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This is one of the first film recordings of sign language. George Veditz  was elected president of the National Association of the Deaf in 1904 and again in 1907. As cinema was developing at the turn of the century, he saw this new technology as means of preserving sign language, which was under threat by the strong oralist movement at the time. 

Advances in motion capture technology, gesture recognition and machine translation is giving rise to sign language synthesizers, like the one on the right. Projects like this will be discussed at Third International Symposium on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology
18-19 October 2013
DePaul University
Chicago, Illinois, USA