CHM Live | The Chinese Computer

[Recorded June 18th, 2024]
How can Chinese-a language with tens of thousands of characters and no alphabet-be input on a QWERTY keyboard with only a few dozen keys?
In his new book, The Chinese Computer, Stanford professor Thomas Mullaney dissects the history and evolution of Chinese language computing technology and explores the fascinating story of software programs that enable Chinese characters to be produced using alphanumeric symbols.
Join us for a fireside chat with Mullaney as he discusses:
-The profound impact this software had on the way Chinese is written.
-How these advances helped computers gain traction in Asian countries.
-The way culture informs computing and how computing, in turn, shapes culture.
We would like to thank the Bin Lin and Daisy Liu Family Foundation for their generous support of this program.
Acquisition Number: 2024.0068
Catalog Number: 102809012

[@3a146]

oh, yes, I write clojure and always stick to Chinese symbols to increase information entropy while naming a little bit, and I can read better.

[@stevenwatson2927]

And yet no spell check yet, right?

[@ChrisJackson-js8rd]

if you pick one standard chinese lamguage instead of trying to support them all this is not a challenging problem technically
it is as the interviewer suggests, entirely political
as it is also in the west where all roman derived scripts are represented by a modified american standard english basand a handful of logic symbols. u use a mixed system of representation taking advantage of of phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic markers
as we do on our keyboards and everyone everywhere does on their keyboards
the phenomenological experience you have that informs your impressions of what you are doing is nice to hear about, but bears little relation to what you are actually doing. i would suggest you base your understanding of english on facts and not on figments of your imagination and unexamined speculation
this is simply not graduate level work. 67 years out of date. as of 2024.