Do you have
knowledge or experience
with creating global software
that will benefit others? Join other experts and industry leaders
and present your ideas at The Thirty-seventh Internationalization &
Unicode® Conference (IUC 37), taking place in Santa Clara, Calif.,
USA; October 21-23, 2013. This is the premier conference on
technologies and practices for the creation and management of global
and multilingual software solutions.
The Unicode Consortium hosts this event annually, and the
conference is recognized for its excellent technical content,
industry-tested recommendations and updates on the latest standards.
Topics from previous conferences can be found on the
IUC 37 website.
Submit your proposals for presentations or tutorials regarding
case studies, best practices, innovative technology, or evolving
standards. Suitable topics include, but are not limited to:
Application Areas
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Designing software
platforms, operating systems, software as a service
(SAAS), or programming environments |
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Social networks |
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Search engines, SEO,
discovery and navigation best practices |
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Websites and web services |
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Libraries and education |
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Mobile applications
including iPhone, Android, iPad, Kindle, Windows Mobile,
tablets, etc. |
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Game, Cable Boxes, and
other platforms |
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Publishing and broadcasting
for a global audience |
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Security concerns and
practices |
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Voice to text, text to
voice |
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Machine translation |
General Techniques
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Advances in technologies,
algorithms or methodologies |
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Using internationalization
libraries and programming environments |
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Handling bidirectional or
other complex scripts |
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Locales and the Unicode
Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) |
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Font development and
Typography |
Managing Global Software
Development and Geographically Distributed Teams
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Project management and
methodologies e.g. Agile |
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Best practices in
localization process and technology |
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Best practices in
world-ready development, testing, and deployment |
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Improving globalization
capabilities within organizations |
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Approaches for migrating
legacy applications to global markets |
Evolving Standards and
Related Practices
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Endangered or Unencoded
Languages |
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Case studies and research
on cross-culture communication |
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Internationalized Domain
Names and other identifiers |
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Languages of Africa, Asia,
and the Middle East |
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ISO language tag topics |
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HTML5, CSS3, and modern
browser topics |
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Dealing with data formats:
XML, JSON, HTML5, DITA, and upcoming standards |
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Unicode, encodings,
scripts, character properties, and algorithms |
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Emoji support | |
Tutorial presenters
receive complimentary conference registration, and two nights
lodging. Session presenters receive a
fifty percent conference discount and two nights lodging.
To be considered as a presenter for the conference,
please
submit
a brief abstract by the deadline of Friday, March 29th.
The Program Committee will notify authors by Friday, May 3rd.
Final presentation materials will be required from selected
presenters by Friday, July 20th.
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