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| Day 1: Tuesday, April 24 | ||
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| Characters/Algorithms/Standards | Distributed Processing | Internationalization and Localization |
| Session TA1: 9:00 am - 11:45 am The Hitchhiker's Guide to Chinese Encodings, or "Chinese Encodings, Unicode, and You" Thomas Emerson, Sr. Software Engineer, Basis Technology Corporation, USA |
Session TB1: 9:00 am - 11:45 am Distributed Unicode Michael McKenna, Sr. Director Globalisation, Commerce One, Inc., USA |
Session TC1: 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 to Unicode 3.1 Asmus Freytag, President, ASMUS, Inc., USA |
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| Day 2: Wednesday, April 25 | ||
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| Java Internationalization | Characters/Algorithms/Standards | Scripts and Fonts |
| Session TA3: 8:00 am - 11:00 am Developing Global Applications in Java Richard Gillam, Developer, Trilogy, Inc., USA |
Session TB3: 8:00 am - 11:00 am Characters, Glyphs and Rendering Edwin Hart, Senior Engineer, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA John Jenkins, Engineer, Apple Computer, Inc., USA |
Session TC3: 8:00 am - 11:00 am Non-Latin Writing Systems: Characteristics & Impact on Product Design Richard Ishida, Global Design Consultant, Xerox, UK |
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| Session TA4: 12:00 pm - 2:20 pm Introduction to XSL Max Froumentin, Engineer (User Interface Domain), W3C/INRIA, France |
Session TB4: 12:00 pm - 2:20 pm Unicode Use on Win32 Systems Bill Hall, Internationalization Director, SimulTrans, L.L.C., USA |
Session TC4: 12:00 pm - 2:20 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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| Session TA5: 2:40 pm - 5:00 pm Weaving the Multilingual Web: Standards and their Implementations Martin Dürst, Project Associate Professor, W3C/Keio University, Japan François Yergeau, Director of Technology, Alis Technologies, Canada |
Session TB5: 2:40 pm - 5:00 pm Windows CE Internationalization Bill Hall, Internationalization Director, SimulTrans, L.L.C., USA |
Session TC5: 2:40 pm - 5:00 pm Authentic Arabic Thomas Milo, President, DecoType, The Netherlands |
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| Day 3: Thursday, April 26 | ||
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| Welcome | ||
| 8:00 am - 8:05 am Welcome Address Lisa Moore, Software Engineer, IBM Corporation, USA |
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| Keynote Address | ||
| 8:05 am - 8:45 am The Importance of International Standards to Hong Kong's e-Business Infrastructure Director of the Information Technology Services Department, The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region |
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| Open Source | Database | Programming Languages |
| Session A1: 9:15 am - 9:55 am Linux Internationalization and Linux Unicode Support Hideki Hiura, Chairman, Linux Internationalization Initiative, Free Standards Group, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA |
Session B1: 9:15 am - 9:55 am Unicode Support in Oracle9i Database - Part I: New Unicode Feature Jianping Yang, Senior Development Manager, Oracle Corporation, USA Gary Chen, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Oracle Corporation, USA |
Session C1: 9:15 am - 9:55 am Implementing Unicode 3.0 in the Java 2 Standard Edition John O'Conner, Java I18N Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA |
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| Open Source | Database | Programming Languages |
| Session A2: 10:00 am - 10:40 am Open Source Project for Unicode Locales for Linux using Unicode Databases, Collation Keys and a XML based Locale Data Kentaroh Noji, Software Engineer, IBM Japan, Ltd., Japan Tetsuji Orita, Software Engineer, IBM Japan, Ltd., Japan |
Session B2: 10:00 am - 10:40 am Multilingual Collation and Asian Sort Supports in Oracle 9i Claire Ho, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Oracle Corporation, USA Winson Chu, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Oracle Corporation, USA Simon Law, Product Manager - Server Globalization Technology, Oracle Corporation, USA |
Session C2: 10:00 am - 10:40 am Perl, Unicode and i18N James Briggs, CTO, ActiveMessage, Inc., USA |
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| Session A3: 10:45 am - 11:25 am Universal I18N Framework for Office Applications Shanmugam Senthil, Member of Technical Staff, Global Products Engineering Team, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA |
Session B3: 10:45 am - 11:25 am Unicode and Collation Support in Microsoft SQL Server Michael Kaplan, President, Trigeminal Software, Inc., USA |
Session C3: 10:45 am - 11:25 am UTF-16 and C/C++ Language Keishiro Tanaka, Fujitsu Limited, Japan Markus Eble, SAP AG, Germany |
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| Platforms | Multilingual Applications | Web |
| Session A4: 12:20 pm - 1:00 pm Implementation of Unicode Support in Compaq Tru64 UNIX Wai-man Long, Software Engineer, Compaq Computer Corporation, USA |
Session B4: 12:20 pm - 1:00 pm Unicode in the Next Release of Microsoft Office Christopher Pratley, Lead International Program Manager, Word Product Unit, Microsoft Corporation, USA Murray Sargent III (Presenter), Software Design Engineer, Microsoft Corporation, USA |
Session C4: 12:20 pm - 1:00 pm Use CSS and XML for International Content Frank Yung-Fong Tang, Sr. Technical Manager, Netscape Communications/AOL, USA |
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| Session A5: 1:05 pm - 1:45 pm Unicode in Mac OS: X, 9, and CarbonLib John Jenkins, Engineer, Apple Computer, Inc., USA |
Session B5: 1:05 pm - 1:45 pm Unicode in the Next Release of Microsoft Office -- Continued Christopher Pratley, Lead International Program Manager, Word Product Unit, Microsoft Corporation, USA Murray Sargent III (Presenter), Software Design Engineer, Microsoft Corporation, USA |
Session C5: 1:05 pm - 1:45 pm CSS3 Text Extensions Michel Suignard, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation, USA |
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| Session A6: 1:50 pm - 2:30 pm Unicode in Your Pocket: How the Symbian Platform Implements Unicode for Wireless Information Devices Graham Asher, Software Architect, Symbian Ltd., UK |
Session B6: 1:50 pm - 2:30 pm International Features of Netscape 6 Browser Katsuhiko Momoi, Principal Software Development QA Engineer, Netscape Communications, USA |
Session C6: 1:50 pm - 2:30 pm Formatting Unicode Text; the W3C Approach Stephen Zilles, Manager of Standards, Adobe Systems Inc., USA |
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| Platforms | Multilingual Applications | Web |
| Session A7: 2:50 pm - 3:30 pm Unicode and the Next Release of Windows Cathy Wissink, Program Manager, Desktop Globalization, Microsoft Corporation, USA |
Session B7: 2:50 pm - 3:30 pm Unicode based mySAP.com Nobuyoshi Mori, SAP AG, Germany Ulrich Brink, SAP AG, Germany |
Session C7: 2:50 pm - 3:30 pm SVG: Unicode meets Vector Graphics Chris Lilley, Chair, W3C SVG Working Group, W3C, France |
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| Session A8: 3:35 pm - 4:15 pm Surrogate Support in Microsoft Products Michael Kaplan, President, Trigeminal Software, Inc., USA |
Session B8: 3:35 pm - 4:15 pm Beyond Text Representation -- Building on Unicode to Implement a Multi-Lingual Text Analysis Framework Thomas Hampp-Bahnmueller, Software Engineer, IBM Germany, Germany |
Session C8: 3:35 pm - 4:15 pm Unicode Support In Web Based Systems Claudia Galvan, International Engineering Manager, Adobe Systems, Inc., USA |
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| Session A9: 4:20 pm - 5:00 pm Multilingual User Interface on Windows 2000 Bill Hall, Internationalization Director, SimulTrans, L.L.C., USA |
Session B9: 4:20 pm - 5:00 pm Multilingual Editing using RichEdit 4+ Hon-Wah Chan, Software Design Engineer, Microsoft Corporation, USA Murray Sargent III, Software Design Engineer, Microsoft Corporation, USA |
Session C9: 4:20 pm - 5:00 pm Web Internationalization -- Panel of Speakers Misha Wolf (Moderator), Standards Manager, Reuters Ltd., UK Other Speakers |
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| Reception | ||
Dinner Cruise |
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| Day 4: Friday, April 27 | ||
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| Session A10: 8:00 am - 8:40 am The Role of Unicode and XML in Transforming Global e-Commerce Michael McKenna, Sr. Director Globalisation, Commerce One, Inc., USA |
Session B10: 8:00 am - 8:40 am The Guts of Collation Mark Davis, Program Director, IBM Centre for Java Technology SV, USA |
Session C10: 8:00 am - 8:40 am Alphabets of Languages with Bidirectional Scripts and Aspects of these Scripts Support Israel Ervin Gidali, Globalization Manager-Complex Text Languages, IBM, Globalization Competency Center (GCoC), Israel |
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| Internationalization and Localization | Characters/Algorithms/Standards | Scripts and Fonts |
| Session A11: 8:45 am - 9:25 am Helping Users Navigate to the Right Localised Web Site Richard Ishida, Global Design Consultant, Xerox, UK |
Session B11: 8:45 am - 9:25 am Bits of Unicode Mark Davis, Program Director, IBM Centre for Java Technology SV, USA |
Session C11: 8:45 am - 9:25 am Right-to-Left Font Structure, Font Design and Typography Thomas Milo, President, DecoType, The Netherlands |
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| Session A12: 9:50 am - 10:30 am Building Global Multilingual eBusiness Applications on the Oracle Internet Platform Simon Wong, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Oracle Corporation, USA |
Session B12: 9:50 am - 10:30 am Implementing the Unimplemented: Representing Unencoded Scripts in Unicode 3.0 John Jenkins, Engineer, Apple Computer, Inc., USA |
Session C12: 9:50 am - 10:30 am Multilingual Collation in Two Middle Eastern Script Families Elaine Renee Keown, Independent Researcher in Computational Semitics, USA |
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| Session A13: 10:35 am - 11:15 am ISO 8601 - The Date and Time Standard Tex Texin, Director, International Business, Progress Software Corporation, USA |
Session B13: 10:35 am - 11:15 am ISO 10646/Unicode - Continued Convergence Mike Ksar, JTC1/SC2/WG2 Convener, USA Lisa Moore (Presenter), Software Engineer, IBM Corporation, USA |
Session C13: 10:35 am - 11:15 am Implementations of Bidirectional Reordering Algorithms Steve Atkin, Staff Software Engineer, IBM Corporation, USA Ryan Stansifer , Associate Professor in Computer Science, Florida Tech, USA |
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| Session A14: 12:20 pm - 1:00 pm Unicode Enabling a Natural Language Search Engine: Ask Jeeves Answers John Lowe, Chief Linguist, Ask Jeeves, Inc., USA Tammy Young, Director of QA, Basis Technology Corporation, USA |
Session B14: 12:20 pm - 1:00 pm The Extreme of Typographic Complexity: Character Set Issues Relating to Computerization of The Eastern Han Chinese Lexicon <<Shuowenjiezi>> Richard Cook, STEDT Project Manager, Linguistics Department, University of California, Berkeley, USA |
Session C14: 12:20 pm - 1:00 pm An Inuktitut "Living Dictionary" Jack Cain, Senior Linguist, Multilingual E-Data Solutions, Canada |
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| Session A15: 1:05 pm - 1:45 pm Case Study: Building an Internet File System with Multilingual Capabilities Simon Wong, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Oracle Corporation, USA |
Session B15: 1:05 pm - 1:45 pm Issues and Solution in Pan-China Information Retrieval Thomas Emerson, Sr. Software Engineer, Basis Technology Corporation, USA |
Session C15: 1:05 pm - 1:45 pm Thai and Hindi Support in the Java Platform Stuart Gill, Senior Software Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Java Software, USA |
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| Session A16: 1:50 pm - 2:30 pm Preference Object-based Internationalization for Distributed Application Framework in Java Kenya Ishimoto, Staff Software Engineer, IBM Japan Ltd., Japan |
Session B16: 1:50 pm - 2:30 pm The Ideographic Composition Scheme and Its Applications in Chinese Text Processing Qin Lu, Associate Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong |
Session C16: 1:50 pm - 2:30 pm Script-specific Font Features: Concepts Jelle Bosma, Agfa Monotype Corporation, The Netherlands Joshua Hadley, Agfa Monotype Corporation, USA Dirk Meyer, Font Developer, CJKV Type Development, Adobe Systems, Inc., USA |
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| Session A17: 2:50 pm - 3:30 pm Documentum and UTF-8: Converting Content Management Software Product Line to Unicode Donald Ziff, Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Documentum, Inc., USA |
Session B17: 2:50 pm - 3:30 pm Two New Coded Character Standards from China and their Implementation: HK SCS & GB 18030 Dirk Meyer, Font Developer, CJKV Type Development, Adobe Systems, Inc., USA |
Session C17: 2:50 pm - 3:30 pm Case Studies in Building Megafonts Joshua Hadley, Agfa Monotype Corporation, USA |
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| Session A18: 3:35 pm - 4:15 pm Unicode and Visual Basic: A Case Study Michael Kaplan, President, Trigeminal Software, Inc., USA |
Session B18: 3:35 pm - 4:15 pm New Ideographs in Unicode 3.0 and Beyond John Jenkins, Engineer, Apple Computer, Inc., USA |
Session C18: 3:35 pm - 4:15 pm Fonts: Questions & Answers -- Panel of Speakers Kamal Mansour (Moderator), Manager of Non-Latin Products, Agfa Monotype Corporation, USA |
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| Session A19: 4:20 pm - 5:00 pm Unicode Applied to Web Internationalization: Does it really help? Lloyd Honomichl, Senior Internationalization Engineer, Lionbridge Internationalization Group, USA |
Session B19: 4:20 pm - 5:00 pm Conversion Between Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set (HKSCS) and Unicode Linus Toshihiro Tanaka, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Oracle Corporation, USA |
Session C19: 4:20 pm - 5:00 pm Fonts: Questions & Answers -- Panel of Speakers -- Continued Kamal Mansour (Moderator), Manager of Non-Latin Products, Agfa Monotype Corporation, USA |
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