Mark Davis (Unicode)
Mark Davis | |
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| Born | Mark Edward Davis (1952年09月13日) 13 September 1952 (age 73) Riverside, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Stanford University (PhD) |
| Known for | Unicode Unicode Consortium |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Internationalization and localization |
| Institutions | IBM Apple Taligent Unicode Consortium |
| Thesis | Formal problems for Utilitarianism (1979) |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael Bratman |
| Website | www |
Mark Edward Davis (born September 13, 1952) is an American specialist in the internationalization and localization of software and the co-founder and chief technical officer of the Unicode Consortium, previously serving as its president until 2022.[1] [2]
He is one of the key technical contributors to the Unicode specifications, being the primary author or co-author of bidirectional text algorithms (used worldwide to display Arabic language and Hebrew language text), collation (used by sorting algorithms and search algorithms), Unicode normalization, Unicode scripts, text segmentation, identifiers, regular expressions, data compression, character encoding and security.[3] [4] [5]
Education
[edit ]Davis was educated at Stanford University where he was awarded a PhD in Philosophy in 1979.[6]
Career and research
[edit ]Davis has specialized in Internationalization and localization of software for many years. After his PhD, he worked in Zurich, Switzerland for several years,[quantify ] then returned to the US to join Apple, where he co-authored the Macintosh KanjiTalk and Script Manager, and authored the Macintosh Arabic and Hebrew systems. He also worked on parts of the Mac OS, including contributions to the design of TrueType. Later, he was the manager and architect for the Taligent international frameworks and was then the architect for a large part of the Java international libraries.[7] At IBM, he was the Chief Software Globalization Architect. He is the author of a number of patents, primarily in internationalization and localization. At various times he has also managed groups or departments covering text, internationalization, operating system services, porting and technical communications.[8]
Davis founded and was responsible for the overall architecture of International Components for Unicode (ICU: a major Unicode software internationalization library) and designed the core of the Java internationalization classes. He also is the vice-chair of the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) project,[9] and is a co-author of Best Current Practice (BCP) 47 IETF language tag RFC 5646 [10] , used for identifying languages in XML and HTML documents.
Since the start of 2006, Davis has been working on software internationalization at Google, focusing on effective and secure use of Unicode (especially in the index and search pipeline), overall improvement and adoption of the software internationalization libraries (including ICU) and the introduction and maintenance of stable identifiers for languages, scripts, regions, time zones and currencies.[11]
Publications
[edit ]The Unicode Standard, Version 5.0[12]
- RFC 4646 – "Tags for Identifying Languages,"[13] Obsolete, was BCP 47. Obsoleted by RFC 5646. Obsoletes RFC 3066.
- RFC 4647 – "Matching of Language Tags,"[14] Best Current Practice 47.
- RFC 5646 – "Tags for Identifying Languages,"[10] Best Current Practice 47.
- RFC 6067 – "BCP 47 Extension U,"[15] Informational.
- RFC 6497 – "BCP 47 Extension T - Transformed Content,"[16] Informational.
Personal life
[edit ]Davis is married to Anne Gundelfinger.[17] He has two daughters from a previous marriage.
References
[edit ]- ^ Luckerson, Victor (2016). "Meet the 63-Year-Old in Charge of Approving New Emojis". Time .
- ^ "Executive Officers and Staff". www.unicode.org.
- ^ "Mark Davis - President, CLDR-TC Chair, & Emoji Subcommittee Chair at Unicode Consortium". THE ORG.
- ^ "Board of Directors". unicode.org.
- ^ DPA, German Press Agency- (January 1, 2018). "Mark Davis: The lesser known master of emojis". Daily Sabah.
- ^ Davis, Mark Edward (1979). Formal problems for Utilitarianism. stanford.edu (PhD thesis). Stanford University. OCLC 917950786. ProQuest 302982299.
- ^ Davis, M. E.; Grimes, J. D.; Knoles, D. J. (1996). "Creating global software: Text handling and localization in Taligent's CommonPoint application system". IBM Systems Journal. 35 (2): 227–243. doi:10.1147/sj.352.0227. ISSN 0018-8670.
- ^ Davis, Mark (2020). "Mark Davis Conference Biography". macchiato.com.
- ^ "CLDR Process - CLDR - Unicode Common Locale Data Repository". cldr.unicode.org.
- ^ a b Phillips, A.; Davis, M., eds. (September 2009). Tags for Identifying Languages. IETF Network Working Group. doi:10.17487/RFC5646 . BCP 47. RFC 5646. Best Current Practice 47. Obsoletes RFC 4646.
- ^ Treanor, Sarah; Nunis, Vivienne (2021). "Face palm: When the emoji you want doesn't exist". bbc.co.uk. London: BBC News.
- ^ The Unicode Consortium (November 2006), The Unicode Standard, Version 5.0, Addison-Wesley Professional, ISBN 0-321-48091-0
- ^ A. Phillips; M. Davis, eds. (September 2006). Tags for Identifying Languages. Network Working Group. doi:10.17487/RFC4646 . BCP 47. RFC 4646. Obsolete, was BCP 47. Obsoleted by RFC 5646. Obsoletes RFC 3066.
- ^ A. Phillips; M. Davis, eds. (September 2006). Matching of Language Tags. Network Working Group. doi:10.17487/RFC4647 . BCP 47. RFC 4647. Best Current Practice 47. Obsoletes RFC 3066.
- ^ M. Davis; A. Phillips; Y. Umaoka (December 2010). BCP 47 Extension U. Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). doi:10.17487/RFC6067 . ISSN 2070-1721. RFC 6067. Informational.
- ^ M. Davis; A. Phillips; Y. Umaoka; C. Falk (February 2012). BCP 47 Extension T - Transformed Content. Internet Engineering Task Force. doi:10.17487/RFC6497 . ISSN 2070-1721. RFC 6497. Informational.
- ^ Wong, Queenie (2016年02月12日). "Q&A: Mark Davis, president of the Unicode Consortium, on the rise of emojis". mercurynews.com. The Mercury News. Retrieved 2018年04月05日.