Jacques Guy

Jacques Guy is a French linguist, living in Australia since 1968. He started undergraduate studies at the École des Langues Orientales in Paris, France, focusing on Chinese, Japanese and Tahitian. He wrote his Ph.D. thesis, under the auspices of the Australian [National University], on Sakao, a language of Espiritu Santo.
Following this, he turned his attention towards automatic text manipulation and digital taxonomy, working from 1985 at the AI research lab of Telecom Australia in Clayton, a suburb of Melbourne. He remained at Telstra until 1998. His work led him to take an interest in two linguistic enigmas: Rongorongo and the Voynich manuscript.