Richard S. Cook is a UTC representative to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/ WG2/IRG (Ideographic Rapporteur Group). Mr. Cook is a PhD candidate in the Linguistics Department at the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently a Graduate Researcher, serving as Project Manager and Computational Systems Administrator for the (NEH/NSF funded) Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) Project, under the direction of Prof. James A. Matisoff. A specialist in historical Chinese linguistics and lexicography, Mr. Cook is the author of the book "The Etymology of Chinese Chen2 [U+8fb0]", a monograph volume of the journal Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, published in the UC Berkeley Linguistics Department in 1996. Mr. Cook also serves as programmer in the Artificial Intelligence division of the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), working for the (NSF funded) World Color Survey Statistics Project under the direction of Prof. Paul Kay. Mr. Cook holds a BA degree from Columbia College in the City of New York, and the MA degree in Linguistics from UC Berkeley.