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| Day 1: Monday, August 30 | ||
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| Session TA1: 9:00 am - 11:45 am Characters, Glyphs & Rendering Edwin Hart, Senior Engineer, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA John H. Jenkins, Engineer, Apple Computer, Inc., USA |
Session TB1: 9:00 am - 11:45 am Legacy & Not So Legacy Character Sets & Encodings Ken Lunde, Manager, CJKV Type Development, Adobe Systems Inc., USA |
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| Session TA2: 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Introduction to Unicode 3.0 Asmus Freytag, President, ASMUS, Inc., USA |
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| Day 2: Tuesday, August 31 | ||
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| Web Internationalization | Fonts, Scripts, Complex Text | Internationalization and Localization |
| Session TA3: 9:00 am - 11:45 am Weaving the Multilingual Web: Standards and their Implementations Martin J. Duerst, Project Associate Professor, W3C/Keio University, Japan Gavin Thomas Nicol, Systems Architect, Inso Corporation, USA Francois Yergeau, Product Manager, Alis Technologies, Canada |
Session TB3: 9:00 am - 11:45 am Glyphs for Characters Kris Holmes, President, Bigelow & Holmes, Inc., USA Charles Bigelow, Vice President, Bigelow & Holmes, Inc., USA |
Session TC3: 9:00 am - 11:45 am Unicode in Distributed Computing Environments Michael G. McKenna, Globalization Stategist, Sybase, Inc., USA |
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| Java Internationalization | Fonts, Scripts, Complex Text | Internationalization and Localization |
| Session TA4: 1:00 pm - 3:20 pm Developing Global Software in Java Richard Gillam, Advisory Software Engineer, IBM Corporation, USA |
Session TB4: 1:00 pm - 3:20 pm An Overview of New Scripts in Unicode 3.0 Kamal Mansour, Manager of Non-Latin Products, Monotype Typography Inc., USA |
Session TC4: 1:00 pm - 3:20 pm Non-Latin Writing Systems: Characteristics & Impact on Product Design Richard Ishida, Global Design Consultant, Xerox, UK |
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| Windows Internationalization | Fonts, Scripts, Complex Text | Internationalization and Localization |
| Session TA5: 3:40 pm - 6:00 pm Unicode, Windows NT, and Windows 95 Bill Hall, Internationalization Director, SimulTrans, L.L.C., USA |
Session TB5: 3:40 pm - 6:00 pm Authentic Arabic Thomas Milo, President, DecoType, The Netherlands |
Session TC5: 3:40 pm - 6:00 pm Making Your Product Translatable Richard Ishida, Global Design Consultant, Xerox, UK |
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| Day 3: Wednesday, September 1 | ||
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| Welcome | ||
| 9:00 am - 9:05 am Welcome Address Lisa Moore, Software Engineer, IBM Corporation, USA |
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| Keynote Address | ||
| 9:05 am - 9:45 am Tell Tale Thomas Milo, President, DecoType, The Netherlands |
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| Web Internationalization | Character Sets and Algorithms | Fonts, Scripts, Complex Text |
| Session A1: 10:00 am - 10:40 am Multilingual Application Server: Netscape Application Server 4.0 Yuriko Yamasaki, Software Engineer in Server Internationalization Group, Netscape Communications Corporation, USA |
Session B1: 10:00 am - 10:40 am Unicode Text Searching in Java Laura A. Werner, Senior Software Engineer, IBM Corporation, USA |
Session C1: 10:00 am - 10:40 am Speaking From the Roof of the World; The Challenges of Implementing Unicode Inuktitut for Canada's Arctic Territory of Nunavut Jack Cain, Senior Linguist, Multilingual E-Data Solutions, Canada Kit Pullen, Senior Technologist, Multilingual E-Data Solutions, Canada |
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| Web Internationalization | Character Sets and Algorithms | Fonts, Scripts, Complex Text |
| Session A2: 10:45 am - 11:25 am New International Features of Internet Explorer Michel Suignard, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation, USA |
Session B2: 10:45 am - 11:25 am Text Boundary Analysis in Java Richard Gillam, Advisory Software Engineer, IBM Corporation, USA |
Session C2: 10:45 am - 11:25 am A Roadmap to Extended Ethiopic Daniel Yacob, ECoSA Public relations Officer, Ethiopian Computer Standards Association, USA |
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| Web Internationalization | Character Sets and Algorithms | Fonts, Scripts, Complex Text |
| Session A3: 11:30 am - 12:10 pm Globalization of Amaya: The Unicode Version Ramzi Guetari, Research Engineer, World Wide Web Consortium, France |
Session B3: 11:30 am - 12:10 pm Keys to Building a Multilingual Search Engine Thierry Sourbier, Software Developer, International Communications, USA |
Session C3: 11:30 am - 12:10 pm MathML and Unicode Murray Sargent III, Senior Software Design Engineer, Microsoft Corporation, USA Angel L. Diaz, Member of Research Staff, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA |
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| Web Internationalization | Character Sets and Algorithms | Fonts, Scripts, Complex Text |
| Session A4: 1:20 pm - 2:00 pm A Character Model for the WWW: Purpose and Status Martin J. Duerst, Project Associate Professor, W3C/Keio University, Japan |
Session B4: 1:20 pm - 2:00 pm Language Guessing Asmus Freytag, President, ASMUS, Inc., USA |
Session C4: 1:20 pm - 2:00 pm Transliteration: Linguistic Art or Computer Science Richard W. Youatt, Operations Manager, American University of Armenia Corporation, USA |
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| Web Internationalization | Character Sets and Algorithms | Fonts, Scripts, Complex Text |
| Session A5: 2:05 pm - 2:45 pm Web Internationalization Misha Wolf, Standards Manager, Reuters Ltd., UK Martin J. Duerst, Project Associate Professor, W3C/Keio University, Japan |
Session B5: 2:05 pm - 2:45 pm Character Set Guessing Asmus Freytag, President, ASMUS, Inc., USA |
Session C5: 2:05 pm - 2:45 pm Complex Text Rendering in Java Brian Beck, Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA |
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| Web Internationalization | Character Sets and Algorithms | Fonts, Scripts, Complex Text |
| Session A6: 2:50 pm - 3:30 pm Web Internationalization -- Continued Misha Wolf, Standards Manager, Reuters Ltd., UK Martin J. Duerst, Project Associate Professor, W3C/Keio University, Japan |
Session B6: 2:50 pm - 3:30 pm Destination Japan: Internationalization of the Lycos Search Engine Tina Lieu, Project Manager, Basis Technology Corporation, USA Eric Gardner, Manager, Search Product Development, Lycos Inc., USA |
Session C6: 2:50 pm - 3:30 pm Arabic, Hebrew, Thai and Hindi Support in IBM's Java2 Doug Felt, Software Engineer, IBM Corporation, USA John Raley, Software Engineer, IBM Corporation, USA |
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| Multilingual Applications | Character Sets and Algorithms | Fonts, Scripts, Complex Text |
| Session A7: 3:50 pm - 4:30 pm Multilingual Support in Tivoli Products David B. Kumhyr, Manager, Globalization Common Services, Tivoli Systems, Inc., USA |
Session B7: 3:50 pm - 4:30 pm Normalization Mark Davis, Program Director, IBM Center for Java Technology, USA |
Session C7: 3:50 pm - 4:30 pm The Lucida Unicode Font Family for Java Charles Bigelow, Vice President, Bigelow & Holmes, Inc., USA |
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| Multilingual Applications | Character Sets and Algorithms | Fonts, Scripts, Complex Text |
| Session A8: 4:35 pm - 5:15 pm Going Global with SQL Server Fernando Caro, Microsoft Corporation, USA Michael Kung, Microsoft Corporation, USA |
Session B8: 4:35 pm - 5:15 pm What's New in Unicode 3.0 Mark Davis, Program Director, IBM Center for Java Technology, USA |
Session C8: 4:35 pm - 5:15 pm Fonts: Questions and Answers Kamal Mansour, Manager of Non-Latin Products, Monotype Typography Inc., USA Charles Bigelow (Moderator), Vice President, Bigelow & Holmes, Inc., USA Other Speakers |
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| Multilingual Applications | Character Sets and Algorithms | Fonts, Scripts, Complex Text |
| Session A9: 5:20 pm - 6:00 pm Unicode Support in Oracle's LDAP Server Linus Toshihiro Tanaka, Senior Technical Staff, Oracle Corporation, USA |
Session B9: 5:20 pm - 6:00 pm Unicode and ISO 10646: Achievements and Directions Mike Ksar, Globalization Manager, Corporate External Standards, Hewlett-Packard Company, USA |
Session C9: 5:20 pm - 6:00 pm Fonts: Questions and Answers -- Continued Kamal Mansour, Manager of Non-Latin Products, Monotype Typography Inc., USA Charles Bigelow (Moderator), Vice President, Bigelow & Holmes, Inc., USA Other Speakers |
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| Reception and Exhibits | ||
| 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Reception and Exhibits |
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| Day 4: Thursday, September 2 | ||
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| 9:00 am - 9:45 am Evolution and Analogy in Typography Charles Bigelow, Vice President, Bigelow & Holmes, Inc., USA |
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| Java Internationalization | Case Studies | Multilingual Applications |
| Session A10: 10:00 am - 10:40 am The Java International APIs, JDK 1.1 and Beyond Helena Shih, Advisory Software Engineer, IBM Corporation, USA |
Session B10: 10:00 am - 10:40 am Internationalization in ECMAScript Richard Gillam, Advisory Software Engineer, IBM Corporation, USA |
Session C10: 10:00 am - 10:40 am Unicode in the E-Commerce Environment Michael G. McKenna, Globalization Stategist, Sybase, Inc., USA Gentry L. Watson, I18N Program Manager, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA |
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| Java Internationalization | Case Studies | Multilingual Applications |
| Session A11: 10:45 am - 11:25 am International Calendars in Java Laura A. Werner, Senior Software Engineer, IBM Corporation, USA |
Session B11: 10:45 am - 11:25 am Unicode in the Hazardous Materials Field: A Winner Francois Yergeau, Product Manager, Alis Technologies, Canada Bruno Miquet, R&D Director, Atrion International, Canada |
Session C11: 10:45 am - 11:25 am Locale Conversion among Java, Oracle, Solaris and Win32 Linus Toshihiro Tanaka, Senior Technical Staff, Oracle Corporation, USA |
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| Java Internationalization | Case Studies | Multilingual Applications |
| Session A12: 11:30 am - 12:10 pm Rapid Java Application Internationalization and Localization Development Eric Li, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA |
Session B12: 11:30 am - 12:10 pm Unicode From a Programmer's Perspective Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc., USA |
Session C12: 11:30 am - 12:10 pm Unicode Display of Multilingual Data in Lotus Domino Global Workbench David Taieb, Senior Software Engineer, Lotus Development Corporation, USA |
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| Windows Internationalization | Case Studies | CJK |
| Session A13: 1:20 pm - 2:00 pm Exploring Locale in Win32 Bill Hall, Internationalization Director, SimulTrans, L.L.C., USA |
Session B13: 1:20 pm - 2:00 pm The Reality of Unicode: Better Than Expected Sandra Martin O'Donnell, Internationalization Consultant, Compaq Computer Corporation, USA |
Session C13: 1:20 pm - 2:00 pm Unihan Disambiguation Through Font Technology Dirk Meyer, Font Developer, CJKV Type Department, Adobe Systems Inc., USA |
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| Session A14: 2:05 pm - 2:45 pm In Defense of Multilingual Resources Bill Hall, Internationalization Director, SimulTrans, L.L.C., USA |
Session B14: 2:05 pm - 2:45 pm U.S. Government Experiences with Unicode Jennifer DeCamp, The MITRE Corporation, USA Robert Cain, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, Foreign Language Committee, USA |
Session C14: 2:05 pm - 2:45 pm Concept and Structure of the Unicode Kanji Information Dictionary and BUCS Eiji Matsuoka, Professor, Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan |
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| Session A15: 2:50 pm - 3:30 pm A Unicode/Character Set Viewer for Windows NT and Windows 95/98 Bill Hall, Internationalization Director, SimulTrans, L.L.C., USA |
Session B15: 2:50 pm - 3:30 pm U.S. Government Experiences with Unicode -- Continued Jennifer DeCamp, The MITRE Corporation, USA Robert Cain, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, Foreign Language Committee, USA |
Session C15: 2:50 pm - 3:30 pm New Ideographs in Unicode 3.0 and Beyond John H. Jenkins, Engineer, Apple Computer, Inc., USA |
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| Localization | Multilingual Applications | Input Methods |
| Session A16: 3:50 pm - 4:30 pm XUL - Creating Localizable XML GUI Tao Cheng, Sr. Dev. Engineer, Netscape Communications Corporation, USA |
Session B16: 3:50 pm - 4:30 pm Microsoft Office 2000 and Unicode Christopher Pratley, Lead International Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation, USA |
Session C16: 3:50 pm - 4:30 pm Java Input Method Framework Norbert Lindenberg, Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA |
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| Session A17: 4:35 pm - 5:15 pm To be announced |
Session B17: 4:35 pm - 5:15 pm Microsoft Office 2000 and Unicode -- Continued Christopher Pratley, Lead International Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation, USA |
Session C17: 4:35 pm - 5:15 pm Display Unicode with Java's Composite Fonts John O'Conner, Java Internationalization Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA |
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| Localization | Multilingual Applications | Input Methods |
| Session A18: 5:20 pm - 6:00 pm Unicode and the Changing Landscape of Multilingual E-Commerce Alex Pressman, President, Uniscape, Inc., USA |
Session B18: 5:20 pm - 6:00 pm Implementation Issues on Windows 2000 Takao Suzuki, Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation, USA |
Session C18: 5:20 pm - 6:00 pm Multi-script Support in JavaOS for Business Shanmugam Senthil, Member of Technical Staff, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA |
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