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Monday, October 15, 2007

TUTORIALS Track 1 Track  2 Track  3 Track  4
Morning
SESSION 1
09:00 – 10:30
An Introduction to Writing Systems & Unicode
 
Richard Ishida
Internationalization Activity Lead ,
W3C
Internationalization: An Introduction
 
Addison Phillips
Internationalization Architect,
 Yahoo!
ICU4C in Action
 
 
Vladimir Weinstein
Software Engineer,
Google
 
 
10:30 - 10:45  Morning Refreshments
Morning
SESSION 2
10:45 – 12:30
An Introduction to Writing Systems & Unicode (Cont’d.)
 
 
Internationalization: An Introduction (Cont’d)
 
 

 

Applied ICU4J
Doug Felt
Google
 
 
12:30 - 13:30  Lunch
Afternoon
SESSION 1
13:30 – 15:30

 

Unicode 5.0 Tutorial – Fundamental Specifications
 
 
Asmus Freytag
President,
ASMUS, Inc.
Globalization: SQL Server vs. Oracle

 
 
Pierre Cadieux
Presiden,
ti18N Inc
Best Practices in Software Localization
 
 
Elsebeth Flarup
Globalization Architect,
Soeren Bendtsen
Advisory IT Specialist,
IBM
Writing Win32 Multilingual Applications Using the Windows Vista MUI Technology
 
Sayuri Wijaya
Erik Fortune
Microsoft
15:30 – 15:45  Afternoon Refreshments
Afternoon
SESSION 2
15:45 – 17:45
Unicode 5.0 Tutorial - Unicode Algorithms
 
 
Asmus Freytag
President,
ASMUS, Inc
Making Sense of Oracle Character Sets and Length Semantics
 
Pierre Cadieux
President,
i18N Inc
Web Internationalization - Standards and Best Practices
 
Tex Texin
Internationalization Architect,
Yahoo!
Extending Mac OS X's International Support
 
 
Douglas R. Davidson
Software Engineer,
Apple, Inc.
18:00-19:00  Welcome Reception


Tuesday, October 16, 2007

09:00 - 9:15
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Mark Davis - President, UNICODE Consortium
09:15 – 10:00
Keynote Presentation: Graphic Speech and Graphic Song
Robert Bringhurst – Poet, Typographer, Linguist and Cultural Historian
 10:00 - 20:00       EXHIBIT AREA OPEN
10:00 – 10:30  Morning Refreshments in Exhibit Area
PRESENTATIONS Track 1 Track 2 Track 3 Track 4
10:30 – 11:20
SESSION 1
New Internationalization Features of the Java Platform
Naoto Sato
Java 18n Engineer,
 Sun Microsystems
Craig R. Cummings
Principal Software Engineer,
Oracle
Unicode in Google
 
Mark Davis
Google,
(President, UNICODE Consortium)
ICU on a Diet

 
Vladimir Weinstein
Software Engineer,
Google
Internationalization in Computer Science Curriculum
Jiangping Wang
Assistant Professor,
Webster University
11:30 – 12:20
SESSION 2
SING “gaiji” Architecture in Adobe Creative Suite 3

 
 
Daniel Strebe
Senior Computer Scientist,
Adobe Systems
Jim DeLaHunt
Principal,
Jim DeLaHunt & Associates
Embedding & Linking & Fallback, Oh My! (Getting the Characters You Want)
Michael Kaplan
Technical Lead,
Microsoft
Climbing the Tower of Babel with PHP

 
 
Stanislav Malyshev
Software Architect,
Zend Technologies
Moving a Large Scale University to Unicode Usage
Elizabeth Pyatt
Instructional Designer/Instructor in Linguistics,
 Penn State
12:30 - 13:30  Lunch
13:30 – 14:20
SESSION 3

 

 

International Features of Mac OS X Leopard for Developers
 
Ned Holbrook
Software Engineer,
Apple, Inc.
What your Boss Needs to Know about Internationalization
 
Pierre Cadieux
President,
i18N Inc
Internationalization of Ruby Scripting Language
 
Martin J. Dürst
Associate Professor,
Aoyama Gakuin University
The Character Description Language (CDL) Digital Humanities Start-up
Richard Cook
Linguist,
UC Berkeley
14:30 – 15:20
SESSION 4

 

Windows Vista Language Support — How Does it All Fit Together
 
Russ Rolfe
Senior Program Manager,
Microsoft
Making Sense of Global Communities
 
Addison Phillips
Internationalization Architect,
Yahoo!
Strongly Typed Resources in Microsoft .NET
 
Bill Hall
President,
MLM Associates
Unicode on the Front Lines
Moderator:
Deborah Anderson
Researcher,
UC Berkeley

Sessions 4, 5 & 6

15:20 – 16:00  Afternoon Refreshments in Exhibit Area
16:00 – 16:50
SESSION 5

 

Unicode and PDF – Do They Play Together Well?
 
Thomas Merz
President,
PDFlib GmbH
The Social Engineering of Producing Internationalized Software
Dale Schultz
Globalization Leadership Team,
IBM
Internationalization Best Practices for the New Windows Presentation Foundation
 
Alik Khavin
Software Design Engineer,
Microsoft
Presentations:

Challenges of Encoding the Tai Viet Script

Jim Brase
SIL International

The Tangut Encoding Project
Richard Cook
UC Berkeley
A Vast Repository for Unicode Applications over the Internet
Hongyuan Wang
Hytung Inc.
Use of Unicode to Document Endangered Languages Scripts

Representatives from SIL (Lorna Priest), the E-MELD project (Michael Appleby), Linguistics Dept. at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Michael Cysouw) and the Script Encoding Initiative (Deborah Anderson)
17:00 – 17:50
SESSION 6

 

Unicode Issues in Mars: An XML Representation of PDF
 
Matthew Hardy
Computer Scientist,
Dr. Philip Levy
Principal Scientist,
Adobe Systems
Language Support on the Children's Computer
 
Edward Cherlin
Chairman and President,
Earth Treasury
Internationalization of Voice Applications
 
Qianrong Ma
Principle MTS
Makoto Tozawa
Principle MTS,
Oracle
18:00 - 20:00  Conference Reception in Exhibit Area


Wednesday, October 17, 2007

PRESENTATIONS Track 1 Track 2 Track 3 Track 4
09:00 – 09:50
SESSION 7
What's New in CLDR 1.5
 
John Emmons
Senior Software Engineer,
IBM
IRIs and IDNs: Testing, Implementations, and Specification Evolvement
Martin J. Dürst
Associate Professor,
Aoyama Gakuin University
Adding Unicode Support to the Intel® Viiv™ Software
 
Loïc Dufresne de Virel Localization Program Manager,
Michael Kuperstein
Localization Engineer,
Beat Stauber
Localization Engineer,
Intel Corporation
Unicode
Technical
Committee
Meeting

10:00 – 18:00

10:00 – 10:50
SESSION 8

 

Ideographic Variation Sequences: Implementation Details
 
Ken Lunde
Senior Computer Scientist,
Adobe Systems
Language Tags: the Next Generation
 
Addison Phillips
Internationalization Architect,
Yahoo!
Mark Davis
Google
Effective Use of the CLDR for Capturing Form Data in Adobe Systems Reader
 
John Brinkman
SW Development Manager,
Adobe Systems
10:50 - 11:10  Morning Refreshments
11:10 – 12:00
SESSION 9

 

How to be a CSI (Encoding Crime Scene Investigator)
Tex Texin
Internationalization Architect,
Yahoo!
Global Mash-ups - Dealing with Content of the World
 
Michael McKenna
I18n Architect,
Yahoo! Inc
Internationalization Programming for Mobile Applications
Roy Tetsuro Yokoyama
Principal Globalization Egr.,
Motorola - GTG
Unicode
Technical
Committee
Meeting

10:00 – 18:00

12:00 - 13:00  Lunch
13:00 – 13:50
SESSION 10
 
Mathematical Input Methods
 
Murray Sargent III
IW-Publisher/Text Services,
Microsoft
Creating World Ready Rich Internet Applications using Flex Builder
 
Craig Rublee
Sr. Globalization Architect,
Adobe Systems
Web Mail Internationalization and Unicode
Katsuhiko Momoi
Sr. Test Egr./I18n Consultant,
Google
Unicode
Technical
Committee
Meeting

10:00 – 18:00

14:50 – 15:10  Afternoon Refreshments
14:00 – 14:50
SESSION 11
 
Unicode Input on Mac OS X
Lee Collins
Manager, OS Engineering,
Asia Apple, Inc.
Hints for Designing International Web Pages
Richard Ishida
Internationalization Activity Lead,
W3C
Globalizing Hotmail
 
Claudia Galván
Sr. Lead Program Manager,
Microsoft
Unicode
Technical
Committee
Meeting

10:00 – 18:00

14:50 – 15:10  Afternoon Refreshments
15:10 – 16:00

SESSION 12

 
Introducing KeymanWeb - Keyboarding for the Web
Marc Durdin
Director,
Tavultesoft
Vertical Text on the World Wide Web
 
Stephen Zilles
Standards Guy,
Adobe Systems
Gmail BiDi Enabling - A Case Study from Two Perspectives
 
Shoshannah Forbes
SQA Engineer,
Shanjian Li
Software Engineer,
Google
Unicode
Technical
Committee
Meeting

10:00 – 18:00

16:10 – 17:00

SESSION 13
 
Sorting It All Out: Even More Words on Collation
 
Michael Kaplan
Technical Lead,
Microsoft
Internationalization Tag Set 1.0 – A New Standard for Internationalization and Localization of XML
Felix Sasaki
Internationalization Activity,
W3C
Working Against the Unicode Bidi Algorithm
 
Adil Allawi
Technical Director,
Diwan Software Limited
Program is subject to change.
 

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