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Unicode Announces Formation of Advisory Council
for
Internationalization & Unicode Conference
Group to guide
future direction of IUC
Mountain View, CA, USA – October 31, 2005 – The Unicode®
Consortium today announced the formation of an Advisory Council that
will chart the direction of future Internationalization & Unicode
Conferences (IUC). The Internationalization & Unicode Conference is
the premier technical conference for both software and Web
internationalization. The Advisory Council includes distinguished
members of the internationalization and globalization community, who
have proven themselves to be leaders and visionaries in the field.
They are all active participants in the Unicode Consortium.
“We are very excited to have assembled a team of known experts in
the field of software globalization, a team that also brings solid
experience with conference presentation and organization. The
combination of this group with OMG's event management will make the
upcoming Unicode conferences a vital, practical resource for
everyone involved in software globalization,” said Mark Davis,
president of the Unicode Consortium.
The Advisory Council Members:
Mark Davis, Chief Globalization Architect, IBM
Dr. Mark Davis is responsible for the architecture of ICU (the
premier Unicode software library sponsored by IBM). He co-founded
the Unicode project, has been the President of the Unicode
Consortium since its incorporation, and is a principal co-author of
many of the major consortium technical publications.
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.
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,
translating and interpreting, and computational linguistics.
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.
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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About The Unicode Consortium
The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit organization founded to
develop, extend and promote use of the Unicode Standard and related
globalization standards.
The membership of the consortium represents a broad spectrum of
corporations and organizations in the computer and information
processing industry. Members are: Adobe Systems, L'Agence
Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie, Apple Computer, Basis
Technology, Denic e.G., Government of India - Ministry of
Information Technology, Government of Pakistan - National Language
Authority, HP, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, Monotype Imaging, Oracle,
RLG, SAP, Sun Microsystems, Sybase, The University of California at
Berkeley, VeriSign, Yahoo! and about one hundred Associate, Liaison,
and Individual members.
For more information, please contact the Unicode Consortium (http://www.unicode.org/).
About the Event Producer
The Object Management Group™ (OMG™) is the new Event Producer for
the Internationalization & Unicode Conferences. The OMG is an open
membership, not-for-profit consortium that produces and maintains
computer industry specifications for interoperable enterprise
applications. Our specifications include MDA®, UML®, CORBA®, MOF™,
XMI® and CWM™. OMG’s specifications are all available for download
by everyone without charge.
For more information about OMG, visit us online at
http://www.omg.org.
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