ICE Conference Announcement

Date:      Thu, 19 Oct 2000 00:12:49 -0400
Subject:   ICE Conference Announcement

The Initiative for Cuneiform Encoding (ICE) announces its first conference, scheduled to be held at The Johns Hopkins University, Thursday and Friday, November 2nd and 3rd, 2000.

ICE is an international group of cuneiformists, Unicode experts, software engineers, linguists, and font vendors organized for the purpose of proposing a standard computer encoding for Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform, the world's oldest attested writing system.

The main goals of this first conference are to:

Establish a working group to develop such a proposal.
Hold discussions on pertinent theoretical and practical issues.

For more information contact Dean Snyder at dean.snyder@jhu.edu or +1 (410) 961-8943.

Let the ICE Age begin!

Current participants in the Initiative for Cuneiform Encoding include:

CUNEIFORMISTS

Jerrold Cooper, Prof. of Assyriology and Sumerian, Johns Hopkins
Robert Englund, Prof. of Assyriology and Sumerian, UCLA
Karljürgen Feuerherm, PhD Akkadian, Computer Scientist, Univ. of Toronto
Gene Gragg, Prof. of Near Eastern Languages & Linguistics, Univ. of Chicago
David Owen, Prof. of Ancient Near Eastern & Judaic Studies, Cornell Univ.
Simo Parpola, Prof. of Assyriology, Univ. of Helsinki
Steve Tinney, Prof. of Assyriology & Sumerian, Univ. of Pennsylvania

ENCODING EXPERTS

Lloyd Anderson, Linguist , Font Vendor, Ecological Linguistics
Ed Hart, Senior Computing Staff, Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins
John Jenkins, System Software Engineer, Apple, Unicode Technical Director
Rick McGowan, System Software Engineer, Apple
Kenneth Whistler, Software Engineer, Sybase, Unicode Technical Director

OTHERS

Thomas Izbicki, Near Eastern Resource Services Librarian, Johns Hopkins
Dean Snyder, Software Engineer, Semitic/Classics Philologist, Johns Hopkins
Lee Watkins, Jr., Dir. Research & Instructional Technologies, Johns Hopkins

Note: This announcement was cross-posted (apparently) to five mailing lists, at least three of which are public. -rcc

Prepared by Robin Cover for The XML Cover Pages archive. See also "Encoding and Markup for Texts of the Ancient Near East."

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