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	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	September 1999	San Jose, CA
Michael Everson	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	September 1998	San Jose, CA
Michael Kaplan	September 2008	San Jose, CA	"..Michael Kaplan is such a true friend of Unicode, and so dedicated to supporting the cause, that his tiny company once joined at the full member level, so that he could have a vote in the UTC on topics of importance. Even without his vote, Michael's voice and his passion would be hard to miss. He has blogged about Unicode and supported the Consortium for many years, first through his own company and later through his work at Microsoft. Please join me in welcoming Michael to the ranks of the Unicode Bulldogs."
Tatsuo Kobayashi	September 1999	San Jose, CA
Thomas Milo	March 2000	Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Eric Muller	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	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	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	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	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	January 2002	Washington DC
Misha Wolf	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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