Twenty-eighth Internationalization and Unicode Conference

Wednesday, September 7th
Pre-Conference Tutorials

Track A	Track B	Track C

09:00-10:30
Session TA1a: 50 minutes Unicode 4.1 Tutorial: Characters in Action Asmus Freytag, President, ASMUS, Inc., USA Session TA1b: An Introduction to Writing Systems Richard Ishida, Internationalization Activity Lead, W3C, UK	Session TB1: Web Internationalization: Standards and Practice Tex Texin, Internationalization Architect, Yahoo! Inc., USA	Session TC1: Internationalization in Microsoft .NET: Current and New Features Bill Hall, Internationalization Consultant, MLM Associates, Inc., USA
Level: Beginner, Intermediate	Level: Beginner	Level: Beginner

10:30-10:45 Break

10:45-12:15
Session TA1b: continued	Session TB1: continued	Session TC2: Planning Your Internationalization Project Steve Billings, Account Executive, Bowne Global Solutions, USA
Level: Beginner, Intermediate	Level: Beginner	Level: Beginner, Intermediate

12:15-13:15 Luncheon

13:15-15:15
Session TA2: Unicode 4.1 Tutorial: Fundamental Specifications Asmus Freytag, President, ASMUS, Inc., USA	Session TB2: Localization Tutorial Reinhard Schäler, Director, Localisation Research Centre (LRC), Ireland	Session TC3: Getting Started with ICU George Rhoten, IBM Corporation, USA
Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced	Level: N/A	Level: N/A

15:15-15:30 Break

15:30-18:00
Session TA3: Unicode 4.1 Tutorial: Unicode Algorithms Asmus Freytag, President, ASMUS, Inc., USA	Session TB3: Authentic Arabic Thomas Milo, President, DecoType, The Netherlands	Session TC4: Cultural User Interface Design Michael McKenna, Advanced Technology Group, California Digital Library, University of California, USA
Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced	Level: N/A	Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Hosted Reception by Google
18:30

Thursday, September 8th
28th Internationalization & Unicode Conference

Opening Address
09:00-09:50
Opening Address Donald DePalma, President, Common Sense Advisory, Inc., USA Keynote Presentation Ted Jansen, Vice President, Product Management and Marketing, Walt Disney Parks and Resort Online
09:50-10:05 Break

Track A	Track B	Track C
Hot Off the Presses	Web Technologies	Arabic
10:05-10:45
Session A1: What's New in Unicode Mark Davis, President, Unicode Consortium, USA	Session B1: I18n Sensitive Processing with XQuery and XSLT Felix Sasaki, Internationalization Activity Member, World Wide Web Consortium, Japan	Session C1: Unicode and Arabic Studies Thomas Milo, President, DecoType, The Netherlands
Level: Beginner	Level: Beginner, Intermediate	Level: N/A

Hot Off the Presses	Web Technologies	Arabic Script
10:50-11:30
Session A2: PRC Minority Language Support in the Next Release of Windows Ning Jin-Grisaffi, Program Manager, and Cathy Wissink, Lead Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation, USA	Session B2: I18n Sensitive Processing with XQuery and XSLT - continued	Session C2: Nastaliq through Unicode & OpenType Kamal Mansour, Monotype Imaging, USA
Level: N/A	Level: Beginner, Intermediate	Level: Intermediate, Advanced

Hot Off the Presses	Web Technologies	Arabic
11:35-12:15
Session A3: Unicode and PHP Andrei Zmievski, Senior Software Engineer, Yahoo! Inc., USA	Session B3: A Tag Set for the Support of Internationalization and Localization Richard Ishida, Internationalization Activity Lead, W3C, UK Felix Sasaki, Internationalization Activity Member, World Wide Web Consortium, Japan	Session C3: OpenType: an overview Kamal Mansour, Monotype Imaging, USA
Level: Beginner	Level: Intermediate	Level: Beginner, Intermediate

Luncheon
12:15-13:45

Hot Off the Presses	Web Technologies	Arabic
13:45-14:25
Session A4: What's New in the .NET Globalization Namespace Bill Hall, Internationalization Consultant, MLM Associates, Inc., USA	Session B4: Internationalizing Web Addresses Tex Texin, Internationalization Architect, Yahoo! Inc., USA	Session C4: Creating Bidi XHTML/HTML Pages Richard Ishida, Internationalization Activity Lead, W3C, UK
Level: Intermediate	Level: Beginner	Level: N/A

Hot Off the Presses	Web Technologies	Arabic
14:30-15:10
Session A5: CLDR 1.3: Overview, and What's New George Rhoten, IBM Corporation, USA	Session B5 Internationalizing Web Addresses - continued	Session C5: Tailoring UAX#29 Word Breaking for Arabic Text From the Wild Thomas Emerson, Software Engineer, Basis Technology Corporation, USA
Level: N/A	Level: Beginner	Level: Intermediate

15:10-15:40 Break
Unicode Track	Web Technologies	Emerging Markets
15:45-16:25
Session A6: Software Defect Patterns which Break Text Integrity Frank Yung-Fong Tang, PhD Student, George Mason University, USA	Session B6: Exploring Better Source Editing for Bidirectional XHTML and XML Martin Dürst, Associate Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan	Session C6: The Global Initiative for Local Computing (GILC) Reinhard Schäler, Director, Localisation Research Centre (LRC), Ireland Pat Hall, The Open University, UK
Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced	Level: Intermediate	Level: N/A

Unicode Track	Web Technologies	Emerging Markets
16:30-17:10
Session A7: The Dao of Unihan John Jenkins, Senior Software Engineer, Apple Computer, Inc., USA	Session B7: Building Globalized Web Applications by Using XPath and XQuery Frank Yung-Fong Tang, PhD Student, George Mason University, USA	Session C7: GILC Panel
Level: Beginner	Level: Beginner	Level: N/A

Unicode Track	Web Technologies	Emerging Markets
17:15-18:00
Session A8: China's Impact on Globally Minded Tech Companies Jacob Hsu, Chief Marketing Officer and Managing Director The Symbio Group, USA	Session B8: Declaring Language in XHTML and HTML - Latest Thinking at the W3C Richard Ishida, Internationalization Activity Lead, W3C, UK	Session C8: GILC Panel - continued
Level: Intermediate	Level: Intermediate	Level: N/A

Special Event Dinner
18:30



Friday, September 9th
28th Internationalization & Unicode Conference

Track A	Track B	Track C
Unicode Track	Localization Track	Case Studies
09:00-09:40
Session A9: The Character That Isn't: A Tour of Unicode's Invisible Characters Richard Gillam, Senior Software Developer, Language Analysis Systems, Inc., USA	Session B9: A New Model for Testing Global Requirements Alym Rayani, Director of Client Solutions, The Symbio Group, USA	Session C9: Globalization and Accessibility: Mutual Support and Best Practices Kerstin E. Goldsmith, Senior Accessibility Product Manager, Oracle Corporation, USA Craig Cummings, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Oracle Corporation, USA
Level: Beginner, Intermediate	Level: Intermediate	Level: Beginner, Intermediate

Unicode Track	Localization Track	Emerging Markets
09:00-09:40
Session A10: I Know It When I See It: The Challenge of Character Encoding Richard Gillam, Senior Software Developer, Language Analysis Systems, Inc., USA	Session B10: Cultural Adaptation is the Holy Grail of Localisation Reinhard Schäler, Director, Localisation Research Centre (LRC), Ireland	Session C10: Displaying Indic in Java Craig Cummings, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Oracle Corporation, USA
Level: Beginner, Intermediate	Level: Intermediate, Advanced	Level: Beginner, Intermediate

10:25-10:45 Break
Programming	Localization Track	Emerging Markets
09:45-10:25
Session A11: I Know It When I See It: The Challenge of Character Encoding - continued Richard Gillam, Senior Software Developer, Language Analysis Systems, Inc., USA	Session B11: Language Resources for Localisation Dierdre Farrell, Veritest/Lionbridge Annette Lee, VU Games Reinhard Schäler, Director, Localisation Research Centre (LRC), Ireland	Session C11: The World, in African Languages Paa Kwesi Imbeah, Editor, The Kasahorow Dictionary Project, The GhanaThink Foundation/Yale University, USA
Level: Beginner, Intermediate	Level: Intermediate, Advanced	Level: Beginner, Intermediate

Programming	Localization Track	Emerging Markets
10:45-11:25
Session A12: ICU Overview: The Open-Source Unicode Library, v3.4 George Rhoten, IBM Corporation, USA	Session B12: ScriptSource: An On-line Environment for Script Documentation and Development Sharon Correll, Software Engineer, SIL International, USA	Session C12: Reasons why old and modern Cyrillic are unified in Unicode Adrian Englert, A & M Communication, Switzerland
Level: Intermediate	Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced	Level: N/A

12:10-13:20 Luncheon
Programming	Architecture Design	Emerging Markets
13:20-14:00
Session A13: The Java Road Ahead - Internationalization Targets for the Upcoming Mustang Release Naoto Sato, Member of Technical Staff, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA Craig Cummings, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Oracle Corporation, USA	Session B13: Retrofitting a Language-Processing Application for Unicode: A Case Study Richard Gillam, Senior Software Developer, Language Analysis Systems, Inc., USA	Session C13: Challenges in Publishing with Non-Roman Scripts Lorna Priest, Non-Roman Publishing Systems Developer, SIL International, USA
Level: Beginner, Intermediate	Level: Intermediate	Level: Intermediate, Advanced

Programming	Architecture Design	Case Studies
14:05-14:45
Session A14: The Java Road Ahead - Internationalization Targets for the Upcoming Mustang Release - continued	Session B14: Multilingual Metasearch Issues: Searching, Finding, and Archiving Data of the World Michael McKenna, Advanced Technology Group, California Digital Library, University of California, USA	Session C14: Global Content Value Chain Donald DePalma, President, Common Sense Advisory, Inc. USA
Level: Beginner, Intermediate	Level:Beginner	Level:

Programming	Architecture Design	Case Studies
14:45-15:20
Session A15: Adding Language Support to Mac OS X John Jenkins, Senior Software Engineer, Apple Computer, Inc., USA	Session B15 "Arroz" By Any Other Name: Unicode and Named Entities Richard Gillam, Senior Software Developer, Language Analysis Systems, Inc., USA	Session C15: Telling Time Internationally in Java and .NET Bill Hall, Internationalization Consultant, MLM Associates, Inc., USA John O'Conner, Technical Evangelist, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA
Level: Beginner	Level:Beginner, Intermediate	Level: Intermediate

15:20-15:50 Break
Programming	Architecture Design	Case Studies
15:50-16:30
Session A16: Client-Tier Globalization - The New Frontier Weiran Zhang, Development Manager, Oracle Corporation, USA	Session B16: Character Conversions from Browser to Database: or There and Back Again John O'Conner, Technical Evangelist, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA	Session C16: Internationalisation of the BISIS Library Information System Milan Vidakovic, Assistant Professor, University of Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro
Level: Intermediate, Advanced	Level: N/A	Level: Beginner, Intermediate

Programming	Architecture Design	Case Studies
16:35-17:15
Session A17: Localization Techniques in Microsoft.NET Using Multiple and Shared Sources Bill Hall, Internationalization Consultant, MLM Associates, Inc., USA	Session B17: Design Patterns and Practical Architectures for Software Internationalization and Unicode Enabling Frank Yung-Fong Tang, PhD Student, George Mason University, USA	Session C17: Transliteration Survey Michael McKenna, Advanced Technology Group, California Digital Library, University of California, USA
Level: Beginner	Level: Beginner, Intermediate	Level: Beginner, Intermediate

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