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Stephanie Covert
Object Management Group
+1-781-444 0404 ext. 142
info@unicodeconference.org
29th Internationalization & Unicode Conference
to Feature Unicode 5.0,
Security Issues and Hot Topics in Internationalization for 2006
Full Program Agenda Available for Conference in
March 6-8, 2006, Burlingame, California
Mountain View, CA, USA – November 17, 2005 – The Unicode®
Consortium today announced the program for the 29th
Internationalization & Unicode Conference (IUC). The conference will
take place March 6-8, 2006 in Burlingame, CA, USA. The full
conference program is available online at
http://www.unicodeconference.org/agenda.
The program committee has created a revitalized program that is
relevant and engaging for the internationalization community. The
three-day conference will feature keynote presentations by Tuoc
Luong, Senior Vice President, Engineering & Technology, Ask Jeeves,
Inc., and Charles Bigelow, Vice President, Bigelow & Holmes Inc. The
conference includes a full day of tutorials followed by two days of
presentations, panels and discussions. There will also be technology
exhibits and demonstrations.
This will be the first conference to cover the content of Unicode
5.0, which supersedes all previous versions of Unicode and is
synchronized with the latest version of ISO/IEC 10646. It will also
be the first to cover the content of LDML 1.4 (used for
interchanging locale data) and CLDR 1.4 (the latest version of the
Common Locale Data), and the newest events in the area of Unicode
security. The conference includes presentations on Microsoft Office
12 and Windows Vista, several talks on ICU topics, as well as an
overview and case study on CLDR.
Mark Davis, President of the Unicode Consortium, will speak on
the latest Unicode Consortium news. Doug Barbin of VeriSign will
introduce the issues of security with a talk on the Digitization of
Fraud and Michel Suignard of Microsoft will speak on
Internationalized Domain Name support. Peter Linsley of Ask Jeeves
will speak on Challenges of Searching the Global Internet and Scott
Atwood will give a case study presentation on Paypal’s migration to
Unicode.
Highlights of the Conference:
- Keynote Presenters:
- Tuoc Luong, Senior Vice President, Engineering &
Technology, Ask Jeeves, Inc.
- Charles Bigelow, Vice President, Bigelow & Holmes Inc.
- Tutorials in Three Tracks:
- A three-part tutorial on Unicode 5.0: Characters in
Action, Fundamental Specifications and Unicode Algorithms;
An Introduction to Writing Systems & Unicode;
Internationalization: An Introduction; The Dao of Unihan;
Web Internationalization – Standards and Best Practices;
Internationalization Features in XPath, XQuery and XSLT; and
Advanced ICU Topics
- Presenters come from such organizations as Apple
Computer, ASMUS, Inc., Google, IBM Corp., Quest Software,
W3C, and Yahoo!
- Sessions in Three Tracks:
- Sessions cover a range of topics including
internationalization, globalization, the Web, security, and
localization to name a few. There will be a mix of case
studies, panel discussions and technical discussions geared
towards beginner, intermediate and advanced practitioners.
- Presenters come from such organizations as Apple
Computer, Ask Jeeves, Basis Technology, IBM, Microsoft,
ModernGigabyte, Nagaoka University of Technology, Oracle,
PayPal, Quest Software, Sun Microsystems, Tavultesoft Pty.
Ltd., U.C. Berkeley, VeriSign, Inc., W3C and Yahoo!
- Hosted special interest gatherings will be held throughout
the conference. Topics include:
- Language and locale identifiers: What is the impact of
the revised RFC on the use of XML and HTML?
- Meet the Unicode Technical Committees: How do the
technical committees work? How can you have an impact?
- Unicode Text Layout: How should complex scripts such as
Arabic or Tamil be correctly rendered?
- Multilingual Keyboard Layouts: what should the design
principles be?
- Multilingual Geographical Names
The Internationalization & Unicode Conference is the premier
technical conference for both software and Web internationalization.
Unicode experts, implementers, clients and vendors are invited to
attend this unique conference. The interactive format makes the
Internationalization & Unicode Conference a great place to meet and
exchange ideas with leading experts, find out about the needs of
potential clients, or get information about new and existing
Unicode-enabled products.
The early-bird registration discount is available until February
1, 2006. To register, visit
http://www.unicodeconference.org/registration.htm. Exhibit space
is available; for more information on exhibiting contact Sandy Burke
at sandy@omg.org or +1-781-444
0404. For sponsorship opportunities, contact Nicole Rikkinen at
nicole@omg.org. For all other
conference-related questions contact Kevin Loughry at
loughry@omg.org, +1-781-444
0404.
The conference is produced by The Object Management Group™ (OMG™)
and is sponsored by: IBM Corporation (www.ibm.com),
Basis Technology (www.basistech.com);
media sponsors MultiLingual Computing Inc. (www.multilingual.com),
Localisation Research Centre (www.localisation.ie);
and organizational sponsors Localization Industry Standards
Association (LISA) (www.lisa.org)
and the Globalization and Localization Association (GALA) (www.gala-global.org).
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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.
Note to editors: Unicode Standard, Unicode and the Unicode Logo
are trademarks of Unicode, Inc. Unicode Consortium is a registered
trademark of Unicode, Inc. MDA, Model Driven Architecture, OMG Logo,
UML and CORBA are registered trademarks, and OMG, Object Management
Group, MOF, MDA Logos, Unified Modeling Language and UML logo are
trademarks, of Object Management Group. All other trademarks are the
property of their respective owners.
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