Mark Davis (Unicode)
American specialist in software and co-founder of Unicode, Inc / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
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Born | Mark Edward Davis (1952-09-13) 13 September 1952 (age 71) 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) |
Website | www |
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]