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Program

Day 1: Tuesday, April 24
Tutorials

Track A

Track B

Track C

Characters/Algorithms/Standards Distributed Processing Internationalization and Localization
Session TA1:
9:00 am - 11:45 am
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Chinese Encodings, or "Chinese Encodings, Unicode, and You"
Thomas Emerson, Sr. Software Engineer, Basis Technology Corporation, USA
Session TB1:
9:00 am - 11:45 am
Distributed Unicode
Michael McKenna, Sr. Director Globalisation, Commerce One, Inc., USA
Session TC1:
9:00 am - 11:45 am
Globalization, Internationalization and Localization - An Introduction
Cathyann Swindlehurst, President, Cygnet International, Inc., USA



Characters/Algorithms
Session TA2:
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Introduction to Unicode 3.1
Asmus Freytag, President, ASMUS, Inc., USA

Day 2: Wednesday, April 25
Tutorials

Track A

Track B

Track C

Java Internationalization Characters/Algorithms/Standards Scripts and Fonts
Session TA3:
8:00 am - 11:00 am
Developing Global Applications in Java
Richard Gillam, Developer, Trilogy, Inc., USA
Session TB3:
8:00 am - 11:00 am
Characters, Glyphs and Rendering
Edwin Hart, Senior Engineer, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA
John Jenkins, Engineer, Apple Computer, Inc., USA
Session TC3:
8:00 am - 11:00 am
Non-Latin Writing Systems: Characteristics & Impact on Product Design
Richard Ishida, Global Design Consultant, Xerox, UK



Web Platforms Scripts and Fonts
Session TA4:
12:00 pm - 2:20 pm
Introduction to XSL
Max Froumentin, Engineer (User Interface Domain), W3C/INRIA, France
Session TB4:
12:00 pm - 2:20 pm
Unicode Use on Win32 Systems
Bill Hall, Internationalization Director, SimulTrans, L.L.C., USA
Session TC4:
12:00 pm - 2:20 pm
An Overview of New Scripts in Unicode 3.0
Kamal Mansour, Manager of Non-Latin Products, Agfa Monotype Corporation, USA



Web Platforms Scripts and Fonts
Session TA5:
2:40 pm - 5:00 pm
Weaving the Multilingual Web: Standards and their Implementations
Martin Dürst, Project Associate Professor, W3C/Keio University, Japan
François Yergeau, Director of Technology, Alis Technologies, Canada
Session TB5:
2:40 pm - 5:00 pm
Windows CE Internationalization
Bill Hall, Internationalization Director, SimulTrans, L.L.C., USA
Session TC5:
2:40 pm - 5:00 pm
Authentic Arabic
Thomas Milo, President, DecoType, The Netherlands

Day 3: Thursday, April 26
Conference

Welcome
8:00 am - 8:05 am
Welcome Address
Lisa Moore, Software Engineer, IBM Corporation, USA

Keynote Address
8:05 am - 8:45 am
The Importance of International Standards to Hong Kong's e-Business Infrastructure
Director of the Information Technology Services Department, The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

Track A

Track B

Track C

Open Source Database Programming Languages
Session A1:
9:15 am - 9:55 am
Linux Internationalization and Linux Unicode Support
Hideki Hiura, Chairman, Linux Internationalization Initiative, Free Standards Group, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA
Session B1:
9:15 am - 9:55 am
Unicode Support in Oracle9i Database - Part I: New Unicode Feature
Jianping Yang, Senior Development Manager, Oracle Corporation, USA
Gary Chen, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Oracle Corporation, USA
Session C1:
9:15 am - 9:55 am
Implementing Unicode 3.0 in the Java 2 Standard Edition
John O'Conner, Java I18N Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA



Open Source Database Programming Languages
Session A2:
10:00 am - 10:40 am
Open Source Project for Unicode Locales for Linux using Unicode Databases, Collation Keys and a XML based Locale Data
Kentaroh Noji, Software Engineer, IBM Japan, Ltd., Japan
Tetsuji Orita, Software Engineer, IBM Japan, Ltd., Japan
Session B2:
10:00 am - 10:40 am
Multilingual Collation and Asian Sort Supports in Oracle 9i
Claire Ho, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Oracle Corporation, USA
Winson Chu, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Oracle Corporation, USA
Simon Law, Product Manager - Server Globalization Technology, Oracle Corporation, USA
Session C2:
10:00 am - 10:40 am
Perl, Unicode and i18N
James Briggs, CTO, ActiveMessage, Inc., USA



Open Source Database Programming Languages
Session A3:
10:45 am - 11:25 am
Universal I18N Framework for Office Applications
Shanmugam Senthil, Member of Technical Staff, Global Products Engineering Team, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA
Session B3:
10:45 am - 11:25 am
Unicode and Collation Support in Microsoft SQL Server
Michael Kaplan, President, Trigeminal Software, Inc., USA
Session C3:
10:45 am - 11:25 am
UTF-16 and C/C++ Language
Keishiro Tanaka, Fujitsu Limited, Japan
Markus Eble, SAP AG, Germany



Platforms Multilingual Applications Web
Session A4:
12:20 pm - 1:00 pm
Implementation of Unicode Support in Compaq Tru64 UNIX
Wai-man Long, Software Engineer, Compaq Computer Corporation, USA
Session B4:
12:20 pm - 1:00 pm
Unicode in the Next Release of Microsoft Office
Christopher Pratley, Lead International Program Manager, Word Product Unit, Microsoft Corporation, USA
Murray Sargent III (Presenter), Software Design Engineer, Microsoft Corporation, USA
Session C4:
12:20 pm - 1:00 pm
Use CSS and XML for International Content
Frank Yung-Fong Tang, Sr. Technical Manager, Netscape Communications/AOL, USA



Platforms Multilingual Applications Web
Session A5:
1:05 pm - 1:45 pm
Unicode in Mac OS: X, 9, and CarbonLib
John Jenkins, Engineer, Apple Computer, Inc., USA
Session B5:
1:05 pm - 1:45 pm
Unicode in the Next Release of Microsoft Office -- Continued
Christopher Pratley, Lead International Program Manager, Word Product Unit, Microsoft Corporation, USA
Murray Sargent III (Presenter), Software Design Engineer, Microsoft Corporation, USA
Session C5:
1:05 pm - 1:45 pm
CSS3 Text Extensions
Michel Suignard, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation, USA



Platforms Multilingual Applications Web
Session A6:
1:50 pm - 2:30 pm
Unicode in Your Pocket: How the Symbian Platform Implements Unicode for Wireless Information Devices
Graham Asher, Software Architect, Symbian Ltd., UK
Session B6:
1:50 pm - 2:30 pm
International Features of Netscape 6 Browser
Katsuhiko Momoi, Principal Software Development QA Engineer, Netscape Communications, USA
Session C6:
1:50 pm - 2:30 pm
Formatting Unicode Text; the W3C Approach
Stephen Zilles, Manager of Standards, Adobe Systems Inc., USA



Platforms Multilingual Applications Web
Session A7:
2:50 pm - 3:30 pm
Unicode and the Next Release of Windows
Cathy Wissink, Program Manager, Desktop Globalization, Microsoft Corporation, USA
Session B7:
2:50 pm - 3:30 pm
Unicode based mySAP.com
Nobuyoshi Mori, SAP AG, Germany
Ulrich Brink, SAP AG, Germany
Session C7:
2:50 pm - 3:30 pm
SVG: Unicode meets Vector Graphics
Chris Lilley, Chair, W3C SVG Working Group, W3C, France



Platforms Multilingual Applications Web
Session A8:
3:35 pm - 4:15 pm
Surrogate Support in Microsoft Products
Michael Kaplan, President, Trigeminal Software, Inc., USA
Session B8:
3:35 pm - 4:15 pm
Beyond Text Representation -- Building on Unicode to Implement a Multi-Lingual Text Analysis Framework
Thomas Hampp-Bahnmueller, Software Engineer, IBM Germany, Germany
Session C8:
3:35 pm - 4:15 pm
Unicode Support In Web Based Systems
Claudia Galvan, International Engineering Manager, Adobe Systems, Inc., USA



Platforms Multilingual Applications Web
Session A9:
4:20 pm - 5:00 pm
Multilingual User Interface on Windows 2000
Bill Hall, Internationalization Director, SimulTrans, L.L.C., USA
Session B9:
4:20 pm - 5:00 pm
Multilingual Editing using RichEdit 4+
Hon-Wah Chan, Software Design Engineer, Microsoft Corporation, USA
Murray Sargent III, Software Design Engineer, Microsoft Corporation, USA
Session C9:
4:20 pm - 5:00 pm
Web Internationalization -- Panel of Speakers
Misha Wolf (Moderator), Standards Manager, Reuters Ltd., UK
Other Speakers

Reception

Dinner Cruise

Day 4: Friday, April 27
Conference

Track A

Track B

Track C

Internationalization and Localization Characters/Algorithms/Standards Scripts and Fonts
Session A10:
8:00 am - 8:40 am
The Role of Unicode and XML in Transforming Global e-Commerce
Michael McKenna, Sr. Director Globalisation, Commerce One, Inc., USA
Session B10:
8:00 am - 8:40 am
The Guts of Collation
Mark Davis, Program Director, IBM Centre for Java Technology SV, USA
Session C10:
8:00 am - 8:40 am
Alphabets of Languages with Bidirectional Scripts and Aspects of these Scripts Support
Israel Ervin Gidali, Globalization Manager-Complex Text Languages, IBM, Globalization Competency Center (GCoC), Israel



Internationalization and Localization Characters/Algorithms/Standards Scripts and Fonts
Session A11:
8:45 am - 9:25 am
Helping Users Navigate to the Right Localised Web Site
Richard Ishida, Global Design Consultant, Xerox, UK
Session B11:
8:45 am - 9:25 am
Bits of Unicode
Mark Davis, Program Director, IBM Centre for Java Technology SV, USA
Session C11:
8:45 am - 9:25 am
Right-to-Left Font Structure, Font Design and Typography
Thomas Milo, President, DecoType, The Netherlands



Internationalization and Localization Characters/Algorithms/Standards Scripts and Fonts
Session A12:
9:50 am - 10:30 am
Building Global Multilingual eBusiness Applications on the Oracle Internet Platform
Simon Wong, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Oracle Corporation, USA
Session B12:
9:50 am - 10:30 am
Implementing the Unimplemented: Representing Unencoded Scripts in Unicode 3.0
John Jenkins, Engineer, Apple Computer, Inc., USA
Session C12:
9:50 am - 10:30 am
Multilingual Collation in Two Middle Eastern Script Families
Elaine Renee Keown, Independent Researcher in Computational Semitics, USA



Internationalization and Localization Characters/Algorithms/Standards Scripts and Fonts
Session A13:
10:35 am - 11:15 am
ISO 8601 - The Date and Time Standard
Tex Texin, Director, International Business, Progress Software Corporation, USA
Session B13:
10:35 am - 11:15 am
ISO 10646/Unicode - Continued Convergence
Mike Ksar, JTC1/SC2/WG2 Convener, USA
Lisa Moore (Presenter), Software Engineer, IBM Corporation, USA
Session C13:
10:35 am - 11:15 am
Implementations of Bidirectional Reordering Algorithms
Steve Atkin, Staff Software Engineer, IBM Corporation, USA
Ryan Stansifer , Associate Professor in Computer Science, Florida Tech, USA



Case Studies CJK Scripts and Fonts
Session A14:
12:20 pm - 1:00 pm
Unicode Enabling a Natural Language Search Engine: Ask Jeeves Answers
John Lowe, Chief Linguist, Ask Jeeves, Inc., USA
Tammy Young, Director of QA, Basis Technology Corporation, USA
Session B14:
12:20 pm - 1:00 pm
The Extreme of Typographic Complexity: Character Set Issues Relating to Computerization of The Eastern Han Chinese Lexicon <<Shuowenjiezi>>
Richard Cook, STEDT Project Manager, Linguistics Department, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Session C14:
12:20 pm - 1:00 pm
An Inuktitut "Living Dictionary"
Jack Cain, Senior Linguist, Multilingual E-Data Solutions, Canada



Case Studies CJK Scripts and Fonts
Session A15:
1:05 pm - 1:45 pm
Case Study: Building an Internet File System with Multilingual Capabilities
Simon Wong, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Oracle Corporation, USA
Session B15:
1:05 pm - 1:45 pm
Issues and Solution in Pan-China Information Retrieval
Thomas Emerson, Sr. Software Engineer, Basis Technology Corporation, USA
Session C15:
1:05 pm - 1:45 pm
Thai and Hindi Support in the Java Platform
Stuart Gill, Senior Software Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Java Software, USA



Case Studies CJK Scripts and Fonts
Session A16:
1:50 pm - 2:30 pm
Preference Object-based Internationalization for Distributed Application Framework in Java
Kenya Ishimoto, Staff Software Engineer, IBM Japan Ltd., Japan
Session B16:
1:50 pm - 2:30 pm
The Ideographic Composition Scheme and Its Applications in Chinese Text Processing
Qin Lu, Associate Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Session C16:
1:50 pm - 2:30 pm
Script-specific Font Features: Concepts
Jelle Bosma, Agfa Monotype Corporation, The Netherlands
Joshua Hadley, Agfa Monotype Corporation, USA
Dirk Meyer, Font Developer, CJKV Type Development, Adobe Systems, Inc., USA



Case Studies CJK Scripts and Fonts
Session A17:
2:50 pm - 3:30 pm
Documentum and UTF-8: Converting Content Management Software Product Line to Unicode
Donald Ziff, Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Documentum, Inc., USA
Session B17:
2:50 pm - 3:30 pm
Two New Coded Character Standards from China and their Implementation: HK SCS & GB 18030
Dirk Meyer, Font Developer, CJKV Type Development, Adobe Systems, Inc., USA
Session C17:
2:50 pm - 3:30 pm
Case Studies in Building Megafonts
Joshua Hadley, Agfa Monotype Corporation, USA



Case Studies CJK Scripts and Fonts
Session A18:
3:35 pm - 4:15 pm
Unicode and Visual Basic: A Case Study
Michael Kaplan, President, Trigeminal Software, Inc., USA
Session B18:
3:35 pm - 4:15 pm
New Ideographs in Unicode 3.0 and Beyond
John Jenkins, Engineer, Apple Computer, Inc., USA
Session C18:
3:35 pm - 4:15 pm
Fonts: Questions & Answers -- Panel of Speakers
Kamal Mansour (Moderator), Manager of Non-Latin Products, Agfa Monotype Corporation, USA



Case Studies CJK Scripts and Fonts
Session A19:
4:20 pm - 5:00 pm
Unicode Applied to Web Internationalization: Does it really help?
Lloyd Honomichl, Senior Internationalization Engineer, Lionbridge Internationalization Group, USA
Session B19:
4:20 pm - 5:00 pm
Conversion Between Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set (HKSCS) and Unicode
Linus Toshihiro Tanaka, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Oracle Corporation, USA
Session C19:
4:20 pm - 5:00 pm
Fonts: Questions & Answers -- Panel of Speakers -- Continued
Kamal Mansour (Moderator), Manager of Non-Latin Products, Agfa Monotype Corporation, USA


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