From: announcements@unicode.org
Date: Tue Feb 08 2011 - 15:48:55 CST
Mountain View, CA, USA – February 8, 2011 – The Unicode® Consortium
today announced a call for participation in the Thirty-fifth
Internationalization & Unicode® Conference (IUC 35), taking place in
Santa Clara, Calif., USA; October 17-19, 2011, sponsored by Adobe. The
conference is produced by OMG®.
This is the premier conference on technologies and practices for the
creation and management of global and multilingual software solutions.
This annual event is praised for its excellent technical content,
industry-tested recommendations and updates on the latest standards.
The Program Committee is soliciting proposals for presentations that
describe cases studies, best practices, effective software design,
innovative technology, or important standards. Tutorial presentations
are also welcome. Suitable topics include, but are not limited to:
Application Areas
• Designing software platforms, operating systems, software as a
service, (SAAS), or programming environments
• Social networks
• Search engines, SEO, discovery and navigation best practices
• Websites and web services
• Libraries and education
• Mobile applications, including iPhone, Android, iPad, Kindle, Windows
Mobile, etc.
• Publishing and broadcasting for a global audience
• Internationalized Domain Names and other identifiers
• Security concerns and practices
• Semantic Web
• Voice to text, text to voice
• Machine translation
• Unicode, encodings, scripts, character properties, and algorithms
General Techniques
• Advances in technologies, algorithms or methodologies
• Using internationalization libraries and programming environments
• Handling bidirectional or other complex scripts
• Dealing with data formats: XML, JSON, HTML5, DITA, and upcoming standards
• Project management and methodologies for global development teams e.g.
Agile
• Best practices in localization process and technology
• Best practices in world-ready development, test, and deployment
• Improving globalization capabilities within organizations
• Approaches for migrating legacy applications to global markets
• Font development and Typography
Culture and Technology
• Endangered Languages
• Unencoded Languages
• Case studies and research on cross-culture communication
• Digital Divide
Regional Considerations
• Languages of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East
• Locales and the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR)
• Emoji support
Details of the call for participation are available at:
http://www.unicodeconference.org/iuc35call. Interested individuals or
organizations are invited to submit a brief (up to 600 word) abstract of
their proposed conference presentation by Friday, March 25 using this
web form: http://www.unicodeconference.org/abstracts.
The Program Committee will notify authors by Wednesday, April 20. Final
presentation materials will be required from selected presenters by
Wednesday, August 3. The conference agenda will be available by
Wednesday, May 4 at: http://www.unicodeconference.org/.
Sponsorships and exhibit space are available; for more information on
sponsoring contact Ken Berk at ken.berk@omg.org, +1-781-444 0404. For
exhibiting questions email event_marketing@omg.org. For all other
questions email info@unicodeconference.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, Apple, Google,
Government of Bangladesh, Government of India, IBM, Microsoft, Monotype
Imaging, Oracle, SAP, The Society for Natural Language Technology
Research, The University of California (Berkeley), The University of
California (Santa Cruz), Yahoo!, plus well over a hundred Associate,
Liaison, and Individual members.
For more information, please contact the Unicode Consortium
http://www.unicode.org/contacts.html.
About the Event Producer
OMG® is the Event Producer for the Internationalization & Unicode
Conferences. 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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