GUEST LECTURE

Mateja Petrovčič

Why did it také 20 years to invent Chinese information processing + history of IT

Date & Time

2.5. – 9.5.2023

Location

Trainee Centre Online

Abstract

  1. Why did it take 20 years to invent Chinese information processing + history of IT
  2. Coded vs noncoded character sets
  3. Encoding methods (legacy + unicode)
  4. Input methods (overview + available in Windows)
  5. Basic of fonts + create your own chars

Bio

Mateja Petrovčič works as an Associate Professor University of Ljubljana, the Department of Asian Studies at the Faculty of Arts, and currently a Chief of Sinology at the same department. She is the editor of the scholarly journal Acta Linguistica Asiatica, the first fully open and online journal of the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. She is a member of European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS) and European Association for Chinese Linguistics (EACL). In 2015, Mateja Petrovčič obtained the A-level certificate for the management of Chinese Language Test Center in Slovenia. She has also prepared the curriculum update for teaching Chinese from lower secondary level to tertiary level in Slovenian educational system.