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'''Joseph D. Becker''' is one of the co-founders of the [[Unicode]] project, and a Technical Vice President Emeritus of the [[Unicode Consortium]]. He has worked on artificial intelligence at [[BBN Technologies|BBN]] and multilingual workstation software at [[Xerox]].

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",<ref>{{cite web |title=Multilingual Word Processing |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24969416 |publisher=Scientific American}}</ref> was a seminal work on some of the problems involved, including the need to distinguish [[Character (computing)|characters]] and [[glyph]]s.<ref>{{cite book|title=Using Computers in Linguistics: A Practical Guide|editor1=Helen Aristar Dry|editor2=John Lawler|isbn=978-0415167932|chapter=The Nature of Linguistic Data and the Requirements of a Computing Environment for Linguistic Research|chapter-url=http://www.sil.org/computing/routledge/simons/multilingual.html|author=Gary F. Simons|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/usingcomputersin00john}}</ref> Following the release of the paper in 1987, he and two others began investigations into the practicality of creating a universal character set. Becker teamed up with his colleague [[Lee Collins (Unicode)|Lee Collins]] who worked alongside him at [[Xerox]] and [[Mark Davis (Unicode)|Mark Davis]] of [[Apple Inc.|Apple]].<ref name="Gardner2009">{{cite book|author=Scott Gardner|title=The Definitive Guide to Pylons|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TkEnCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA218|date=25 January 2009|publisher=Apress|isbn=978-1-4302-0534-0|page=218 |quote=The origins of Unicode date back to 1987 when Joe Becker, Lee Collins, and Mark Davis started investigating the practicalities of creating a universal character set.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/history/summary.html|title=Summary|work=History of Unicode}}</ref> It was Becker who coined the word "Unicode" to cover the project.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://unicode.org/history/earlyyears.html|title=Early Years of Unicode|work=History of Unicode}}</ref> His article ''[[Unicode 88]]'',<ref name="Becker_1988_Unicode"/> contained the first public summary of the principles originally underlying the Unicode standard.<ref name="Becker_1988_Unicode"/>

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