Joe Becker (Unicode)
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Joseph D. Becker is an American computer scientist and 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 and multilingual workstation software at Xerox.
Joe Becker | |
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| Born | Joseph D. Becker |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Technical Vice President |
| Years active | 1980s-present |
| Known for | Co-founder of Unicode Consortium |
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",[1] was a seminal work on some of the problems involved, including the need to distinguish characters and glyphs.[2] 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 who worked alongside him at Xerox and Mark Davis of Apple.[3][4] It was Becker who coined the word "Unicode" to cover the project.[5] His article Unicode 88, contained the first public summary of the principles originally underlying the Unicode standard.[6]
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