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
Free/Open Source Software: I-APL, Open Voting Consortium, others
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.
