- From: Misha Wolf <misha.wolf@reuters.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 19:05:07 +0000 (GMT)
- To: ISO10646 <iso10646@listproc.hcf.jhu.edu>, www-international <www-international@w3.org>, www-html <www-html@w3.org>, meta2 <meta2@mrrl.lut.ac.uk>, Search <search@mccmedia.com>
Hello Unicoders,
Hey, you guessed it... It's time to register for the Eleventh
International Unicode Conference which will be held in San Jose,
California immediately after Labor Day, September 2, 3, 4, 5. We
have expanded the conference again this year. It now includes
one and a half days of tutorial sessions and two days packed
with talks. The e-mail brochure and registration form are
attached. Please share this with friends and colleagues and
mailing lists of related interests.
I look forward to seeing you in September.
Best regards,
Lisa Moore
Co-chair, Conference Review Board
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Eleventh International Unicode Conference
and
Global Computing Showcase
Software Development + the Internet: Going Global with Unicode
September 2 - 5, 1997
San Jose, California
The Eleventh International Unicode Conference will bring together
industry-wide experts on the global Internet and Unicode,
internationalization and localization, implementation of Unicode in
operating systems and applications, fonts, text layout, and
multilingual computing.
CONFERENCE SPONSORS
IBM Corporation
Microsoft Corporation
Netscape Communications Corporation
Reuters Limited
Sun Microsystems
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
CONFERENCE WEB PAGES
http://www.unicode.org
http://www.reuters.com/unicode/iuc11
LOCATION
Red Lion / Doubletree Hotel San Jose
2050 Gateway Place
San Jose, California, USA 95110
Tel: +1-408-453-4000
Fax: +1-408-437-2893 (reservations only - attention: Jim Redmond)
ACCOMMODATION
A guest room block has been set aside for the Conference.
Conference rates: $135.00 single room per night
$160.00 double room per night
These rates include buffet breakfast, tax and service charges, but do not
include hotel tax.
To receive these special rates, you may reserve your room either directly
with the Red Lion / Doubletree Hotel San Jose by phone or fax, or together
with your conference registration through Global Meeting Services. Please
request the Unicode Conference special group rate. See form attached to
conference registration form.
Hotel reservations should be made prior to August 11, 1997. Thereafter,
this special rate will be offered on a space available basis only.
TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS
Conference attendees are to make their own travel arrangements.
Japanese guests may make their travel arrangements through:
Skyear Express Inc.
Attention: Mr. Hibi or Mr. Ono
7-9-3 Akasaka. Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan, 107
Tel: +813-3585-8371 Fax: +813-3584-2060
CONFERENCE FEES
Tutorials Conference Tutorials
only only and
Conference
Unicode Member* $ 250 $ 425 $ 650
Non-member booking prior to Aug 15 $ 275 $ 475 $ 725
Non-member booking after Aug 15 $ 295 $ 525 $ 795
* Unicode Member - This includes all employees of corporate and
associate members, as well as individual members
Conference registration to include all conference materials;
proceedings; refreshment breaks and luncheons for all days; cocktail
reception and entry to the exhibition area.
GLOBAL COMPUTING SHOWCASE
Visit the Showcase to find out more about products supporting the Unicode
Standard, and products and services that can help you globalize/localize
your software, documentation and the Internet content.
Reserve your exhibit space now. Contact Barbara at:
Global Meeting Services Inc.
Tel: +1-604-983-9157
Fax: +1-604-983-9158
Email: conference@unicode.org
or: info@global-conference.com
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
PRE-CONFERENCE TUTORIALS/WORKSHOPS
Tuesday, September 2, 1997
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| TIME | TRACKS A, B AND C |
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| 12:00-05:00 | Registration |
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| 01:15-04:15 | TA1: The Unicode Standard: Version 2 |
| | |
| | Asmus Freytag, ASMUS, Inc., USA |
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Wednesday, September 3, 1997
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| TIME | TRACK A | TRACK B | TRACK C |
+-------------+------------------+------------------+------------------+
| 07:00-05:00 | Registration |
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| | JAVA | INTERNATIONALIZ- | DATABASES |
| | |ATION/LOCALIZATION| |
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| 09:00-12:00 |TA2: |TB2: |TC2: |
| | Developing | Non-Latin | Unicode in |
| | Internationalized| Writing Systems: | Databases |
| | Applications/ | Characteristics | |
| | Applets with Java| and Impacts on | Stefan Buchta, |
| | | Multinational | Oracle, USA |
| | Brian Beck, | Product Design | |
| | JavaSoft, USA | | |
| | Hideki Hiura, | Richard Ishida, | |
| | SunSoft, USA | Rank Xerox, UK | |
| | Thomas McFarland,| | |
| | Hewlett-Packard, | | |
| | USA | | |
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| 12:00-01:15 | Luncheon |
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| |INTERNET STANDARDS| INTERNATIONALIZ- |PLATFORMS & INTER-|
| | |ATION/LOCALIZATION| NATIONALIZATION |
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| 01:15-04:15 |TA3: |TB3: |TC3: |
| | Weaving the | Cultural | An Intro- |
| | Multilingual Web:| Issues with | duction to |
| | Standards and | On-Screen | Internationaliza-|
| | their | Information | tion in Win32 |
| | Implementation | | |
| | | | Bill Hall, |
| | Martin Duerst, | Richard Ishida, | NETCOM On-Line |
| | Univ. of Zurich,| Rank Xerox, UK | Communications, |
| | Switzerland | | USA |
| | Francois Yergeau,| | |
| | Alis Technologies| | |
| | Canada | | |
| |Gavin Thomas Nicol| | |
| | Inso Electronic | | |
| | Publishing Solu- | | |
| | tions, USA | | |
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| 04:15-04:35 | Refreshment Break |
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| |INTERNET STANDARDS| CJK | CHARACTER SETS |
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| 04:35-05:35 |TA4: |TB4: |TC4: |
| | Web Interna- | New Progress | Survey of |
| | tionalization - | of CJK Encoding | Character |
| | An Open Discus- | in ISO/IEC 10646 | Encodings |
| | sion Forum (BOF) | and Unicode | |
| | | | |
| | Misha Wolf, | Zhoucai Zhang, | Peter Edberg, |
| | Reuters, UK | Ministry of | Apple Computer, |
| | | Electronics, | USA |
| | | China | |
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CONFERENCE
Thursday, September 4, 1995
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| TIME | TRACK A | TRACK B | TRACK C |
+-------------+------------------+------------------+------------------+
| 07:00-05:00 | Registration |
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| 09:00-09:10 | Conference Remarks |
| | |
| | Lisa Moore, Co-chair, Conference Review Board |
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| 09:10-09:40 | Opening Address |
| | |
| | Mark Davis, President, The Unicode(r) Consortium |
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| 09:40-10:20 | Keynote - Concepts of Text and the Evolution of |
| | Markings and Meanings |
| | |
| | Charles Bigelow, Consulting Associate Professor, |
| | Computer Science and Art, Stanford University, HI, USA |
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| 10:20-10:40 | Refreshment Break |
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| |INTERNET STANDARDS| DATABASES |PLATFORMS & INTER-|
| | | | NATIONALIZATION |
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| 10:40-11:20 |A1: |B1: |C1: |
| | Update on W3C's | Use of Unicode | IBM Worldwide |
| | Activities in | by World-Class | Language Support |
| | Internationaliza-| Database | |
| | tion | Vendors | |
| | | | Ken Borgendale |
| | Bert Bos, | Michael McKenna, | Steve Atkin, |
| |W3C/INRIA, France | Sybase, USA | IBM, USA |
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| 11:25-12:05 |A2: |B2: |C2: |
| | XML: A Simple | Unicode in | Unicode and the |
| | Generic Markup | Databases | Localization |
| | Language | | Challenges of |
| | | | Corporate |
| Gavin Nichol, | Stefan Buchta, | Developers |
| | Inso Electronic | Oracle, USA | |
| | Publishing Sol- | | Kevin Cavanaugh |
| | utions, USA | | Lotus, USA |
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| 12:05-01:20 | Luncheon |
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| |INTERNET STANDARDS| FONTS |PLATFORMS & INTER-|
| | | | NATIONALIZATION |
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| 01:20-02:00 |A3: |B3: |C3: |
| | Internationaliz- | Unicode and Fonts| New Tools for |
| |ation and Unicode | | Globalizing |
| |in LDAP Directory | Kamal Mansour, | Software |
| | Services | Monotype | |
| | | Typography, USA | David Goldstein, |
| | John Kristian, | | Accent Software |
| | Netscape Commu- | | Int'l, Israel |
| | nications USA | | |
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| 02:05-02:45 |A4: |B4: |C4: |
| | International- | Unicode and Fonts| Apple's |
| | izing Internet | (coninued) | Unicode Road Map |
| | Identifiers | | |
| | | Kamal Mansour, | Merle Tenney, |
| | Martin Duerst, | Monotype | Apple Computer, |
| | Univ. of Zurich, | Typography, USA | USA |
| | Switzerland | | |
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| 02:50-03:30 |A5: |B5: |C5: |
| | Unicode: Making | Unicode and the | Unicode for |
| | Natural Language | New Information | Korean Solaris |
| | Markup Natural | Appliances | |
| | | | Changhoon Jung, |
| | Gavin Nicol, | Jim Welch, | SunSoft, USA |
| | Inso Electronic | Bitstream, USA | |
| | Publishing | | |
| | Solutions, USA | | |
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| 03:30-03:50 | Refreshment Break |
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| | CASE STUDIES | FONTS | APPLICATIONS |
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| 03:50-04:30 |A6: |B6: |C6: |
| | Conversion of a | The Design of | Developing a |
| | Multinational | an International | Unicode Desktop |
| | Software Devel- |Web Font Extension| Publishing Appli-|
| | oper to Unicode -| for Cascading | cation Based on |
| |A Case-history-to-| Style Sheets | Windows NT and |
| | date | | Windows 95 |
| | | Chris Lilley, | |
| | Michael McKenna, |The World Wide Web| Thomas Nielsen, |
| | Sybase, USA |Consortium, France| MGI Software, |
| | | | Denmark |
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| 04:35-05:15 |A7: |B7: |C7: |
| | Browsing the | The WWW and | Report from |
| | Memory of the | Unicode | the Trenches |
| | World | | |
| | | Suresh Duddi | Asmus Freytag, |
| | Carl-Marin Bunz, | Netscape Commu- | ASMUS, Inc., USA |
| | Univ. des | nications, USA | |
| | Saarlandes, | | |
| | Germany | | |
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| 05:20-06:00 |A8: |B8: |C8: |
| |Unicode - The Glue|Encoding Sense and| Unicode |
| | in the European | Nonsense - The |Implementation in |
| | Coding World - | Arabic Ligature | the picoVue |
| |Some Case Studies | | Patient Monitor |
| | | Thomas Milo, | |
| | Wolfgang Keber, | DecoType, | Gerhard Tivig, |
| |DIaLOGIKa, Germany| The Netherlands | Hewlett-Packard, |
| | Lazaros | | Germany |
| | Tossounidis, | | |
| |European Commiss- | | |
| | ion, Luxembourg | | |
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| 06:00-08:00 | Reception and Exhibits |
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Friday, September 5, 1995
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| TIME | TRACK A | TRACK B | TRACK C |
+-------------+------------------+------------------+------------------+
| 07:00-05:00 | Registration |
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| | SEARCHING | COMPLEX SCRIPTS | APPLICATIONS |
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| 09:00-09:40 |A9: |B9: |C9: |
| | Unicode and | Rendering |Microsoft Office97|
| | Multilingual | Multi- Level | and Unicode |
| | Search and | Arabic Script | |
| | Retrieval | | Christopher |
| | | Thomas Milo, | Pratley, |
| | Roland Wang, | DecoType | Microsoft, USA |
| | Verity, USA | The Netherlands | |
| | | Kris Heyrman, | |
| | | Barco Graphics, | |
| | | N.V, Belgium | |
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| 09:45-10:25 |A10: |B10: |C10: |
| | Full Text | What you need | International |
| |Searching: Moving | to know about | Features of |
| | Seamlessly to | Processing | Netscape |
| | Unicode | and Rendering | Communicator |
| | |Multilingual Text | |
| | Wayne Rust, | | Frank Yung-Fong |
| | InfoSphere, USA | Edwin Hart, |Tang, Robert Jung |
| | | Johns Hopkins | Netscape Communi-|
| | | University, USA | cations, USA |
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| 10:25-10:45 | Refreshment Break |
+-------------+------------------+------------------+------------------+
| | JAVA | COMPLEX SCRIPTS | CHARACTER SETS |
+-------------+------------------+------------------+------------------+
| 10:45-11:25 |A11: |B11: |C11: |
| | Taligent | Handling Complex | ISO 10646 and |
| |Unicode Analytics |Unicode Rendering | Unicode - |
| | | Problems | Continued |
| | Mark Davis, | | Convergence |
| | Taligent, USA | John Jenkins, | |
| | | Apple Computer, | Mike Ksar, |
| | | USA | Hewlett-Packard, |
| | | | USA |
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| 11:30-12:10 |A12: |B12: |C12: |
| | Developing Java- | Complex Script | Supporting |
| | based Unicode | Support in | Multiple |
| | Applications: | Microsoft(R) | Character Sets |
| | A Case Study | Windows NT | on the Internet |
| | | | |
| | Robert Bingler, | F. Avery Bishop, | David Goldsmith, |
| | The Institute | Microsoft, USA | Apple Computer, |
| | for Advanced | | USA |
| | Technology in the| | |
| | Humanities, USA | | |
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| 12:10-01:30 | Luncheon |
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| 01:30-02:10 | Keynote - The World Wide Web Consortium |
| | |
| | Jim Miller, Leader, Technology and Society Domain, W3C |
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| | JAVA | CJK | CHARACTER SETS |
+-------------+------------------+------------------+------------------+
| 02:20-03:00 |A13: |B13: |C13: |
| | New Developments | Personalized | Mail Converter |
| | for the | Searching and | |
| |Implementation of | Filtering for | Oleg Botchkarev &|
| | Unicode Word | Large Volume of | DataX/FLORIN, |
| | Processing |Chinese Documents | Russia |
| | Systems in Java | | |
| | | Pintsang Chang, | |
| | Mirko Raner, | Institute for | |
| | MATHEMA Software,| Information | |
| | Germany | Industry, ROC | |
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| 03:05-03:45 |A14: |B14: |C14: |
| |Distributed Input |Unihan: Dispelling|The Properties and|
| | Method Archi- | the Myths | Promises of UTF-8|
| | tecture for the | | |
| |Internet, Network | John Jenkins, | Martin Duerst, |
| |Computer, and Java| Apple Computer, | Univ. of Zurich, |
| | | USA | Switzerland |
| | Hideki Hiura, | | |
| | SunSoft, USA | | |
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| 03:45-04:05 | Refreshment Break |
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| 04:05-04:45 |A15: |B15: |C15: |
| | Developing | Checking Chinese | Unicode Support |
| | International | Text Errors | in EBCDIC-based |
| | Applications/ | in the Unicode | Legacy Systems |
| |Applets with Java | Environment | |
| | | | Jianping Yang, |
| | Thomas | Leo YuHsiang Liu | Michael Kung, |
| | McFarland, | IBM, USA | Oracle, USA |
| | Hewlett-Packard, | | |
| | USA | | |
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| 04:50-05:30 |A16: |B16: |C16: |
| |World Ready Java -| Large-scale | Universal and |
| | The Next Step | Chinese Electro- | Efficient |
| | | nic Publications | Compression of |
| | Brian Beck, | with Unicode | Unicode Character|
| | JavaSoft, USA | | Streams |
| | | Zhoucai Zhang, | |
| | | Ministry of | Mirko Raner, |
| | | Electronics, | MATHEMA Software,|
| | | China | Germany |
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CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM
Please complete and return this form by mail, fax or e-mail with the
appropriate fees to:
Eleventh International Unicode Conference
c/o Global Meeting Services Inc.
3627 Princess Avenue
North Vancouver, B.C.
Canada V7N 2E4
Tel: +1-604-983-9157
Fax: +1-604-983-9158
E-mail: conference@unicode.org
or: info@global-conference.com
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CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FEE
Unicode Member:
Tutorials only [ ] $250
Conference only [ ] $425
Tutorials and Conference [ ] $650
Non-member booking prior to Aug 15:
Tutorials only [ ] $275
Conference only [ ] $475
Tutorials and Conference [ ] $725
Non-member booking after Aug 15:
Tutorials only [ ] $295
Conference only [ ] $525
Tutorials and Conference [ ] $795
HOTEL RESERVATION (optional)
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CANCELLATION/SUBSTITUTION POLICY:
Cancellations received and post-marked prior to August 15, 1997 will
receive an 80% refund to be mailed after the Conference. Substitutions
will be permitted to September 2, 1997.
SESSION SELECTION:
Please indicate below which sessions you are interested in. This
will help the conference organizers allocate rooms to sessions.
September 2
TA1 __
September 3
TA2 __ TB2 __ TC2 __
TA3 __ TB3 __ TC3 __
TA4 __ TB4 __ TC4 __
September 4
A1 __ B1 __ C1 __
A2 __ B2 __ C2 __
A3 __ B3 __ C3 __
A4 __ B4 __ C4 __
A5 __ B5 __ C5 __
A6 __ B6 __ C6 __
A7 __ B7 __ C7 __
A8 __ B8 __ C8 __
September 5
A9 __ B9 __ C9 __
A10 __ B10 __ C10 __
A11 __ B11 __ C11 __
A12 __ B12 __ C12 __
A13 __ B13 __ C13 __
A14 __ B14 __ C14 __
A15 __ B15 __ C15 __
A16 __ B16 __ C16 __
Attendee list:
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at the Conference, please contact Global Meeting Services at the above
location.
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