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{{Other uses|Joe Becker (disambiguation){{!}}Joe Becker}}
'''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>{{cite news |url=http://www.unicodeconference.org/review-committee.htm |archive-url=https://archive.is/uaAWu |archive-date=April 16, 2013 |quote=Joe Becker is one of the founders of the Unicode Standard effort, and an Officer Emeritus of the Unicode Consortium. He has worked on artificial intelligence at BBN and multilingual workstation software at Xerox. He speaks survival-level Chinese, French, German, Japanese, and Russian, and has forgotten Latin. |publisher=Object Management Group |title=Program Review Committee}}</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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