From: Rick McGowan (rick@unicode.org)
Date: Wed Jun 21 2006 - 18:18:34 CDT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Stephanie Covert
Object Management Group
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30th Internationalization & Unicode Conference to Feature New Content on
Practical Aspects of Unicode, Case Studies and Hot Topics in
Internationalization
Full Program Agenda Available for Conference
November 17-19, 2006, Washington, D.C. USA
Mountain View, CA, USA – June 21, 2006 – The Unicode® Consortium
today announced the program for the 30th Internationalization & Unicode
Conference (IUC). The conference will take place November 17-19, 2006, in
Washington, D.C. USA. The full conference program is available online at
http://www.unicodeconference.org/sd-pr.
The program committee has created an exciting program full of new and
cutting-edge topics that is relevant and engaging for the
internationalization community. The three-day conference will feature a
keynote presentation by Nicholas Negroponte, Chairman, One Laptop per Child
and Chairman Emeritus, MIT Media Laboratory. 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 following is just a small sample of the presentations that will be
given at IUC 30. Mark Davis, President of the Unicode Consortium, will
speak on what’s new in software globalization standards. Marin Millar of
Microsoft will present on Building Multilingual Websites with ASP.NET 2.0;
Charles Hornig of IBM will present Globalization Testing using Eclipse.
Also featured will be Nelson Ng of eBay, Inc. on A Case Study of eBay UTF-8
DB Migration. Jennifer DeCamp of MITRE will give a presentation on
Implementing Multilanguage Databases. For the full program, visit the IUC
30 Web site.
Highlights of the Conference:
• Keynote Presenter:
o Nicholas Negroponte, Chairman, One Laptop per Child and Chairman
Emeritus, MIT Media Laboratory
• Tutorials in Three Tracks:
o A three-part tutorial on Unicode 5.0: Characters in Action,
Fundamental Specifications and Unicode Algorithms; Internationalization: An
Introduction; Best Practices in Software Localization Process and
Technology; Managing Internationalization Projects; Web
Internationalization – Standards and Best Practices; Internationalization
and Localization in Microsoft .NET and Making Sense of Oracle Character
Sets and Length Semantics
o Presenters come from such organizations as ASMUS, Inc., Basis
Technology, IBM Corporation, i18N Inc., MLM Associates, Inc., W3C, and
Yahoo!
• Sessions in Three Morning and Four Afternoon Tracks:
o Sessions cover a range of topics that fall into each of the four
tracks: Web Internationalization, Techniques/Case Studies, Applications and
Languages/Scripts.
o Session Highlights include:
* Case studies covering concrete aspects of implementations, not
just the theories involved
* Topics of interest to government and non-governmental
organizations such as managing an internationalization project and
implementing multilingual databases
* Several presentations in the latest Microsoft technologies
including local language features in Office 2007 and Vista.
* In addition to topics related to Unicode, the Web, software and
internationalization
o Presenters come from such organizations as Apple Computer, Aviva
Life Insurance Co., DecoType, Diwan Software Limited, eBay, Emery IT,
Google, Hiroshima University, i18N, Inc., IBM, Microsoft, MITRE, Modern
Gigabyte, Molecular, Oracle, R.B. Toth Associates, Sun Microsystems, The
Ge’ez Frontier Foundation Travelport, Inc., UC Berkeley, University of
Paris VIII, W3C, Yahoo!, and Zebra Technologies Group
• Hosted special interest gatherings will be held throughout the
conference. Topics will be announced at the conference.
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 30th Internationalization & Unicode Conference is sponsored by Gold
Sponsors Microsoft Corporation (www.microsoft.com), Basis Technology
(www.basistech.com); Media Sponsors MultiLingual Computing Inc.
(www.multilingual.com), Localisation Research Centre (www.localisation.ie),
Globalization Insider (http://www.lisa.org/globalizationinsider); and
Organizational Sponsors Localization Industry Standards Association (LISA)
(www.lisa.org) and the Globalization and Localization Association (GALA)
(www.gala-global.org).
The early-bird registration deadline is October 2, 2006; the hotel
registration deadline is October 24, 2006. For full conference details and
to register, visit http://www.unicodeconference.org/. Sponsorships and
exhibit space are available; for more information on sponsoring, exhibiting
or other questions contact Kevin Loughry at loughry@omg.org, +1-781-444
0404.
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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., Google, Inc.,
Government of India - Ministry of Information Technology, Government of
Pakistan - National Language Authority, HP, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft,
Monotype Imaging, Oracle, SAP, Sun Microsystems, Sybase, The University of
California at Berkeley, 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
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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
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OMG’s specifications are all available for download by everyone without
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