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Monday, March 6, 2006

TUTORIALS

Track 1 Track  2 Track  3

Morning Sessions

09:00 – 10:30

Unicode 5.0 Tutorial: Part 1 - Characters in Action (09:00 - 09:45)


Asmus
Freytag

President
ASMUS, Inc.

Internationalization: An Introduction
               


Addison Phillips

Internationalization Architect
Yahoo!

Web Internationalization - Standards and Best Practices

Tex Texin
Internationalization Architect
Yahoo!

10:30 - 10:45      Morning Refreshments

Morning Sessions

10:45 – 12:15

An Introduction to Writing Systems & Unicode (09:45 - 12:15)

Richard Ishida
Internationalization Activity lead
W3C

Internationalization: An Introduction (Cont’d)
 

Web Internationalization - Standards and Best Practices (Cont’d)

 

12:30 - 13:15      Lunch

Afternoon Session 1

13:30 – 15:00

 

Unicode 5.0 Tutorial: Part 2 - Fundamental Specifications

Asmus Freytag
President
ASMUS, Inc.

The Dao of Unihan


Deborah Goldsmith
Sr. Software EngineerApple Computer, Inc.

Internationalization Features in XPath, XQuery and XSLT

Frank Yung-Fong Tang
Google
Felix Sasaki & Liam Quin
W3C 

15:00 – 15:15    Afternoon Refreshments

Afternoon Session 2

15:15 – 17:00

Unicode 5.0 Tutorial: Part 3 - Unicode Algorithms

Asmus Freytag
President
ASMUS, Inc.

The Dao of Unihan (Cont’d)
 

Advanced ICU topics

Steven R. Loomis
Vladimir Weinstein
Software Engineers
IBM Corp.

Afternoon Session 3

17:00 – 18:00

 

Unicode 5.0 Tutorial: Part 3 - Unicode Algorithms

Asmus Freytag
President
ASMUS, Inc.

 

Abridged Arabic Tutorial

Thomas Milo
Director,
DecoType

 
18:00 - 19:00 Welcome Reception hosted by Google Sandpebble A, B & C, Lobby Level

Birds of a Feather

19:30 -21:00

Language and Locale Identifiers 

Addison Phillips
Internationalization Architect
Yahoo!

Unicode Committee 


BOF Leader TBA

Design Principles for A Regional, Multilingual Keyboard

Erkki I. Kolehmainen
Coordinator, Cultural Diversity Issues in ICTResearch Institute for the Languages of Finland (RILF)

 

Tuesday, March 7, 2006

PRESENTATIONS

Track 1 Track 2 Track 3

09:00 - 9:15

Welcome & Opening Remarks
Mark Davis - President, UNICODE Consortium

09:15 – 10:00

Keynote Presentation: Going Global with a Search Engine

Tuoc Luong  
Executive Vice President, Engineering & Technology, Ask Jeeves, Inc.

10:00 - 20:00       EXHIBIT AREA OPEN

10:00 – 10:30       Morning Refreshments in Exhibit Area

10:30 – 11:20

Session 1

The Digitalization of Fraud


Doug Barbin

Director-Compliance Solutions
VeriSign, Inc.

Editing and Display of Mathematical Text using Unicode

Murray Sargent III
Sr. Software
Design Engineer
Microsoft Corporation

Latest News in Globalization
 

Mark Davis
President,
UNICODE Consortium

11:30 – 12:20

Session 2

Unicode Security



Mark Davis

President,
UNICODE Consortium

Keyman: A New Way of Thinking about Keyboard Input

Marc Durdin
Director,
Tavultesoft

Language Tags and Locale Identifiers
 

Addison Phillips
Internationalization Architect
Yahoo!

12:30 - 13:30       Lunch

13:30 – 14:20

Session 3

 

 

Unicode-enabling PHP


 


Tex Texin

Internationalization Architect
Yahoo!

Windows Vista, An Ever Expanding View of Internationalization



Russ Rolfe

Lead Program Manager
Microsoft Corporation

How to Express Information about Internationalization and Localization in XML Documents and Schemata

Felix Sasaki
Richard Ishida

Internationalization Activity
W3C

14:30 – 15:20

Session 4

 

New Internationalization Features of the Java Platform -- J2SE 6

Naoto Sato
Sun Microsystems
Craig R. Cummings
Oracle Corporation

Microsoft Office 12 - Internationalization Expanded

 
Marypat Meuli
Lead Program Manager
Microsoft Corporation

Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) Overview
 

John Emmons
Globalization Architect
IBM Corp.

15:20 – 16:00       Afternoon Refreshments in Exhibit Area

16:00 – 16:50

Session 5

 

International Features of Mac OS X
 


Deborah Goldsmith

 
Sr. Software Engineer
Apple Computer, Inc.

Building Localized and Globalized Windows Applications with Visual Studio 2005

Marin Millar
Globalization Manager
Microsoft Corporation

A Case Study in Web Internationalization: Using the CLDR Online With PHP

Mark Garrett 
Support Developer
ModernGigabyte, LLC

17:00 – 17:50

Session 6

 

File Systems, Unicode, and Normalization

David Robinson
Ienup Sung
Nicolas Williams

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

IDN support in IE7
 


Michel Suignard
 
Sr. Program Manager
Microsoft Corporation

Client-Tier Globalization - The New Frontier

Weiran Zhang
Development Manager
Oracle Corporation

18:00 - 20:00       Conference Reception in Exhibit Area

 

Wednesday, March 8, 2006

PRESENTATIONS

Track 1 Track  2 Track  3

09:00 – 09:45

Keynote Presentation: UNICODE as a "Unifying Force" in Language Education

Colonel Daniel L. Scott
Assistant Commandant
Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center

9:45 - 10:00         Morning Refreshments

10:00 – 10:50

Session 7

Globalization Gotchas: What to Watch Out For

Mark Davis
President,
UNICODE Consortium

PANEL: Unicode and Academia

Moderator:
Debbie Anderson
Researcher
UC Berkeley

Panelists:
Johannes Bergerhausen University of
Applied Sciences Mainz
Charles Riley
Yale University
Richard Cook
UC Berkeley
John Hudson
SBL/Tiro Typeworks

 

Unicode Processing - Regex
 

Andrew Heninger
Sr. Software Engineer
IBM Corp.

11:00 – 11:50

Session 8

 

 

Migrating PayPal to Unicode: A Case Study

Scott Atwood
Staff Software Engineer
June Wang
Engineering Manager
PayPal

Sorting It All Out: An Introduction to Collation


Michael Kaplan
Technical Lead
Microsoft Corporation

12:00 - 13:00       Lunch

13:00 – 13:45

Keynote Presentation:  The Effect of Unicode on Type Design

Charles Bigelow
Vice President, Bigelow & Holmes Inc.
 

14:00 – 14:50

Session 9

 

Challenges of Searching the Global Internet

Peter Linsley
Sr. International Product Manager
Ask Jeeves

ICU Overview: The Open-Source Unicode Library

Markus Scherer
ICU Team Manager/
Software Engineer
IBM Corp.

Tales of Incorrect String Comparisons
 

Michael Kaplan Technical Lead
Microsoft Corporation

14:50 – 15:10       Afternoon Refreshments

15:10 – 16:00

Session 10

 

Unicode Spreading on the Web: A Case of Asian Domains

Pavol Zavarsky
Wunna Ko Ko
Yoshiki Mikami
Yew Choong Chew Nagaoka University of Technology
Tatsuo Kobayashi Scholex Co., Ltd

Migrating C Language Applications to Unicode

John Emmons
Globalization Architect
IBM Corp.

Character Encoding Detection
 

Eric Mader
Software Engineer
IBM Corp.

16:10 – 17:00

Session 11

 

Large Corpus Construction for Chinese Lexicon Development

John O'Neil
Language Technology Architect
Thomas Emerson

Sr. Software Architect
Basis Technology

ICU in Eclipse
 

 

Doug Felt
Technical Lead
ICU for JAVA
IBM Corp.

StringPrep: Unicode in Network Protocols

 

Raghuram Viswanadha ICU Team
IBM Corp.

Program is subject to change.

 

 

 

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