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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 Lead
W3C

Internationalization: An Introduction

Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect
Lab126 (Amazon)

Windows Language Support

Shawn Steele & Peter Constable
Sr. Software Design Engineers
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

Internationalization with Java and Eclipse

George Rhoten
Software Developer
IBM

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
(16:45 to 17:45)

Richard Ishida
Internationalization Lead
W3C

ICU in Action

David Bertoni
Software Engineer, Google
Steven R. Loomis
Software Engineer, IBM

18:00-19:00 Welcome Reception hosted by Adobe Systems

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

09:00 - 9:15

Welcome & Opening Remarks
Addison Phillips, Globalization Architect, Lab126 (Amazon)

09:15 – 10:00

Keynote Presentation: New Developments in Digital Humanities
Georges Van Den Abbeele, Dean of Humanities, University of California, Santa Cruz

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
Consultant, Emery IT
Michael B. Toth
Prog. Manager, R.B.Toth Associates

WS-I18N: Making Web Services Internationalized

Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect
Lab126 (Amazon)

Dealing with a World in Flux: Updating International Identifiers

Jeffrey D. Oldham,
Software Engineer
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
Andy Heninger
Software Engineer
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
Joint Director
Kumar R. Ravindra
Senior Director
Language Technology Ctr.
C-DAC, Thiruvananthapuram

14:30 – 15:20

SESSION 4

What's in a Name? Handling Personal Names and Information in a Global Application

Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect
Lab126 (Amazon)

Web Apps I18n Testing and Test Data

Katsuhiko Momoi
Sr. Test Engineer & I18n Consultant
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
Michael Manca
Localization QA Lead
Cory Whitney
Localization Engineer
Intel Corporation

Panel - Unicode Locale Data

Moderator: John C. Emmons Globalization Architect
IBM Software Group

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

20:00 - 21:00
BOF
Discussion Session

Soft Cultural Elements in ICT

Moderators:
Erkki I. Kolehmainen, Independent Consultant, Cultural Diversity Issues in ICT
Tero Aalto, Coordinator, Kotoistus Intitiative, CSC-The Finnish IT Center for Science

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
Eric Mader
Sr. Software Engineer IBM Corp.

Internationalization Support in PHP

Kirti Velankar
Senior Software Engineer
Yahoo Inc.

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

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

Globalization & Microsoft Silverlight

Shawn Steele
Sr. Software Design Engineer Poornima Priyadarshini
Program Manager
Microsoft

Honey, My Unicode Data Disk 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 Project
OpenOffice.org

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
Sr. Lecturer, Dept. of Computer Sci.
University Brunei Darussalam

14:50 – 15:10 Afternoon Refreshments

15:10 – 16:00

SESSION 12

Exploiting Unicode-enabled Software

Chris Weber
Security Consultant
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
Hisami Scott
International Test Engineer
Microsoft Corpration

16:10 – 17:00

SESSION 13

Unicode Security and Spoofing Detection

Andy Heninger
Software Engineer
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
(Ge'ez Frontier Foundation)