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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

TUTORIALS Track 1 Track  2 Track  3
Morning
SESSION 1
09:00 – 10:30
An Introduction to Writing Systems & Unicode
 
 
  Richard Ishida
Internationalization Lead
W3C
Internationalization: An Introduction, Part I: Characters and Character Encodings
 
  Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect
Lab126 (Amazon)
Building a Custom Keyboard Layout for the Mac with Ukulele and XML
 
  Elizabeth Pyatt
Instructional Designer
Penn State
10:30 - 10:45  Morning Refreshments
Morning
SESSION 2
10:45 – 12:30
An Introduction to Writing Systems & Unicode (Cont’d.)
 
 
 
Internationalization: An Introduction, Part II: Writing Global-Ready Code
 
  Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect
Lab126 (Amazon)
Arabic Script: Structure, Geographic and Regional Classification
  Thomas Milo
President
DecoType
12:30 - 13:30  Lunch
Afternoon
SESSION 1
13:30 – 15:30

 
Unicode - a Grand Tour
 
 
  Craig R. Cummings
Michael G McKenna Internationalization Architects
Yahoo! Inc.
Web Internationalization - Standards and Best Practices
 
  Tex Texin
Xen Master
XenCraft
Building Multilingual Websites in Joomla [Drupal]
 
  Jim DeLaHunt
Principal
Jim DeLaHunt & Associates
15:30 – 15:45  Afternoon Refreshments
Afternoon
SESSION 2
15:45 – 17:45
Unicode - a Grand Tour
(cont'd.)
 
Creating XHTML/HTML Pages with Right-to-Left Scripts
 
  Richard Ishida
Internationalization Activity Lead
W3C
Free Software stack for Unicode Text Rendering
 
  Behdad Esfahbod
Software Developer
Red Hat/GNOME
18:00-19:00  Welcome Reception  hosted by Adobe Systems


Thursday, October 15, 2009

09:00 - 9:15
 Welcome & Opening Remarks
09:15 – 10:00
 Keynote Presentation: The Alphabetic Principle and its Enemies
Nicholas Ostler
 Chairman
Foundation Endangered Languages

10:00 - 20:00       EXHIBIT AREA OPEN

10:00 – 10:30  Morning Refreshments in Exhibit Area
PRESENTATIONS Track 1
Programming Languages		 Track 2
Fonts and Typography		 Track 3
Unicode News
10:30 – 11:20
SESSION 1
Internationalization with PHP
 
  Kirti Velankar
Senior Software Engineer
Yahoo! Inc.
Designing & Developing Pan-CJK Fonts for Today
  Ken Lunde
Senior Computer Scientist
Adobe
Unicode Update: Unicode 5.2 and CLDR 1.7
  Mark Davis
Sr. Internationalization Architect
Google Inc.
11:30 – 12:20
SESSION 2
Internationalization in Ruby 1.9

 
  Dr. Martin Dürst
Aoyama Gakuin University

 
Unicode & Fonts: a status report

 
  Kamal Mansour
Manager of Non-Latin Products
Monotype Imaging
Patching Holes in the Unicode Pipeline: A Status Report on the Unencoded Scripts of Asia and Africa
 
  Deborah Anderson
Project Leader, Script Encoding
Initiative, Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley
Richard Cook
Post-Doctoral Researcher, Dept. of Linguistics
UC Berkeley
Charles Riley
Catalog Librarian for African Languages
Yale University
 Anshuman Pandey
C.Phil. History
University of Michigan
12:30 - 13:30  Lunch
PRESENTATIONS Track 1
Programming Languages (cont'd)		 Track 2
Fonts and Typography (cont'd)		 Track 3
I18n Standards News
13:30 – 14:20
SESSION 3

 

 
Internationalization for JavaScript applications

 
 
  Norbert Lindenberg
Internationalization Architect
Yahoo! Inc
The Design & Development of Fully Proportional Japanese Fonts
 
 
  Ken Lunde
Senior Computer Scientist
Adobe
Update on Internationalized Domain Names and Internationalized Resource Identifiers
 
  Dr. Martin Dürst
Aoyama Gakuin University
14:30 – 15:20
SESSION 4

 
Implementing International Calendars in JavaScript

 
 
  Umesh Nair
Software Engineer
Google Inc.
The Unicode-based Koran: a Conflict Between Calligraphic Tradition and Computer Typography
 
  Thomas Milo
President
DecoType
Language Identification and Usage

  Mark Davis
Sr. Internationalization Architect
Google Inc.
Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect
Lab126 (Amazon)
15:20 – 16:00  Afternoon Refreshments in Exhibit Area
PRESENTATIONS Track 1
Open Source Libraries		 Track 2
Assuring Quality		 Track 3
Scripts
16:00 – 16:50
SESSION 5

 
What's New with ICU
 
 
  Steven Loomis
Software Engineer
IBM
Markus Scherer
Unicode Software Engineer
Google Inc.
A Systematic Approach to I18N Testing
  Michael Manca
Project Manager and Solution Quality Analyst
IT Flex Services
Intel Corporation
 Tomas Galicia
Solutions Quality Analyst
IT Flex Service
Intel Corporation
 Loic Dufresne de Virel
Localization Strategist
IT Flex Services
Intel Corporation
Investigation of Opaque Glyphs Synthesized from Old Hanzi
 
  Toshiya Suzuki
Research Assistant
Hiroshima University
17:00 – 17:50
SESSION 6

 
HarfBuzz, the Free and Open OpenType Shaping Engine
 
  Behdad Esfahbod
Software Developer
Red Hat/GNOME
Google Internationalization Quality Control Framework 
 
  Andrew Swerdlow
Internationalization Tech Program Mng
Google Inc.
Jens Riegelsberger
Manish Bhargava
Laura Cuozzo
Google Inc
Math Editing and Display in Microsoft Office
 
  Murry Sargent III
Partner Software Design Engineer
Microsoft
18:00 - 20:00  Conference Reception in Exhibit Area


Friday, October 16, 2009

PRESENTATIONS Track 1
Development Platforms		 Track 2
Mobile Programming		 Track 3
Internationalization in Practice
09:00 – 09:50
SESSION 7
International Features of Mac OS X Snow Leopard
 
  Douglas Davidson
Software Engineer
Apple, Inc.
International Features of iPhone OS
  Brent Ramerth
Software Engineer
Apple, Inc.
Practical "Unicode Logic" for Online Tech Courses
 
  Elizabeth Pyatt
Instructional Designer
Penn State
10:00 – 10:50
SESSION 8

 
Windows 7: Writing World-Ready Applications
 
  Derek Murnam
Senior Program Manager
Microsoft Corporation
Emoji in Unicode: Cell Phones Meet the Internet
 
  Markus Scherer
Unicode Software Engineer
Google Inc.
Katsuhiko Momoi
Staff Test Engineer & I18n Consultant
Google Inc.
 Mark Davis
Sr. Internationalization Architect
Google Inc.
Creating an I18n Project Plan
 
 
  Adam Asnes
President
Lingoport, Inc.
10:50 - 11:10  Morning Refreshments
11:10 – 12:00
SESSION 9

 
Accessing Globalization Services on Multiple Operating Systems
 
  Mihai Nita
Globalization Architect
Adobe Systems, Inc.
Taking Moblin to the World

 
 
  Loic Dufresne de Virel
Localization Strategist
IT Flex Services
Intel Corporation
Michael Kuperstein
Senior Localization Engineer
 IT Flex Services
Intel Corporation
Margie Foster
Localization Project Manager
Moblin Project
Intel Corporation
Building a Global Names System: A Case Study
 
 
  Cindy Conlin
Senior Engineer
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
12:00 - 13:00  Lunch
PRESENTATIONS Track 1
Development Platforms (cont'd)		 Track 2
Leveraging CLDR		 Track 3
Internationalization in Practice (cont'd)
13:00 – 13:50
SESSION 10
 
Internationalization in Database Drivers for C/C++/Java/.NET Applications
 
  Sumit Sarkar
i18n Product Specialist
DataDirect Technologies
Deploying the Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR)
 
 
  Steven Loomis
Software Engineer
IBM
Mark Davis
Sr. Internationalization Architect
Google Inc.
Unicode Transformations and Security Vulnerabilities
 
 
  Chris Weber
Casaba Security
14:00 – 14:50
SESSION 11
 
Unicode Technology and Globalization Support in IBM UNIX, AIX
  Su Liu
AIX Globalization Architect
IBM
CLDR on the Cloud

 
  Benedicto Franco Jr.
Software Engineer
Yahoo! Inc.
Marco Aurelio Carvalho
Senior Software Engineer
Yahoo! Inc.
My Unicode Disk Storage Went into the Circular File
 
  Tex Texin
Xen Master
XenCraft
14:50 – 15:10  Afternoon Refreshments
PRESENTATIONS Track 1
Translation Services API		 Track 2
Bidirectional Text		 Track 3
Case Studies
15:10 – 16:00

SESSION 12
 
Extended Linguistic Services in Windows 7
  Ryan Cavalcante
Software Development Engineer
Microsoft
James Lyle
Program Manager
Microsoft
Mashing-up Bi-Di
 
 
  Adil Allawi
Technical Director
Diwan Software Limited
Twanguages of the World: a Language Census of Twitter
 
  Jim DeLaHunt
Principal
Jim DeLaHunt & Associates
16:10 – 17:00

SESSION 13
 
Google APIs for Text Input and Translation

 
 
  Frank Yung-Fong Tang
Sr. Software Engineer
Google Inc
Wenchao Tong
Software Engineer
Google Inc.
Bidirectionalization: Demystifying Bidi Enabling

 
  Roozbeh Pournader
Internationalization Specialist
HighTech Passport
Banking in the Cloud: Challenges of Internationalizing Banking Software (Case Study)
  Ilya Shtein
IT Architect
Metavante
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