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Tom Mullaney @tsmullaney.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

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 ]

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Tom Mullaney @tsmullaney.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

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

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

"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":

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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…

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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

👇 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

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Tom Mullaney @tsmullaney.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

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

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Tom Mullaney @tsmullaney.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

My sincere thanks to the committee for this honor!

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Tom Mullaney @tsmullaney.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

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.

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Tom Mullaney @tsmullaney.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

An Uzbek edition of Where Research Begins is now in the works! #ResearchAroundTheWorld whereresearchbegins.com

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Tom Mullaney @tsmullaney.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Look what just arrived in the mail! Congratulations to my former advisee Koji Hirata!

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Tom Mullaney @tsmullaney.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

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

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Tom Mullaney @tsmullaney.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

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

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Tom Mullaney @tsmullaney.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Revised manuscript submitted. I've never done 4 all-nighters before in the same month. Time to get some rest.

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Words of Type @wordsoftype.com · 07/02/2025

@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

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Words of Type @wordsoftype.com · 07/02/2025

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

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Tom Mullaney @tsmullaney.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

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.

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Tom Mullaney @tsmullaney.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

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 forms.gle/SfF884rQuDCW...

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Tom Mullaney @tsmullaney.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

📢 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...

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Marta Bernstein @martabernstein.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

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 🙏

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Bridge Chase @bchasemadethis.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

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 🧵🪡

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Bridge Chase @bchasemadethis.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

✈️ 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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Words of Type @wordsoftype.com · 16/01/2025

Share this to anyone who would want to get started in typography! 🤩🤩 We can’t be more proud to be part of this collaboration 😃

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Tom Mullaney @tsmullaney.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

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

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Tom Mullaney @tsmullaney.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

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 forms.gle/EsWsKWCJwWfX...

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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

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

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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.

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Tom Mullaney @tsmullaney.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

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

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

“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: mitpress.mit.edu/9780262047517/the-… @tsmullaney.bsky.social

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.

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Tom Mullaney @tsmullaney.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

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...

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Tom Mullaney @tsmullaney.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

What an honor that The Chinese Computer has been chosen as a 2024 Book of the Year by @engelsbergideas.bsky.social -- even more so that it was selected by Prof. Rana Mitter cc @mitpress.bsky.social

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Tom Mullaney @tsmullaney.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Excited to share that Stanford President Jonathan Levin will be attending Face/Interface, and introducing our Keynote Speaker, Dr. Adam Yeo FULL CALENDAR: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/1a24w... REGISTER: www.eventbrite.com/e/faceinterf...

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Face/Interface 2025: Global Type Design and Human-Computer Interaction

Scholars, designers, engineers, & technologists gather to explore global type design and human-computer interaction

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Tom Mullaney @tsmullaney.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

It was an absolute honor to meet + interview the renowned Yang Liping 杨丽萍 this past weekend at the U.S. premiere of her reimagining of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring at Stanford Live

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Tom Mullaney @tsmullaney.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

For Stanford PhD students: Teaching with Archival Sources (Bootcamp for PhD Students) Jan 10 & Jan 13, 2025 Reserve spot here/SPACE LIMITED: forms.gle/suDyZDrEmMZo...

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Kate Merkel-Hess @katemh.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

My new book, Women and Their Warlords, was published last month. You can order it at the press website w/a 30% discount using the code UCPNEW. But why would you want to buy a book when you don’t know what it’s about? Here’s the argument. 🧵 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Women and Their Warlords

Explores the complex history and legacy of elite wives, concubines, and daughters of warlords in twentieth-century China. In Women and Their Warlords, historian Kate Merkel-Hess examines the lives a...

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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Back in 2018, when @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social had a special “China Channel,” Liz Carter reviewed The Chinese Typewriter, an earlier book by @tsmullaney.bsky.social that is q prequel-companion of sorts to the new book @mauracunningham.bsky.social reviews today for the LARB main page 👇

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Tom Mullaney @tsmullaney.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Thrilled to see The Chinese Computer reviewed in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social by the incomparable @mauracunningham.bsky.social

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Tom Mullaney @tsmullaney.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Face/Interface 2025, powered by @stanfordsilicon.bsky.social Register Now (in-person event nearly "sold out") www.eventbrite.com/e/faceinterf... Poster by Keynote Speaker, Dr. Adam Yeo

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Tom Mullaney @tsmullaney.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

📢 UNESCO is coming to Face/Interface 📷 We are thrilled to share the Dr. Tawfik Jelassi, a leading figure in UNESCO International Decade of Indigenous Languages, will be speaking at Face/Interface 2025. We are approaching capacity, so register ASAP www.eventbrite.com/e/faceinterf...

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Face/Interface 2025: Global Type Design and Human-Computer Interaction

Scholars, designers, engineers, & technologists gather to explore global type design and human-computer interaction

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Tom Mullaney @tsmullaney.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Pecan. Pumpkin. Chocolate Cream. I am the Emperor of Pie.

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Tom Mullaney @tsmullaney.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Decolonizing Latin: A Type Design Crash Course A forthcoming initiative from SILICON @ Stanford open to complete type newcomers working in languages that, as part of complex and violent experiences of colonialism, are written in the Latin script. Comment or DM for more info

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Tom Mullaney @tsmullaney.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

400 now… Please register soon!

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Tom Mullaney @tsmullaney.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Announcing the Face/Interface 2025 Keynote Speaker, Adam Yeo Registration for Face/Interface @Stanford is NOW open, and spaces are flying off the shelf. www.eventbrite.com/e/faceinterf...

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Tom Mullaney @tsmullaney.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

300+ in 48 hrs 😮 Since registration for Face/Interface opened a few days ago, 300+ people have already signed up. If you know anyone interested, please encourage them to register ASAP before space fills up. www.eventbrite.com/e/faceinterf...

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Face/Interface 2025: Global Type Design and Human-Computer Interaction

Scholars, designers, engineers, & technologists gather to explore global type design and human-computer interaction

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

"Mullaney's spirited narrative, half detective story, half history of technology, is a sequel to his equally fascinating book on the invention of the Chinese typewriter."—@foreignaffairs.bsky.social "The Chinese Computer" by @tsmullaney.bsky.social is available now: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204751...

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