Bar-Hillel was appointed as a research assistant in the Research Laboratory for Electronics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1951, and his responsibility was to explore the possibilities for MT implementation and plan further research. In his survey carried out in 1951, he argued that the benefits of MT lie in the satisfying translation demands for financial, diplomatic, science and express translations such as in newspapers or journals. According to him, machine translation could also contribute to explaining certain issues associated with linguistics and communication. A year later, in 1952, he organized the first conference devoted to MT at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and machine translation was developed in the further years as articles were published by Bar-Hillel and Reifler. The latter focused on pre- and post-editing, the translation of German compound nouns, and methods for eliminating lexical ambiguity within sentences.