PRE-CONFERENCE TUTORIALS/WORKSHOPS
MAIN CONFERENCE - DAY 1
MAIN CONFERENCE DAY 2 - TRACK B
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6
7:00-9:00am REGISTRATION/CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
9:00-9:40am
B1:
Unicode in Distributed Computing Environments
Michael McKenna, Globalization Strategist, Sybase, Inc., Emeryville, CA
9:45-10:25am
B2:
National Language and Unicode Support in Relational Databases and SQL2/3
Stefan Buchta, Group Manager, Software AG, Berlin, Germany
10:25-10:45am REFRESHMENTS
10:45-11:25am
B3:
Reuters Compression Scheme for Unicode (RCSU)
Misha Wolf, Globalisation Manager, Reuters Limited, London, UK
11:30-12:10pm
B4:
Mapping Between Unicode and Other Character Sets: Methods and Issues
Lloyd Honomichl, Consultant Engineer, Novell, Inc., Provo, UT
12:10-1:30pm LUNCHEON
1:30-2:10pm

Keynote Speaker
Rick Schell, Senior Vice President of Product Development, Netscape Communications Corporation
2:15-2:55pm
B5:
Design and Implementation of the CJK Unified Character Set on UNIX Systems
Yufang Sun, Deputy Director of Institute of Software, Academia Sinica, Beijing, P.R. China
2:55-3:15pm REFRESHMENT BREAK
3:15-3:55pm
B6:
Simple Implementations of Difficult Scripts
Martin Dürst, Senior Research Associate, University of Zurich, Switzerland
4:00-4:40pm
B7:
Designing an Extended Japanese Character Set: From Conception to Implementation
Ken Lunde, Project Manager, CJK Type Development, Adobe Systems, Inc., Mountain View, CA
4:45-5:25pm
B8:
Encoding Sense and Nonsense: The Arabic Ligature
Thomas Milo, President, DecoType, Amsterdam, Holland
5:30-5:45pm

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