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Please stop vandalizing my page. I can see that you have constructive things you could be doing with your time, and so do I ... so let's do those. Thanks! Joe |
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'''Joseph D. Becker''' is one of the co-founders of the [[Unicode]] project, and an Officer Emeritus of the [[Unicode Consortium]]. He has worked on artificial intelligence at [[BBN Technologies|BBN]] and multilingual workstation software at [[Xerox]]. He speaks survival-level [[Mandarin Chinese]], [[French language|French]], [[German language|German]], [[Japanese language|Japanese]], and [[Russian language|Russian]] as well as English.<ref>http://www.unicodeconference.org/review-committee.htm</ref> His Erdős number is 2.
Becker has long been involved in the issues of multilingual computing in general and Unicode in particular. His 1984 paper in [[Scientific American]], "Multilingual Word Processing", was a seminal work on some of the problems involved, including the need to distinguish [[Character (computing)|characters]] and [[glyph]]s.<ref>http://www.sil.org/computing/routledge/simons/multilingual.html</ref>
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