The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age. By Thomas Mullaney. MIT Press; 376 pages; $34.95 and £32 The National Chinese Characters Typing Competition is rarely cause for ...
Some keyboard apps for smartphones send input to the cloud to provide predictive text conversion. A study by Citizen Lab, a research institute at the University of Toronto, on Chinese keyboard apps ...
It was the summer of 1959, and the United States needed a Cold War to win. In 1957, the Soviet bloc scored a major technological victory with Sputnik 1. The next year, China’s Communist leadership ...