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April 04, 2007, 01:14 PM ET
MIT Courses, Now in Chinese
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s OpenCourseWare project is humming along nicely: By the end of the year, campus officials say, the university will have posted online the instructional material for all of its nearly 2,000 courses (The Chronicle, March 12).
Things are going so well, in fact, that the project is getting help from unlikely sources like Lucifer Chu — a Taiwanese man who has made himself rich by translating science-fiction novels into Chinese. Mr. Chu has now made it his mission to translate MIT’s online course material into his native tongue, and as The New York Times reports, he’s doing a pretty good job.
The translator, working with a staff of four full-time editors and a large contingent of volunteers, has translated parts of more than 600 courses, and he has finished 178 of them. According to the Times, some of the translations are so good that MIT now links to them from its own OpenCourseWare site. —Brock Read
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