User:Mokurai

I'm contributing information on countries and languages here, including writing systems, fonts, keyboard layouts, sources of literature, and other items of interest. I will be adding material on education and on the other impacts of the Laptop besides in education. It will have major effects in social development, health, economic opportunity, politics, and other important areas.

Generalist

Buddhist priest, software developer, market researcher, technical writer, Peace Corps volunteer, cook, goatherd...

I edited the Geode processor manuals for National Semiconductor, before they sold the product line to AMD. (The Laptop contains an AMD Geode processor.)

Languages: Hebrew, German, Latin, Russian, French, Swahili, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Sanskrit, Pali, Classical Greek, Lojban, Klingon

Programming languages: APL, LISP, FORTH, SNOBOL, FORTRAN, COBOL, Algol, Java, C, C++, Pascal, Smalltalk, Python, scripting languages

Unicode

Free Software: I-APL, Open Voting Consortium, others

Math

Science

Co-founder of global anti-spam organization, The Coalition Against UCE (Unsolicited Commercial E-mail)

Music: Yale Concert Band and Marching Band; Slavyanka Russian Chorus; prize in Foreigner's Korean Music contest of the Korea Herald; various instruments

Simputer: Simple, inexpensive, multilingual computer for poor people

Village telemedicine over wireless

Science Fiction. John Brunner would have loved this project if he had lived to see it.

en	This user is a native speaker of English.