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ADVISORY COMMITTEE
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Mark Davis,
President, UNICODE Consortium
Mark Davis co-founded the Unicode project and has
been the president of the Unicode Consortium since
its incorporation. He is one of the key technical
contributors to the Unicode specifications,
including such areas as bidirectional text,
normalization, scripts, text segmentation,
identifiers (including IDN), collation, regular
expressions, compression, locale data, character
conversion, character properties, and security.
Mark was responsible for the overall
architecture of ICU (the premier Unicode software
library), and the earlier version of ICU that was
incorporated into the standard Java release.
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Carl Hoffman, CEO, Basis Technology
Carl founded Basis Technology in 1995 to provide rapid software
internationalization services to American companies entering Asian
markets. Since then, the company has grown to become the leading
provider of software globalization and multilingual information
retrieval technology to such firms as Ask Jeeves, Cisco, Convera,
Endeca, Google, MSN, Oracle, Symantec, Verity, and Yahoo. During
2000, Carl concurrently held the position of VP Asia for Amazon.com,
and in 2001 was honored by the Massachusetts eCommerce Association
for his leadership in launching Amazon.com Japan.
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Richard Ishida, Internationalization Activity Lead, W3C
The W3C Internationalization Activity has the mission of ensuring
universal access to the Web, regardless of language, script or
culture, by proposing & coordinating any techniques, conventions,
guidelines and activities within the W3C that help to make and keep
the Web international. Richard's background includes international
user-interface design consultancy, translation tool design,
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Addison Phillips, Globalization Architect, Quest Software
and Chair, W3C Internationalization Core Working Group
Mr. Phillips has been involved with internationalization since 1991,
working as an internationalization consultant or architect at
companies such as AT&T and webMethods before joining Quest Software
as Globalization Architect. He is currently the chair of the W3C
Internationalization Core Working Group, as well as the author of
several standards and technical publications. |
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Cathy Wissink, Group Program Manager, Global Platform
Technologies and Services, Microsoft
Since 1991, Cathy has worked on numerous internationalization
projects at Microsoft, including the Win32 NLS API, and the
System.Globalization namespace in the .NET Framework. Cathy has been
involved in implementing Unicode on Windows since version 1.0 was
enabled on Windows NT 3.1, and has participated in the Unicode
Consortium in varied roles. She is Microsoft's primary
representative to the Unicode Technical Committee (UTC), UTC vice
chair, and chair of INCITS/L2. She has published and presented many
white papers and articles on Microsoft-specific
internationalization. |
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