[Indic-computing-users] Fwd: Proceedings of Tamil Internet 2002 conference (fwd)

[Frederick N. <fr...@by...>]

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From:  "K.   Kalyanasundaram" <ka...@so...>
Sent:  Thursday, October 03, 2002 11:06 AM
Subject: Proceedings of Tamil Internet 2002 conference

Dear Friends:

Tamil  Internet  2002, just concluded at Foster City, California,
USA  has been a great success in spite of a few major constraints
and handicaps.

The  conference was  attended by about 200 delegates from about 8
countries.  Some 50  speakers addressed a wide spectrum of issues
as in the past conferences, some ongoing and some new ones.  They
focused   on   technology,   content,  community   and   business
developments.  They  included Linux operating system in Tamil, E-
Government,   teaching   of  Tamil   through  IT,  Tamil  Unicode
interfaces  and  implementation,  latest  developments  in  Tamil
language based technologies such as optical character recognition
(OCR) which  is now ready for public use, search engines, machine
translation, speech synthesis and handwriting recognition.

In  addition, the conference addressed opportunities for building
Tamil  cyber  communities and business networks. The meeting also
became  a lively  forum  for interaction  among Tamil  IT-related
scholars, technologists and end users.

Mani  Manivannan and  his team  of volunteers  (majority of  them
computer  professionals based  in bay  area) put  in considerable
amount of time and energy to ensure that the conf. takes place in
a highly professional manner.

I  would like  to record my sincere appreciation and gratitude to
them.  It  has been a  great pleasure and  privilege for me to be
part of this great Organizing team for Tamil Internet 2002.

"California  Communique" summarizing  key results  of the  TI2002
will    be    published    soon    at    the    INFITT    website
http://www.infitt.org/ti2002 .

In  addition to  producing a  printed version  of the  Conference
Proceedings,  Organizers  have produced  an electronic version as
well  (maiden  effort). The  printed version  (ca. 350 pages) has
full version or summary of 75 papers accepted for presentation at
TI2002. The TI2002 Conf. CD contains

--PDF  versionof  these 75 papers  and also several other goodies
such as

--  PDF  of all  papers  presented  at earlier  TI2001  Malaysian
Conference,

-- a collection of Tamil Softwares, fonts, OCR demo and

--  PDF  version of  all etexts of  Tamil Literary Works released
till date by Project Madurai.

Fortunately  we do have some copies of the printed version of the
Conf.  Proceedings  and also  the Conf.  CD left  for sale to the
general  public. Printed version of TI2002 conf. volume is priced
at  US$ 20 + postage (Rs. 500 for for those within India) and the
Conf.  CD has a price tag of US$ 10.

If  you would like to have a copy of either of these or both, you
may  send  in your  orderby email  to Mr.  A. Narayanan of INFITT
Secretariat  at his  mailbox <nar...@id...>.  Nara will
confirm your order with instructions on how to make the payment.

Copies  will be  mailed to you either from India or from the USA.
Residents  of  North America  may send in  their orders to TI2002
chair, Mr. Mani Manivannan <mma...@ea...> as well.

For  those who could not attend the TI2002 conference, this is an
excellent opportunity to get hold of the papers presented, before
they  are all  sold out. We have only very limited copies you are
well  advised to  place your  order as  soon as  possible. Orders
will be processed on a first-come-served basis.

anbudan

Kalyan

Dr. K. Kalyanasundaram

Chair, Conf. Programme Committee for TI2002

http://www.infitt.org/ti2002/