Ken Lunde
Encyclopedia
Ken Lunde is a specialist in information processing
for East Asian languages
. He is known in East Asia
as 小林劍 (in Han characters), pronounced in Japanese
as Kobayashi Ken, which echoes his name of Viking origin. He is also an accomplished photographer, specializing in firearms and cutlery, and an avid varmint and larger game hunter.
at University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he obtained his Bachelor's degree
in 1987, Master of Arts
degree in 1988, and graduated with a doctoral thesis on the simplification of Chinese characters in 1994.
Prior to graduation, he joined Adobe Systems
in 1991, where he continues to work on font
development and programming (with expertise in the C
and Perl
programming languages) for information processing in CJKV languages. He wrote two books on these topics. He recently revised the second one, "CJKV Information Processing," and Second Edition was published at the end of 2008.
Information processing
Information processing is the change of information in any manner detectable by an observer. As such, it is a process which describes everything which happens in the universe, from the falling of a rock to the printing of a text file from a digital computer system...
for East Asian languages
East Asian languages
East Asian languages describe two notional groupings of languages in East and Southeast Asia:* Languages which have been greatly influenced by Classical Chinese and the Chinese writing system, in particular Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese .* The larger grouping of languages includes the...
. He is known in East Asia
East Asia
East Asia or Eastern Asia is a subregion of Asia that can be defined in either geographical or cultural terms...
as 小林劍 (in Han characters), pronounced in Japanese
Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
as Kobayashi Ken, which echoes his name of Viking origin. He is also an accomplished photographer, specializing in firearms and cutlery, and an avid varmint and larger game hunter.
Vita
Ken majored in linguisticsLinguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
at University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he obtained his Bachelor's degree
Bachelor's degree
A bachelor's degree is usually an academic degree awarded for an undergraduate course or major that generally lasts for three or four years, but can range anywhere from two to six years depending on the region of the world...
in 1987, Master of Arts
Master of Arts (postgraduate)
A Master of Arts from the Latin Magister Artium, is a type of Master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The M.A. is usually contrasted with the M.S. or M.Sc. degrees...
degree in 1988, and graduated with a doctoral thesis on the simplification of Chinese characters in 1994.
Prior to graduation, he joined Adobe Systems
Adobe Systems
Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, United States...
in 1991, where he continues to work on font
Computer font
A computer font is an electronic data file containing a set of glyphs, characters, or symbols such as dingbats. Although the term font first referred to a set of metal type sorts in one style and size, since the 1990s it is generally used to refer to a scalable set of digital shapes that may be...
development and programming (with expertise in the C
C (programming language)
C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed between 1969 and 1973 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system....
and Perl
Perl
Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular...
programming languages) for information processing in CJKV languages. He wrote two books on these topics. He recently revised the second one, "CJKV Information Processing," and Second Edition was published at the end of 2008.