SyrCOM-99: The Third International Forum on Syriac Computing

In association with SYRIAC SYMPOSIUM III
University of Notre Dame, Indiana
June 18, 1999

PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE

SyrCOM I. Word Processing and Fonts (9.00-10.20)

9.00 TAG: A Multilingual Desktop Publishing Program for Users of Syriac
Michael Sokoloff (Bar Ilan University)

9.20 Encoding Syriac in ISO/IEC 10646 (Unicode)
Paul Nelson*, George Kiraz**, and Sargon Hasso*** (Microsoft*, Bell Labs** - Lucent Technologies***)

9.40 Syriac Support for Windows -- Demo
Paul Nelson (Microsoft Corporation)

10.00 Syriac Text with WordCruncher -- Demo
Jan Wilson (Center for the Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts)

SyrCOM II. Education and the Internet (2.00-3.00)

2.00 Leading Students to Syriac Resources on the World Wide Web: Retrieval and Evaluation Skills
Amy E. Agnew (Mullen Library, The Catholic University of America)

2.20 The "Syrian Orthodox Resources" Experience
Thomas Joseph (Syrian Orthodox Resources)

2.40 The Soul of a New Encyclopedia: The Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (eds. Brock, Coakley, Kiraz, Kitchen, Witakowski)
Robert A. Kitchen (Knox-Metropolitan Church)

SyrCOM III. Projects on Neo-Syriac (3.00-3.40)

3.00 A Project for Computer Assisted Study of Neo-Syriac Texts
G. Busatto* - A. Mengozzi** (Leiden University - Department of Computer Science*, Research School CNWS**)

3.20 Talking English-Assyrian Dictionary
Tony Khoshaba, Rabi Yoab Benjamin (Assyrian Academic Society)

SyrCOM IV. Closing Session (3.40-4.00)

3.40 Projects of the Syriac Computing Institute: An Overview
G. Kiraz (Syriac Computing Institute)

3.50 SyrCOM-99 Closing Discussion [Open to all Participants]