Richard S. Cook is a doctoral student in Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Mr. Cook holds an MA in Linguistics from UC Berkeley, where he is currently a Graduate Researcher, serving as Project Manager and Computational Systems Administrator on the 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", a monograph volume of the journal Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, published in the UC Berkeley Linguistics Department in 1996. Mr. Cook holds a BA degree from Columbia College in the City of New York.