Mr. Richard B. Thomas received degrees in Compositional Theory of Music from Princeton University in 1943 and a Master of Arts in Far East Languages, Literature, History from Harvard University in 1949. Mr. Thomas served in the Army Air Corps during 1943-1947. During 1956 through 1962, he worked at the National Bureau of Standards doing research in experimental language and image processing for SEAC. He performed similar research for the Radio Corporation of America, the National Institutes of Health, and the University of Maryland. During 1970 until his retirement in 1988, Mr. Thomas worked at the Social Science Computation Center at the Brookings Institution, Washington, DC. Mr. Thomas published extensively including, The Use of SEAC in Syntactic Analysis. Mr. Thomas' memberships include the Linguistic Society of America, Association for Computing Machinery, Mensa, American Federation of Musicians. He is a Fellow of the Harvard-Yenching Institute. He has had various degrees of involvement as translator, teacher, or student, with Japanese, Chinese, French, German, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Italian, Turkish, and other languages.
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