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| Day 1: Wednesday, April 8 | ||
| Tutorials | ||
| Track A |
Track B |
Track C |
| Character Sets | Java | Databases |
| Session TA1: 9:00 am - 12:10 am The Unicode Standard: A Tutorial Hideki Hiura, Architect/Sr. Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA Tatsuo Kobayashi, Director, JUSTSYSTEM Corporation, Japan | Session TB1: 9:00 am - 12:10 am Developing Internationalized Applications/Applets with Java Tom McFarland, Internationalization Architect, Hewlett-Packard Company, USA | Session TC1: 9:00 am - 12:10 am Unicode in Databases Stefan Buchta, Principal Product Manager, Oracle Corporation, USA |
| Internet Standards | Internationalization & Localization | Operating Systems & Toolkits |
| Session TA2: 1:25 pm - 3:35 pm Unicode and HTML: Status and Developments Martin J. Dürst, Associate Professor (W3C Project), Keio University, Japan François Yergeau, Senior Technology Advisor, Alis Technologies, Canada Gavin Thomas Nicol, Systems Architect, Inso EPS, USA | Session TB2: 1:25 pm - 3:35 pm Cultural Issues with On-Screen Information Richard Ishida, Globalisation Consultant, The Document Company, Xerox, UK | Session TC2: 1:25 pm - 3:35 pm Unicode and Win32 Internationalization Dr. William S. Hall, President, MLM Associates, Inc., USA |
| Internet Standards | Internationalization & Localization | Operating Systems & Toolkits |
| Session TA3: 3:50 pm - 5:15 pm Unicode, XML, XLL and XSL Jon Bosak, Online Information Technology Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA Makoto Murata, Engineering Manager, Fuji Xerox Information Systems, Japan Gavin Thomas Nicol, Systems Architect, Inso EPS, USA | Session TB3: 3:50 pm - 5:15 pm Non-Latin Writing Systems: Characteristics and Impacts on Multinational Product Design Richard Ishida, Globalisation Consultant, The Document Company, Xerox, UK | Session TC3: 3:50 pm - 5:15 pm Unicode and Win32 Internationalization - Continued Dr. William S. Hall, President, MLM Associates, Inc., USA |
| Internet Standards | Internationalization & Localization | Character Sets |
| Session TA4: 5:20 pm - 6:00 pm Unicode, XML, XLL and XSL - Continued Jon Bosak, Online Information Technology Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA Makoto Murata, Engineering Manager, Fuji Xerox Information Systems, Japan Gavin Thomas Nicol, Systems Architect, Inso EPS, USA | Session TB4: 5:20 pm - 6:00 pm Non-Latin Writing Systems: Characteristics and Impacts on Multinational Product Design - Continued Richard Ishida, Globalisation Consultant, The Document Company, Xerox, UK | Session TC4: 5:20 pm - 6:00 pm Survey of Character Encodings Peter K. Edberg, Senior Software Engineer, Apple Computer, Inc., USA |
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| Day 2: Thursday, April 9 | ||
| Opening Addresses and Keynotes | ||
| Plenary Session | ||
| 9:00 am - 9:10 am Welcome Tatsuo Kobayashi, Co-Chair, Twelfth International Unicode/ISO10646 Conference | ||
| Keynote Address | ||
| 9:10 am - 9:45 am A Brief History of the Japanese Printing Industry and Kanji Typesetting Hidehiko Nakanishi, Vice President, Nakanishi Printing Co., Ltd., Japan | ||
| Plenary Session | ||
| 9:45 am - 10:20 am Unicode and ISO 10646: Achievements and Directions Mike Ksar, Globalization Manager, Corporate External Standards, Hewlett-Packard Company, USA | ||
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| Presentations | ||
| Track A |
Track B |
Track C |
| Input Methods | Operating Systems & Toolkits | Case Studies |
| Session A1: 10:40 am - 11:20 am Unicode Based Input Method and Han-Character Search Takashi Maruyama, Assistant Manager of Product and Technology Management, JUSTSYSTEM Corporation, Japan | Session B1: 10:40 am - 11:20 am Unicode: An Interoperability Enabler in HP-UX Susan L. Kline, Unicode Architect, Hewlett-Packard Company, USA | Session C1: 10:40 am - 11:20 am Unicode and Largest Business Application Software Nobuyoshi Mori, Development Manager, SAP AG, Germany |
| Input Methods | Operating Systems & Toolkits | Case Studies |
| Session A2: 11:25 am - 12:05 pm IIIMF - Distributed Input Method Architecture for the Internet, Network Computer, and Java Hideki Hiura, Architect/Sr. Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA | Session B2: 11:25 am - 12:05 pm World Ready Java - The Next Step - Part 1: General I18N, Text Layout and User Interface Brian Beck, Software Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc., JavaSoft Division, USA | Session C2: 11:25 am - 12:05 pm Multilingual Internet Commerce: A Case Study Tim Greenwood, Internationalization Architect, Open Market Inc., USA |
| Input Methods | Operating Systems & Toolkits | Case Studies |
| Session A3: 1:20 pm - 2:00 pm World Ready Java - The Next Step - Part 2: Input Method Framework Masayoshi Okutsu, Staff Engineer, Nihon Sun Microsystems K.K., JavaSoft Asia/Pacific, Japan Norbert Lindenberg, Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc., JavaSoft Division, USA | Session B3: 1:20 pm - 2:00 pm Unicode Locale Support in Solaris Ienup Sung, Member of Technical Staff, SunSoft, Inc., USA | Session C3: 1:20 pm - 2:00 pm Case Study: Unicode in Large Network Systems Management David Hetherington, Manager TME 10 Internationalization, Tivoli Systems, USA |
| Input Methods | Operating Systems & Toolkits | Case Studies |
| Session A4: 2:05 pm - 2:45 pm Unicode, Java and Input Methods Kok Yong Leong, Systems Analyst, National University of Singapore, Singapore | Session B4: 2:05 pm - 2:45 pm IBM AS/400 Unicode Support Shigeru Shimada, Software Developer, IBM Rochester, USA | Session C4: 2:05 pm - 2:45 pm Global Access to Technical Documentation William Smith, Engineering Manager, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA Don Stinchfield, Project Lead, INSO Corp., USA |
| Input Methods | Operating Systems & Toolkits | Case Studies |
| Session A5: 2:50 pm - 3:30 pm A Flexible IME Implementation Murray Sargent III, Senior Software Design Engineer, Microsoft Corporation, USA | Session B5: 2:50 pm - 3:30 pm IBM Graphical Locale Builder Steven Atkin, Development Lead, Internationalization, IBM Corporation, USA | Session C5: 2:50 pm - 3:30 pm Unicode on a Budget: A Case Study for Embedded Products Joann Girard, Lead Engineer, Motorola, Inc., USA R. Douglas Nordeman, Senior Software Engineer, Motorola, Inc., USA |
| Kanji | Operating Systems & Toolkits | Internationalization & Localization |
| Session A6: 3:50 pm - 4:30 pm Development of a Japanese Kanji Character Frequency List Nobuko Chikamatsu, Assistant Professor, DePaul University, USA Shoichi Yokoyama, Senior Research Scientist, The National Language Research Institute, Japan | Session B6: 3:50 pm - 4:30 pm Unicode and Internationalization Support on Netscape ONE Tague Griffith, Internationalization Engineer, Netscape Communications Corporation, USA | Session C6: 3:50 pm - 4:30 pm A Rule-Based Approach to Number Spellout Richard T. Gillam, Advisory Software Engineer, IBM Center for Java Technology, USA |
| Kanji | Operating Systems & Toolkits | Internationalization & Localization |
| Session A7: 4:35 pm - 5:15 pm Coincidence and Clash of Jitai Hiroyuki Sasahara, Research Scientist, The National Language Research Institute, Japan | Session B7: 4:35 pm - 5:15 pm Language Engineering with Unicode François Yergeau, Senior Technology Advisor, Alis Technologies, Canada | Session C7: 4:35 pm - 5:15 pm Internationalization of the Handle System - A Persistent Global Naming Service Sam X. Sun, Member of Technical Staff, Corporation for National Research Initiative, USA |
| Kanji | Operating Systems & Toolkits | Internationalization & Localization |
| Session A8: 5:20 pm - 6:00 pm Exploring the Potentials of Web Technologies for the Handling of Rare Ideographs and Ideograph Variants Martin J. Dürst, Associate Professor (W3C Project), Keio University, Japan | Session B8: 5:20 pm - 6:00 pm The Document Object Model: What it is, and what it means Gavin Thomas Nicol, Systems Architect, Inso EPS, USA | Session C8: 5:20 pm - 6:00 pm Unicode Issues and Localization of Software in Indian Languages Uppuluri Murty, Visiting Faculty, Assistant Professor, University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA |
| Reception and Exhibits | ||
| 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm | ||
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| Day 3: Friday, April 10 | ||
| Presentations | ||
| Track A |
Track B |
Track C |
| Applications | Internet Standards | Databases |
| Session A9: 9:00 am - 9:40 am Microsoft Office97 and Unicode Christopher Pratley, International Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation, USA | Session B9: 9:00 am - 9:40 am Multilingual, and Parallel Aligned Texts: Putting XML and XLL to Work Gavin Thomas Nicol, Systems Architect, Inso EPS, USA | Session C9: 9:00 am - 9:40 am Use of Unicode by World-Class Database Vendors Mike McKenna, Globalization Strategist, Sybase, Inc., USA |
| Applications | Internet Standards | Databases |
| Session A10: 9:45 am - 10:25 am Developing a Unicode Desktop Publishing Application based on Windows NT and Windows95 Thomas Nielsen, Director of Development, MGI Software Corp., Canada | Session B10: 9:45 am - 10:25 am Native Language Markup Rick Jelliffe, Author, SGML/XML Consultant, Australia | Session C10: 9:45 am - 10:25 am Migration of a 4GL and Relational Database to Unicode Tex Texin, Manager of International Products, Progress Software Corporation, USA |
| Applications | Internet Standards | Databases |
| Session A11: 10:45 am - 11:25 am Developing a Unicode GIS Application for Microsoft Windows and UNIX Yan Li, Development Programmer, Team Leader, ESRI (Environmental System Research Institute), USA | Session B11: 10:45 am - 11:25 am Equivalence vs. Normalization: The Case of Identifiers Martin J. Dürst, Associate Professor (W3C Project), Keio University, Japan | Session C11: 10:45 am - 11:25 am Unicode Inside: A View from the Trenches Gary Roberts, Consulting Scientist, NCR, USA |
| Applications | Internet Standards | Databases |
| Session A12: 11:30 am - 12:10 pm Java Kanji Flashcard 500: Kanji, Java and the World Wide Web Stephen Wood Ryner Jr., Lead Instructional Applications Developer, DePaul University, USA Nobuko Chikamatsu, Assistant Professor, DePaul University, USA | Session B12: 11:30 am - 12:10 pm Web Internationalization Panel of speakers | Session C12: 11:30 am - 12:10 pm Unicode and Proposed Changes to the SQL Standard Stefan Buchta, Principal Product Manager, Oracle Corporation, USA Michael McKenna, Globalization Strategist, Sybase Inc., USA |
| Applications | Fonts & Typography | Character Sets |
| Session A13: 1:25 pm - 2:05 pm Eudora and Unicode: Internationalizing the P.O. Pete Resnick, Senior Engineer, Qualcomm, Incorporated, USA | Session B13: 1:25 pm - 2:05 pm Unicode & Fonts Kamal Mansour, Manager of Non-Latin Products, Monotype Typography Inc., USA | Session C13: 1:25 pm - 2:05 pm Unihan: Dispelling the Myths John H. Jenkins, Engineer, Apple Computer, Inc., USA |
| Applications | Fonts & Typography | Character Sets |
| Session A14: 2:10 pm - 2:50 pm Internet Explorer Internationalization Takao Suzuki, Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation, USA | Session B14: 2:10 pm - 2:50 pm Worldwide Typography and how to apply JIS X-4051-1995 to Unicode Michel Suignard, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation, USA | Session C14: 2:10 pm - 2:50 pm User Defined Character Set Support in Unicode Jianping Yang, Development Manager, Oracle Corporation, USA |
| Searching | Fonts & Typography | Character Sets |
| Session A15: 3:10 pm - 3:50 pm Considerations for Unified Han character search operations, input, and output, in multi-lingual environment Takaaki Shiratori, Staff Software Engineer, IBM Japan, Japan | Session B15: 3:10 pm - 3:50 pm Handling Complex Unicode Rendering Problems John H. Jenkins, Engineer, Apple Computer, Inc., USA | Session C15: 3:10 pm - 3:50 pm Mapping Between Unicode and Other Character Sets: Methods and Issues Lloyd Honomichl, Senior Consulting Engineer, Novell, Inc., USA |
| Searching | Fonts & Typography | Character Sets |
| Session A16: 3:55 pm - 4:35 pm Unicode Based Chinese Text Retrieval Jack Chen, Senior Technical Staff, Oracle Corporation, USA | Session B16: 3:55 pm - 4:35 pm The design of an International Web Font Extension for Cascading Style Sheets Chris Lilley, Graphics and Fonts Guy, The World Wide Web Consortium, France | Session C16: 3:55 pm - 4:35 pm Supporting Multiple Character Sets on the Internet David Goldsmith, Architect, Apple Computer, Inc., USA |
| Plenary Session | ||
| 4:45 pm - 6:00 pm Unicode in Japan Panel of speakers | ||
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