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| Day 1: Monday, March 27 | ||
| Tutorials | ||
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Track B |
Track C |
| Distributed Computing | Rendering | Internationalization and Localization |
| Session TA1: 9:00 am - 11:45 am Unicode in Distributed Environments Michael McKenna, Globalisation Strategist, Sybase, Inc., USA | Session TB1: 9:00 am - 11:45 am Characters, Glyphs & Rendering Edwin Hart, Senior Engineer, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA John Jenkins, Engineer, Apple Computer, Inc., USA | Session TC1: 9:00 am - 11:45 am Globalization, Internationalization and Localization - An Introduction Cathyann Swindlehurst, President, Cygnet International, Inc., USA |
| Character Sets | ||
| 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, March 28 | ||
| Tutorials | ||
| Track A |
Track B |
Track C |
| Internationalization and Localization | Web Internationalization | Web Internationalization |
| Session TA3: 9:00 am - 11:45 am Weaving the Multilingual Web: Standards and their Implementations Martin Dürst, Project Associate Professor, W3C/Keio University, Japan Gavin Nicol, Systems Architect, Inso Corporation, USA François Yergeau, Product Manager, Alis Technologies, Canada | Session TB3: 9:00 am - 11:45 am Developing Global Software in Java Richard Gillam, Advisory Software Engineer, IBM Corporation, USA John Raley, Staff Software Engineer, IBM Corporation, USA | Session TC3: 9:00 am - 11:45 am An Overview of New Scripts in Unicode 3.0 Kamal Mansour, Manager of Non-Latin Products, Monotype Typography Inc., USA |
| Java Internationalization | Java Internationalization | Scripts |
| Session TA4: 1:00 pm - 3:20 pm List id Generations, Basic Case Conversions, and Other Text Transformation Algorithms in Mozilla Frank Yung-Fong Tang, Principal Software Engineer, Netscape/AOL, USA | Session TB4: 1:00 pm - 3:20 pm Multilingual Text Editing in Java 2 John Raley, Staff Software Engineer, IBM Corporation, USA | Session TC4: 1:00 pm - 3:20 pm Unicode Use in Win32 Systems Bill Hall, Internationalization Director, SimulTrans, LLC, USA |
| Scripts | Windows Internationalization | Windows Internationalization |
| Session TA5: 3:40 pm - 6:00 pm Non-Latin Writing Systems: Characteristics and Impact on Product Design Richard Ishida, Global Design Consultant, Xerox, United Kingdom | Session TB5: 3:40 pm - 6:00 pm Authentic Arabic Thomas Milo, President, DecoType, The Netherlands | Session TC5: 3:40 pm - 6:00 pm Internationalization Features of Windows CE Bill Hall, Internationalization Director, SimulTrans, LLC, USA |
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| Day 3: Wednesday, March 29 | ||
| Conference | ||
| Welcome | ||
| 9:00 am - 9:05 am Welcome Address Thomas Milo, President, DecoType, The Netherlands | ||
| Keynote Address | ||
| 9:05 am - 9:45 am Unicode, XML, TEI, Omega and Scholarly Documents Yannis Haralambous, President, Atelier Fluxus Virus, France | ||
| Track A |
Track B |
Track C |
| Web Internationalization | Scripts and Rendering | e-Business |
| Session A1: 10:00 am - 10:40 am The W3C Character Model for the World Wide Web Martin Dürst, Project Associate Professor, W3C/Keio University, Japan | Session B1: 10:00 am - 10:40 am Speaking from the Roof of the World; the Challenges in Implementing Unicode Inuktitut for Canada's Arctic Territory of Nunavut Jack Cain, Senior Linguist, Multilingual E-Data Solutions, Canada Kit Pullen, Senior Technology Architect, Multilingual E-Data Solutions, Canada | Session C1: 10:00 am - 10:40 am Global E-Commerce: Business Drivers and Market Forecasts Peter Hallett, Vice President of Marketing, OneRealm, Inc., USA |
| Web Internationalization | Scripts and Rendering | e-Business |
| Session A2: 10:45 am - 11:25 am A Multilingual Glossary Web Based System Claudia Galvan, International Engineering Manager, Adobe Systems Inc., USA | Session B2: 10:45 am - 11:25 am Encoding and Implementation Issues in Standardising Traditional Mongolian Script Erdenechimeg Myatav , Visiting Scientist, United Nations University International Institute for Software Technology, Macau | Session C2: 10:45 am - 11:25 am Web Site Globalization: Best Practices Walter Smith, Product Marketing Manager, Global Sight Corporation, USA |
| Web Internationalization | Scripts and Rendering | e-Business |
| Session A3: 11:30 am - 12:10 pm The RealNames System - an International Human-Friendly Web Navigation System Yves Arrouye, Chief Architect, RealNames Corporation, USA | Session B3: 11:30 am - 12:10 pm Unicode and New World Languages: What's Done, and What's To Do Philip Blair, jr., Information Officer, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, USA | Session C3: 11:30 am - 12:10 pm An Internet Startup: A Case Study of Adopting Unicode Ty Shipman, CTO, Kagi, USA Michael McKenna, Globalisation Strategist, Sybase, Inc., USA |
| Web Internationalization | Scripts and Rendering | e-Business |
| Session A4: 1:20 pm - 2:00 pm Notations for Internationalization Data on the WWW Martin Dürst, Project Associate Professor, W3C/Keio University, Japan | Session B4: 1:20 pm - 2:00 pm Unicode Plain Text Encoding of Mathematics Murray Sargent III, Senior Software Design Engineer, Microsoft Corporation, USA | Session C4: 1:20 pm - 2:00 pm Unicode in Enterprise Portal Solutions Michael McKenna, Globalisation Strategist, Sybase, Inc., USA |
| Web Internationalization | Scripts and Rendering | e-Business |
| Session A5: 2:05 pm - 2:45 pm Web Internationalization Panel Misha Wolf (Moderator), Standards Manager, Reuters Ltd, UK Martin Dürst, Project Associate Professor, W3C/Keio University, Japan François Yergeau, Product Manager, Alis Technologies, Canada | Session B5: 2:05 pm - 2:45 pm Scripts from the Past in Future Versions of Unicode(R) Carl-Martin Bunz, Research Assistant, Institute of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics and Indo-Iranian Studies, Germany | Session C5: 2:05 pm - 2:45 pm Developing Global Internet Application using NAS4.0 and NAB4.0 Yuriko Yamasaki, Software Engineer, Netscape Communications Corporation, USA |
| Web Internationalization | Scripts and Rendering | e-Business |
| Session A6: 2:50 pm - 3:30 pm Web Internationalization Panel -- Continued Misha Wolf (Moderator), Standards Manager, Reuters Ltd, UK Martin Dürst, Project Associate Professor, W3C/Keio University, Japan François Yergeau, Product Manager, Alis Technologies, Canada | Session B6: 2:50 pm - 3:30 pm Java and Unicode: Making It Work Mark Leisher, Programmer, CRL/New Mexico State University, USA | Session C6: 2:50 pm - 3:30 pm New International Features of Internet Explorer Michel Suignard, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation, USA |
| Searching | Scripts and Rendering | e-Business |
| Session A7: 3:50 pm - 4:30 pm TUSTEP and Culturally Correct Searching in Multilingual Corpora on the Web Marc Wilhelm Küster, Research Assistant, Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung der Universität Tübingen, Germany | Session B7: 3:50 pm - 4:30 pm Arabic, Hebrew, Thai and Hindi Support in IBM's Java 2 John Raley, Staff Software Engineer, IBM Corporation, USA | Session C7: 3:50 pm - 4:30 pm Managing Multilingual Web Applications Michael Roche, Architect, Lotus Development Ireland, Ireland |
| Searching | Scripts and Rendering | e-Business |
| Session A8: 4:35 pm - 5:15 pm Unicode Text Searching in Java Laura Werner, Manager, Unicode Technology Group, IBM Corporation, USA Helena Shih, Sr. Software Engineer, IBM Corporation, USA | Session B8: 4:35 pm - 5:15 pm Fonts: Questions and Answers Kamal Mansour (Coordinator), Manager of Non-Latin Products, Monotype Typography Inc., USA John Hudson (Moderator), Co-Founder, Tiro Typeworks, Canada Other Speakers | Session C8: 4:35 pm - 5:15 pm Net.Data and Unicode - Unicode Support in a Web Enablement Middleware System Norbert Runge, Advisory Engineer, IBM Corporation, USA |
| Searching | Scripts and Rendering | e-Business |
| Session A9: 5:20 pm - 6:00 pm Converting the Fulcrum Search Engine to Unicode Andrew Hodgson, President, Lyricom Consulting, Canada | Session B9: 5:20 pm - 6:00 pm Fonts: Questions and Answers -- Continued Kamal Mansour (Coordinator), Manager of Non-Latin Products, Monotype Typography Inc., USA John Hudson (Moderator), Co-Founder, Tiro Typeworks, Canada Other Speakers | Session C9: 5:20 pm - 6:00 pm Intelligent Data Processing Using Unicode: Japanese Address "Data Cleansing" Tammy Young, Project Manager, Basis Technology Corporation, USA |
| Reception and Exhibits | ||
| 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Reception and Exhibits | ||
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| Day 4: Thursday, March 30 | ||
| Conference | ||
| Keynote Address | ||
| 9:00 am - 9:45 am Traditions of Textual Transmission and the Quest for Authenticity Lars Fredriksson, Head of the Far Eastern Library, State Museum of World Culture / Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities & Art, Stockholm, Sweden | ||
| Track A |
Track B |
Track C |
| Standards | Scripts and Rendering | Platforms and Open Source |
| Session A10: 10:00 am - 10:40 am What's New in Unicode 3.0 Mark Davis, Program Director, IBM Corporation, USA | Session B10: 10:00 am - 10:40 am Graphite: An Extensible Rendering Engine for Complex Writing Systems Sharon Correll, Software Engineer, SIL International, USA | Session C10: 10:00 am - 10:40 am Microsoft Office 2000 and Unicode Chris Pratley, Group Program Manager, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Corporation, USA |
| Standards | Scripts and Rendering | Platforms and Open Source |
| Session A11: 10:45 am - 11:25 am Unicode Collation and Normalization Mark Davis, Program Director, IBM Corporation, USA | Session B11: 10:45 am - 11:25 am The MultiScript Project: Multi-directional, Multi-lingual Script Processing Richard Moore, Research Fellow, United Nations University International Institute for Software Technology, Macau | Session C11: 10:45 am - 11:25 am Unicode in Windows 2000 John McConnell, Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation, USA |
| Standards | Scripts and Rendering | Platforms and Open Source |
| Session A12: 11:30 am - 12:10 pm Efficient Storage and Use of Unicode Property Data Lloyd Honomichl, Senior Internationalization Engineer, INT'L.com, USA | Session B12: 11:30 am - 12:10 pm A Multifunctional Lexical Database in a Localization Environment Rolf Bourges, Technical Director Content Technology, Sail Labs GmbH, Germany | Session C12: 11:30 am - 12:10 pm Unicode in Windows 2000 -- Continued John McConnell, Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation, USA |
| Standards | Internationalization and Localization | Platforms and Open Source |
| Session A13: 1:20 pm - 2:00 pm Unicode and ISO 10646: Achievements and Directions Mike Ksar, Globalization Manager, Corporate External Standards, Hewlett-Packard Company, USA | Session B13: 1:20 pm - 2:00 pm Localisation Considerations for DTD Design Richard Ishida, Global Design Consultant, Xerox, United Kingdom | Session C13: 1:20 pm - 2:00 pm Unicode Support on Solaris Tom Garland, Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems Ireland Ltd., Ireland |
| Standards | Internationalization and Localization | Platforms and Open Source |
| Session A14: 2:05 pm - 2:45 pm Internationalisation and Localisation with SVG Chris Lilley, Graphics Activity Lead, W3C, France | Session B14: 2:05 pm - 2:45 pm Perl and Internationalization James Briggs, Perl Contractor, Netscape Communications Corporation, Canada | Session C14: 2:05 pm - 2:45 pm An Open Source Approach to Unicode Enablement Tex Texin (Moderator), Director, International Products, Progress Software Corporation, USA Helena Shih, Sr. Software Engineer, IBM Corporation, USA Bob Verbrugge, Engineer, Compuware Europe, The Netherlands |
| Standards | Internationalization and Localization | Platforms and Open Source |
| Session A15: 2:50 pm - 3:30 pm Understanding the Open eBook Specification David Goldstein, CTO, Versaware, Inc., Israel | Session B15: 2:50 pm - 3:30 pm Appreciating Multilingual Resources Bill Hall, Internationalization Director, SimulTrans, LLC, USA | Session C15: 2:50 pm - 3:30 pm An Open Source Approach to Unicode Enablement -- Continued Tex Texin (Moderator), Director, International Products, Progress Software Corporation, USA Helena Shih, Sr. Software Engineer, IBM Corporation, USA Bob Verbrugge, Engineer, Compuware Europe, The Netherlands |
| CJK | Internationalization and Localization | Case Studies |
| Session A16: 3:50 pm - 4:30 pm The Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set and Migration to ISO 10646 Qin Lu, Associate Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong | Session B16: 3:50 pm - 4:30 pm Developing Multilingual Installation Programs Using InstallShield for Windows Installer David Cole, Senior Software Engineer, IBM Corporation, USA | Session C16: 3:50 pm - 4:30 pm Unicode on Smartphones and Palmtops: How EPOC Does It Graham Asher, Software Engineer, Symbian Ltd., UK |
| CJK | Internationalization and Localization | Case Studies |
| Session A17: 4:35 pm - 5:15 pm New Ideographs in Unicode 3.0 and Beyond John Jenkins, Engineer, Apple Computer, Inc., USA | Session B17: 4:35 pm - 5:15 pm Java I18N Roadmap and Panel Q&A Brian Beck, Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA Other Speakers | Session C17: 4:35 pm - 5:15 pm Unicode in PeopleTools 8: 5 Million Lines of Code, 5 Months, 5 People Toby Phipps, Product Manager - Globalization, PeopleSoft, Inc., USA |
| CJK | Internationalization and Localization | Case Studies |
| Session A18: 5:20 pm - 6:00 pm Segmenting Chinese in Unicode Tom Emerson, Senior Software Engineer, Basis Technology Corporation, USA | Session B18: 5:20 pm - 6:00 pm Java I18N Roadmap and Panel Q&A -- Continued Brian Beck, Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA Other Speakers | Session C18: 5:20 pm - 6:00 pm Case Study: Adding Unicode Support to the Oracle ODBC Driver Michael Gianatassio, Consulting Member Technical Staff, Oracle Corporation, USA |
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