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Wednesday, November 15, 2006

TUTORIALS

 Track 1 Track  2 Track  3
Morning
SESSION 1
09:00 – 10:30
Unicode 5.0 Tutorial: Part 1 - Characters in Action  
(09:00 - 09:45)
 
Asmus Freytag
President 
ASMUS, Inc.
Internationalization: An Introduction
 
Addison Phillips
Internationalization Architect Yahoo!
Web Internationalization - Standards and Best Practices
 
Tex Texin
Internationalization Architect
Yahoo!

10:30 - 10:45      Morning Refreshments
Morning
SESSION 2
10:45 – 12:15
An Introduction to Writing Systems & Unicode  
(09:45 - 12:15)
 
Richard Ishida
Internationalization Activity Lead
W3C
Internationalization: An Introduction (Cont’d)
 
 
 

 
Web Internationalization - Standards and Best Practices (Cont’d)
 
 

12:15 - 13:15      Lunch
Afternoon
SESSION 1
13:15 – 15:30

 
Unicode 5.0 Tutorial: Part 2 - Fundamental Specifications
 
Asmus Freytag
President
ASMUS, Inc.
Best Practices in Software Localization Process and Technology
 
Elsebeth Flarup
Globalization Architect, IBM Corp.
Soeren Bendtsen
Advisory IT Specialist, IBM Corp.
Internationalization and Localization in Microsoft .NET
 
Bill Hall
MLM Associates, Inc.

15:30 – 15:45    Afternoon Refreshments
Afternoon
SESSION 2
15:45 – 18:00
Unicode 5.0 Tutorial: Part 3 - Unicode Algorithms
 
Asmus Freytag
President
ASMUS, Inc.
Managing Internationalization Projects
 

Eva Sanchez
Director of Project Management Basis Technology
Making Sense of Oracle Character Sets and Length Semantics
 
Pierre Cadieux
President
i18N Inc.
18:00-19:00 Welcome Reception hosted by Basis Technology - Red Fox Room, 2nd Floor

 

Thursday, November 16, 2006

09:00 - 9:15
 Welcome & Opening Remarks
Mark Davis - President, UNICODE Consortium
09:15 – 10:00
 Keynote Presentation: One Laptop per Child – $100 Laptop
Nicholas Negroponte - Chairman, One Laptop per Child and Chairman Emeritus, MIT Media Laboratory

 10:00 - 20:00       EXHIBIT AREA OPEN

10:00 – 10:30       Morning Refreshments in Exhibit Area
PRESENTATIONS
 Track 1
Web Internationalization		 Track 2
 Techniques/Case Studies		 Track 3
Applications		 Track 4
 Languages/Scripts
10:30 – 11:20
SESSION 1
Internationalizing Style on the Web: What's Planned for CSS3
 
Richard Ishida
Internationalization Activity Lead, W3C
Undetecting the Encoding: Choosing a Legacy Encoding Algorithmically
 
Addison Phillips
Internationalization Architect, Yahoo!
Microsoft Office 2007 – International Collaboration and Analysis
 
Gwyneth Marshall
International Program Manager, Office
Microsoft Corporation
 
11:30 – 12:20
SESSION 2
StringPrep: Unicode in Network Protocols
 
Raghuram Viswanadha
Software Engineer, ICU Team
IBM Corp.
Parsing Personal Names
Richard Gillam
Software Engineer
IBM Corp.
Keyboards on Win32: Beyond the Keyboard Layout Creator
 
Michael Kaplan
Technical Lead
Microsoft Corporation
Tasmeem - Ultimate Arabization
 
Thomas Milo
President
DecoType

12:30 - 13:30       Lunch
13:30 – 14:20
SESSION 3

 

 
Collation in ICU
 
Steven R. Loomis
Globalization Center of Competency, IBM Corp
Character Conversions from Browser to Database: or There and Back Again
 
John O'Conner
Technical Writer
Sun Microsystems
Unicode in Office for Macintosh: Past, Present, and Beyond
 
Han-yi Shaw
Lead Program Manager
Macintosh Business Unit
Microsoft Corporation
Unicode in Education
 
Adil Allawi
Technical Director
Diwan Software Limited
14:30 – 15:20
SESSION 4

 
Building Multilingual Websites with ASP.NET 2.0
 
Marin Millar
Globalization Manager
Microsoft Corporation
How to be a CSI (Encoding Crime Scene Investigator
 
Tex Texin
Internationalization Architect
Yahoo!
Local Language Program
 
Andy Abbar
Director, International Strategic Initiatives
Microsoft Europe
Web Development Considerations for Unicode-based Text Processing in Uyghur Language
 
Waris Abdukerim Janbaz
Researcher/Ph.D. Candidate
University of Paris VIII

15:20 – 16:00       Afternoon Refreshments in Exhibit Area
16:00 – 16:50
SESSION 5

 
Ich bin eine Website – The Impact of Language and Culture on Internationalization & Localization
 
Evan Gerber
User Experience Consultant 
Molecular
A Forest of Tries
 
Richard Gillam
Software Engineer
IBM Corp.
Windows Vista, An Ever Expanding View of Internationalization -- Updated
 
Russ Rolfe
Lead Program Manager
Microsoft Corporation
Investigation of Encodings in Legacy Khmer TrueType Fonts and Possibility of Auto Encoding Detection
 
Toshiya Suzuki
Research Assistant
Hiroshima University
17:00 – 17:50
SESSION 6

 
A Generic Content Localization Taxonomy
 
Christian Donner
Director, Distributed Systems
Aviva Life Insurance Co.
Sorting It All Out: More Words on Collation
 
Michael Kaplan
Technical Lead
Microsoft Corporation
Unicode Transition Planning for Solaris
 
Ienup Sung
Staff Engineer
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
 

18:00 - 20:00       Conference Reception in Exhibit Area
 

Friday, November 17, 2006

PRESENTATIONS
 Track 1
 Web Internationalization		 Track 2
 Techniques/Case Studies		 Track 3
 Applications		 Track 4
 Languages/Scripts

09:00 – 09:45

 Keynote Presentation: Where Would We Be Without UNICODE?
 
Moderator: Dr. Richard Soley, Chairman & CEO, Object Management Group
Panelists: Mark Davis, President, UNICODE Consortium
Richard Ishida, Internationalization Activity Lead, W3C
P. J. Plauger, President, Dinkumware, Ltd.
Erkki Kolehmainen, Coordinator, Cultural Diversity Issues in ICT, CSC-Finnish IT Center for Science

9:45 - 10:00         Morning Refreshments
10:00 – 10:50
SESSION 7

 
What's New in Software Globalization Standards
 
Mark Davis
President
UNICODE Consortium

 

 

 
A Brief History of Character Encoding
 
Richard Gillam
Software Engineer
 IBM Corp.
Panel: Deploying the Common Locale Data Repository
 
Moderator:
 Steven R. Loomis
Globalization Center of Competency 
IBM Corp.

Panelists:
Mark Davis
Google
Mark Garrett
ModernGigabyte
Tex Texin
Yahoo!
Ram Viswanadha
IBM
Daniel Yacob
The Ge'ez Frontier Foundation

 
 
11:00 – 11:50
SESSION 8

 
Advanced Java Globalization
 
Charles Hornig
Globalization Architect
IBM Corp.
Internationalization of the Travelport B2C Platform
 
Michael Alford
Senior Architect
Travelport, Inc.
 

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 – 13:50
SESSION 9

 
The Why, Who, When and How of Efficient Globalization Testing
 
Dale Schultz
Globalization Test Architect
IBM Corp.

 
Unicode in Google
 
Mark Davis
Google
(President
UNICODE Consortium)
Embedding Unicode Support into Printers
 
Fred Susi
Senior Product Manager
John Fay
Senior Product Specialist
Zebra Technologies Group

 
Panel: Unicode and the "Lesser Known" Scripts: Historic and Minority Scripts in Unicode, New Developments and Requirements
 
Moderator:
 Deborah Anderson
Researcher
UC Berkeley

Panelists:
Daniel Yacob
Ge'ez Frontier Foundation
David Germano
University of Virginia
Leonard Muellner
Brandeis University
Neel Smith
College of the Holy Cross

Add'l Panelists, TBA

 

 
14:00 – 14:50
SESSION 10

 
Globalization Testing using Eclipse™
 
Charles Hornig
Globalization Architect
IBM Corp.
Implementing Multilanguage Databases
 
Jennifer DeCamp
Foreign Language Technology Program Manager
MITRE
International Features of Mac OS X
 
John Harvey
Engineer
Apple Computer

14:50 – 15:10 Afternoon Refreshments

15:10 – 16:00
SESSION 11

 
The Theory and Practice of Pseudo-Translation
 
Addison Phillips
Internationalization Architect
Yahoo!
A Case Study of eBay UTF-8 DB Migration
 
Nelson Ng
Chief Globalization Architect
eBay Inc.
New Internationalization Features of the Java Platform - Java SE 6
 
Naoto Sato
Java Internationalization Engineer
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Craig R. Cummings
Principal Software Engineer
Oracle Corporation
Chinese Dilemma: How Many Ideographs are Needed?
 
Kuang-Hui Chiu
Associate Professor
National Taipei University
Chi-Ching Hsu
Standard and Business Planning
IBM Taiwan Corp.
16:10 – 17:00

SESSION 12
The Localization Process and Applicable Standards
 
Pierre Cadieux
President
i18N Inc.

 
Overhauling a C++ Application to Use Unicode
 
Charles Hornig
Globalization Architect IBM Corp.
From Parchment to the Web: Integrating and Encoding the Archimedes Palimpsest Transcriptions
 
Michael B. Toth
Program Manager
R.B.Toth Associates
Doug Emery
Data Manager
Emery IT
Build GB18030 from Unicode Features
 
Su Liu
Cheng Xu
Advisory Software Engineers
IBM Corp.
Program is subject to change.