Tom Mullaney

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The Resilience of Ukrainian Cyrillic: A Journey from Past to Present

Kateryna Korolevtseva, presented by @stanfordsilicon.bsky.social

Wednesday, May 7, 12-1:30pm
FREE & OPEN

Location: Stanford University, Hohbach Hall 126
[Use the Green Library entrance closest to Coupa Café ]

Time to wake up and have Coffee #1 at ATypi Copenhagen?

Exciting news is about two drop: the names of students + instructors for the inaugural Donald Knuth & Charles Bigelow Type Design Incubator, powered by @stanfordsilicon.bsky.social @wordsoftype.com @letterformarchive.org

The Race to Type in Chinese | China Books Review The Chinese typewriter was thought to be an impossible invention. Then they made one. In the computer age, creating a digital input system for Chinese characters proved even more challenging — and…

"This history deserves to be known, and I am grateful that someone else has done the years of hard research necessary to write what feels like the endeavor of a lifetime."

@chinabksreview.bsky.social reviews @tsmullaney.bsky.social's books "The Chinese Computer" and "The Chinese Typewriter":

👇 Really great to see an extended review by @jmchatwin.bsky.social that pairs discussion of both @tsmullaney.bsky.social's influential instant classic The Chinese Typewriter and his impressive and engaging new book on The Chinese Computer

Where Research Begins just reached 100,000 copies sold worldwide... and is now available in Thai!

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My sincere thanks to the committee for this honor!

I am humbled and stunned to be nominated for this prize, especially when I see the other authors on the list. My sincere thanks to the committee.

An Uzbek edition of Where Research Begins is now in the works!

#ResearchAroundTheWorld

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Look what just arrived in the mail!

Congratulations to my former advisee Koji Hirata!

Deadline alert! 🚨 Apply to the SILICON Type Design Incubator Program by this Friday!

The Chinese Computer has been translated, I'm delighted to see.

Revised manuscript submitted.

I've never done 4 all-nighters before in the same month.

Time to get some rest.

@tsmullaney.bsky.social (Stanford University), Adobe, @letterformarchive.org and Words of Type have joined forces to offer a 5-10 week course.
With support from Font Proofer and @glyphsapp.com

There is still time to apply!!!

Are you studying a script considered as digitally disadvanted? Meaning: a script that has very few or hardly any presence in the digital world, due to missing encoding, none or complex keyboard implementation or use, etc.

+info and application 👉 link in bio

We are so grateful to Stanford President Jonathan Levin for his financial support for, and his glowing remarks about, SILICON @stanfordsilicon.bsky.social during Face/Interface 2025 at Stanford University

SILICON is working hard to advance Digitally Disadvantaged Languages in the 21st century.

Get started in Type Design for FREE

As in:

Free Tuition
Free Glyphs license
Free Adobe Creative Commons license

Apply here for the SILICON Type Design Incubator, powered by @wordsoftype.com @adobelive.bsky.social @letterformarchive.org

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📢 Attn Stanford Grad Students (incl. Co-Term MAs)

SILICON, a new Stanford President’s Office-funded initiative focused on advancing Digitally Disadvantaged Languages in the 21st c., is thrilled to announce the 1st-ever SILICON-UNESCO Internship (Deadline Feb 4).

solo.stanford.edu/opportunitie...

Thank you @stanfordsilicon.bsky.social and @tsmullaney.bsky.social for a great conference. I still can’t believe I was invited to speak at Stanford!

I am flying home a little smarter then when I left, with new friends, more connections, lots of ideas, and some cool books and swags. Thank you 🙏

I had an amazing time at Face/Interface 2025, put on by @stanfordsilicon.bsky.social this weekend. So many great talks! I was struck by something @tsmullaney.bsky.social said — “Privilege is the ability to move onto ‘cooler problems.’” Let’s talk about that! 1/10 #langsky #language #technology 🧵🪡

✈️ I am on my way to Stanford to present at Face/Interface 2025. Feeling very privileged to be in the same room as so many amazing folks working in #language #technology! While in-person tickets are sold out, you can still register for free to view the event livestream — link is below! #langsky

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We can’t be more proud to be part of this collaboration 😃

800 people are going to watch Dr. Adam Yeo speak TODAY at Face/Interface 2025 @stanfordsilicon.bsky.social

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At Face/Interface 25, we're thrilled to announce the SILICON Type Design Incubator

In collab w/ @wordsoftype.com @letterformarchive.org @adobelive.bsky.social and @glyphsapp.com we invite students from *everywhere*, especially Digitally Disadvantaged Language communities

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Thoughtless obedience and the healing power of trees: 2024’s best Books in brief Bibliophile Andrew Robinson reveals 10 essential science reads from the past year.

www.nature.com/articles/d41... —cool to see another place (along with China Books Review) where The Chinese Computer by @tsmullaney.bsky.social is on a books of 2024 list

Face/Interface 2025 is this Friday and Saturday at Stanford!

In-Person is 100% sold out, but FREE VIRTUAL registration is still open!

FULL SCHEDULE + SIGN UP LINK HERE: face-interface.com

A person holds a book titled "The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age" by Thomas S. Mullaney, featuring an illustration of an individual seated at a desk with an early keyboard. The background displays keys labeled with English and Chinese characters.

“Whoever thought that a book about 'hypographic semiotics' could be so absorbing?” We knew. Tom Mullaney’s “The Chinese Computer” is for anyone interested in the past—and future—of language and technology: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262047517/the-chinese-computer/ @tsmullaney.bsky.social

REGISTER HERE: stanford.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Thrilled to welcome UNESCO ADG Dr. Tawfik Jelassi to Stanford University for his talk, "Harnessing Language Technologies to Promote Linguistic Diversity in the Digital Age"

Register for FREE here: eventbrite.com/e/faceinterf...

Thoughtless obedience and the healing power of trees: 2024’s best Books in brief Bibliophile Andrew Robinson reveals 10 essential science reads from the past year.

The Chinese Computer was selected by @nature.com as a Best Book of 2024.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

cc @mitpress.bsky.social @weatherheadcenter.bsky.social