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Speakers' Bios Presenters' Biographies Keynote Presenters' Biographies Nicholas Negroponte Chairman, One Laptop per Child Chairman Emeritus, MIT Media Laboratory Nicholas is founder and Chairman of the One Laptop per Child non-profit Association. He is currently on leave from MIT, where he was co-founder and director of the MIT Media Laboratory, and the Hotel cut-off : Jerome B. Wiesner Professor of Media Technology. A graduate of October 27, 2006 MIT, Nicholas was a pioneer in the field of computer-aided design, and has been a member of the MIT faculty since 1966. Conceived in 1980, the Media Laboratory opened its doors in 1985. He is also author of the 1995 best seller, “Being Digital,” which has been Venue: translated into more than 40 languages. In the private sector, Nicholas serves on the board of directors for Motorola, Inc. and as general partner in a venture capital firm specializing in digital technologies for information and entertainment. He has provided Hilton Washington start-up funds for more than 40 companies, including Wired Dulles Airport magazine. Presenters' Biographies Dr. Deborah Anderson Researcher, University of California Berkeley Dr. Deborah Anderson is a researcher in the Dept. of Linguistics at UC Berkeley and runs the UC Berkeley Script Encoding Initiative (and its NEH- sponsored sibling, the Universal Scripts Project). She is the UC Berkeley representative to the Unicode Consortium, and serves as Liaison for the Linguistic Society of America. Having received her Ph.D. from UCLA in Indo- European Studies, she also edits the UCLA Indo-European Studies Bulletin, and promotes the use of Unicode generally. Andy Abbar Director, International Strategic Initiatives, Microsoft Corporation Andy joined Microsoft in 1992 to work on the first Bidirectional products (Arabic and Hebrew)and for the past 14 years has been working in the internationalization and localization of MS products. For the past 3 years, his focus has been on reaching out to languages that have been under served with technolgoy and providing a global and scalable approach to software localization. Michael Alford Senior Architect, Travelport, Inc. Michael Alford is a Senior Architect for Travelport’s online travel platform, a platform that will serve millions of global customers every year on such brands as Orbitz, Cheaptickets, Ebookers, Octopus, Gullivers, and a number of white-label customers. He is technical lead for both internationalization and general web architecture of the new generation of the platform. He has been working with Java and e-commerce since 1997 and holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Adil Allawi Technical Director, Diwan Software Limited Adil Allawi has been working in the field of multilingual computing for the past 20 years. He started with writing bilingual software for one of the first implementations of Arabic on a personal computer and has continued into the fields of word-processing, desktop publishing, and text rendering on small devices. Adil largest project was rewriting a high-end DTP application first to handle both Arabic and English and later to work with all international languages. Adil is the Technical Director and lead engineer of Diwan Software Limited. Soeren Bendtsen Advisory IT Specialist, IBM Corp. Soeren Bendtsen has worked for many years at IBM in various fields related to localization and development. He started to work for IBM Denmark as a translator, translation tester and localization project planner. Later he switched to working with development in the Lotus Notes and Domino area, and is a certified Lotus Application Developer. A couple of years ago he came back to the language world and has since then worked as a localization planner and localization tools architect for a large Siebel based CRM application used in house and with IBM business partners. Soeren holds a Masters degree in English from the Copenhagen Business School. Pierre Cadieux President , i18N Inc. Pierre Cadieux is President of i18N Inc. (www.i18n.ca), a firm specializing in internationalization training and consulting for software, websites and embedded systems. Pierre also teaches internationalization at University of Montréal. Formerly VP Technology at Alis Technologies, he pioneered the transparent handling of Arabic and created the core bi-directional technology licensed by Microsoft. As Director of Localization Technology at Bowne Global Solutions, he carried out research and analysis on multilingual Web sites and published the first generic model of Globalization Management Systems. He can be reached at [email protected]. Kuang-Hui Chiu Associate Professor, National Taipei University Kuang-Hui Chiu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Business Administration at National Taipei University (NTPU), Taiwan, R.O.C. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at National Tsing-Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan, R.O.C. in 1987. Prof. Chiu is well known in the area of eBusiness and Information Management. Mr. Craig R. Cummings Principal Software Engineer, Oracle Corporation Craig Cummings is a Principal Technical Staff member of Oracle's Applications Internationalization team. Since J2SE v1.3, Craig has worked closely with Sun's internationalization team to help shape some of the pluggable locale, resource bundle, font, and supplementary character support in Java. Dr. Mark Davis President, UNICODE Consortium Mark Davis co-founded the Unicode project and has been the president of the Unicode Consortium since its incorporation. He is one of the key technical contributors to the Unicode specifications, including such areas as bi- directional text, normalization, scripts, text segmentation, identifiers (including IDN), collation, regular expressions, compression, locale data, character conversion, character properties, and security. Mark was responsible for the overall architecture of ICU (the premier Unicode software library), and the earlier version of ICU that was incorporated into the standard Java release. Jennifer DeCamp Foreign Language Technology Program Manager, MITRE Dr. Jennifer DeCamp is the Foreign Language Technology Manager and head of the Foreign Language Technology Center of Expertise for a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (non-profit) within MITRE Corporation. She works as a liaison between the U.S. Government, standards organizations, academia, and industry and is involved in a wide range of standards efforts. Jennifer has worked in the internationalization field since 1974. She also taught a graduate course at American University on "Designing Systems for Global Users" for seven years. Christian Donner Director, Distributed Systems, Aviva Life Insurance Co. Christian began his career in software development in Austria more than 20 years ago. Since then, he has been developing systems for the banking and insurance industries and spent 6 years in Web Consulting as a technical project lead. He recently returned to the insurance industry and manages development for the web, middleware, and document generation systems for Aviva Life Insurance Company in the US. In his spare time, Christian writes and speaks about generic solutions to specific software development problems, such as content localization. If there is still time left, he blogs at http://cdonner.com. Doug Emery Data Manager, Emery IT John Fay Senior Product Specialist, Zebra Technologies Group John Fay spearheaded development of Zebra’s Global Printing Solution. By embedding support for Unicode encoded data into its printers, Zebra’s customers can seamlessly output any language(s) from their business applications without the need for special drivers. Mr. Fay has been with Zebra Technologies Corporation for 2 years. His first project at Zebra was the i18n project adding extensive Unicode support to Zebra’s high-end printers. Ms. Elsebeth Flarup Globalization Architect, IBM Corp. Elsebeth Flarup has worked with software localization in IBM for 17 years, the last 8 years as localization project manager and globalization architect in the Software Group and Sales & Distribution units in Raleigh, NC. During this time she has led the localization of a number of software products with simultaneous shipment of up to 17 language versions. Prior to this, she held positions as senior translator, terminology manager and localization project manager in IBM Denmark. Elsebeth holds a Masters degree in History and English from the University of Copenhagen. Mr. Asmus Freytag Senior I18n Consultant, ASMUS, Inc. Asmus Freytag, Ph.D. is president of ASMUS, Inc., a Seattle-based company specializing in consulting services and seminars on topics ranging from software internationalization to implementing Unicode. He has been a contributor to the Unicode Standard since before the inception of the Unicode Consortium and a co-author of the Unicode Standard for many years. He has written or contributed to several Unicode Technical Reports and Standards. He is a vice-president of the Unicode Consortium and represents the Consortium in several standards groups such as NCITS/L2 and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2. Mark Garrett Support Manager/Quality Assurance Engineer, ModernGigabyte, LLC. Mark Garrett is a support developer with ModernGigabyte LLC in Louisville, KY. In addition to QA and general bug squashing, Mark is otherwise known as the company "locale guy." He has been writing HTML since the time when multiple title and body tags were the "it" thing and has become moderately good at PHP scripting in the last five
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