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| Day 1: Tuesday, September 5 | ||
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| Session TA1: 9:00 am - 11:45 am Introduction to the Unicode Character Glyph Model Edwin Hart, Senior Engineer, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA Deborah Goldsmith, Manager, International Toolbox Group, Apple Computer, Inc., USA |
Session TB1: 9:00 am - 11:45 am Globalization, Internationalization and Localization - An Introduction Cathyann Swindlehurst, President, Cygnet International, Inc., USA |
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| Session TA2: 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Introduction of Unicode 3.0 Asmus Freytag, President, ASMUS, Inc., USA |
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| Day 2: Wednesday, September 6 | ||
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| Platforms | Scripts | Web |
| Session TA3: 9:00 am - 11:45 am Developing Global Applications for Windows 2000 Using Unicode Based API's Houman Pournasseh, Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation, USA Russ Rolfe, Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation, USA |
Session TB3: 9:00 am - 11:45 am Authentic Arabic Thomas Milo, President, DecoType, The Netherlands |
Session TC3: 9:00 am - 11:45 am Weaving the Multilingual Web: Standards and their Implementations Martin Dürst, Project Associate Professor, W3C/Keio University, Japan Francois Yergeau, Director, Globalization, Alis Technologies, Canada |
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| Platforms | Scripts | Java Internationalization |
| Session TA4: 1:00 pm - 3:20 pm Unicode Use on Win32 Systems Bill Hall, Internationalization Director, SimulTrans, L.L.C., USA |
Session TB4: 1:00 pm - 3:20 pm Non-Latin Writing Systems: Characteristics and Impact on Product Design Richard Ishida, Global Design Consultant, Xerox, UK |
Session TC4: 1:00 pm - 3:20 pm Developing Global Applications in Java Richard Gillam, Member of Technical Staff, Trilogy Software, Inc., USA |
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| Session TA5: 3:40 pm - 6:00 pm Windows CE Internationalization Bill Hall, Internationalization Director, SimulTrans, L.L.C., USA |
Session TB5: 3:40 pm - 6:00 pm An Overview of New Scripts in Unicode 3.0 Kamal Mansour, Manager of Non-Latin Products, Agfa Monotype Corporation, Usa |
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| Day 3: Thursday, September 7 | ||
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| Welcome | ||
| 9:00 am - 9:05 am Welcome Address Lisa Moore, Co-Chair, Seventeenth International Unicode Conference |
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| Keynote Address | ||
| 9:05 am - 9:45 am The Alphabet - A Tyrant? William Bright, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics UCLA, Professor Adjunct of Linguistics, University of Colorado, USA |
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| Session A1: 10:00 am - 10:40 am Internationalization of Internet Domain Names Paul Hoffman, Director, Internet Mail Consortium, USA |
Session B1: 10:00 am - 10:40 am Using the Unicode 3.0 Character Property Database: A Unicode Character Viewer John O'Conner, Software Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA |
Session C1: 10:00 am - 10:40 am Alphabets and Syllabaries for new World Languages: 50 Repertoires and 20 Problems Philip J. Blair, jr., Information Officer, The World Bank, USA |
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| Session A2: 10:45 am - 11:25 am Internationalization in HTML Interface Design Andrea Vine, I18n Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA |
Session B2: 10:45 am - 11:25 am Adding Surrogate Support to a Unicode Library Markus W. Scherer, Software Engineer, Unicode Technology Group of IBM, USA |
Session C2: 10:45 am - 11:25 am Encoding Scripts from the Past: Conceptual and Practical Problems and Solutions Carl-Martin Bunz, M.A./Research Assistant, University of Saarland, Germany |
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| Session A3: 11:30 am - 12:10 pm Managing Multilingual Web Applications David Taieb, Senior Software Engineer, Lotus Development Corporation, USA |
Session B3: 11:30 am - 12:10 pm Bits of Unicode Mark Davis, Program Director, IBM Center for Java Technology, USA |
Session C3: 11:30 am - 12:10 pm Language Identification and IT: Addressing Problems of Linguistic Diversity on a Global Scale Peter Constable, Non-Roman Script Researcher, SIL International, USA Gary Simons, Associate VP for Academic Affairs, SIL International, USA |
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| Session A4: 1:20 pm - 2:00 pm XIRCH: Integrating Language-Specific Search Sites by Unicode-based Cross-Language Protocol Genichiro Kikui, Senior Research Engineer, NTT Cyberspace Labs., Japan |
Session B4: 1:20 pm - 2:00 pm SSGO Binary Tree - A Small and Fast Unicode Basic Case Mapping Algorithm Frank Yung-Fong Tang, Principal Software Engineer, Netscape Communications/AOL, USA |
Session C4: 1:20 pm - 2:00 pm Encoding the Holy Koran into Unicode Adil Allawi, Technical Director, Diwan Software Ltd., UK |
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| Session A5: 2:05 pm - 2:45 pm Web Internationalization -- Panel of Speakers Misha Wolf (Moderator), Standards Manager, Reuters Ltd., UK Other Speakers |
Session B5: 2:05 pm - 2:45 pm What's New in Unicode 3.0 Mark Davis, Program Director, IBM Center for Java Technology, USA |
Session C5: 2:05 pm - 2:45 pm A New Algorithm for Contextual Analysis of Farsi Characters and Its Implementation in Java Kourosh Fallah Moshfeghi, Researcher, Iran Telecommunication Research Centre, Iran |
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| Session A6: 2:50 pm - 3:30 pm Web Internationalization -- Panel of Speakers -- Continued Misha Wolf (Moderator), Standards Manager, Reuters Ltd., UK Other Speakers |
Session B6: 2:50 pm - 3:30 pm ISO 10646/Unicode - Continued Convergence Mike Ksar, Globalization Manager, Hewlett-Packard Company, USA |
Session C6: 2:50 pm - 3:30 pm Unicode and Localization at the American University of Armenia Richard Youatt, Operations Manager, American University of Armenia Corporation, USA |
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| Case Studies | Localization | Scripts |
| Session A7: 3:50 pm - 4:30 pm Case Study: Porting an MFC Application to Unicode Harley Rosnow, Software Design Lead, Microsoft FrontPage |
Session B7: 3:50 pm - 4:30 pm Localisation Considerations for DTD Design, Paper and Discussion Richard Ishida, Global Design Consultant, Xerox, UK Francois Yergeau, Director, Globalization, Alis Technologies, Canada |
Session C7: 3:50 pm - 4:30 pm Encoding of Telugu Script Based on Grammatical Construction of Characters L. Pratap Reddy, Assistant Professor in ECE, JNTU College of Engineering, India M. Kumara Swamy, Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering, JNTU College of Engineering, India |
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| Session A8: 4:35 pm - 5:15 pm Working With Unicode Implementations: Lessons Learned -- Panel of Speakers Jennifer DeCamp (Moderator), Principal Network and Distributed Systems Engineer, MITRE Corporation, USA Other Speakers |
Session B8: 4:35 pm - 5:15 pm Localisation Considerations for DTD Design, Paper and Discussion -- Continued Richard Ishida, Global Design Consultant, Xerox, UK Francois Yergeau, Director, Globalization, Alis Technologies, Canada |
Session C8: 4:35 pm - 5:15 pm Web Publishing in the Uyghur Language Joshua Edelstein, Webmaster, Radio Free Asia, USA Michael Horlick, Technician, Radio Free Asia, USA |
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| Session A9: 5:20 pm - 6:00 pm Working With Unicode Implementations: Lessons Learned -- Panel of Speakers -- Continued Jennifer DeCamp (Moderator), Principal Network and Distributed Systems Engineer, MITRE Corporation, USA Other Speakers |
Session B9: 5:20 pm - 6:00 pm Impact of Unicode on Translation Memory Technology Simone Pux, Training and Support Specialist, Trados Corporation, USA |
Session C9: 5:20 pm - 6:00 pm Unicode Support for Mathematics Murray Sargent III, Senior Software Design Engineer, Microsoft Corporation, USA |
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| Reception and Exhibits | ||
| 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Reception and Exhibits |
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| Day 4: Friday, September 8 | ||
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| 9:00 am - 9:45 am Unicode Myths Mark Davis, Program Director, IBM Center for Java Technology, USA |
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| Case Studies | Open Source | Fonts |
| Session A10: 10:00 am - 10:40 am Adding Unicode to a Legacy Code Page Client-Server Architecture Carter Weiss, NLS Product Manager, Information Builders, Inc., USA Atsushi Sakakibara, NLS Development Manager, Information Builders, Inc., USA |
Session B10: 10:00 am - 10:40 am Intensive Care for Unicode for Your Product Helena Shih, Sr. Software Engineer, IBM Corporation, USA |
Session C10: 10:00 am - 10:40 am Graphite: An Extensible Rendering Engine for Complex Writing Systems Sharon Correll, Software Engineer, SIL International, USA |
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| Session A11: 10:45 am - 11:25 am Global Verification Testing in Unicode and Non-Unicode Environments David Kumhyr, Tivoli Master Inventor, Manager, Tivoli Systems, Inc., USA |
Session B11: 10:45 am - 11:25 am An Open Source Approach to Unicode Enablement -- Panel of Speakers Tex Texin (Moderator), Director, International Products, Progress Software Corporation, USA |
Session C11: 10:45 am - 11:25 am Font Coverage in Windows Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc., USA |
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| Session A12: 11:30 am - 12:10 pm Unicode-based Text Display for Smart Appliances Arie Mazur, CEO and Founder, Slangsoft, Israel |
Session B12: 11:30 am - 12:10 pm An Open Source Approach to Unicode Enablement -- Panel of Speakers -- Continued Tex Texin (Moderator), Director, International Products, Progress Software Corporation, USA |
Session C12: 11:30 am - 12:10 pm Case Studies in Building Megafonts Joshua Hadley, Agfa Monotype Corporation, USA |
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| Session A13: 1:20 pm - 2:00 pm Unicode in Windows 2000 Russ Rolfe, Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation, USA |
Session B13: 1:20 pm - 2:00 pm Adding Unicode Support to an Open Source SQL Database: Experience with MySQL Thomas R. Emerson, Senior Software Engineer, Basis Technology Corporation, USA |
Session C13: 1:20 pm - 2:00 pm Fonts: Questions and Answers -- Panel of Speakers Kamal Mansour (Moderator), Manager of Non-Latin Products, Agfa Monotype Corporation, Usa |
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| Session A14: 2:05 pm - 2:45 pm The IMultiLanguage Interface Bill Hall, Internationalization Director, SimulTrans, L.L.C., USA |
Session B14: 2:05 pm - 2:45 pm Unicode in PeopleSoft 8: Case Study of a Large-Scale Heterogeneous Unicode Implementation Toby Phipps, Product Manager, Globalization, PeopleSoft, Inc., USA |
Session C14: 2:05 pm - 2:45 pm Fonts: Questions and Answers -- Panel of Speakers -- Continued Kamal Mansour (Moderator), Manager of Non-Latin Products, Agfa Monotype Corporation, Usa |
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| Session A15: 2:50 pm - 3:30 pm International Features of New Netscape 6 Mail Katsuhiko Momoi, Principal Software Engineer, Netscape Communications, USA Naoki Hotta, Senior Internationalization Engineer, Netscape Communications, USA |
Session B15: 2:50 pm - 3:30 pm Teradata's Phased Implementation of Unicode Gary Roberts, Senior Consulting Scientist, NCR Corporation, USA |
Session C15: 2:50 pm - 3:30 pm The Development of Adobe-Japan1-4 & Mac OS X OpenType Fonts Ken Lunde, Manager, CJKV Type Development, Adobe Systems Inc., USA Yasuo Kida, Manager, CJK Technologies, Apple Computer, Inc., USA |
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| Session A16: 3:50 pm - 4:30 pm International Features of New Netscape 6 Browser Katsuhiko Momoi, Principal Software Engineer, Netscape Communications, USA |
Session B16: 3:50 pm - 4:30 pm Unicode Support in Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise Ian MacLeod, Staff Engineer, Sybase, Inc., France |
Session C16: 3:50 pm - 4:30 pm New Ideographs in Unicode 3.0 and Beyond John H. Jenkins, Engineer, Apple Computer, Inc., USA |
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| Session A17: 4:35 pm - 5:15 pm Unicode in the Next Release of Microsoft Office Chris Pratley, Lead International Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation, USA |
Session B17: 4:35 pm - 5:15 pm Case Study: Adding Unicode Support to the Oracle ODBC Driver Michael Gianatassio, Consulting Member Technical Staff, Oracle Corporation, USA Shige Takeda, Senior Member Technical Staff, Oracle Corporation, USA |
Session C17: 4:35 pm - 5:15 pm The Further Pitfalls and Complexities of Chinese to Chinese Conversion Thomas R. Emerson, Senior Software Engineer, Basis Technology Corporation, USA Jack Halpern, Editor-in-Chief, CJK Dictionary Publishin Society, Japan |
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| Session A18: 5:20 pm - 6:00 pm Unicode in the Next Release of Microsoft Office -- Continued Chris Pratley, Lead International Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation, USA |
Session B18: 5:20 pm - 6:00 pm Building Global Multilingual Internet Applications on Oracle8 Simon K. Wong, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Oracle Corporation, USA |
Session C18: 5:20 pm - 6:00 pm The Creation of "Yaolan.com" James T. Caldwell, Director of Multilingual Technology, DAE Interactive Marketing, USA |
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