Overcoming language barriers in distance education, through the creation of a universal translator

Video performance at the TED surgeon who talks about how medicine has teamed up with experts from IBM in order to create a technology that helps to eliminate the language barrier during the new distance learning techniques. And they have it really well! And it would be just great if these solutions were applied not only to learn new techniques in surgery. This would allow more people to get really high-quality knowledge.

Distance education, as well as telework increasingly penetrate into our lives, helping us to gain new knowledge from the best universities in the world without leaving home. Fortunately, it's not just the standard of learning - new technologies to penetrate deeper and deeper, touching on a wide variety of industries.

It also reached and surgeons, but not in terms of university education (who would have gone to the surgeon, who studied remotely), but in terms of seminars on new technologies among those already practicing doctors. However, in this case you may have a slightly different problem, such as the language barrier. In order to solve this problem, medical experts together with specialists from IBM.

In his speech, Dr. Steven Shvaytsberg talks about how they created a universal translator for surgeons, which now allows you to learn new skills to millions of other people. Language is no longer a barrier, and it would be great if this technology is used in teaching other specialties.