Education:

• 1968  Cand. mag. in theoretical nuclear physics from Aarhus University, Denmark.
• 1978–1979  One year’s study of computing science (partly at graduate level) at The University of Alberta, Canada.

• 1968–1978 and 1979–1986  Teaching of physics, astronomy and computing science at Menntaskólinn við Hamrahlíð (an Icelandic gymnasium (senior high school)), besides considerable amount of programming work for the school.
• 1987–2013  Diverse activities in the field of language technology or connected to it. Main tasks:
1. Research and development on private basis, especially in the field of machine translation, worked on mostly in spare time, all this period. Sponsored by the Icelandic Science Council in 1987. This work started already in 1981 with the development of a software for automatic translation from Esperanto to Icelandic.
2. Teaching a course on machine translation at the University of Iceland, fall semester 1987.
3. Tasks elaborated in cooperation with the Dutch software firm BSO on inclusion of Icelandic in the DLT project for machine translation using Esperanto as an intermediate language, 1987–1993. Sponsored by the Icelandic Ministry of Culture and Education 1988 and by the Icelandic Science Council 1989 and 1990.
4. Coauthor of Íslensk orðtíðnibók (an Icelandic frequency dictionary) at the Institute of Lexicography at the University of Iceland, 1989–1991, working out a program for automatic morphological analysis of Icelandic text on account of this project.
5. Supervisor of hardware and software used for translations of European Communities’ documents at the Translation Center of the Icelandic Ministry for Foreign Affairs, 1990–1993.
6. Specialist on terms in physics and computing in Dönsk-íslensk orðabók (Danish-Icelandic dictionary), issued by Ísafoldarprentsmiðja in 1992.
7. Design of software for Icelandic users of Bliss symbols, worked out as a grammatical addition to the IsBliss program for Jón Hjaltalín Magnússon, 1993–1995.
8. Editor of  the 3. edition of Tölvuorðasafn; on behalf of Skýrslutæknifélag Íslands (the Icelandic Society of Information Processing), 1995–1998.
9. Freelance work in the field of language technology, especially software design for machine translation and translations, 1998–2013.
   
10. Editor of the 4. edition of Tölvuorðasafn, which is the main Icelandic computing dictionary, containing Icelandic-English and English-Icelandic parts, on behalf of Skýrslutæknifélag Íslands (the Icelandic Society of Information Processing), 2003–2005.
11. Work on the 5. edition of Tölvuorðasafn that is a netedition, 2012–2013.
    
12. Operation of the webserver Tungutorg for machine translation free of charge to and from Icelandic, started 29 March 2008.

Last changed 18 October 2013