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Monday, October 18, 2010

TUTORIALS Track 1 Track  2 Track  3
Morning
SESSION 1
09:00 – 10:30
An Introduction to Writing Systems & Unicode
 
 
  Richard Ishida
Internationalization Lead
W3C
Internationalization: An Introduction, Part I: Character Encodings and Unicode
 
  Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect
Lab126 (Amazon)
Internationalization in Database Drivers for Your Applications
 
  Sumit Sarkar
i18n Product Specialist
10:30 - 10:45  Morning Refreshments
Morning
SESSION 2
10:45 – 12:30
An Introduction to Writing Systems & Unicode (Cont’d.)
 
 
 

Richard Ishida
Internationalization Lead
W3C

Internationalization: An Introduction, Part II: Enabling Software
 
  Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect
Lab126 (Amazon)
What's that Gobbledygook in the URL?
 
  Ram Viswanadha
Internationalization Architect
Yahoo!
12:30 - 13:30  Lunch
Afternoon
SESSION 1
13:30 – 15:30

 

Unicode - A Grand Tour
 
 
  Craig R. Cummings
Michael G McKenna Internationalization Architects
Yahoo! Inc.
Web Internationalization - Standards and Best Practices
 
  Tex Texin
Xen Master
XenCraft\
Building Multilingual Websites in Drupal and Joomla
 
  Jim DeLaHunt
Principal
Jim DeLaHunt & Associates
15:30 – 15:45  Afternoon Refreshments
Afternoon
SESSION 2
15:45 – 17:45
Unicode - A Grand Tour
(cont'd.)
 
Developing World Ready Applications for Smart Devices
 
  Craig Rublee
Sr. Globalization Architect
Adobe Systems, Inc.
Using ICU Workshop
 
 
  John Emmons
Senior Software Engineer
IBM
18:00-19:00  Welcome Reception  

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

09:00 - 9:15 Welcome & Opening Remarks
09:15 – 10:00 Keynote Presentation
10:00 - 20:00       EXHIBIT AREA OPEN
10:00 – 10:30  Morning Refreshments in Exhibit Area
PRESENTATIONS Track 1
I18N
Track 2
Platforms
Track 3
Language Processing
10:30 – 11:20
SESSION 1
Improving the Global Gateway: Established and Emerging Trends in Multilingual Navigation
  John_Yunker
President
Byte Level Research
Internationalization with PHP

 
  Kirti Velankar
Yahoo Inc.
The Power of "Plain Text" & the Importance of Meaningful Content

  Ken Lunde
Senior Computer Scientist
Adobe.
11:30 – 12:20
SESSION 2
Global Ready Assessment Tool
 
 
  Michael McKenna
Internationalization Architect, Yahoo! Inc.

 

Making Javascript Multilingual
 
  Nebojša Ciric
Software Engineer,
Google, Inc.
Jungshik Shin
Software Engineer,
Google, Inc.
Multilingual Unstructured Text Analytics
 
  Rusmin Dirgantoro
Chief Engineer
Aeontera, Inc.
12:30 - 13:30  Lunch
PRESENTATIONS Track 1
I18N
Track 2
Platforms
Track 3
Language Processing
13:30 – 14:20
SESSION 3

 

 

Machine Translation as a Problem of Unstructured Data
 
  Andy Bell
welocalize
New Internationalization Functionality in the Adobe Flash platform
 
  Mihai Nita
Globalization Architect
Adobe Systems, Inc.
Name Writing in Public Registers for Multi-country Use
 
 
  Erkki I. Kolehmainen
Kotoistus and Oy KREST Sales and Consulting Services Ltd
14:30 – 15:20
SESSION 4

 

Global by Design: Systematic Approach to I18N Testing
 
 
  Loïc Dufresne de Virel
Localization Strategist, 
Intel Corporation
Globalization for Flash/Flex Enterprise Applications
 
 
  Michael Bridgers
Sr. Software Engineer, Globalization, SAS Institute
Proper Name Transcription/Transliteration with ICUTransforms
  Martin Jansche
Google Inc
Hiroshi Takenaka
Google Inc
Yui Terashima
Google Inc
15:20 – 16:00  Afternoon Refreshments in Exhibit Area
PRESENTATIONS Track 1
I18N
Track 2
Platforms
Track 3
Language Processing
16:00 – 16:50
SESSION 5

 

ICU Update
 
 
  Yoshito Umaoka
Software Engineer, IBM
Markus Scherer
Unicode Software Engineer, Google Inc.
Microsoft Windows Live
 
  Arthur Jin
Senior Program Manager, Microsoft
Statistical Language Detection in Web Pages
 
  Richard Sites
Google, Inc.
17:00 – 17:50
SESSION 6

 

Extending ICU with New Features
 
  Savithri Jasti
Senior Engineer, Yahoo Inc.
Kirti Velankar
Senior Engineer, Yahoo Inc.
How To Achieve World(-Ready) Domination In Silverlight 4
 
  Guy Smith-Ferrier
Internationalization Consultant, Capella Software Ltd.
Dialect Detection
 
  Khaled Hafez
Google, Inc.
18:00 - 20:00  Conference Reception in Exhibit Area

 

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

PRESENTATIONS Track 1
L10N Technology
Track 2
Platforms
Track 3
Language Processing
09:00 – 09:50
SESSION 7
Alert: New Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) are coming!
 
  Mark Davis
Sr. Internationalization Architect,
Google Inc.
Internationalizing Twitter

 
  Matt Sanford
Tech Manager of International Team,
Twitter, Inc.
Unicode and CLDR outside of Industry:  News from Academic and Non-Profit Projects 
(Click to see all abstracs)
University of California, Santa Cruz
Script Encoding Initiative, UC Berkeley
Deborah Anderson
Researcher, Dept. of Linguistics, UC Berkeley
10:00 – 10:50
SESSION 8

 

IRIs Beyond the Napkin: A Survey of Internationalized Resource Identifier Issues and Implementation
 
  Martin J. Dürst 
Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University
Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect, Lab126
Chrome Internationalization


 
 
  Jungshik Shin 
Software Engineer,  Google, Inc. 
Nebojša Ciric
Software Engineer,  Google, Inc. 
Unicode and CLDR outside of Industry:  News from Academic and Non-Profit Projects (Cont'd.) 
 
The Rosetta Project - Wiki of All Human Language

Laura Welcher Ph.D.

Locales for African Languages - the ANLoc AfriGen Experience
  Martin Benjamin
Executive Director, Kamusi Project International
10:50 - 11:10  Morning Refreshments
11:10 – 12:00
SESSION 9

 

Unicode Fonts for the Desktop, the Mobile and the Web

 
  Adil Allawi
Technical Director, 
Diwan Software
Windows 7

 
 
  Michael Kaplan
Program Manager
Company, 
 Microsoft
Tashkeel -- A library for automatically adding diacritics to undiacritized Arabic text
 
  Mohamed Eldawy
Software Engineer, Google, Inc.
Mohamed Taha
Software Engineer, Google, Inc.
12:00 - 13:00  Lunch
PRESENTATIONS Track 1
L10N Technology
Track 2
Platforms
Track 3
Language Processing
(Cont'd)
13:00 – 13:50
SESSION 10
 
Deploying the CLDR Common Locale Data Repository
 
  Steven Loomis
Software Engineer,
IBM

Mark Davis
Sr. Internationalization Architect,
Google Inc.

International Features of the iPhone OS
 
  Deborah Goldsmith
Senior Software Engineer
Apple, Inc.
Extending Bidi Support on the Web
 
  Richard Ishida Internationalization Lead, W3C
Aharon Lanin
Software Engineer, Google, Inc.
14:00 – 14:50
SESSION 11
 
CLDR 1.8 - Meeting the Challenges of Africa
  John Emmons
Globalization Architect,
IBM
Emoji in Unicode 6.0: From Proposal to Deployment
  Markus Scherer
Unicode Software Engineer, Google Inc.
Katsuhiko Momoi
Staff Test Engineer & I18n Consultant, Google Inc.
Yasuo Kida
Apple, Inc.
Mark Davis
Sr. Internationalization Architect,
Google Inc.
Tailoring the Unicode Bidi Algorithm
  Murray Sargent III
Partner Software Design Engineer, Microsoft
Ayman Aldahleh
Software Development Engineers, Microsoft

 

14:50 – 15:10  Afternoon Refreshments
PRESENTATIONS Track 1
L10N Technology
Track 2
Platforms
Track 3
Language Processing
(Cont'd)
15:10 – 16:00

SESSION 12

 
Solving Problems with Locale/Language Identification
  Yoshito Umaoka Software Engineer, IBM
Mark Davis
Sr. Internationalization Architect,
Google Inc.
Designing Global Web Service APIs
 
  Norbert Lindenberg
Internationalization Architect, Yahoo! Inc.
A Beginner's Guide to Indic Scripts
 
  Christopher J. Chapman
Principal Engineer
Monotype Imaging Inc.
16:10 – 17:00

SESSION 13
 
Address and Phone Number Internationalization - Standards, Technologies and Best Practices
 
  Shaopeng Jia 
Software Engineer,
Google
Clint Yang 
Software Engineer,
Google
Lara Rennie
Software Engineer,
Google
Design Considerations for Chinese eCommerce Web Sites
  Tex Texin
Xen Master, XenCraft
The Past, Present, and Future of Tamil in Unicode
 
  Michael Kaplan
Program Manager
Company, 
 Microsoft
Program is subject to change.

 

 

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