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Monday, September 8, 2008

TUTORIALS Track 1 Track  2 Track  3
Morning
SESSION 1
09:00 – 10:30
An Introduction to Writing Systems & Unicode
 
Richard Ishida
Internationalization Activity Lead
W3C
Internationalization: An Introduction
 
Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect
Lab126 (Amazon)
Windows Language Support
 
 
Michael Kaplan
Software Development Engineer
Microsoft Corp.
10:30 - 10:45  Morning Refreshments
Morning
SESSION 2
10:45 – 12:30
An Introduction to Writing Systems & Unicode (Cont’d.)
 
 
Internationalization: An Introduction (Cont’d)
 
 

 
Windows Language Support
(Cont'd.)
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
(13:30 to 16:30 )
 
Tex Texin
Technical Director
NetApp
Java Internationalization with Eclipse and Eclipse RCP
 
Pierre Cadieux
President
i18N Inc.
15:30 – 15:45  Afternoon Refreshments
Afternoon
SESSION 2
15:45 – 17:45
Unicode - a Grand Tour
(cont'd.)
 
Bidi on the Web
(16:45 to 17:45)
 
Richard Ishida
Internationalization Activity Lead
W3C
ICU in Action: Deploying with ICU
 
Steven R. Loomis
Software Engineer, IBM
David Bertoni
Software Engineer, Google
18:00-19:00  Welcome Reception hosted by Adobe Systems


Tuesday, September 9, 2008

09:00 - 9:15
 Welcome & Opening Remarks
Mark Davis - President, UNICODE Consortium
09:15 – 10:00
 Keynote Presentation: TBA

10:00 - 20:00       EXHIBIT AREA OPEN

10:00 – 10:30  Morning Refreshments in Exhibit Area
PRESENTATIONS Track 1
Case Studies		 Track 2
Web Topics		 Track 3
IDN/Language Tags
10:30 – 11:20
SESSION 1
Unicode as a Key Tool in Preserving Archimedes Writings
Doug Emery
Emery IT
WS-I18N: Making Web Services Internationalized
Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect
Lab126 (Amazon)
Dealing with a World in Flux: Updating International Identifiers
Jeffrey D. Oldham
Dr. Craig Cornelius
International Engineering Team Google, Inc.
11:30 – 12:20
SESSION 2
Challenges of Localization in a Multi-script and Multilingual Nation
 
Swaran Lata & Somnath Chandra Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Govt. of India
I18n in Google Web Toolkit - An Open Source Collaboration
Adil Allawi
Technical Director, Diwan Software Ltd
Shanjian Li
SW Engineer, Google
Language Tags: The Next Generation
 
Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect, Lab126
Dr. Mark Davis
Senior Intl. SW Architect, Google
12:30 - 13:30  Lunch
13:30 – 14:20
SESSION 3

 

 
Unicode in Google
 
Dr. Mark Davis
Senior Intl SW Architect
Google
Web 2.0 Goes to Babel: Multilingual Websites and User-supplied Content
 
Jim DeLaHunt
Principal
Jim DeLaHunt & Associates
IDN for Indian Languages - A Case Study
 
K.G.Sulochana
Scientist
C-DAC
14:30 – 15:20
SESSION 4

 
Internationalizing PayPal – Global Online Payment Platform
 
Steve Lee
Sr. Product Manager
PayPal
Web Apps I18n Testing and Test Data
 
Katsuhiko Momoi
Senior Test Engineer
Google, Inc.
New Work on Japanese Layout Requirements
Richard Ishida, Steven Zilles, Tatsuo Kobayashi
W3C & Adobe
15:20 – 16:00  Afternoon Refreshments in Exhibit Area
16:00 – 16:50
SESSION 5

 
We're "World-Ready"… What does this really mean?
 
Loic Dufresne de Virel
Localization Strategist
Intel Corporation
Panel - Unicode Locale Data
Moderator: Dr. Mark Davis 
Senior Intl SW Architect, Google

Panelists: TBA
Ideographic Variation Sequences: Implementation Details & Demo
 
Ken Lunde
Sr. Computer Scientist
Adobe Systems Inc.
17:00 – 17:50
SESSION 6

 
Internationalization Programming for Mobile Applications
 
Roy Yokoyama
Principal Globalization Engineer
Motorola-GTG
Panel - Unicode Locale Data 
(Cont'd.)
 
Legacy Gaiji Solutions & SING
 
Ken Lunde
Sr. Computer Scientist
Adobe Systems Inc.
18:00 - 20:00  Conference Reception in Exhibit Area


Wednesday, September 10, 2008

PRESENTATIONS Track 1
Algorithms		 Track 2
Programming/Platforms		 Track 3
Scripts
09:00 – 09:50
SESSION 7
Unicode Matching, Sorting, and Searching
 
Michael Ow
Software Engineer
IBM
Internationalization Support in PHP
Stanislav Malyshev
Software Architect
Zend Technologies
Unicode Support for Modern African Languages and Scripts: Where are We Today?
 
Dr. Deborah Anderson
Researcher, UC Berkeley
Don Osborn
Director, Bisharat
10:00 – 10:50
SESSION 8

 
Knotty Problems in Date/time Parsing and Formatting and Time Zones
 
Yoshito Umaoka
Software Engineer
IBM
Apple's Architecture for Localization and Internationalization
 
Dr. Douglas R. Davidson
Software Engineer
Apple, Inc.
Unencoded Scripts of China
 
Dr. Richard Cook
Linguist
UC Berkeley
10:50 - 11:10  Morning Refreshments
11:10 – 12:00
SESSION 9

 
Implementing Better Source Editing for Bidirectional XHTML and XML
 
Martin J. Dürst
Associate Professor 
Kunihiro Sato 
Aoyama Gakuin University
Shikari: Hunting for Java I18N Problems
 
Michael Bridgers
Senior Software Engineer
SAS Institute Inc.
Behind the Proposed Change to Tamil in Unicode
 
Michael Kaplan
Software Development Engineer Microsoft Corp.
12:00 - 13:00  Lunch
PRESENTATIONS Track 1
Platforms / Security		 Track 2
Programming/Platforms		 Track 3
Scripts / Web
13:00 – 13:50
SESSION 10
 
Windows, .NET and Silverlight - Globalization Technologies
 
Shawn Steele
Sr. Software Design Engineer Poornima Priyadarshini
Program Manager
Microsoft
My Unicode Disk Storage went into the Circular File!
 
Tex Texin
Technical Director
NetApp
Unicode: A Ray of Hope For Myanmar Scripts Community
 
Wunna Ko Ko
Project Leader
Burmese Language Projects
14:00 – 14:50
SESSION 11
 
Windows Live Messenger Internationalization
Owen Yen
International Program Manager Microsoft
Unicode and ISO 2002 COBOL, the Meeting of Two Standards
Gisle Forseth
SW Systems Developer/Sr. Principal ACUCORP a Micro Focus Company
Arwi: Case Study of Arabic, Syriac and Diacritical Unicode Characters
 
Dr. Seyed Mohamed Buhari
Senior Lecturer
University Brunei Darussalam
14:50 – 15:10  Afternoon Refreshments
15:10 – 16:00

SESSION 12
 
Exploiting Unicode-enabled Software
Chris Weber & Jordan Tigani
Casaba Security
Building Input Methods on Mac OS 10.5 and Up
 
John Harvey
Software Engineer
Apple Computer Inc.
Internationalization of Web Applications Using Natural Language
 
Shaloo Chaudhary
Program Manager
Microsoft Corpration
16:10 – 17:00

SESSION 13
 
Unicode Security and Spoofing Detection
 
Andy Heninger
Internationalization Team
Google
What's New with ICU?
Steven R. Loomis
Software Engineer
IBM
S13N - Enabling Unicode Standards for the Semantic Web
 
Daniel Yacob
Semantic Solutions Architect TopQuadrant
Program is subject to change.
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