Common Sense Advisory (CSA) is a market research firm that produces a comprehensive annual report on the state of the Language Service Provider (LSP) industry. In June, it released its rankings of the world’s Top 100 Language Service Providers (LSPs) for 2017.

Last year, in 2016, e2f appeared in the rankings for the first time, edging in at #95 on the list. This year, in 2017, e2f shot up 14 places, coming in at #81 on the list.

In the list of Top 40 LSPs in the North American market, e2f rose from #28 to place #21.

e2f has an immediate need for the following candidates in the Silicon Valley area:

LINGUISTIC TESTERS

Short-term contract

English (Australia)

French (Canada)

Italian

Portuguese (Brazil)

Spanish (United States)

Start date: ASAP

Duration: 3 months, with possibility of extension.

Game Developers Conference 2017 (GDC) in San Francisco may be in the rearview mirror, but many of the technologies demonstrated and discussed at the show will prove to be the shape of things to come. GDC plays annual prologue to May’s E3 Expo, which is practically double in size. While E3 is a larger show, it is more a platform for game companies to show off their wares for industry and general media. GDC remains the show for developers to show off their tools and their technical chops for the benefit of other developers.

Thus, our third installment of GDC 2017 coverage peeks into some of the emerging technology driving game development, and serves as a preview of what you may see as you head to E3.

GDC is not just a show about games. It is also a show about global business and cultures. In the last blog, we had already addressed that obliquely by talking about England’s Code and Draw and Canada-based BKOM Games, and expressly with the Norwegian publisher Snow Cannon. These were just exemplars of whole contingents from these nations. They also had country pavilions from Sweden, Belgium, Italy, Chile, Korea, Malaysia, Scotland and Wales.

What happens when over 26,000 of the world’s pre-eminent game developers, publishers, marketers, analysts, press, and grognards descend on the Bay Area in March? Why, the Game Developers Conference (GDC), of course! GDC began as a salon in Chris Crawford’s San Jose home in 1987. Over the course of time, the show migrated up to San Francisco’s Moscone Center, where it has become ensconced for the past decade. Every year at GDC the frontiers of electronic gaming have been explored, showcased, debated and awarded.

Into the cavernous expanse of Moscone Center issued game developers to show off their latest creations. From the biggest blockbusters of AAA studios, to the most unique and scrappy of indie games. There was also alt.ctrl.GDC, a creative assortment of non-commercialized (or not-yet-commercialized) game controls and peripherals better classified as scientific experiments or art installations. Including, for instance, the childhood dream of a cardboard box turned into a video game controller. (Colander-turned-space-helmet optional.)

IMUG is the International Multilingual Group, a meetup and forum that lives at the heart of the trends, trends and community for multilingual computing. Founded in 1987 originally as a special interest group of the Stanford Macintosh Users Group (SMUG), it has been a Silicon Valley tradition now in its 30th year.

For this month’s most recent meeting, IMUG returned to the Apple campus for the first time since 2010 for a rare peek into the technology at the heart of Siri. A crowd of 125 linguists and technologists filed up the stairs and filled the “Garage 1” conference room in Apple’s Infinite Loop 4 building.