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– 17, 2007 - San Jose, CA USA
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Note this date: September 5, 2007 is the early-bird registration deadline
for the 31st Internationalization & Unicode Conference.
If you need to get up to speed with Unicode, a full day of tutorials
precedes the formal presentations of the conference.
More details below.
-- Joan Aliprand
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From: Magda Danish (Unicode) <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Jul 3, 2007 11:10 AM
Subject: Internationalization & Unicode Conference 31- October 15 – 17,
2007 - San Jose, CA USA
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Immerse yourself in cutting-edge topics and new technologies, all geared for
the internationalization community
The program committee has created an exciting program full of new and
cutting-edge topics that is relevant and engaging for the
internationalization community. The three-day conference will feature a
keynote presentation by Robert Bringhurst, a noted poet, book designer,
typographer, historian and linguist. The conference includes a full day of
tutorials followed by two days of presentations, panels and discussions.
There will also be technology exhibits and demonstrations.
Highlights of the Conference:
Keynote Presenter:
* Robert Bringhurst, noted poet, book designer, typographer, historian
and linguist
Tutorials in Three Tracks:
* Unicode 5.0: An Introduction to Writing Systems & Unicode;
* Fundamental Specifications and Unicode Algorithms;
* Internationalization: An Introduction;
* A two-part tutorial on Oracle/SQL Server, Making Sense of Oracle
Character Sets and Length Semantics;
* ICU, in both C and Java
* Best Practices in Software Localization Process and Technology;
* Web Internationalization - Standards and Best Practices;
* Writing Win32 Multilingual Applications Using the Windows Vista MUI
Technology; Extending Mac OS X's International Support.
* Presenters come from such organizations as Apple Computer, ASMUS,
Inc., Google, IBM Corporation, i18N Inc., Microsoft, W3C, and Yahoo!
Sessions in Four Tracks:
* Sessions on Tuesday are in four tracks; sessions on Wednesday are in
three tracks plus, for the first time, a fourth track comprising the Unicode
Technical Committee Meeting.
* The following is just a small sample of some of the cutting-edge
presentations that will be given at IUC 31. For the full program, visit the
IUC 31 Web site at http://www.unicodeconference.org/ch.
* Climbing the Tower of Babel with PHP, presented by Andrei
Zmievski, Yahoo!
* When Ajax Meets Globalization…, presented by Justin Yin, IBM
* Unicode Issues in Mars: An XML Representation of PDF,
presented by Matthew Hardy, Adobe Systems
* Internationalization Tag Set 1.0 - A New Standard for
Internationalization and Localization of XML, presented by Felix Sasaki, W3C
* What's New in CLDR 1.5, presented by John Emmons, IBM
* Language Tags: the Next Generation, presented by Addison
Phillips, Yahoo! & Mark Davis, Google
* New Internationalization Features of the Java Platform,
presented by Naoto Sato, Sun Microsystems & Craig Cummings, Oracle
* Session Presenters come from such organizations as Adobe Systems,
Aoyama Gakuin University, Apple Computer, Diwan Software Limited, Earth
Treasury, Google, i18N, IBM, Intel, Jim DeLaHunt & Associates, Microsoft,
MLM Associates, Motorola - GTG, Oracle, PDFlib GmbH, Penn State,
Tavultesoft, UC Berkeley, W3C, Webster University, and Yahoo!
Important Information: Sponsors and Deadlines
The 31st Internationalization & Unicode Conference is sponsored by Gold
Sponsor Adobe (www.adobe.com); Media Sponsor MultiLingual Computing Inc. (
www.multilingual.com), and Organizational Sponsor Localization Industry
Standards Association (LISA) (www.lisa.org).
Early-bird Registration Deadline is September 5, 2007
Hotel registration deadline is September 21, 2007
For full conference details and to register, visit
http://www.unicodeconference.org/ch.
Sponsorships and exhibit space are available; for more information on
sponsoring, or exhibiting contact Jon Roussel at [log in to unmask],
+1-781-444 0404, ext. 106. For all other questions email
[log in to unmask]
Event Producer:
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