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References, reading material and excercises for applied Malayalam computing course Digital Definition of Malayalam What is ASCII, why such a standard was required, history of ASCII, 7-Bit and extended version. What is the problem with that? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_ASCII How other languages tried to extend ASCII? What is ISCII? How to represent Malayalam in it? History of ISCII? What is the problem with ISCII? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISCII How many languages are in the world? [Read More]

Projects FST based Malayalam grapheme to phoneme converter Opentype engineering and maintenance of Malayalam fonts by Swathanthra Malyalam Computing A Lab manual for basic Analog Communication Lab. A Lab manual for basic Electronic Circuits Lab using eSim. A Labmanual for Communication Engineering (Analog and Digital) Lab. The Scilab code and manual for Digital Signal processing Lab Talks Typoday 2018, Mumbai. Presented a paper with Santhosh Thottingal on the design principles of Manjari typeface titled: ‘Spiral splines in Typeface Design: A case study of Manjari Malayalam typeface‘ International Conference on Green Technologies, ICGT 2012, Thiruvananthapuram : Paper presented on my master’s thesis on Vector Quantization Codebook generation. [Read More]

(Kavya’s personal website is here.) I am a teacher in the field of electronics, signal processing and digital communication. Professionally I am employed as Assistant Professor at Govt. Engineering college, Sreekrishnapuram, Palakkad. The everyday experience as a teacher keeps the learner in me always alive. I love to share what I learn. I am involved in various projects on Malayalam language computing. An attempt to analyse Malayalam text phonetically using finite state transducers can be seen here. [Read More]

I am a language computing professional and typeface designer with expertise in digital typography. At Swathanthra Malayalam Computing, I lead various language computing projects that enable millions of Malayalam users on their computers and phones. My contributions to Malayalam digital typography include designing popular typefaces such as Chilanka, Manjari, Nupuram, and Malini. I also maintain several other Malayalam unicode fonts, all available on the SMC website. In recognition of my contributions to Malayalam language, I was honored with the Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman by the President of India in 2019. [Read More]