Celebrating our Distant Forebears: Scribes of Ancient Egypt, and their Amazing Hieroglyphs
BIOGRAPHY
Yves Champollion was born 1956 in Paris, France. He is related to the early 19-century French Egyptologist Jean-François Champollion, famous for his work on the Rosetta Stone and the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics. Yves was a freelance translator in the 1980’s, a Project Manager for large translation projects in the 1990’s, and the translator of science books. Yves developed the Wordfast suite of Computer-
Assisted Translation tools (www.wordfast.com), widely used in translation with over 95,000 licenses. He now runs Wordfast LLC, a leading provider of translation technology.