Mark Davis | |
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| Born | Mark Edward Davis 13 September 1952 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 |
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]
- ^ Luckerson, Victor (2016). "Meet the 63-Year-Old in Charge of Approving New Emojis". time.com. 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.
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