Hideki Hiura is chief scientist and CTO of JustSystems, Inc. He is a founder and chairperson of OpenI18N.org/Free Standards Group, an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the use of free and open source software by developing and promoting standards. He is also a founding member of W3C I18N WG. Prior to JustSystems, as an architect at Sun, he was involved with variety of standards and standard organizations including ISO, W3C, OMG, The Open Group, OSF, Unix International, X Consortium, and Unicode.