Mark Davis (Unicode)

For other people named Mark Davis, see Mark Davis (disambiguation).
Mark Davis
Born
Mark Edward Davis

(1952-09-13) 13 September 1952 (age 72)
Riverside, California, U.S.
Alma materStanford University (PhD)
Known forUnicode
Unicode Consortium
Scientific career
FieldsInternationalization and localization
InstitutionsIBM
Apple
Google
Taligent
Unicode Consortium
ThesisFormal problems for Utilitarianism (1979)
Websitewww.macchiato.com

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]

  1. ^ Luckerson, Victor (2016). "Meet the 63-Year-Old in Charge of Approving New Emojis". time.com. TIME.
  2. ^ "Executive Officers and Staff". www.unicode.org.
  3. ^ "Mark Davis - President, CLDR-TC Chair, & Emoji Subcommittee Chair at Unicode Consortium". THE ORG.
  4. ^ "Board of Directors". unicode.org.
  5. ^ DPA, German Press Agency- (January 1, 2018). "Mark Davis: The lesser known master of emojis". Daily Sabah.