Tenth International Unicode Conference

Day 1: Monday, March 10

Opening Addresses and Keynotes

Opening Address by Conference Chair

Misha Wolf, Globalisation Manager, Reuters Limited, UK

The Unicode Standard^TM: Challenges and Opportunities

Asmus Freytag, VP Marketing, The Unicode® Consortium

Keynote Address

Ira Scharfglass, VP Global Applications, Netscape Communications Corporation, USA

Tutorials, lasting 3 hours, with a break for lunch

Track A	Track B	Track C	Track D
Web Internationalization	Standards and Case Studies	Internationalization and Localization	Databases
A: Weaving the Multilingual Web: Standards and their Implementation Martin J. Dürst, Senior Research Associate, University of Zurich, Switzerland François Yergeau, Technology Adviser, Alis Technologies Inc., Canada Gavin Thomas Nicol, Primary Engineer, Inso Providence Corporation, USA	B: The Unicode Standard: Version 2 Asmus Freytag, President, ASMUS, Inc., USA	C: Non-Latin Writing Systems: Characteristics and Impacts on Multinational Product Design Richard Ishida, Globalisation Consultant, Rank Xerox Technical Centre, UK	D: Language Support and Unicode in Relational Databases and SQL Stefan Buchta, Group Manager, Software AG / Beacon Information Technology, Japan Mike McKenna, Globalisation Architect, Sybase, Inc., USA

Presentations, lasting 40 minutes

Track A	Track B	Track C
Web Internationalization	Text, Fonts and Typography	Standards and Case Studies
A1: World Wide Web Consortium Activities in Internationalization Bert Bos, Internationalization Coordinator, World Wide Web Consortium, France	B1: Unicode and the New Information Appliances Jim Welch, Director, Emerging Technologies, Bitstream, USA	C1: ISO 10646 - Unicode: Continued Convergence Michael Ksar, Hewlett-Packard Company, USA

Web Internationalization	Text, Fonts and Typography	Standards and Case Studies
A2: A Platform to Publish and Retrieve Multilingual Information on the WWW Yean-Fee Ho, Director of Business Development and World-wide Solutions, Star+Globe Technologies, Singapore	B2: Unicode & Fonts Kamal Mansour, Manager of Non-Latin Products, Monotype Typography Inc., USA	C2: Unicode - The Glue in the European Coding World - Some Case Studies Wolfgang Keber, Senior Consultant and Project Leader, DIaLOGIKa, Germany

Web Internationalization	Text, Fonts and Typography	Standards and Case Studies
A3: Lotus, Domino, Notes and Java Kevin Cavanaugh, VP International, Lotus, USA	B3: Ultracode: A Barcode Symbology Encoding Unicode 2.0 Clive P Hohberger, VP, Technology Development, Zebra Technologies Corporation, USA	C3: Conversion of a Multinational Software Developer to Unicode - A Case-history-to-date Mike McKenna, Globalisation Architect, Sybase, Inc., USA

Day 2: Tuesday, March 11

Presentations, lasting 40 minutes

Track A	Track B	Track C
Web Internationalization	Text, Fonts and Typography	Platforms
A4: Unicode and Internationalization in Netscape Communicator Frank Yung-Fong Tang, Internationalization Engineer, Netscape Communications Corporation, USA	B4: Microsoft Office97 and Unicode Chris Pratley, Far East Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation, USA	C4: Win32 and Unicode William S. Hall, Program Manager, International, NETCOM On-Line Communications Services, Inc., USA

Web Internationalization	Text, Fonts and Typography	Platforms
A5: Supporting Multiple Languages and Character Sets with Internet Explorer F. Avery Bishop, Senior Program Manager, New Languages Enabling Group, Microsoft Corporation, USA Lori Brownell, Senior Program Manager, Personal and Business Systems Group, Microsoft Corporation, USA	B5: Unicode and Java - Design and Implementation of a Unicode Word Processing System in Java Mirko Raner, Software Developer, Mathema Software GmbH, Germany	C5: Unicode and Internationalization with UNIX and the X-Window System Hideki Hiura, Architect / Sr. Staff Engineer, SunSoft, Inc., USA

Web Internationalization	Text, Fonts and Typography	Platforms
A6: Java Internationalization Architecture Asmus Freytag, President, ASMUS, Inc., USA	B6: Developing a Unicode Desktop Publishing Application Based on Windows NT and Windows 95 Thomas Nielsen, Project Manager, R&D, Calamus, MGI Software Corp., Denmark	C6: The Future of Unicode Support on the Macintosh Merle Tenney, International Technologies Evangelist, Apple Computer, Inc., USA

Web Internationalization	Text, Fonts and Typography	Platforms
A7: Java Internationalization Architecture - Continued Asmus Freytag, President, ASMUS, Inc., USA	B7: A Unicode Text Object Model (TOM) Murray Sargent III, Senior Software Design Engineer, Microsoft Corporation, USA	C7: Developing Applications Using Universal Language Support Steve Atkin, Staff Programmer / Development Lead Universal Language Support, IBM Corporation, USA

Web Internationalization	Text, Fonts and Typography	Platforms
A8: Migration to a Fully Supported Unicode WWW Server Borka Jerman-Blazic, Head of Department, Institute Jozef Stefan, Slovenia Andrej Gogala, Junior Researcher, Institute Jozef Stefan, Slovenia Konstantin V. Chuguev, Chelyabinsk Technical University, Russia	B8: Overcoming Search Ambiguities in Unicode 2.0 Jonathan Clark, Senior Development Engineer, International Communications(R) Inc., USA	C8: Case Study of Two Multiscript Locales in Solaris A Speaker, SunSoft, Inc., USA

Web Internationalization	Text, Fonts and Typography	Platforms
A9: Making your Web Server Render Unicode Text for your Client Users Leong Kok Yong, Research Programmer, National University of Singapore, Singapore	B9: Application-Independent Representation of Multilingual Text Chris A Rowley, Senior Lecturer and Staff Tutor, Open University, UK Frank Mittelbach, System Engineer, Electronic Data Systems, Germany	C9: Global Distributed Printing with Unicode Dale Bethers, Senior Software Engineer, Novell, Inc., USA

Web Internationalization	Text, Fonts and Typography	Libraries and Linguistics
A10: Supporting Multiple Character Sets on the Internet Peter Edberg, International Software Engineer, Apple Computer, Inc., USA	B10: From Unicode to Typography, via Omega: Greek, Ancient and Modern Yannis Haralambous, Atelier Fluxus Virus, France John Plaice, Université de Laval, Canada	C10: The CHASE Project - Experiments with Unicode in European Libraries Anthony Brickell, Technical Manager, The British Library, UK

Web Internationalization	Conversion and Compression	Libraries and Linguistics
A11: Dynaweb: Content Generation Based on Client Preferences Gavin Thomas Nicol, Primary Engineer, Inso Providence Corporation, USA	B11: Character Mapping: Methods and Issues Lloyd Honomichl, Internationalization Architect, Novell, Inc., USA	C11: Unicode, Ancient Languages and the WWW Carl-Martin Bunz, Academic Research Assistant, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Germany Jost Gippert, Professor, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Germany

Web Internationalization	Conversion and Compression	Libraries and Linguistics
A12: Multilingual Template Pages for the WWW Based on Unicode Judith Gilbert, Director of Engineering, vivid studios, USA	B12: Reuters Compression Scheme for Unicode (RCSU) Misha Wolf, Globalisation Manager, Reuters Limited, UK	C12: Multilingual Bulletin of New Receipts of the Russian Library for Foreign Literature now on the Net Ilya Gavrishin, System Engineer, Russian State Library for Foreign Literature, Russia

Day 3: Wednesday, March 12

Presentations, lasting 40 minutes

Track A	Track B	Track C
Web Internationalization	Databases	CJK
A13: Unicode: the Right Way to Develop Web Applications for Windows Peter Amstein, Software Design Engineer, Microsoft Corporation, USA	B13: Language Support and Unicode Features in the SQL Standards Stefan Buchta, Group Manager, Software AG / Beacon Information Technology, Japan Mike McKenna, Globalisation Architect, Sybase, Inc., USA	C13: Kanji Database and Input Method of "Itaiji" Eiji Matsuoka, Associate Professor, Director of Chinese Language and Literature, Tokyo-Gakugeidaigaku, Japan Tatsuo Kobayashi, Director, Digital Culture Research, Justsystem Corporation, Japan Koji Gotoda, Product Development Engineer, Justsystem Corporation, Japan

Web Internationalization	Databases	CJK
A14: Internationalization and Unicode in LDAP Directory Services Jürgen Bettels, Internationalization Consultant, Global Ink Consultants, Switzerland / Netscape Communications Corporation, USA	B14: Use of Unicode by World-Class Database Vendors Mike McKenna, Globalisation Architect, Sybase, Inc., USA	C14: East Asian Character Coding and New Software Implementations Thomas H. Hahn, Librarian, Sinologist, University of Heidelberg, Germany

Web Internationalization	Databases	Internationalization and Localization
A15: Platform Independent Input Method Protocol for the Internet, Network Computer (NC) and Java Hideki Hiura, Architect / Sr. Staff Engineer, SunSoft, Inc., USA	B15: Character Set Definition and Conversion in Unicode Jianping Yang, Senior Technical Staff, Oracle Corporation, USA Gail Yamanaka, Principal Product Manager, Server Globalization Technology, Oracle Corporation, USA	C15: Internationalisation: More than just Character Sets Richard Ishida, Globalisation Consultant, Rank Xerox Technical Centre, UK

Web Internationalization	Databases	Internationalization and Localization
A16: Unicode and the Internet: Status and Developments Martin J. Dürst, Senior Research Associate, University of Zurich, Switzerland	B16: Unicode in Distributed Computing Environments Mike McKenna, Globalisation Architect, Sybase, Inc., USA	C16: Strategies for Globalizing Software David Goldstein, Technical Product Manager, Accent Software International, Israel

Web Internationalization	Complex Scripts	Internationalization and Localization
A17: Web Internationalization & Multilingualism Symposium - A Report M.T. Carrasco Benitez, European Commission (on leave), Luxembourg	B17: Handling Complex Unicode Rendering Problems John H. Jenkins, International Software Engineer, Apple Computer, Inc., USA	C17: LISA and Unicode Michael Annobile, Director, The LISA Forum, Switzerland

Web Internationalization	Complex Scripts	Internationalization and Localization
A18: Weaving the Multilingual Web: An Open Discussion Forum (BOF)	B18: Complex Script Support in Microsoft® Windows NT F. Avery Bishop, Senior Program Manager, New Languages Enabling Group, Microsoft Corporation, USA	C18: Notes Global Designer - Developing Multilingual Notes Applications for the World Thierry Mayeur, International Product Manager, Lotus, Canada

Web Internationalization	Complex Scripts	Platforms
A19: Weaving the Multilingual Web: An Open Discussion Forum (BOF) - Continued	B19: Encoding Sense and Nonsense - The Arabic Ligature Thomas Milo, President, DecoType, Netherlands	C19: Writing World Ready Applications for Win32 Lori Brownell, Senior Program Manager, Personal and Business Systems Group, Microsoft Corporation, USA

Web Internationalization	Complex Scripts	Platforms
A20: Weaving the Multilingual Web: An Open Discussion Forum (BOF) - Continued	B20: Unallocated	C20: Unallocated

Each day's program starts at 09:00 and ends at 17:25, except for Day 3 which ends at 16:40 Lunch breaks start at 12:10 and end at 13:30

When the world wants to talk, it speaks Unicode

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