Advisory Panel

Anthony Aristar

Professor, Eastern Michigan University
Moderator, The LINGUIST List

Helen Aristar-Dry

Professor, Eastern Michigan University
Moderator, The LINGUIST List

Kurt Bollacker

Digital Research Director, The Long Now Foundation

Stewart Brand

Cofounder, The Long Now Foundation

Bernard Comrie

Director and Professor, Department of Linguistics
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Gary Holton

Associate Professor, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Faculty, The Alaska Native Languages Center

Kevin Kelly

Executive Editor, Wired Magazine

Michael Keller

Director, Stanford University Libraries

Robert Leopold

Director of the Consortium for World Cultures
Smithsonian Institution

Abby Smith Rumsey

Director of the Scholarly Communication Institute
University of Virginia Library

Douglas Whalen

Vice President of Research, Haskins Laboratories
Founder, Endangered Language Fund

The Rosetta Disk

Fifty to ninety percent of the world's languages are predicted to disappear in the next century, many with little or no significant documentation.