Joseph Erb (MFA '02) has been noted by the recent New York Times article on December 23rd, "Cherokee, Apple Partner to Put Language on iPhones". Joseph Erb had worked in sculpture and animation during his years at Penn and has recently been working with Apple so that they would include Cherokee on iPhone, iPad and iPod. This project started at Penn in 2001 when Erb produced a thesis animation in Cherokee, subtitled; towards saving the language.
The article can be accessed on the New York Times official site, http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/12/23/us/AP-US-iPhone-Cherokee-Language.html?_r=3&pagewanted=1&emc=eta1
It is also available on NPR's official site, http://www.npr.org/tablet/#story/?storyId=132277962
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