Stanley Mulaik
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Stanley A. Mulaik is Professor Emeritus at the School of Psychology at the Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgia Institute of Technology
The Georgia Institute of Technology is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States...

, as well as the head of the Societate American pro Interlingua
Societate American pro Interlingua
The Societate American pro Interlingua is an Interlingua-speaking organization that covers the United States of America, Canada, and Mexico. It is currently undergoing reorganization to be considered a non-profit group under US law....

. Although born in Edinburg, Mulaik lived in Salt Lake City, Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah
Salt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC. With a population of 186,440 as of the 2010 Census, the city lies in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, which has a total population of 1,124,197...

 for most of his childhood. For the last 30 years, he has lived in or around the Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta, Georgia
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 area.

His interest in Interlingua
Interlingua
Interlingua is an international auxiliary language , developed between 1937 and 1951 by the International Auxiliary Language Association...

 came about in 1953, one year before the grammar was set in stone. His early works came to the attention of Alexander Gode
Alexander Gode
Alexander Gottfried Friedrich Gode-von Aesch or simply Alexander Gode was a German-American linguist, translator and the driving force behind the creation of the auxiliary language Interlingua.-Biography:Born to a German father and a Swiss mother, Gode studied at the University of Vienna and the...

, then the leader of the Interlingua Division of Science Service, who asked for and got permission to print the student's articles in official publications.

Today, he is the head of the Societate American pro Interlingua
Societate American pro Interlingua
The Societate American pro Interlingua is an Interlingua-speaking organization that covers the United States of America, Canada, and Mexico. It is currently undergoing reorganization to be considered a non-profit group under US law....

, and the editor of its quarterly journal, Confluentes. He was also the editor of the now-defunct Interlingua journal Le Foro, and of the psychological journal Multivariate Behavioral Research.

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