The Bulldog Award

About the Bulldog Award

On April 2nd 1997, Rick McGowan suggested that the consortium sponsor an occasional award for "outstanding personal contributions to the philosophy and dissemination of the Unicode Standard".

In May 1997, Ken Whistler came up with the term "Bulldog" in reference to a remark made by Thomas Huxley  to Henry Fairfield Osborn, in the mid 1870's:

"You know I have to take care of him [Darwin] -- in fact, I have always been Darwin's bull dog.

Three months later,  at the Eleventh International Unicode Conference, Mark Davis introduced the award for the first time. He said:

There are many people whose dedication and perseverance has helped to bring the future of Unicode even closer. To recognize such achievement, we have created a new Unicode award, to be given to those tenacious champions of Unicode who have produced solid achievements in promoting its use around the globe. This award is called the Bulldog Award; once these guys bite, they never let go!

Bulldog Award Recipients

• Martin Dürst -- Presented September 1997, San Jose, CA

" .. in recognition of his internationalization of HTML, his driving the use of Unicode in URLs, his tireless advocacy of Unicode in W3C and IETF,  and his relentless championing of Han Unification"

• Matsuoka Eiji -- Presented September 1999, San Jose, CA

• Michael Everson -- Presented September 2000, San Jose, CA

".. Your enthusiasm for encoding scripts, determination, and follow-through have enabled the Unicode Standard to significantly expand its repertoire of new scripts in Version 2 and, most recently, in the publication of Unicode Version 3."

• Ed Hart -- Presented September 1998, San Jose, CA
• Tatsuo Kobayashi -- Presented September 1999, San Jose, CA

• Thomas Milo -- Presented March 2000, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

• Eric Muller -- Presented September 2003, Atlanta, Georgia

".. For his peerless work leading the production phase of the publication of Unicode 4.0, Eric Muller is recognized with the 2003 Unicode Bulldog Award."

• Sandra O'Donnell -- Presented September 2004, San Jose, CA

".. Sandra has been contributing to the Internationalization and Unicode communities for many years. A noted author who played a key role in Standards development through her work with WG20, she is an expert in Unix internationalization and a fearless champion of minimizing encoding forms, establishing rigor in the development of the Unicode Standard and creating only well defined relevant international standards. "

• Isai Scheinberg -- Presented September 2000, San Jose, CA

".. the merger of the Unicode Standard and ISO/IEC 10646 would not have happened without your determination, unique efforts, and consummate negotiating skills"

• Markus Scherer -- Presented September 2002, San Jose, CA

"...Markus's enthusiasm and dedication to the Unicode goals have allowed significant improvements in the quality and capabilities of products worldwide, and we are very glad to present him with this award."

• Tex Texin -- Presented March 2004, Washington DC

"...participated in the definition of the Unicode Standard for many years in the 90's and over this last ten years has contributed in the W3C arena to the internationalization of web protocols, focusing on the character model, web services, and outreach and guidelines. He has been a major contributor to Unicode conferences, as a presenter and as a key contributor to the conference review board, where he has been taking the lead in developing the call for papers and the press releases, in addition to his valuable input to the themes and programs of the conference."

• Arnold Winkler -- Presented January 2002, Washington DC

• Misha Wolf -- Presented September 1997, San Jose, CA

"..in recognition of his tenacity in pushing browser vendors towards Unicode, of his dedication to organizing these international Unicode conferences, and of his tireless efforts to bring net issues to the Unicode Technical Committee"

 

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