Keynote Speakers
"The Evolving Form of Documents" — Dr. John E. Warnock
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 at 10am
Abstract
The sophistication and visual richness of printed documents has made great strides over the last 25 years. The computerization of entry, layout and production has gone from a mostly manual process to a totally computerized process.
As documents start to contain multimedia components (sound, animation, video) and become totally "electronic", and as devices to view these new documents become more varied in size, shape and capabilities, the authoring of these documents has become a difficult challenge.
This talk will address those challenges, and discuss whether the evolving web tools are moving in the right direction.
Speaker Biography — Dr. John E. Warnock
John Warnock is co-chairman of the Board of Directors of Adobe Systems, Inc., which he co-founded in 1982 with Charles Geschke. He was President of Adobe from 1982–1984 and its CEO from 1984–2000. He has pioneered new directions in computer graphics and in electronic document technologies, as exemplified by PostScript and PDF — two of the cornerstones of Adobe’s success. More generally, he has helped to bring about a revolution in the wider fields of publishing and visual communication. Dr Warnock has received Honorary Degrees from the University of Utah, American Film Institute and The University of Nottingham, UK.
"Google's International Bloopers… and How We Fixed One" — Dr. Mark E. Davis & Luke Swartz (Google)
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 at 9:45am
Abstract
Google has millions of users around the world… but occasionally we mess up. We'll explore some of Google's international "bloopers" and show how to avoid similar mistakes in other applications.
We'll also highlight how we solved a persistent blooper, namely having UI strings like "Alice has added 3 contact to his address book." Our Plural/Gender API allows complicated UI strings to change appropriately, based on numbers and personal gender. We'll look at the document formats used to express plural and gendered messages, and explore the impact on the translation process.
Speaker Biography — Dr. Mark E. Davis
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 International Components for Unicode (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 Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) project, and is a co-author of BCP 47 Tags for Identifying Languages (RFC 4646 and RFC 4646), used for identifying languages in all XML and HTML documents. Since the start of 2006, Mark has been working on software internationalization at Google, focusing on effective and secure use of Unicode (especially in the index and search pipeline), the software internationalization libraries (including ICU) and stable international identifiers.
Speaker Biography — Luke Swartz
Luke Swartz has a BS in Symbolic Systems and MS in Computer Science from Stanford University. He served as a nuclear submariner in the US Navy, as a divisional and project manager both on a submarine (USS Ohio) and shore command (Commander of Submarines, Europe and Africa). Since 2010, he has been a Product Manager for Google’s Internationalization team, where he has worked on a number of projects, including internationalization of Google+ and the Plural/Gender API.