ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 Meeting # 44

Mountain View, CA – USA      October 20-23, 2003

Location

Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus
1065 La Avenida
Building 1
Mountain View, CA 94043
Unicode office on site: 650-693-3921

• The meeting will take place in the "Saturn" conference room on the second floor of Microsoft Conference Center a.k.a. Building 1.
• Please make sure you claim your badge at Building 1 reception desk. It will allow you to move freely on campus.
• In case any problem arises, please have the receptionist contact Magda Danish, Unicode Administrative Director at extension 33921
• Internet connection will be available
• Breakfast, lunch, drinks and afternoon snacks  will be provided

 

Directions

From San Jose: Take U.S. 101 north (towards San Francisco). Exit at Shoreline Blvd. At the light, cross Shoreline Blvd. directly onto La Avenida. Continue for approximately ½ mile; Turn Right onto the Microsoft main entrance parking lot. You will be facing Building 1 as you pull into the parkway.

From Cupertino: Take 280 North with junction to 85 North. Continue on highway 85 until it hits the 101 North. Immediately after 85 meets 101, take the Shoreline Blvd exit.  At the light, cross Shoreline Blvd directly onto La Avenida. Continue for approximately ½ mile; Turn Right onto the Microsoft main entrance parking lot. You will be facing Building 1 as you pull into the parkway.

From San Francisco: Take U.S. 101 south (towards San Jose). Exit at Shoreline Blvd. Turn left on Shoreline. Go over the freeway and turn right at the first light on La Avenida. Continue on La Avenida approximately ½ mile; Turn Right onto the Microsoft main entrance parking lot. You will be facing Building 1 as you pull into the parkway.

Hotels

Residence Inn by Marriott        $155 1854 W El Camino Real Mountain View, CA 94040 USA	Holiday Inn                                $160 93 W El Camino Real Mountain View, CA 94040 (650) 967-6957
Comfort Inn                                   $69 1561 W. El Camino Real Mountain View, CA 94040 +1-650-967-7888 +1-650-967-3579	County Inn                                      $89 850 Leong Drive Mountain View, CA 94043 +1-650-961-1131 +1-650-965-9099

OFFICIAL INVITATION

This Invitation Form is provided for your convenience for visas, department approval, etc.

MEETING REGISTRATION, ACCOMMODATION AND HOTEL RESERVATION

• Meeting Registration and/or Hotel Reservation Forms are now posted
• The Unicode Consortium has blocked 10 rooms at the Comfort Inn in Mountain View
• A Welcome dinner sponsored by the Unicode Consortium is scheduled for Tuesday, October 21st at 6:30PM at a local restaurant (TBD)

TRANSPORTATION

From airport to hotel:

• All major rental companies have offices at San Francisco and San Jose airports
• Door to door shuttle buses are also available at both airports and cost $28/person from SFO to Mountain View and $25/person from San Jose to Mountain View (companions pay $10 each)
• Taxis will run approximately $75 from SFO to hotel and $35 from San Jose to hotel

From hotel to Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus:

• The hotel is located less than 1 mile from the meeting place at Microsoft SVC. Taxis can be arranged through the hotel reception and should not cost more than $8.00 per trip

CURRENT REGISTERED PARTICIPANTS

1.	Mike Ksar	Convenor, JTC1/SC2/WG2 Technical Working
2.	Ken Whistler	Sybase, USA
3.	Asmus Freytag	Asmus, Inc., USA
4.	Michel Suignard	Microsoft, USA
5.	Mark Davis	IBM, USA
6.	V.S. UMAmaheswaran	IBM, Canada
7.	Joan Aliprand	RLG, USA
8.	Lisa Moore	IBM, USA
9.	Michael Everson	Everson Typography, Ireland
10.	Eric Muller	Adobe, USA
11.	Rick McGowan	The Unicode Consortium, USA
12.	Deborah Goldsmith	Apple, USA
13.	Deborah Anderson	University of California, Berkeley, USA
14.	Vladas Tumasonis	Vilnius University, Lithuania
15.	Zhang Zoucai	CEO, UniHan Digital Tech Co., Ltd.
16.	Ben BA Galtso	Tibet University, P.R. China
17.	Ngodrup	Tibet University, P.R. China
18.	Chen Zhuang	Chinese Electronics Standardization Institute
19.	Lobsang Tokme	Tibetan Language Committee, P.R. China
20.	Wang Qi	Ministry of Education, P.R. China
21.	Elżbieta Broma-Wrzesień	Telekomunikacja Polska S.A., Poland
22.	Shih-shyeng Tseng	Academia Sinica, Taiwan
23.	Dae Hyuk Ahn	Microsoft, Korea
24.	Kazuhito Ohmaki	Nat'l Institute of Advanced Science and Technology, Japan
25.	Tatsuo Kobayashi	JUSTSYSTEM Digital Culture Research Center, Japan
26.	Nakade Hideki	Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc., Japan
27.	Yasuhiro Anan	Microsoft Corporation, Japan
28.	Soichi Senda	Nippon Telegraph & Telephone (NTT), Japan
29.	Po-Chung Chen	University of California, Berkeley, USA

 

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