Date: July 15, 2004, 7-9 p.m.
Speaker: KUROSAKA ("Kuro") Teruhiko (Black Hills Laboratories)
Topic: Internationalization in CORBA
Location: Apple Computer, Apple Campus, 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino
Take Saratoga/Sunnyvale exit off 280, turn South into
Cupertino, turn left onto Mariani Avenue, left into
Infinite Loop.
Admission: $4, free for IMUG members
Contact: Roger Sherman, (650) 859-5981
roger [dot] sherman [at] sri [dot] com

The CORBA specification has had many internationalization features
for years, but it had not been implementated widely until year 2003
when IONA released Orbix Application Server Platform (ASP) 6.0.

In this talk, the design decisions and issues that IONA developers
faced in implementing the internationalization features will be
discussed. The topics include code set negotiation and code set
conversion technologies.

No prior knowledge of CORBA is needed to understand this talk.

KUROSAKA Teruhiko has over 20 years of experience in
internationalization and localization.

He worked for Sun Microsystems for 12 years where he led the Solaris
internationalization effort, and later managed the localization
activities of Sun's developer tools.

At IONA Technologies, where he served as Internationalization
Architect,
he consulted with developers to implement CORBA and J2EE
internationalization features.

At Basis Technologies, he analyzed their client companies' software
from the internationalization point of view, and proposed necessary
changes in the design and the code.

He is now an independent consultant based in San Francisco focusing
on internationalization and linguistic issues.

Kuro holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Kyushu
University, Japan.