INSTRUCTIONAL

Diverse Languages on the Web -- February 9 Colloquium

by Estelle Hochberg

Finding a standard means of representing diverse languages and characters is fast becoming a critical issue for World-Wide Web development. This will be the featured topic on Friday, February 9, in the first of the spring 1996 NYU colloquia on computers and communications, when François Yergeau will speak on Characters, Unicode, and the World-Wide Web.

"As the World-Wide Web grows by leaps and bounds," our speaker notes, "it expands far beyond its origins in the West and the limited set of Latin-based languages and scripts. A need for portable representation of a large number of characters has brought Unicode, the universal character set, to the forefront of the move to standardize Web technology."

An expert on Unicode and the internationalization of HTML, Dr. Yergeau has also been instrumental in developing a multilingual World-Wide Web browser distributed by Alis Technologies. Look for a report on Dr. Yergeau's talk in a future issue of Connect.

The NYU Colloquia

The NYU Colloquia on Computers and Communications are a continuing series of presentations occurring each fall and spring semester and co-sponsored by NYU's Academic Computing Facility and the Faculty of Arts and Science, with support from Apple Computer, Inc. Additional departments and schools join in co-sponsorship of the individual colloquia.

All NYU faculty, staff, and students are welcome to attend. As we go to press, several other new presentations are being planned for the spring semester. Details will be posted on the NYU Web at {http://www.nyu.edu/acf/nyu-events/}, and flyers are mailed to all NYU faculty. To receive an e-mail flyer, or to be added to the ACF's mailing list, please send e-mail to {document@nyu.edu} or call the ACF HelpLine at 998-3333.

Videotapes of Past Colloquia

Since 1993, all colloquia have been videotaped, and the tapes have been available on loan directly from the ACF. This past semester, to make them more widely available for instructional use, tapes of all colloquia have been placed on reserve at the Avery Fisher Media Center in Bobst Library, where they can be viewed onsite or borrowed (by faculty) overnight for incorporation in a class session. A substantial number of the colloquium tapes have been entered in BobCat, Bobst Library's online catalog system; all are included in the Avery Fisher Center's reserve list. [ C ]

Estelle Hochberg works at the ACF {Ed: now ITS}.
jill.hochberg@nyu.edu

Posted 27 February 1996. Revised 24 May 2004.