 The French Textile Institute also used MT to translate abstracts from and into French, English, German and Spanish (1970); Brigham Young University started a project to translate Mormon texts by automated translation (1971); and Xerox used SYSTRAN to translate technical manuals (1978).Beginning in the late 1980s, as computational power increased and became less expensive, more interest was shown in statistical models for machine translation.MT became more popular after the advent of computers.