摘要
30年前,我的隔壁邻居约翰会经常站在他的后院,盯着远方天空发呆好几个小时。他是个很和善的人,但我还是觉得那个举止有点古怪。直到后来我才知道,在附近一所大学担任电脑科学教授的约翰,当时是在思考怎样为史上第一个语言学习软件建立系统体系结构.对于当时的约翰和他的连襟艾伦而言,“罗塞塔石碑”只是一项兼职。后来,就不是了。
Thirty years ago,my nextdoor neighbor,John,would often stand in his backyard,staring off into space,for hours.He was a very nice man,but,still,I thought it was odd.Only later did I realize that John,a computer science professor at a nearby university,was working through how to create the systems architecture for one of the first language-learning software products.For John and his brother-in-law Allen,Rosetta Stone was just a side hustle.Until it wasn't.
