When you take a data structures course ... We just ask ``Can you figure out the computational complexity?...''

Programming languages - Visual languages bring programming to the masses

Another problem with most existing visual languages is that they are hard to understand when used to create large programs. In data flow model languages, for example, large programs often result in unwieldy tangles of arrows that are difficult to trace and hard to break down into component parts. Despite these limitations, there is growing interest in visual language development and use. Besides serving as a new paradigm for programmers, visual languages may help make computers accessible to lay people. In the future, as home appliances become increasingly programmable, wireless pen based computers and visual languages may replace push buttons and remote controls. And, as visual languages improve, they may eventually offer an easy way to program a VCR.

How do you think we can improve the Spanish version? What suggestions might you have to appeal to a wider Spanish speaking population?

Thank you for your time and interest in the translation team

Last Modified:
Location: www.acm.org/crossroads/doc/apps/translationapp.html