Lee Collins (Unicode)
{{short description|Software engineer and co-founder of the Unicode Consortium}}
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Lee Collins is a software engineer and co-founder of the Unicode Consortium. In 1987, along with Joe Becker and Mark Davis they began to develop what is today known as Unicode.{{cite web |title=Early Years of Unicode |url=https://www.unicode.org/history/earlyyears.html |website=www.unicode.org |access-date=12 December 2020}} Collins has a Master of Arts in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University{{cite web |title=IMUG Events 2014 :: Unicode, TAUS, L20n, T9n Crowdsourcing, Google XL8, L10n Process, G11n Strategy, and more |url=http://www.imug.org/events/imug-2014-events.htm#unicode |website=www.imug.org |access-date=12 December 2020}}{{cite web |title=Emoji lords to release 67 new symbols |date=24 November 2015 |url=https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2015/11/24/4356456.htm |publisher=ABC Australia}} and was the Technical Vice President of Unicode Consortium from 1991 to 1993.{{cite web |title=Previous Officers and Staff |url=https://www.unicode.org/history/previousofficers.html |website=www.unicode.org |access-date=12 December 2020}}
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- {{Cite web |url=http://unicode.org/history/unicode88.pdf |title=Unicode 88 |author-last=Becker |author-first=Joseph D. |author-link=Joseph D. Becker |date=1998-09-10 |orig-year=1988-08-29 |edition=10th anniversary reprint |website=unicode.org |publisher=Unicode Consortium |access-date=2016-10-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161125224409/http://unicode.org/history/unicode88.pdf |archive-date=2016-11-25 |quote=In 1978, the initial proposal for a set of "Universal Signs" was made by Bob Belleville at Xerox PARC. Many persons contributed ideas to the development of a new encoding design. Beginning in 1980, these efforts evolved into the Xerox Character Code Standard (XCCS) by the present author, a multilingual encoding which has been maintained by Xerox as an internal corporate standard since 1982, through the efforts of Ed Smura, Ron Pellar, and others.
Unicode arose as the result of eight years of working experience with XCCS. Its fundamental differences from XCCS were proposed by Peter Fenwick and Dave Opstad (pure 16-bit codes), and by Lee Collins (ideographic character unification). Unicode retains the many features of XCCS whose utility have been proved over the years in an international line of communication multilingual system products. }}
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