Our foremost highlight was the vote of confidence CMIC team received from Microsoft management that resulted in expansion of the team charter, team size and budget. The new expansion team will plan and execute a strategy to effectively support the Arabic language in Microsoft products. The team will develop middleware to support Arabic language applications, and will manage relationships with partners taking on Arabic localization jobs. Longer term, the CMIC-ATT team will help implement new concepts envisioned by the CMIC-Applied Research Team (ART) in the areas of Arabic document services, Arabic information retrieval, and Collaborative Arabic Content Analysis.

The new expansion team will plan and execute a strategy to effectively support the Arabic language in Microsoft products. The team will develop middleware to support Arabic language applications, and will manage relationships with partners taking on Arabic localization jobs. Longer term, the CMIC-ATT team will help implement new concepts envisioned by the CMIC-Applied Research Team (ART) in the areas of Arabic document services, Arabic information retrieval, and Collaborative Arabic Content Analysis.