Tom Mullaney
@tsmullaney
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Stanford Teacher of the Year, Chinese Computing & IT + Where Research Begins, Father of 2, #firstgen, Historian, Guggenheim Fellow, Songwriter, LOC Kluge Chair
Palo Alto, CA
Joined January 2010
Look what came in the mail! . After 16 long years, The Chinese Computer comes out in 2 weeks. #unboxing @mitpress @WEAI_Columbia
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I had the honor of attending a private debut of legendary Chinese artist Xu Bing’s new work—continuing his lifelong exploration of writing, language, and design. Thrilled to see intersections with our mission at SILICON. (Photo credit: Maisie Luo, Studio Manager, Xu Bing Studio)
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✍️ Knuth Bigelow Incubator: We’re thrilled to welcome Fer Cozzi as the lead of our first Decolonizing Latin cohort in the Knuth Bigelow Incubator, in partnership with Words of Type Studio and Letterform Archive.
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🎙️ Face/Interface: Bridget Chase (Typotheque) shared powerful insights from the Indigenous North American Typography Project—a model of community-led design guided by the principles of Indigenous Data Sovereignty and OCAP. /4.
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💡 $5,000 Practitioner Program Now Open The Dr. Chan Yeh Practitioner Program is back! Grants averaging $5,000 support fieldwork and community-led efforts in digital inclusion. 👉 Call for Proposals: /3
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🌍 SILICON–Unicode Summer 2025 Interns Now in its second year, our partnership with Unicode continues with a new cohort of SILICON–Unicode Interns working on real-world projects to advance under-resourced languages. Spotlights on interns coming soon! /2
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📢 Big things are in motion this Summer at SILICON. 🧠 SILICON x HAI Issue Brief.We’re partnering with @StanfordHAI to produce an Issue Brief on Digitally Disadvantaged Languages & Artificial Intelligence in the 21st Century. Stay tuned for more! /1
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Why Color Fonts Matter. At Face/Interface 2025, Frida Medrano @fridaemg offered a vivid historical and technical exploration of color fonts.
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🚨 Applications Now Opening! 🚨. The Dr. Chan Yeh Practitioner Program, powered by SILICON @ Stanford University. cc @alphabettes_org @words_of_type @ComputerSociety @ComputerHistory @ANRT_type.
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Mullaney Awarded 2025 CBI Human-Computer Interaction History Prize. I'm floored and honored in equal measure. My thanks to the committee + heartfelt congratulations to CMU colleague Brad Myers. cc @mitpress @WEAI_Columbia @StanfordHistory @StanfordLibs.
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There are 309,274 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ reviews of Where Research Begins on DangDang for the Chinese edition !(*_*)! .
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Finally, Vietnamese. What do you make the typeface? Good? Bad? Iffy?
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How about Thai? What do you make the typeface? Good? Bad? Iffy?
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Now Punjabi. What do you make the typeface? Good? Bad? Iffy?
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Next up is Cambodian. What do you make the typeface? Good? Bad? Iffy?
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Let's start with Armenian. What do you make the typeface? Good? Bad? Iffy?
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A short thread on Non-Latin typefaces used in Insurance and Health Forms in California. I'm seeking input from (a) type designers and (b) speakers of said languages to weigh in. Are the typefaces good? Bad? Iffy?.
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Congratulations to Edward Wong on winning the Baifang Schell Book Prize. Many thanks to the jury for awarding The Chinese Computer an Honorable Mention.
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After More Than Half a Century, a One-of-a-Kind Chinese Typewriter Emerges from Obscurity
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