![]() ![]() recognized it potential to provide a method of phototypesetting non-alphabetic Asian languages. ![]() Because non-Latin-script languages were used in developing countries that had little or no access to computers prior to the micro-computer revolution of the 1980’s, this work represented the earliest effort to computerize those languages.īecause of because of the capacity of the Lumitype Photon typesetting system to store 17,000 characters on a single optical disc, Caldwell, Bush and William Garth, Jr. ![]() and the Graphic Arts Research Foundation (GARF) supported by computer and information retrieval visionary Vannevar Bush, and the Carnegie Foundation then directed by Bush, and the U.S. The main forces involved in backing and funding this project were William Garth, Jr. The earliest efforts to provide a system for phototypesetting and computer processing the Chinese language began about 1950 in the United States through the efforts of computer scientist and logical circuit designer Samuel Hawks Caldwell. ![]()
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