Twenty-fifth Internationalization and Unicode Conference


Wednesday, March 31
Tutorials

Plenary Session
9:00 am - 9:50 am The Unicode 4.0 Tutorial: Part I - Core Concepts in Action Asmus Freytag - ASMUS, Inc., USA
Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced Audience: All

Track A	Track B	Track C
Web Internationalization	Scripts	Characters
Session TA1: 10:10 am - 11:30 am Web Internationalization: Standards and Practice Tex Texin - Xen Master, XenCraft, USA Yves Savourel - RWS Group, USA	Session TB1: 10:10 am - 11:30 am An Introduction to Writing Systems: A review of script characteristics affecting computer-based script support and Unicode Richard Ishida - Internationalization WG Chair, W3C, UK	Session TC1: 10:10 am - 11:30 am The Unicode 4.0 Tutorial: Part II - Fundamental Specifications Asmus Freytag - ASMUS, Inc., USA
Level: Beginner Audience: Managers, Software Engineers, Systems Analysts, Content Developers, Site Coordinators, Technical Writers, Testers, Web Administrators, Web Designers	Level: Beginner, Intermediate Audience: Managers, Software Engineers, Systems Analysts, Marketers, Font Designers, Site Coordinators, Testers, Web Administrators, Web Designers	Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced Audience: All

Web Internationalization	Scripts	Characters
Session TA1: Continued 11:40 am - 12:40 pm Web Internationalization: Standards and Practice Tex Texin - Xen Master, XenCraft, USA Yves Savourel - RWS Group, USA	Session TB1: Continued 11:40 am - 12:40 pm An Introduction to Writing Systems: A review of script characteristics affecting computer-based script support and Unicode Richard Ishida - Internationalization WG Chair, W3C, UK	Session TC2a: 11:40 am - 12:40 pm The Unicode Tutorial: Part III - Unicode Algorithms Asmus Freytag - ASMUS, Inc., USA
Level: Beginner Audience: Managers, Software Engineers, Systems Analysts, Content Developers, Site Coordinators, Technical Writers, Testers, Web Administrators, Web Designers	Level: Beginner, Intermediate Audience: Managers, Software Engineers, Systems Analysts, Marketers, Font Designers, Site Coordinators, Testers, Web Administrators, Web Designers	Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced Audience: All

Internationalization	Scripts	Characters
Session TA2: 13:40 pm - 15:00 pm Internationalized Software Testing Andrea Vine, Internationalization Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA	Session TB2: 13:40 pm - 15:00 pm Persian Computing with Unicode Behdad Esfahbod , Researcher and Developer, FarsiWeb Project, Canada	Session TC2b: 13:40 pm - 15:00 pm The Unicode Tutorial: Part III - Unicode Algorithms - Continued Asmus Freytag - ASMUS, Inc., USA
Level: Intermediate Audience: Managers, Software Engineers, Testers	Level: Beginner, Intermediate Audience: Managers, Software Engineers, Content Developers, Font Designers, Technical Writers, Testers	Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced Audience: All

Internationalization	Scripts	Distributed Systems
Session TA3: 15:10 pm - 16:30 pm Planning Your Internationalization Project Steve Billings, Principal, Global 360, USA	Session TB3: 15:10 pm - 16:30 pm Authentic Arabic Thomas Milo - President, DecoType, and Arabic Linguistic Consultant, Basis Technology	Session TC3: 15:10 pm - 16:30 pm Introduction to Distributed Systems and Unicode Michael McKenna - Digital Repository Architect, California Digital Library, University of California Office of the President, USA
Level: Beginner, Intermediate Audience: Managers, Systems Analysts, Project Managers	Level: Intermediate Audience: Managers, Software Engineers, Marketers	Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced Audience: All

Characters	Characters and Glyphs	Distributed Systems
Session TA4: 16:40 pm - 18:00 pm A Brief History of Character Encoding Richard Gillam, Software Developer, Language Analysis Systems, Inc., USA	Session TB4: 16:40 pm - 18:00 pm Introduction to the Unicode Keyboard-Character-Glyph Model: What you need to know about processing and rendering multilingual text Edwin Hart, Senior Engineer, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA	Session TC3- continued 16:40 pm - 18:00 pm
Level: Beginner, Intermediate Audience: Software Engineers, Systems Analysts	Level: Beginner, Intermediate Audience: Managers, Software Engineers, System Analysts, Technical Writers, Testers, Web Designers


Day 2: Thursday,April 1
Conference

Welcome
9:00 am - 9:05 am Welcome Address Lisa Moore, Co-chair, 25th Internationalization and Unicode Conference

Keynote Address
9:05 am - 9:45 am National Virtual Translation Center Everette Jordan, Director, National Virtual Translation Center, USA.

Track A	Track B	Track C
Locales	Platforms	Scripts
Session A1: 10:00 am - 10:40 am The Common Locale Data Repository Mark Davis, Chief Globalization Architect, IBM Corporation, USA	Session B1: 10:00 am - 10:40 am Building Localized Applications in Cocoa on Mac OS X Deborah Goldsmith, Apple Computer, Inc., USA	Session C1: 10:00 am - 10:40 am Universal Transliteration Model and a Reversible System for Korean Peter Kang - Computer Project Manager, CIA, USA
Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced Audience: Managers, Software Engineers, Systems Analysts, Marketers	Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced Audience: Managers, Software Engineers, Systems Analysts	Level: Beginner Audience:

Locales	Platforms	Legacy
Session A2: 10:45 am - 11:25 am Language Tags and Locale Identifiers Addison Phillips - Director, Globalization Architecture, webMethods, Inc., USA Mark Davis, Chief Globalization Architect, IBM Corporation, USA	Session B2: 10:45 am - 11:25 am Windows for the Rest of the World: Customizing Windows for Emerging Markets Cathy Wissink - Lead Program Manager, and Michael Kaplan, Senior Developer, Microsoft Corporation, USA	Session C2: 10:45 am - 11:25 am Expanding the Unicode World to Existing & Legacy Environments Pat Glenski , Advisory Programmer, IBM Corporation, USA
Level: Beginner Audience: Managers, Software Engineers, Systems Analysts, Marketers, Site Coordinators, Technical Writers, Testers, Web Administrators, Web Designers	Level: Intermediate Audience: Managers, Software Engineers, Systems Analysts	Level: Beginner Audience: Managers, Software Engineers

Locales	Platforms	Legacy
Session A3: 11:30 am - 12:10 pm Panel Presentation: Technical Language Information Jennifer DeCamp - (Moderator), Foreign Language Technology Program Manager, MITRE Corporation, USA	Session B3: 11:30 am - 12:10 pm Unicode, Keyboards, and the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator Cathy Wissink, Lead Program Manager, and Michael Kaplan, Senior Developer, Microsoft Corporation, USA	Session C3: 11:30 am - 12:10 pm Handling Unicode in Legacy Applications Michael McKenna, Digital Repository Architect, California Digital Library, University of California Office of the President, USA
Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced Audience: All	Level: Intermediate Audience: Managers, Software Engineers, Systems Analysts	Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced Audience: Managers, Software Engineers, Systems Analysts

Government	Java	Case Studies
Session A4: 13:20 pm - 14:00 pm Standards Relevant to the Language Technology Industry and the U.S. Government Jennifer DeCamp - Foreign Language Technology Program Manager, MITRE Corporation, USA	Session B4: 13:20 pm - 14:00 pm Parallel Development in J2SE and Microsoft.NET John O'Conner, Software Internationalization Consultant, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA Bill Hall, Consultant, MLM Associates, Inc., USA	Session C4: 13:20 pm - 14:00 pm Librarian Spoken Here? Elizabeth Beaudin - Elizabeth Beaudin, Technical Administrator, OACIS Project, Yale University Library, USA
Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced Audience: All	Level: Intermediate Audience: Managers, Software Engineers, Testers, Internationalization and Localization Engineers and Managers	Level: Intermediate, Advanced Audience:

Government	Java	Case Studies
Session A5: 14:05 pm - 14:45 pm Foreign Language Resource Center Jennifer DeCamp - Foreign Language Technology Program Manager, MITRE Corporation, USA	Session B5 14:05 pm - 14:45 pm A New Approach to Resource Bundles in Java Richard Gillam - Software Developer, Language Analysis Systems, Inc., USA	Session C5: 14:05 pm - 14:45 pm Federated Metasearch Strategies and Issues: Searching, Finding, and Archiving Data of the World from Disparate Public Systems Michael McKenna - Digital Repository Architect, California Digital Library, University of California Office of the President, USA
Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced Audience: All	Level: Intermediate Audience: Software Engineers, Systems Analysts	Level: Intermediate, Advanced Audience: Managers, Software Engineers, Systems Analysts

Government	Java	Case Studies
Session A6: 14:50 pm - 15:30 pm Unicode : Growing Up In The Government Mandy Pet - Oracle Corporation, USA	Session B6: 14:50 pm - 15:30 pm Supplementary Characters in the Java(TM) Platform John O'Conner, Software Internationalization Consultant, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA	Session C6: 14:50 pm - 15:30 pm Multilingual Publishing with Unicode and XSL-FO Michael Miller - Vice President, Antenna House, Inc., USA
Level: Intermediate Audience: Managers, Software Engineers, Systems Analysts, Font Designers, Technical Writers, Testers, Web Administrators, Web Designers, End Users	Level: Intermediate Audience: Software Engineers	Level: Beginner, Intermediate Audience: Managers, Software Engineers, Marketers, Technical Writers, Technical Documentation Managers

Government	Programming	Case Studies
Session A7: 15:50 pm - 16:15 pm Panel Presentation: How to Work with the U.S. Government Jennifer De Camp - (Moderator), Foreign Language Technology Program Manager, MITRE Corporation, USA	Session B7: 15:50 pm - 16:30 pm Comparison of Unicode Programming Models in Programming Languages Martin Dürst - Internationalization Activity Lead, W3C/MIT, USA	Session C7: 15:50 pm - 16:30 pm Implementing Multi Lingual Publishing - The European Union David Cairns - Solutions Developer, Advent 3B2 Publishing Systems Ltd, United Kingdom
Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced Audience: Managers, Marketers	Level: Intermediate Audience: Software Engineers, Systems Analysts, Technical Writers, Testers, Web Administrators	Level: Intermediate Audience: Managers, Systems Analysts, Technical Writers, Testers

Vendors	Programming	Case Studies
Session A8: 16:35 pm - 17:15 pm Exhibitor's Panel Tex Texin - (Moderator), Xen Master, XenCraft, USA	Session B8: 16:35 pm - 17:15 pm ICU Overview: The Open-Source Unicode Library, v2.8 Mark Davis - Chief Globalization Architect, IBM Corporation, USA.	Session C8: 16:35 pm - 17:15 pm Unicode and Homeland Security Carl Hoffman - CEO, Basis Technology Corporation, USA
Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced Audience: All	Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced Audience: Managers, Software Engineers, Systems Analysts, Marketers	Level: Intermediate Audience: Managers, Software Engineers, Systems Analysts, Marketers

Vendors	Programming	Case Studies
Session A9: 17:20 pm - 18:00 pm Exhibitor's Panel - continued Tex Texin - (Moderator), Xen Master, XenCraft, USA	Session B9: 17:20 pm - 18:00 pm Localizing with XLIFF and ICU Ram Viswanadha and Markus Scherer, Software Engineers, IBM Corporation, USA	Session C9: 17:20 pm - 18:00 pm Unicode in Real Life Mary Hassman, NSA, USA Cathy Wissink, Lead Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation, USA Jennifer DeCamp, Foreign Language Technology Program Manager, MITRE Corporation, USA
Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced Audience: Software Engineers, Systems Analysts	Level: Intermediate Audience: Managers, Software Engineers, Systems Analysts	Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced Audience: All

Special Event Dinner
18:30 pm Maggiano's Chevy Chase


Day 3: Friday, April 2
Conference

Keynote Address
09:00 am - 09:45 am Big Dots, Little Dots, and Circled Dots: How Unicode can Help (and Hurt) the Process of Converting Documents to Information Benson Margulies, COO/CTO, Basis Technology Corporation, USA

Track A	Track B	Track C
Web Internationalization	Conversion	Database
Session A10: 10:00 am - 10:40 am Internationalized Domain Names: Standards and Implementation Experience Paul Hoffman - Director, Internet Mail Consortium, USA	Session B10: 10:00 am - 10:40 am Confusion In Conversion -- How Does Occasional Character Corruption Happen? Ken Glidden, Manager, Engineering Services, Basis Technology Corporation, USA Kazuo Hirai, Principal Software Engineer Teruhiko Kurosaka	Session C10: 10:00 am - 10:40 am Unicode Support in the Advantage Ingres RDBMS Jeremy Peel, Senior Software Engineer, Computer Associates, GmbH, Germany
Level: Beginner Audience: Managers, Software Engineers, Site Coordinators	Level: Intermediate, Advanced Audience: Software Engineers, Content Developers	Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced Audience: Managers, Software Engineers

Web Internationalization	Applications	Database
Session A11: 10:45 am - 11:25 am Recent Progress on Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) Martin Dürst - Internationalization Activity Lead, W3C/MIT, USA	Session B11: 10:45 am - 11:25 am Building the Federal Multilingual Infrastructure in Unicode - Foreign Language Dictionary Tools John Kovarik, Senior Language Technology Authority, National Security Agency, USA	Session C11: 10:45 am - 11:25 am Language Processing in Oracle Database 10g Barry Trute, Principal Product Manager, Oracle Corporation, USA
Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced Audience: Software Engineers, Systems Analysts, Site Coordinators, Web Administrators, Web Designers	Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced Audience:	Level: Beginner Audience: Managers, Software Engineers, Systems Analysts, Marketers

Web Internationalization	Conversion	Database
Session A12: 11:30 am - 12:10 am Web Services and Internationalization Addison Phillips, Director, Globalization Architecture, webMethods, Inc., USA	Session B12: 11:30 am - 12:10 am A Reversible Transcription System for Arabic Bernard Greenberg, Senior Scientist, Basis Technology Corporation, USA	Session C12: 11:30 am - 12:10 am Migration to Supplementary Characters - Multilingual Databases for Hong Kong Linus Toshihiro Tanaka, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Oracle Corporation, USA
Level: Beginner Audience: Managers, Software Engineers, Systems Analysts, Site Coordinators	Level: Intermediate Audience: Software Engineers	Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced Audience: Software Engineers, Systems Analysts

Web Internationalization	Rendering	Algorithms
Session A13: 1:20 pm - 2:00 pm Localizing J2EE Web Applications Tony Jewtushenko, Principal Product Manager, Oracle Corporation, Ireland	Session B13: 1:20 pm - 2:00 pm Pango, An Open Source Text Rendering Framework Owen Taylor, Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat, Inc., USA	Session C13: 1:20 pm - 2:00 pm Software Defect Patterns which Break Text Integrity Frank Yung-Fong Tang, System Architect, AOL, USA
Level: Beginner, Intermediate Audience: Managers, Software Engineers, Systems Analysts, Content Developers, Site Coordinators, Technical Writers, Testers , Web Administrators , Web Designers	Level: Intermediate Audience: Software Engineers	Level: Beginner, Intermediate Audience: Software Engineers, Systems Analysts, Font Designers, Site Coordinators, Technical Writers, Web Administrators, Designers

Web Internationalization	Rendering	Testing
Session A14: 2:05 pm - 2:45 pm Using Jujitsu to Globalize Web Applications Tex Texin, Xen Master, XenCraft, USA Bill Kirtz, Business Development Manager, ABLE Innovations, Inc., USA	Session B14: 2:05 pm - 3:30 pm Microsoft WinFX: Composite Font and CJK Extension B Supports Michel Suignard, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation, USA	Session C14: 2:05 pm - 2:45 pm I18N Sufficiency Testing David Ginsburg, Director of Business Development, The Symbio Group, USA
Level: Beginner, Intermediate Audience:	Level: Audience:	Level: Intermediate Audience: Managers, Software Engineers, Testers, Product/Project Managers

Web Internationalization	Rendering	Testing
Session A15: 2:50 pm - 3:30 pm XQuery: Combining Structured and Full-Text Queries on XML Data Michael Rys, Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation, USA	Session B15 2:50 pm - 3:30 pm ALI-BABA and the 4.0 Unicode Characters - The Ideal Arabic Working Environment Thomas Milo - President, DecoType, and Arabic Linguistic Consultant, Basis Technology	Session C15: 2:50 pm - 3:30 pm Bringing Automation into your Localization Testing Scheme Terry Shidner, Global Business Services Manager, Moravia Worldwide, USA Roman Civin, Testing Unit Manager, Moravia Worldwide, Czech Republic
Level: Intermediate Audience: Software Engineers, Systems Analysts	Level: Audience:	Level: Intermediate Audience: Managers, Project Managers, Localization Coordinators, QA Professionals

Web Internationalization	Scripts	Localization
Session A16: 3:50 pm - 4:30 pm Associating Character Encoding and language Information with HTML, XHTML and CSS Files Richard Ishida, I18N Working Group Team Contact, W3C, UK	Session B16: 3:50 pm - 4:30 pm Completing the Encoding of Scripts in Unicode and Its Importance for Government: A Perspective from the Script Encoding Initiative at UC Berkeley Deborah Anderson, Researcher, Dept. of Linguistics, UC Berkeley, USAA	Session C16: 3:50 pm - 4:30 pm Case Study: Efficient Use of Translation Web Services in Localisation Peter Reynolds, Manager Development Team, Bowne Global Solutions, Ireland
Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced Audience: Site Coordinators, Testers, Web Administrators, Web Designers	Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced Audience: Managers, Software Engineers, Marketers, Site Coordinators, Font Designers, Web Administrators, Government Administrators	Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced Audience:

Web Internationalization	Scripts	Localization
Session A17: 4:35 pm - 5:15 pm Web Internationalization Panel Martin Dürst (Moderator), Internationalization Activity Lead, W3C/MIT, USA	Session B17: 4:35 pm - 5:15 pm The Foundation for Indigenous ICT in Ethiopia Daniel Yacob, Engineer, Ge'ez Frontier Foundation, USA	Session C17: 4:35 pm - 5:15 pm Re-defining the Parameters of Web Site Localisation: a practical analysis of the making and usage of new generation language and localisation technology Geraldine Lin, CEO, Heartsome Holdings Pte. Ltd., Singapore
Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced Audience: All	Level: Beginner Audience: Software Engineers, Font Designers, Remote Education Indigenous Knowledge Systems	Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced Audience: Managers, Marketers, Site Coordinators, Technical Writers, Web Administrators, Web Designers, Corporate Communicators, Web Architects

Web Internationalization	Scripts	Localization
Session A18: 5:20 pm - 6:00 pm Web Internationalization Panel - continued Martin Dürst (Moderator), Internationalization Activity Lead, W3C/MIT, USA	Session B18: 5:20 pm - 6:00 pm Unicode for Multilingual Software: An Indian Perspective Ajit Joshi, Software Specialist, InfoSys Fellow, C-DAC, India	Session C18: 5:20 pm - 6:00 pm The World of Localisation: Organisations, Resources and Contacts Reinhard Schäler, Director, Localisation Research Centre, University of Limerick, Ireland
Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced Audience: All	Level: Intermediate Audience: Software Engineers, Font Designers	Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced Audience:

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