Dept. of Urdu of Maulana Azad National Urdu University organized two extension lectures by Prof. Rahmath Yousuf Zai and Dr. Akheel Hashmi.
Dr. Rahmath Yousuf Zai spoke on “Machine Translation – Issues and prospects” and Dr. Akhel Hashmi lectured on “Dr. Iqbal’s Quranic references”. In his lecture Prof. Yousuf Zai told that the matter of a particular language is transferred into another language through the medium of translation. He explained various stages of Machine translation through power point. He has been working on machine translation for the past 10 years at IIIT, Hyderabad. Dr. Akhil Hashmi in his lecture told that Iqbal’s thought is derived from the Quran and Hadith. Dr. Iqbal has mentioned the miracles of Moses when he crossed river Nile, The jumping of Hazrath Ibrahim into the fire raised by Namrood etc.
The lecture was presided over by Dr. Abul Kalam, Head of the Dept. of Urdu. It was attended by various teachers and students.
–Siasat News