P1

12:00 - 12:50

The Unicode 4.0 Tutorial: Core Concepts in Action

Asmus Freytag - President, ASMUS, Inc., USA

Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

P2

13:00 - 15:20

An Introduction to Writing Systems:
A review of script characteristics affecting computer-based script support and Unicode

Richard Ishida, I18N Working Group Team Contact, W3C, UK

Level: Beginner, Intermediate

P3

15:30 - 18:00

The Unicode 4.0 Tutorial: Fundamental Specifications

Asmus Freytag - President, ASMUS, Inc., USA

Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Track A

Track B

Track C

Web Internationalization

Advanced Unicode

Java

Session TA1:

09:00-11:40

Web Internationalization:
Standards and Practice

Tex Texin - Xen Master, XenCraft, USA
Yves Savourel - Localization Solutions Architect, ENLASO Corporation, USA

Session TB1:

09:00-11:40

The Unicode 4.0 Tutorial:
Unicode Algorithms

Asmus Freytag, President,
ASMUS, Inc., USA

Session TC1:

09:00-11:40

New Internationalization Features
of the Java(TM) Platform

Naoto Sato, Java Internationalization Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA
Craig Cummings, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Oracle Corporation, USA

Level: Beginner

Level: Advanced

Level: Beginner, Intermediate

XML Localization

Internationalization

.NET Internationalization

Session TA2:

12:40-13:50

XML and Localization

Yves Savourel, Localization Solutions Architect, ENLASO Corporation, USA

Session TB2:

12:40-13:50

Creating a Software
Internationalization
Requirements Taxonomy

Andrea Vine, Software Internationalization Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA

Session TC2:

12:40-13:50

Introduction to Internationalization
in Microsoft .NET

Bill Hall, Consultant,
MLM Associates, Inc., USA

Level: Beginner, Intermediate

Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Level: Beginner

XML Localization

Research

.NET Internationalization

Session TA2:

12:40-13:50

XML and Localization - continued

Yves Savourel, Localization Solutions Architect, ENLASO Corporation, USA

Session TB3:

12:40-13:50

Categorizing, Describing, and
Evaluating Software for Human
Language Technology

Jennifer DeCamp, Foreign Language Technology Program Manager,
MITRE Corporation, USA

Session TC2:

12:40-13:50

Introduction to Internationalization
in Microsoft .NET - continued

Bill Hall, Consultant,
MLM Associates, Inc., USA

Level: Beginner, Intermediate

Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Level: Beginner

HTML, XHTML and CSS

Unihan

.NET Internationalization

Session TA3:

13:50-16:30

Associating Character Encoding
and language Information with
HTML, XHTML and CSS Files

Richard Ishida, I18N Working Group
Team Contact, W3C, UK

Session TB4:

13:50-16:30

The Dao of Unihan

Deborah Goldsmith, Engineer,
Apple Computer, Inc., USA

Session TC3:

13:50-16:30

Localization in Microsoft.NET
Using Multiple and Shared Sources

Bill Hall, Consultant,
MLM Associates, Inc., USA

Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Level: Intermediate

Characters and Glyphs

Arabic

.NET Internationalization

Session TA4:

16:40-18:00

Creating Bidi XHTML/HTML Pages

Richard Ishida, I18N Working Group Team Contact, W3C, UK

Session TB5:

16:40-18:00

Authentic Arabic

Thomas Milo, President,
DecoType, The Netherlands

Session TC3:

16:40-18:00

Localization in Microsoft.NET
Using Multiple and Shared Sources

- continued

Bill Hall, Consultant,
MLM Associates, Inc., USA

Level:

Level:

Level: Intermediate

Web Internationalization

Internationalization and Global Business

Regular Expressions

Session A1:

10:00-10:40

WS-I18N: Why Web Services
are Not Internationalized

Addison Phillips, Director, Globalization Architecture, webMethods, Inc., USA

Session B1:

10:00-10:40

Transitioning a Vastly Multilingual Corporation to Unicode

Lorna Priest, Non-Roman Publishing Systems Developer, SIL International, USA

Session C1:

10:00-10:40

Analyzing Unicode Text:
Regular Expressions,
Boundaries, Sets and More

Andrew Heninger, Senior Software Engineer, IBM Corporation, USA

Level: Beginner, Intermediate

Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Level: Intermediate

Web Internationalization

Internationalization and Global Business

Regular Expressions

Session A2:

10:45-11:25

A New Paradigm for Globalizing Web Applications

Jim Peng, Member of Technical Staff, Oracle Corporation, USA

Session B2:

10:45-11:25

10 Years of Technology
Development at the American
University of Armenia

Richard Youatt, Operations Manager, American University of Armenia, USA

Session C2:

10:45-11:25

Pattern Matching with
Multilingual Regular Expressions

Weiran Zhang, Principal Member of
Technical Staff, Oracle Corporation, USA

Level:

Level: Intermediate

Level: Intermediate, Advanced

Web Internationalization

Internationalization and Global Business

Regular Expressions

Session A3:

11:30-12:10

Bring i18n Policy Repository
to SOA

Chun Jie Tong, Software Engineer,
IBM Globalization Certification
Laboratory, CHINA

Session B3:

11:30-12:10

Internationalization Coding
Convention Enforcement via AOP

Huapin Shen, and Pu Yang, Software Engineers, IBM Globalization Certification Laboratory, CHINA

Session C3:

11:30-12:10

Fun with Regular Expressions:
An Implementation of the
Unicode Bidi Algorithm

Martin Dürst, Internationalization Activity Lead/Associate Professor (W3C Project), W3C/Keio University, Japan

Level: Intermediate

Level: Intermediate

Level: Intermediate, Advanced

Web Internationalization

Internationalization and Global Business

Search and Conversion

Session A4:

13:20-14:00

IDN and Applications

Michel Suignard, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation, USA

Session B4:

13:20-14:00

Who is Running this Project, Anyway? Managing Distributed Development
Teams in China

Jacob Hsu, Vice President of Strategic Planning and Worldwide Business Development, Symbio Group, USA

Session C4:

13:20-14:00

Creating a Globalized Text
Search Engine: A Case Study

Thomas Hampp-Bahnmueller,
Advisory Software Engineer,
IBM Germany, Germany

Level: Intermediate

Level: Intermediate

Level: Intermediate

Web Internationalization

Internationalization and Global Business

Search and Conversion

Session A5:

14:05-14:45

Internationalized Resource
Identifiers

Martin Dürst, Internationalization Activity Lead/Associate Professor (W3C Project), W3C/Keio University, Japan

Session B5

14:05-14:45

Exhibitor's Panel

Tex Texin (Moderator), President,
XenCraft, USA

Session C5:

14:05-14:45

Federated Metasearch Strategies
and Issues: Searching, Finding, and Archiving Data of the World from
Disparate Public Systems

Michael McKenna, Digital Repository Architect, California Digital Library, University of California Office of the President, USA

Level: Intermediate

Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Level: Intermediate, Advanced

Web Internationalization

Internationalization and Global Business

Search and Conversion

Session A6:

14:50-15:30

Building Global Internet
Applications using the Oracle
Globalization Development Kit

Simon Law, Product Manager,
Oracle Corporation, USA

Session B6:

14:50-15:30

Exhibitor's Panel
- continued

Tex Texin (Moderator), President,
XenCraft, USA

Session C6:

14:50-15:30

Mapping Text in Unspecified
Character Sets to Unicode as a
Canonical Representation in a
Hostile Environment

David Clarke, Software Consultant & Lecturer, Dragon Thoughts Ltd &
Sheffield University, UK

Level: Intermediate

Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Level: Beginner

Session A7:

15:50-16:30

Supplementary Characters in
the JavaTM Platform

Norbert Lindenberg, Senior Staff Engineer,
Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA

Session B7:

15:50-16:30

Trends in Internationalization Outsourcing

Jacob Hsu, Vice President of Strategic Planning and Worldwide Business Development, Symbio Group, USA

Session C7:

15:50-16:30

What's in a Name?
Handling Personal Names and
Information in a Global Application

Addison Phillips, Director, Globalization Architecture, webMethods, Inc., USA

Level: Intermediate

Level: Intermediate

Level: Beginner

Java

Localization

Scripts

Session A8:

16:35-17:15

Advanced Java Globalization

Charles Hornig, Globalization Architect,
IBM Corporation, USA

Session B8:

16:35-17:15

Localizing with XLIFF & ICU

Ram Viswanadha, Unicode Software
Engineer, IBM Corporation, USA

Session C8:

16:35-17:15

Panel Presentation:
The University and Unicode:
Bridging the Gap

Deborah Anderson (Moderator), Researcher, Dept. of Linguistics, UC Berkeley, USA

Level: Intermediate, Advanced

Level: Intermediate, Advanced

Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Java

Localization

Scripts

Session A9:

17:20-18:00

Introduction to Java Desktop
System Globalization

Hideki Hiura, Architect/Sr. Staff Engineer,
Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA

Session B9:

17:20-18:00

The World of Localisation:
Organisations, Resources
and Contacts

Reinhard Schäler, CEO, The Institute of Localisation Professionals (TILP), Ireland

Session C9:

17:20-18:00

Panel Presentation:
The University and Unicode:
Bridging the Gap - continued

Deborah Anderson (Moderator), Researcher, Dept. of Linguistics, UC Berkeley, USA

Level: Intermediate

Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Windows .NET

New in Unicode

Indic

Session A10:

10:00-10:40

Windows for the Rest of the World: Customizing Windows for
Emerging Markets

Cathy Wissink, Lead Program Manager, and Michael Kaplan, Senior Developer,
Microsoft Corporation, USA

Session B10:

10:00-10:40

New from the Unicode Consortium

Asmus Freytag, President,
ASMUS, Inc., USA

Session C10:

10:00-10:40

Displaying Indic in Java

Craig Cummings, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Oracle Corporation, USA

Level: Intermediate

Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Level: Beginner, Intermediate

Windows .NET

New in Unicode

Indic

Session A11:

10:45-11:25

Unicode, Keyboards, and the
Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator

Cathy Wissink, Lead Program Manager, and Michael Kaplan, Senior Developer,
Microsoft Corporation, USA

Session B11:

10:45-11:25

Panel Presentation:
Common Locale Data: Process,
Issues and Challenges

Steven Loomis (Moderator), Software Engineer, IBM, San Jose Globalization
Center of Competency, USA and
George Rhoten, Staff Software Engineer, IBM Corporation, USA

Session C11:

10:45-11:25

Generic Transliteration Rule
Framework for Indian Languages

Nagarajan Krishnamurthy, Technical Architect, Hewlett Packard India
Software Operations, Bangalore, India

Level: Intermediate

Level: Intermediate

Level: Intermediate , Advanced

Windows .NET

New in Unicode

Indic

Session A12:

11:30-12:10

Developing International
Applications with
Visual Studio 2005

Marin Millar, Globalization Manager,
Microsoft Corporation, USA

Session B12:

11:30-12:10

Panel Presentation:
- continued

Steven Loomis (Moderator), Software Engineer, IBM, San Jose Globalization
Center of Competency, USA and
George Rhoten, Staff Software Engineer, IBM Corporation, USA

Session C12:

11:30-12:10

UNIcode Table based Input
Method (UNIT)

Sriram Swaminathan, Member Technical Staff - Software, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA

Level: Intermediate

Level: Intermediate

Level: Beginner, Intermediate

Windows

ICU

Scripts and Rendering

Session A13:

13:20-14:00

Telling Time Internationally

Bill Hall, Consultant, MLM Associates, Inc., USA

Session B13:

13:20-14:00

Getting Started With ICU
Part I - Beginner

Vladimir Weinstein, Software Engineer,
IBM Corporation, USA

Session C13:

13:20-14:00

SING: Adobe's New Gaiji Architecture

Jim DeLaHunt, Engineering Manager,
Gaiji Architectures, Adobe Systems Incorporated, USA

Level: Intermediate

Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Level: Intermediate

Windows

ICU

Scripts and Rendering

Session A14:

14:05-14:45

The Microsoft Windows Core
Fonts - Recent Extensions
and Updates

Simon Daniels, Program Manager,
Microsoft Corporation, USA

Session B14:

14:05-14:45

Getting Started With ICU
Part II - Intermediate

Eric Mader, Senior Software Engineer, Internationalization, IBM Corporation, USA

Session C14:

14:05-14:45

Reworking the Graphite API

Sharon Correll, Script Engineer,
SIL International, USA

Level: Intermediate

Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Windows

ICU

Scripts and Rendering

Session A15:

14:50-15:30

Microsoft WinFX: Composite Font
and Typography Extension

Michel Suignard, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation, USA

Session B15

14:50-15:30

Unicode Support in Mobile Devices

Daniel Chen, Software Architect,
IBM Corporation, USA and Bei Shu, Software Engineer, IBM China Software Development Lab, China

Session C15:

14:50-15:30

Researching the Indigenous Scripts of Africa: An Exercise in Utility

Charles Riley, Library Cataloging Assistant, Yale University, USA

Level:

Level:Intermediate, Advanced

Level: Intermediate

Mac OS X and Localization

ICU

Scripts and Rendering

Session A16:

15:50-16:30

Adding Language Support to
Mac OS X

Deborah Goldsmith, Engineer,
Apple Computer, Inc., USA

Session B16:

15:50-16:30

ICU Overview: The Open-Source
Unicode Library, v3.0

Markus Scherer, Manager, Globalization Center San Jose, IBM Corporation, USA

Session C16:

15:50-16:30

Unicode Nearly Plain-Text
Encoding of Mathematics

Murray Sargent III, Senior Software Design Engineer, Microsoft Corporation, USA

Level: Intermediate, Advanced

Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Level: Intermediate, Advanced

Mac OS X and Localization

ICU

Scripts and Rendering

Session A17:

16:35-17:15

Building Localized Applications
in Cocoa on Mac OS X

Deborah Goldsmith, Engineer,
Apple Computer, Inc., USA

Session B17:

16:35-17:15

Collation in ICU

Vladimir Weinstein, Software Engineer,
IBM Corporation, USA

Session C17:

16:35-17:15

ALI-BABA - and
the 4.0 Unicode Characters - 2

Thomas Milo, President, DecoType,
The Netherlands

Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Level: Beginner

Level:

Mac OS X

ICU

Scripts and Rendering

Session A18:

17:20-18:00

Transliteration-Based Unicode
Input Methods for OS X

Ken Beesley, Researcher,
Xerox Research Centre Europe, France

Session B18:

17:20-18:00

Unicode Support in ICU for Java

Doug Felt, Senior Software Engineer,
IBM Corporation, USA

Session C18:

17:20-18:00

Globalization and Accessibility: Commonality and Best Practises

Kerstin Goldsmith, Senior Product Manager - ST, Oracle Corporation, USA

Level: Intermediate

Level: Intermediate, Advanced

Level: Beginner, Intermediate