From New Scientist, someone has developed software that can take English language statements and turn them into machine language. Creator Bob Brennan won’t reveal details about the system, called “MI-Tech”, until his patents come through. The key to it apparently is knowledge of the role of context in English. I wonder how significant his developments really are. One could picture a simple system that does what he claims, but then you start dealing with ambiguities and it gets complex quite fast. And I sure hope the patents aren’t going to cover obvious tactics.