Re: [Patents] "Further technical effect"

[Gregory Aharonian <srctran@world.std.com>]

>One might also (just about) argue, even if the program was known, that
>if the exact data was not known in advance, then the efficiency (eg of a
>data-compression system), or the speed (of certain numerical
>algorithms), might still be a matter for experimentation.

James,
        I would appreciate it if you could email me the source code to
your computer program that can completely accurately translate one
human language to another.  I find it amazing, and want to praise you
in the extreme, that you were able to write such a computer program
with no experimentation, no scientific research into how the brain
handles language, to be able to write such a program without doing all
of the science and engineering activities that lead to patentable
inventions.  I think you also deserve further praise for freely making
available such software for others have spent, and be willing to pay,
hundreds of millions of dollars, if not more.  Somehow, using your
artistic skills, you were able to write such a computer program, that
you had no ideas in mind when you wrote the computer program (a good
thing not to have, since ideas are not copyrightable in any form),
but rather could automatically express this computer program. Amazing.

        On behalf of the world, I thank you.

Greg Aharonian