Ken Lunde

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Ken Lunde (born Madison, Wisconsin, 1965) is an expert 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 firearm and blade photography, and an avid varmint and larger game hunter. He is also known to the Cult of the P7 members as an avid HK_P7 collector. Ken has also ran into problems with Internet pirates, using his images for advertising their own items for sale or for other commercial purposes.

[edit] Vita

Ken majored in linguistics 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 is currently writing "CJKV Information Processing" Second Edition, which is expected to be published in August of 2008.

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"CJKV Information Processing", (1998-12), ISBN 1-56592-224-7 (now available in PDF from the publisher; translated into Japanese and Chinese in 2002)
"Understanding Japanese Information Processing", (1993-9), ISBN 1-56592-043-0 (translated into Japanese in 1995)