30th Internationalization & Unicode Conference Announces Keynote Panel.Full Program Agenda Available for Conference November 15-17, 2006, Washington, D.C. USA MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- The Unicode[R] Consortium today announced that a Keynote Panel titled, "Where Would We Be Without Unicode?" has been added to the program for the 30th Internationalization The support for monetary values, time and date for countries around the world. It also embraces the use of native characters and symbols in the different alphabets. See localization, i18n, Unicode and IDN. internationalization - internationalisation & Unicode Conference (IUC IUC Information Unit for Conventions IUC Intrauterine Contraception IUC Interval Usage Code (DOCSIS) IUC Interview Under Caution IUC Interconnect User Charge IUC Immediate Unit Commander IUC Initial User Capability ). The conference will take place November 15-17, 2006, in Washington, D.C. USA. The full conference program is available online at http://www.unicodeconference.org. In this Keynote Panel, leaders of standards organizations will explain how they rely on the Unicode standard to forge ahead with their own standards, and how the future of Unicode, in internationalization, localization and globalization, will support their own standards programs. Other industry experts will detail how Unicode is key to enabling new capabilities and relate the business reality of supporting additional languages. Finally, the panel will discuss trends in upcoming standards and new technology that affect internationalization. The new Keynote Panel includes participants: * Dr. Richard Soley, Chairman & CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Object Management Group (moderator) * Mark Davis, President, UNICODE Consortium: Dr. Mark Davis co-founded the Unicode project and has been the president of the Unicode Consortium since its incorporation in 1991. He is one of the key technical contributors to the Unicode specifications. Mark founded and was responsible for the overall architecture of ICU ICU intensive care unit. ICU abbr. intensive care unit ICU see intensive care unit. ICU (the premier Unicode software internationalization library), and architected the core of the Java internationalization classes. He also founded and is the chair of the Unicode CLDR CLDR Common Locale Data Repository CLDR Contention-based Limited Deflection Routing CLDR Compact Laser Designator Rangefinder (US Army) CLDR Roll Due to Rudder Deflection project, and is a co-author of BCP BCP Best Current Practice(s) BCP Business Continuity Planning BCP Business Continuity Plan BCP Book of Common Prayer BCP Banco Comercial Português BCP Bureau of Consumer Protection (US Federal Trade Commission) 47 "Tags for Identifying Languages" (RFC 4646 and RFC 4646), used for identifying languages in all XML and HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. documents. Since the start of 2006, Mark has been working on software internationalization at Google. * Richard Ishida, Internationalization Activity Lead, W3C: Richard Ishida's background includes international user-interface design consultancy, translation tool design, translating and interpreting, and computational linguistics. * P.J. Plauger, President, Dinkumware, Ltd., which supplies the Standard C++ library for Microsoft Visual C++ and many other leading compilers. P.J. Plauger has been active for many years in the standardization of the C and C++ programming languages. * Erkki I. Kolehmainen, Coordinator, Cultural Diversity Issues in ICT, CSC - The Finnish IT Center for Science: E.I. Kolehmainen has an international technical, marketing and product management background in the IT industry since the 60's. More recently, he has been involved in various standards activities at the European and global levels as the coordinator of the Finnish national initiative "Kotoistus" sponsored by the Ministry of Education. Carl Hoffman, President, Basis Technology said, "Unicode 5.0 is the most important technology standard applicable to the construction of multilingual information systems. And the Unicode Conference is the best place to learn about the standard and the latest trends in multilingual software development. Come meet the experts and find out why such companies as Google, IBM, Microsoft, Sun, and Yahoo have made Unicode central to their international development strategies." The Internationalization & Unicode Conference is the premier technical conference for both software and Web internationalization. Unicode experts, implementers, clients and vendors are invited to attend this unique conference. The interactive format makes the Internationalization & Unicode Conference a great place to meet and exchange ideas with leading experts, find out about the needs of potential clients, or get information about new and existing Unicode-enabled products. The 30th Internationalization & Unicode Conference is sponsored by Gold Sponsors Microsoft Corporation (www.microsoft.com), Basis Technology (www.basistech.com); Silver Sponsor Google (www.google.com); Organizational Sponsors Localization Industry Standards Association Localization Industry Standards Association or LISA[1] is the leading international forum for organizations doing business globally. It has distilled the right ways and wrong ways of supporting international customers, products and services over the last fifteen (LISA The first personal computer to include integrated software and use a graphical interface. Modeled after the Xerox Star and introduced in 1983 by Apple, it was ahead of its time, but never caught on due to its $10,000 price and slow speed. ) (www.lisa.org) the Globalization and Localization Association (GALA) (www.gala-global.org) and World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (www.w3.org); and Media Sponsors O'Reilly Media (www.oreilly.com), MultiLingual Computing Inc. (www.multilingual.com), Localisation Research Centre (www.localisation.ie), and Globalization Insider (http://www.lisa.org/globalizationinsider). For full conference details and to register, visit http://www.unicodeconference.org/. Sponsorships and exhibit space are available, for more information on sponsoring and exhibiting contact jroussel@omg.org, +1-781-444-0404 x 106. For all other questions contact Kevin Loughry at info@unicodeconference.org, +1-781-444 0404. About The Unicode Consortium The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit organization founded to develop, extend and promote use of the Unicode Standard and related globalization standards. The membership of the consortium represents a broad spectrum of corporations and organizations in the computer and information processing industry. Members are: Adobe Systems, Apple Computer, Basis Technology, Denic e. G., Google, Government of India The Government of India (Hindi: भारत सरकार [3]Bhārat Sarkār), officially referred to as the Union Government, and commonly as Central Government - Ministry of Information Technology, Government of Pakistan Government of Pakistan (Urdu: حکومتِ پاکستان), The Constitution of Pakistan provides for a Federal Parliamentary System of government, with a President as the Head of State and an indirectly-elected Prime - National Language Authority, HP, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, Monotype Imaging, Oracle, SAP, Sun Microsystems, Sybase, The University of California at Berkeley (body, education) University of California at Berkeley - (UCB) See also Berzerkley, BSD. http://berkeley.edu/. Note to British and Commonwealth readers: that's /berk'lee/, not /bark'lee/ as in British Received Pronunciation. , Yahoo!, and over 100 Associate, Liaison, and Individual members. For more information, please contact the Unicode Consortium http://www.unicode.org/contacts.html. About the Event Producer The Object Management Group[TM] (OMG[TM]) is the Event Producer for the Internationalization & Unicode Conferences. The OMG is an open membership, not-for-profit consortium that produces and maintains computer industry specifications for interoperable enterprise applications. Our specifications include MDA (1) (Monochrome Display Adapter) The first IBM PC monochrome video display standard for text. Due to its lack of graphics, MDA cards were often replaced with Hercules cards, which provided both text and graphics. See PC display modes and Hercules Graphics. [R], UML[R], CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) A software-based interface from the Object Management Group (OMG) that allows software modules (objects) to communicate with each other no matter where they are located on a private network or the global [R], MOF[TM], XMI (1) (XML Metadata Interchange) An XML-based representation of a UML model. XMI is used to transfer UML diagrams between various modeling tools. See UML. (2) An earlier high-speed bus from Digital that was used in large VAX machines. [R] and CWM[TM]. OMG's specifications are all available for download by everyone without charge. For more information about OMG, visit us online at http://www.omg.org. Note to editors: Unicode Standard, Unicode and the Unicode Logo are trademarks of Unicode, Inc. Unicode Consortium is a registered trademark of Unicode, Inc. MDA, Model Driven Architecture, OMG Logo, UML and CORBA are registered trademarks, and OMG, Object Management Group, MOF, MDA Logos, Unified Modeling Language See UML. (language) Unified Modeling Language - (UML) A non-proprietary, third generation modelling language. The Unified Modeling Language is an open method used to specify, visualise, construct and document the artifacts of an object-oriented software-intensive system and UML logo are trademarks, of Object Management Group. 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