Early-bird discounts end March 8! Internationalization and Unicode Conference

         Unicode in Government: Building a Multilingual Infrastructure
                       http://www.unicode.org/iuc/iuc25
                             Washington D.C., USA
                           March 31 - April 2, 2004

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LATEST...
 > Online registration and the latest updates to the program are
   on the Conference Web site ( http://www.unicode.org/iuc/iuc25 ).   

 > Hotel and conference early-bird discounts expire March 8.

 > Everette Jordan, Director, National Virtual Translation Center (NVTC) 
   will be one of the keynote speakers.

PROGRAM
The 25th Internationalization and Unicode Conference will focus on solutions
that address the language and multilingual requirements of governments and
industries around the world. The Washington DC venue was chosen to allow peer
networking and discussion on the needs of government, including topics such as
U.S. Homeland Security, and the European Union's challenges supporting all of
its official languages.

* Sessions and panels on working with languages within government

* Several completely new tutorials such as: Internationalization Project
  Planning, Internationalized Software Testing

* Track on Localization organized and sponsored by The Institute of
  Localisation Professionals (TILP)

* Enhanced Unicode tutorial (incorporating Unicode 4.0), and updates to
  the popular tutorials on Web internationalization, writing systems,
  distributed systems, and authentic Arabic
  
* Internationalization sessions: platforms, locales, legacy data, 
  Web internationalization, scripts, transliteration, rendering,
  and conversion
  
* Programming sessions: Java, .NET, IBM ICU, Oracle, and Testing

* Case studies

* Exhibitor's Showcase highlights the latest advances in language 
  services, tools and technologies
  
* Hilton Alexandria Mark Center is located in the West End of Historic
  Alexandria, within sight of the capitol and minutes from the central 
  business district of Washington


WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
If you have a limited training budget, this is the one Internationalization
conference you need.  Send staff that are involved in either
Unicode-enabling software, or internationalization of software and the
Internet, including: managers, software engineers, systems analysts, font
designers, graphic designers, content developers, Web designers, Web
administrators, system administrators, technical writers, and product
marketing personnel.

CONFERENCE WEB SITE, PROGRAM and REGISTRATION
http://www.unicode.org/iuc/iuc25

CONFERENCE SPONSORS
Agfa Monotype Corporation
AOL
Basis Technology Corporation
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
XenCraft

THE UNICODE CONSORTIUM
The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit organization dedicated to the
development, maintenance and promotion of The Unicode Standard, a worldwide
character encoding. The Unicode Standard encodes the characters of the world's
principal scripts and languages, and is code-for-code identical to the
international standard ISO/IEC 10646. In addition to cooperating with ISO on
the future development of ISO/IEC 10646, the Consortium is responsible for
providing character properties and algorithms for use in implementations.
Today
the membership base of the Unicode Consortium includes major computer
corporations, software producers, database vendors, research institutions,
international agencies and various user groups.

For further information on the Unicode Standard, visit the Unicode Web site
at http://www.unicode.org

Unicode(r) and the Unicode logo are registered trademarks of Unicode, Inc.
Used with permission.


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Received on Wednesday, 3 March 2004 16:58:21 UTC