Be a Part of IUC 37! Call for Participation

    *Be a Part of IUC 37*

      *SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Friday, March 29th*

| Submit Abstract Form <http://www.unicodeconference.org/abstracts.htm> |

Do you have *knowledge* or *experience* with *creating global software*
that will benefit others? Join other experts and industry leaders and
present your ideas at The Thirty-seventh Internationalization & Unicode®
Conference (IUC 37), taking place in Santa Clara, Calif., USA; October
21-23, 2013. This is the premier conference on technologies and
practices for the creation and management of global and multilingual
software solutions.

The Unicode Consortium hosts this event annually, and the conference is
recognized for its excellent technical content, industry-tested
recommendations and updates on the latest standards. Topics from
previous conferences can be found on the *IUC 37*
<http://www.unicodeconference.org/past-conferences.htm> website.

Submit your proposals for presentations or tutorials regarding case
studies, best practices, innovative technology, or evolving standards.
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, tablets, etc.
. Game, Cable Boxes, and other platforms
. Publishing and broadcasting for a global audience
. Security concerns and practices
. Voice to text, text to voice
. Machine translation

        *General Techniques*

. Advances in technologies, algorithms or methodologies
. Using internationalization libraries and programming environments
. Handling bidirectional or other complex scripts
. Locales and the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR)
. Font development and Typography

        *Managing Global Software Development and Geographically
        Distributed Teams*

. Project management and methodologies e.g. Agile
. Best practices in localization process and technology
. Best practices in world-ready development, testing, and deployment
. Improving globalization capabilities within organizations
. Approaches for migrating legacy applications to global markets

        *Evolving Standards and Related Practices*

. Endangered or Unencoded Languages
. Case studies and research on cross-culture communication
. Internationalized Domain Names and other identifiers
. Languages of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East
. ISO language tag topics
. HTML5, CSS3, and modern browser topics
. Dealing with data formats: XML, JSON, HTML5, DITA, and upcoming
standards
. Unicode, encodings, scripts, character properties, and algorithms
. Emoji support

Tutorial presenters receive complimentary conference registration, and
two nights lodging. Session presenters receive a fifty percent
conference discount and two nights lodging.

To be considered as a presenter for the conference, please *submit
<http://www.unicodeconference.org/abstracts.htm>* a brief abstract by
the deadline of Friday, March 29th.

The Program Committee will notify authors by Friday, May 3rd. Final
presentation materials will be required from selected presenters by
Friday, July 20th.

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