Exploratory Software Project 2002FY
（平成１４年度未踏ソフトウェア創造事業）
Individual Project Report（採択案件評価書）
| １．Project Manager （担当ＰＭ） |
Alan Kay （President, Viewpoints Research Institute） |
| ２．Project Member （採択者氏名） |
Ohshima Yoshiki （大島 芳樹）（Walt Disney Imagineering R&D, Inc. Technical Staff) |
| ３．Certified Budget （委託金支払額） |
6,050,511 Yen（円） |
| ４．Project management organization （プロジェクト実施管理組織） |
The Advanced Software Technology and Mechatronics Research Institute of Kyoto （財団法人 京都高度技術研究所） |
| ５．Theme （テーマ名） | An Implementation of Multilingualized Environment on Dynamic Objects |
| ６．The website of relation （関連Webｻｲﾄへのリンク） |
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| ７．Project Summary（プロジェクト概要） The design and implementation of multilingualization ("m17n") of a dynamic object-oriented environment called Squeak. The goal of this project is to provide a collaborative and late-bound environment where the users can use many different natural languages and characters. |
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| ８．Adoption Reason（採択理由） "Multiculturalization" is a highly important, but little advanced part of living in the same networked computing world. "Multilingualization" -- the ability to easily change a system's language features to be suitable in a new language environment -- is usually only possible in parts of a system. This project will extend the state of the art in this area by going beyond simple symbol substitution, and will also address the problem of help and error messages, etc. |
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| ９．Project Evaluation（プロジェクト評価） The project tackled a very hard problem -- dealing with true multilingualization of a programming environment using UNICODE as a base -- in a very comprehensive and useful way. The excellent results will benefit both education & computer science in Japan and in the rest of the world. Each of the actual work, the presentations and the documentation were done in a timely and excellent fashion. This is first class work! |
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