Mark E. Davis is a specialist in software text processing and internationalization and the co-founder and president of the Unicode Consortium. He is one of the key technical contributors to the Unicode specifications, being the primary author or co-author of Bi-directional Algorithm, Collation, Normalization, Scripts, Text segmentation, Identifiers, Regular Expressions, Compression, Character Conversion, and Security. Davis has specialized in internationalization and text software for many years. After getting his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Stanford University, he worked in Switzerland for several years, then returned to California to join Apple, where he co-authored the Macintosh KanjiTalk and Script Manager, and authored the Macintosh Arabic and Hebrew systems. He also worked on parts of the Mac OS, including contributions to the design of TrueType. Later, he was the manager and architect for the Taligent international frameworks, and was then the architect for a large part of the Java international libraries. At IBM, he was the Chief Software Globalization Architect. He is the author of a number of patents, primarily in internationalization. 

September 13th, 1952 in (Age 72)