National Research Council
The working arm of the US National Academies, it commissioned the 1966 ALPAC report that halted US government funding for machine translation research for years.
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The ALPAC Report on Machine Translation
In 1966, the Automatic Language Processing Advisory Committee (ALPAC), convened by the United States National Research Council, published a report concluding that machine translation was slower, less accurate, and twice as expensive as human translation, leading to a sharp reduction in US government funding for machine translation research.