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<p><a href="/"><img border="0" src="/Icons/WWW/w3c_home" alt="W3C" width="72"
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<h1>W3C Alumni</h1>
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<h3>Jean-François Abramatic</h3>
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<p>Jean-François was Chairman of the World Wide Web Consortium from 1996 to
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2001. Formerly Associate Director of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
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(1997-1998) and Director of Development and Industrial Relations at INRIA
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(1992- 1999), he was responsible for establishing the European branch of W3C in
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partnership with MIT LCS in 1995. He was the General Chairman of the Fifth
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International World Wide Web Conference which was held in Paris in May 1996.</p>
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<p>Jean-François was asked by the French government to prepare a report
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entitled "Développement Technique de l'Internet". The report was published in
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June 1999.</p>
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<p>His areas of expertise include networking, image processing and graphics.
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Jean-François received his Master's degree from Ecole des Mines in Nancy and
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his PhD from the University of Paris VI.</p>
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<h3>Pamela Ahern</h3>
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<p>Pamela joined W3C at MIT as Senior Office Assistant at MIT to assist Susan
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Hardy with W3C office administration. She was with W3C from September 1996
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through December 1997.</p>
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<h3>José Manuel Alonso</h3>
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<p>José came to W3C as a W3C Fellow in January 2007 working in the Technology
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and Society Domain. José is employed by <a
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href="http://www.fundacionctic.org/">Fundación CTIC</a> who sponsor his W3C
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fellowship. The purpose of the fellowship is to understand specific government
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and citizens' needs related to eGovernment services, identify eGovernment
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aspects that put Web interoperability at risk, to suggest how governments can
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deliver better and more efficient services through computer technologies, and
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to coordinate discussions and actions for possible future efforts of the
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Consortium in eGovernment.</p>
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<p>Prior to joining W3C, José was the manager of the <a
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href="http://www.w3c.es/">W3C Spain Office</a> for three years and also served
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as the Advisory Committee Representative for CTIC.</p>
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<p>José received Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Masters degree in
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Enterprise Application Integration, both from the <a
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href="http://euitio.uniovi.es/" hreflang="es">University of Oviedo</a>, where
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he also worked at its Research and Innovation departments as a researcher,
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developer and teacher. He also worked previously as consultant and even founded
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his own Web company back in 1997.</p>
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<p>José left W3C in September 2009</p>
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<h3>Andrew Arch</h3>
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<p>Andrew joined W3C in November 2007 as the Web Accessibility and Ageing
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Specialist to work on the European Commission funded <a
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href="/WAI/WAI-AGE/">WAI-AGE project</a>. The objectives of this project were
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to increase the accessibility of the Web for those with accessibility needs
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related to ageing within European Union Member States and around the world.
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This project coordinates closely with the WAI <a href="/WAI/EO/">Education and
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Outreach</a> working group.</p>
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<p>Prior to joining W3C, Andrew worked at <a
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href="http://www.visionaustralia.org/ais/">Vision Australia</a> for seven years
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leading a team that provided consulting, reviewing and training services around
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Web accessibility. He was heavily involved with W3C WAI during this time.</p>
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<p>Andrew left W3C in September 2010.</p>
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<h3>Takuya Asada</h3>
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<p>Takyua completed his Master's degree in image processing and color
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representation from the Information & Computer Science department at Chiba
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University. He has worked as a programmer and system administrator for over two
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years before joining W3C at Keio-SFC in October 1997.</p>
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<p>Takuya left W3C in October 2000.</p>
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<h3>Katsutoshi Asaki</h3>
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<p>Katsu was a W3C Fellow from Hitachi from September 2007 to September 2008.
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Katsu received a study grant from Hitachi to join the Team at MIT to work on
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infrastructure tools for enterprise deployment of Semantic Web technologies.</p>
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<p>Katsu is a software engineer working on Hitachi's enterprise information
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systems.</p>
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<h3>Anselm Baird-Smith</h3>
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<p>Anselm worked at W3C from October 1995 through August 1997 to design and
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implement <a href="../Jigsaw/">Jigsaw</a>, W3C's award-winning object oriented
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Java-based server software. His interests include communication protocols,
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distributed objects and scripting languages. Anselm received his Ph.D. in
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Computer Science from Universite de Jussieu, Paris VI.</p>
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<h3>Art Barstow</h3>
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<p>Art had been a W3C Team member since May, 2000 (part of that time was as
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Visiting Fellow).</p>
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<p>Prior to this current position, he worked on a <a
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href="http://www.wapforum.org">WAP</a> simulation toolkit and a WAP browser at
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<a href="http://www.nokia.com">Nokia</a> . He also has worked at the <a
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href="http://www.x.org/">X Consortium</a> and at <a
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href="http://www.hp.com">Hewlett-Packard</a>.</p>
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<p>Art was a member of the Technology and Society Domain's <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/">Semantic Web Activity</a> and a member of the
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/">RDF Core Working Group</a> . He
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was also a member of the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/sw/">Semantic Web
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Advanced Development</a> group.</p>
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<p>Art left W3C in November 2001.</p>
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<h3><a name="Bertot" id="Bertot">Janet Bertot</a></h3>
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<p>Janet joined the W3C-Sophia team in January 1997, to work part-time with Luc
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Ottavj and Stephane Boyera on system administration.</p>
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<h3><a name="birkenbihl" id="birkenbihl">Klaus Birkenbihl</a></h3>
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<p>Klaus, based in Germany, graduated as mathematician at the <a
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href="http://www.uni-bonn.de/">University of Bonn</a> in 1974. He joined the
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German research institute in computer science (GMD) where he worked since then
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in several areas. After a few years of research on software technology he was
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appointed head of GMD's computer center Bonn in 1980. He gave lectures on
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computer science at the <a href="http://www.uni-koeln.de/">University of
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Cologne</a> and the <a href="http://www.fh-brs.de/">University of Applied
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Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg</a>. He acted as head of the network engineering group
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and the competence center "Computer Networks and Society" in GMD and later in
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<a href="http://www.imk.fraunhofer.de/en/index.html">Fraunhofer Institute for
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Media Communication</a>. </p>
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<p>Klaus has a strong computer networks background. Among other roles he was
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founding member of the European Academic Research Network (EARN) and deputy
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director of EARN Germany, member of the operational committee of the <a
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href="http://www.dfn.de/content/index.php?id=74989&L=2">German Research
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Network (DFN)</a>, member of the <a
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href="http://www.caster.xhost.de/Sj92str.htm">EASInet</a> steering committee
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and chairman of the German Chapter of the <a
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href="http://www.isoc.org/">Internet Society.</a> </p>
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<p>Before joining the W3C team Klaus worked for W3C as head of the <a
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href="http://www.w3c.de/">German/Austrian Office</a>, AB member, and AC rep of
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<a href="http://www.fraunhofer.de/fhg/EN/index.jsp?mod=1">GMD/Fraunhofer</a>.
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After leaving Fraunhofer launched his own company <a
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href="http://www.ict-media.de/" hreflang="de">ict Media GmbH</a> from where he
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works for W3C. As team member - on a part time basis - Klaus worked as
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Coordinator of W3C World Offices. </p>
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<p>Klaus left W3C in January 2011. </p>
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<h3><a name="dbooth" id="dbooth">David Booth</a></h3>
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<p>David was a W3C Fellow from Hewlett-Packard from 6-Feb-2002 through
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15-Apr-2005. His main interests were Web Services and the Semantic Web.</p>
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<p>He was alternate W3C Team Contact for the <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/desc/">Web Services Description Working
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Group</a> and the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/arch/">Web Services
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Architecture Working Group</a>, and edited the <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl20-primer">Web Services Description Language
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(WSDL) 2.0 Primer</a> and the <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-ws-arch-20040211/">Web Services
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Architecture</a>.</p>
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<p>At HP, he is a Senior Research Architect. Previously, he was Director of
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Training for Bluestone Software (until Bluestone was acquired by HP), and led
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Bluestone's use of Web technologies for training purposes. He also served on
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the W3C's Advisory Committee as Bluestone's representative. Before working at
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Bluestone, he was a research scientist for ATT Bell labs.</p>
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David has been programming for many years on a variety of operating systems,
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currently preferring Java or Perl.
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<p>David holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA, where he specialized in
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programming language design.</p>
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<h3 id="bratt">Steve Bratt</h3>
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<p>From January 2002 through June 2009, Steve served as the W3C Chief Operating
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Officer, then Chief Executive Officer.</p>
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<p>In October 2008, <a href="mailto:steve@webfoundation.org">Steve Bratt</a>
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was named the first Chief Executive Officer of the <a
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href="http://webfoundation.org/">World Wide Web Foundation</a>. The Web
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Foundation is not-for-profit organization, founded by Web inventor Tim
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Berners-Lee, focused on connecting and empowering all people on the planet
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through the Web, and ensuring that this powerful medium advances in a free and
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open manner. Under the direction of the Board, Steve has primary responsibility
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for launching the Foundation and for worldwide operations, including overall
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management of strategic planning, programs, fund-raising, communications,
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budget, legal matters, liaisons, and events.</p>
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<p>Steve received his Ph.D. from the <a
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href="http://www.mit.edu/">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a>, and his
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B.S. from the <a href="http://www.psu.edu/">Pennsylvania State University</a>.
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Prior to joining the W3C, Steve held leadership and research positions within
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industry and government, and served on scientific and arms control delegations.
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In 1997, he was named Coordinator of the <a
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href="http://www.ctbto.org/">Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
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Organization's</a> International Data Centre in Vienna, Austria. There he was
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responsible for establishing the data center, global communications
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infrastructure, and standards for data exchange between more than 300
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world-wide sensors and 170 nations. From 1984 to 1997, Steve led research
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initiatives -- first at <a href="http://www.saic.com/">Science Applications
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International Corporation</a> and then as a program manager at <a
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href="http://www.darpa.mil/">Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency</a> --
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to develop advanced concepts for real-time global sensor monitoring,
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intelligent data analysis and international telecommunications. Steve also held
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the position of Research Scientist within MIT's <a
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href="http://www.csail.mit.edu/">Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
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Laboratory</a>. </p>
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<h3><a name="danbri" id="danbri">Dan Brickley</a></h3>
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<p>Dan worked mainly on the Semantic Web, with a side interest in Web Services
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technology, particular service description and composition. Dan was chair of
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the RDF Interest Group, co-editor of the RDF Schema Specification, and has a
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background in digital library research and services.</p>
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<p>He was in charge of coordinating W3C's involvement in the Semantic Web
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Advanced Development for Europe (SWAD-Europe) project.</p>
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<p>Dan left W3C in February 2006.</p>
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<h3><a name="Bruyeron" id="Bruyeron">Renaud Bruyeron</a></h3>
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<p>Renaud holds an engineering degree from the "Grande Ecole" <a
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href="http://www.ecp.fr/">Ecole Centrale de Paris</a>, and a Master of Sciences
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degree in Computer Science from <a href="http://www.ucla.edu/">UCLA</a>. He
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worked in UCLA's <a href="http://irl.cs.ucla.edu/">Internet Research
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Laboratory</a> on TCP performance issues.</p>
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<p>In his spare time, Renaud likes to torture Linux systems.</p>
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<h3>Michael Carmack</h3>
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<p>Michael joined the Team as a Systems programmer. He left in July 2001.</p>
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<h3>Catherine Chat</h3>
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<p>Catherine worked with the Consortium from July - December 1996 to promote
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the W3C activities exploiting and demonstrating the potential of its
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developments. Her charter included working on an application-oriented branch of
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the W3C website dedicated to Web users.</p>
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<p>Catherine holds a Masters degree in Software Engineering and a Ph.D. in
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Earth Sciences which doesn't have much to do with the Web except wonderful
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World Wide experiences.</p>
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<p>Catherine was the Webmaster of the Fifth International World Wide Web
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Conference.</p>
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<h3><a name="wendy" id="wendy">Wendy Chisholm</a></h3>
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<p>Wendy joined the W3C in October 1999 to coordinate the development of tools
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and create guidelines to increase the accessibility of the Web for people with
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disabilities. As a human factors engineer at the Trace Center at the University
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of Wisconsin, she investigated the accessibility of emerging Web trends and
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technologies. She was co-editor of the W3C's Web Content Accessibility
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Guidelines 1.0 and is the W3C Team Contact for the WCAG WG and co-editor of
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WCAG 2.0. Wendy has a background in Industrial Engineering, Computer Science,
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and Psychology.</p>
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<h3>Eui-Suk Chung</h3>
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<p>Eui-Suk joined W3C in August 1996 on secondment from <a
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href="http://www.ericsson.com">Ericsson Telecom</a>. Before joining W3C, he was
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working on query processing for object-oriented database systems at the <a
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href="http://www.pmg.lcs.mit.edu">Programming Methodology Group</a> at the MIT
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Laboratory for Computer Science. He was a visiting scientist on a grant from
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Sweden.</p>
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<p>Eui-Suk is interested in distributed systems, object-oriented database
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systems, and programming languages. He is interested in most aspects of the
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Web, and his work was focused on electronic commerce, real-time audio/video,
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distributed computing and mobile code.</p>
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<p>In October 1997, Eui-Suk returned full-time to Ericsson to launch the
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Ericsson CyberLab. CyberLab partners include A.H. Belo, Hewlett-Packard,
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Juniper Networks, Marimba, Mariposa, Moonfire, Oz, Silicon Graphics, and Sun
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Microsystems.</p>
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<div class="foaf-person">
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<h3><a name="connolly" id="connolly" class="foaf-name"><span
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class="foaf-given">Dan</span> <span class="foaf-family">Connolly</span></a>,
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Technical Staff</h3>
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</div>
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<p>Dan Connolly was a <span class="title">research scientist</span> at the MIT
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Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (<a
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rel="foaf-workplaceHomepage" href="http://www.csail.mit.edu/">CSAIL</a>) in the
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Decentralized Information Group (<a rel="foaf-currentProject"
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href="http://dig.csail.mit.edu/">DIG</a>) and a member of the technical staff
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of the World Wide Web Consortium (<a class="org" rel="foaf-workplaceHomepage"
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href="../../">W3C</a>). His research interest was investigating the value of
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formal descriptions of complex systems like the Web, especially in the
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consensus-building process.</p>
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<p>Dan received bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the <a
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href="http://www.utexas.edu/">University of Texas at Austin</a> in 1990. He
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moved to the Dallas area to join <a
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convex_Computer">Convex Computer
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Corporation</a> as a software engineer in 1991. From there, he began
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collaborating across the Internet with <a href="../Berners-Lee/">Tim
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Berners-Lee</a> on the World Wide Web project. He moved back to Austin to work
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at Atrium, a start-up software company, in 1993. He joined <a
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Computer_Systems">HAL Computer
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Systems</a> in 1994.</p>
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<p>In 1995, Dan moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts to join the W3C staff at MIT.
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From 1995 to 1997, during the intense struggle between Microsoft Internet
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Explorer and Netscape Navigator, Dan chaired the working group that preserved
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HTML as an open standard.</p>
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<p>Since 1997, Dan has worked for MIT from his home, first in Austin, Texas and
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later in the Kansas City area.</p>
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<p>Dan left W3C in June of 2010.</p>
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<h3>Beth Curran</h3>
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<p>Beth was Jean-François Abramatic's administrative assistant, and maintained
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the list of W3C Members. Prior to supporting Jean-François Abramatic, Beth was
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assistant to Albert Vezza.</p>
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<h3>Michelle Curry</h3>
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<p>Michelle was Communications Assistant for the W3C MIT team.</p>
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<p>Michelle left W3C in July 2001.</p>
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<h3>Janet Daly</h3>
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<p>Janet served the W3C Communications Team in multiple capacities over nine
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years. She joined the team in February 1999 as Head of Public Relations and
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directed the Communications Team from January 2000 through June 2004, helping
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to develop strategic messaging, member relations and member communications,
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working with the W3C Webmaster and Ian Jacobs on refinements for the the W3C
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Publishing process, and leading W3C's media relations efforts. After returning
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from maternity leave in October 2004, Janet served as Global Communications
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Officer and continued her role as W3C spokesperson until her departure at the
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end of 2007.</p>
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<h3>François <a name="Daoust" id="Daoust">Daoust</a></h3>
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<p>François Daoust joined W3C in December 2007 from Microsoft where he
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integrated on-portal mobile search engine called MotionBridge he had developed
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in a French start-up. From 2007 to 2010, he served as staff contact for the <a
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href="/2005/MWI/BPWG/">Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group</a>. François
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became co-Activity Lead for the <a href="/2011/webtv/Activity.html">Web and TV
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Activity</a>. He served as staff contact for the <a href="/2011/webtv/">Web and
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TV Interest Group</a> and for the <a href="/2011/04/webrtc/">Web Real-Time
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Communications Working Group</a> created in May 2011. He contributed as a tutor
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to the <a href="/Mobile/training/">online training sessions on Mobile Web
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Application Best Practices</a>, maintained the online <a
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href="http://validator.w3.org/mobile/">W3C mobileOK Checker</a>, and took part
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in discussions and developments on cross-browser and cross-platform testing at
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W3C.</p>
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<p>François left W3C on 30 November 2011.</p>
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<h3>Sally DeAngelis</h3>
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<p>Sally DeAngelis joined the W3C in October 1999 as an assistant to the
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administrative team. She also worked as a development and marketing consultant
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to arts organizations. Sally has a Masters of Education in Creative Arts in
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Learning from Lesley College. She dances with Back Pocket Dance, an
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intergenerational performing group based in Cambridge, Mass., and various other
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groups.</p>
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<p>Sally left W3C in June 2001.</p>
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<h3>Philip A. DesAutels</h3>
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<p>Philip DesAutels was a project manager at MIT LCS responsible for W3C's work
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on <a href="http://www.w3.org/Security/DSig/">digital signatures</a> and <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/P3P/">privacy on the Web</a>. He joined W3C after
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working for <a href="http://www.ac.com/">Andersen Consulting</a>, <a
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href="http://www.s390.ibm.com/">IBM</a> and <a
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href="http://www.jhancock.com/">John Hancock</a> where he has been a project
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manager and management advisor. He also spent a year with the <a
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href="http://http://www.peacecorps.gov/www/io/uzbekistan/uzbekistan.html">Pe
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ace Corps in Uzbekistan</a>, where he helped to establish an electronic mail
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infrastructure, taught business computing courses at Namangan Polytechnic
|
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Institute and worked to develop other local industries. Philip's research
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interests are in the area of social interactions on the Web and trust.</p>
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<p>Philip holds an M.S. degree in <a
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href="http://www.rpi.edu/dept/dses/www/aboutime.html">Industrial and Management
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Engineering (IME)</a> from <a href="http://www.rpi.edu">Rensselaer Polytechnic
|
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Institute</a> where he worked for the <a
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href="http://www.ssti.org/ny.htm">North East Manufacturing Technology
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Center</a> and did research in exploratory data analysis.</p>
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<h3><a name="Marisol" id="Marisol">Marisol Diaz</a></h3>
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<p>Marisol was part of the Administrative team based in Cambridge, at MIT.
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Marisol is fluent in Spanish and English. She was originally/primarily
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responsible for organizing travel and accounting.<br />
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Marisol joined the W3C-MIT Administrative Team in May of 2000 and left W3C on
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August 2010. </p>
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<h3><a name="Dietl" id="Dietl">Josef Dietl</a></h3>
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<a href="/People/JDietl/">Josef</a> was responsible for W3C's Member Relations,
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as well as leading the W3C Office activities worldwide.
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<p>Born in Munich, Germany, Josef completed his Master's Degree in Physics at
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Technical University Munich and co-founded FITUG, the Förderverein
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Informationstechnik und Gesellschaft (Association for the advancement of
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information technology and society) at that time. Later, he joined CompuServe
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in Munich to help them deal with illegal and potentially harmful content. Among
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other responsibilities, he implemented PICS on their web pages and first got in
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touch with the World Wide Web Consortium. In June 1997 Josef joined W3C to lead
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the Electronic Commerce Activity, and handle Member Relations, originally in
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Europe, now world wide.</p>
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<p>Josef left W3C in December 1999.</p>
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<h3><a name="karl" id="karl">Karl Dubost</a></h3>
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<p>Karl Dubost was the Web Community Liaison of W3C. He joined in July 2000 as
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Conformance Manager.</p>
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<p>Karl holds in 1995 a DEA (Msc) in Astrophysics and Spatial Techniques at <a
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href="http://www.obspm.fr/">Meudon Observatory</a> after a BSc in Physics at <a
|
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href="http://www.umontreal.ca/">Montreal University</a>. He worked for various
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companies and spent three years as webmaster/system manager/project manager in
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the education field at <a href="http://www.paris.iufm.fr/">IUFM de Paris</a>.
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He has also translated several <a href="http://www.la-grange.net/w3c/">W3C
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Recommendations in french</a> as a volunteer.</p>
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<p>Karl left W3C in December 2009</p>
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<h3><a name="duerst" id="duerst"></a>Martin Dürst</h3>
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<p>Martin joined the W3C Team at Keio-SFC in December 1997 to work on
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|
Internationalization. From Nov. 2002 to March 2004, he was a Visiting Scientist
|
|
at MIT/LCS. During most of his time at the W3C, Martin was Activity Lead of the
|
|
Internationalization Activity. Prior to joining W3C, he was at the University
|
|
of Zurich, Department of Computer Science, and had been an active participant
|
|
within the HTML and CSS Working Groups as an invited expert on
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|
internationalization.</p>
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|
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<p>Martin obtained his masters degree from the University of Zurich in computer
|
|
science, business administration, and Japanese studies. He has a Ph.D from the
|
|
University of Tokyo in computer science with a thesis on compression and
|
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progressive transmission of images.</p>
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|
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<p>Martin left W3C in April 2005 for a position at <a
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|
href="http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp/D%C3%BCrst/">Aoyama Gakuin University</a>.
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He continues to chair the Internationalization Interest Group and participates
|
|
as an Invited Expert in several Internationalization-related Working groups.</p>
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|
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<h3><a name="Esplin" id="Esplin">Kathryn Esplin</a></h3>
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|
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<p>Kathryn Esplin joined W3C as a Communications Specialist on contract at MIT
|
|
from January until May 1998. Prior to joining W3C, Kathryn was a news reporter
|
|
for general-interest newspapers, and brought several years' experience as a
|
|
technical and business writer for leading computer journals. Kathryn also was
|
|
copy editor of <a
|
|
href="http://cseng.aw.com/bookdetail.qry?ISBN=0%2D201%2D17805%2D2&ptype=0">Raggett
|
|
on HTML 4</a>. Kathryn was educated in Canada and the United States, with a
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|
master of science in journalism from Northwestern University.</p>
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|
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|
<h3>Henri Fallon</h3>
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|
|
|
<p>Henri began as Webmaster while he was completing his studies at the French
|
|
<a href="http://www.ecp.fr/">Ecole Centrale Paris</a>. He was part of both the
|
|
systeam & the comm team</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Henri left W3C in August 2003</p>
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|
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|
<h3 id="feng">Patrick Feng</h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Patrick joined the W3C team in May 2000 as research assistant in the
|
|
Technology and Society domain. He works primarily on privacy issues and P3P.
|
|
Patrick is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies at
|
|
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Patrick left W3C in August 2000.</p>
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|
|
|
<h3>Roy Fielding</h3>
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|
|
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<p>Roy is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Information and Computer Science
|
|
at the University of California, Irvine. His work on the World-Wide Web project
|
|
began in 1993 while developing tools for web maintenance. He created the
|
|
wwwstat httpd log analyzer, the Multi-Owner Maintenance Spider (MOMspider), and
|
|
the WWW protocol library for clients written in perl (libwww-perl).</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Roy has been an active participant in the IETF standardization of the WWW
|
|
protocols (HTTP,HTML, and URI). He is the author of the Internet Proposed
|
|
Standard on Relative Uniform Resource Locators (RFC 1808) and co-author of the
|
|
HTTP/1.x Specifications. He was a Visiting Scholar at MIT/LCS + W3C during the
|
|
Summer of `95 and continues to work with the W3C team on various standards
|
|
issues.<br />
|
|
</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3>Pierre Fillault</h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>A visiting engineer from Aerospatiale, Pierre <a
|
|
href="mailto:fillault@w3.org"></a>joined W3C's Communications Team in May 1997
|
|
as a member of the Webmaster team, and its technical lead after after December
|
|
1997. He left W3C in August 1998.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Pierre worked in Aerospatiale's Image Processing Department in France. He
|
|
holds an engineering degree from the "grande ecole" Supelec and a Master of
|
|
Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois
|
|
at Urbana-Champaign.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3>Ron Fink</h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Ron Fink joined the W3C administrative team at MIT in May 1998. Prior to
|
|
working for W3C he was refurbishing computer monitors for a surplus electronics
|
|
firm in Marlboro, MA. He has also worked producing presentation graphics for a
|
|
small consulting firm in Cambridge. Ron was born and raised in the Boston area.
|
|
He attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY and also lived in
|
|
Portland, Oregon for six years.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="fonteneau" id="fonteneau">Christelle Fonteneau</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Christelle was a W3C Administrative Assistant based in Europe at INRIA. She
|
|
was in charge of the administration of European Members. Christelle joined the
|
|
team in 2001 and left in January 2003.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3>Daichi Funato</h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Daichi was a system administrator for the W3C Keio team. He contributed to
|
|
build the global W3C network and system.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Daichi left W3C in April 1998.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="mf" id="mf">Max Froumentin</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Max joined W3C at INRIA in July 2000. Prior to that, he completed a PhD in
|
|
computer graphics in 1996 at University of Lille, France, and has worked for
|
|
three years as a research assistant at University of Bath, UK. His interests
|
|
are 2D and 3D graphics, styling and typography.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Max left the Team in February 2007.</p>
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|
|
|
<h3><a name="yoshio" id="yoshio">Yoshio Fukushige</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Yoshio Fukushige was a W3C fellow at Keio University from Matsushita
|
|
Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Panasonic). He became a fellow in the Technology
|
|
and Society domain, in January, 2004.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>His research area is natural language processing (NLP), and he is an
|
|
ex-member of the EDR project, a national project of Japan to build large-scale
|
|
dictionaries for NLP, such as machine translation. He has been interested in
|
|
probabilistic reasoning and its application in the Semantic Web. He holds a
|
|
Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Tokyo</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Yoshio left the Team in February 2006.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="matthieu" id="matthieu">Matthieu Fuzellier</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p><a href="http://www.mattiouz.com/people/matthieu/">Matthieu</a> joined the
|
|
W3C Systems Team in July 2004 as the W3C Webmaster replacing <a
|
|
href="/People/Vivien">Vivien Lacourba</a>. He spent 2 years at MIT (the US host
|
|
site of W3C) in Cambridge, MA.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>He graduated from the Ecole Supérieure en Sciences Informatiques (<a
|
|
href="http://www.essi.fr">ESSI</a>) in Sophia-Antipolis, France in Dec 2004
|
|
with a Master's degree in Computer Science, specialized in Networks.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>In 1999 he received a French <a
|
|
href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipl%C3%B4me_universitaire_de_technologie">D.U.T.</a>
|
|
(somewhat equivalent to a Bachelor's Degree) in Computer Networks and
|
|
Telecommunications and in 2000 he received a French <a
|
|
href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipl%C3%B4me_universitaire_de_technologie">D.U.T.</a>
|
|
in Computer Programming, both from the <a
|
|
href="http://www.iutv.univ-paris13.fr/">Paris XIII University</a> in
|
|
Villetaneuse, France.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="jg" id="jg">Jim Gettys</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p><a href="Gettys">Jim Gettys</a> joined W3C in July 1995 on secondment from
|
|
<a href="http://www.digital.com/">Digital Equipment Corporation</a>'s Industry
|
|
Standards and Consortia Group. Jim is one of the authors of <a
|
|
href="http://www.research.digital.com/CRL/projects/AF/home.html">AF</a>, a
|
|
network transparent audio server system, and one of the principle authors of
|
|
the <a href="http://www.x.org/">X Window System</a>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Jim's interests and experience span systems design and implementation,
|
|
collaborative systems, teleconferencing and most areas of Web technology. He is
|
|
interested in making the Web more usable in high latency and low bandwidth
|
|
situations (home and mobile use).</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Jim left W3C in February 2000.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="bgilman" id="bgilman">Brian Gilman</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Brian Gilman joined W3C in January 2006 to work in the Semantic Web area.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Brian left W3C in July 2006.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3>Tom Greene</h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Tom joined W3C as manager of Special Projects in January 1995. His work
|
|
included communication and assistance to Consortium Members. At MIT LCS since
|
|
1986, Tom was manager of Project Scout, and returned to LCS full time as
|
|
Manager of Special Projects in January 1998. Prior to that, he taught physics
|
|
and computer science as an Associate Professor in the College of Engineering at
|
|
the University of Petroleum and Minerals in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3>Ramzi Guetari</h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Ramzi graduated from the University of Nantes with a degree in Computer
|
|
Science, and obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Savoie. He was working
|
|
on Object-Oriented Languages, Parallelism and concurrency; and is also
|
|
interested in compilers.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>He joined INRIA in October 1995 and the Amaya team at W3C in October
|
|
1996.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="hugo" id="hugo">Hugo Haas</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p><a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Hugo/">Hugo Haas</a> joined W3C in June
|
|
1999 as Webmaster and later integrated to the Architecture Domain team. He
|
|
became <a href="http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/">Web Services Activity</a> Lead when
|
|
the Activity was started in January 2002, and worked on SOAP 1.2, WSDL 2.0, Web
|
|
Services Addressing 1.0, and Web Services Architecture. Hugo left the W3C Team
|
|
on 31 May 2006 to join <a href="http://www.yahoo.com/">Yahoo!</a>. His email
|
|
address is <a href="mailto:hugo@larve.net">hugo@larve.net</a>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3>Phil Hallam-Baker</h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Phillip is a computer scientist who has been active in W3 issues since 1992.
|
|
He has contributed to the HTML 3.0 Maths markup and is currently active in Web
|
|
security issues. Before working on the Web he worked on parallel processing,
|
|
code synthesis and formal methods. He joined the W3C/MIT team from the CERN
|
|
Programming Techniques Group (which is also active in W3 development).</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3>Simon J. Hernandez</h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Simon joined the W3C Systems Team 1 September 2000 as a System Administrator
|
|
and departed 1 July 2008 to become Operations Manager at <a
|
|
href="http://zepheira.com/about/">Zepheira</a>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Prior to joining the Consortium Simon worked at <a
|
|
href="http://www.sybase.com">Sybase, Inc.</a>, where he assisted in the
|
|
management of a large global internetwork of production business, engineering,
|
|
and tech support servers and workstations, and rollout of such services as <a
|
|
href="http://my.sybase.com">My.Sybase.Com</a>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>In a previous incarnation, Simon lived in Japan and studied Comparative
|
|
Culture and Japanese at <a
|
|
href="http://www.sophia.ac.jp/home.nsf/E/home?OpenDocument">Sophia
|
|
University</a> in Tokyo. He also attended the School of Library and Information
|
|
Studies (now the <a href="http://www.sims.berkeley.edu">School of Information
|
|
Management & Systems</a>) at the <a
|
|
href="http://www.berkeley.edu">University of California at Berkeley</a>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="chibao" id="chibao">Yasuyuki Hirakawa</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Yasuyuki (<abbr title="also known as">a.k.a</abbr> chibao) joined <abbr
|
|
title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</abbr> in April 1999 as a part-time
|
|
systems administrator at W3C Keio, and moved to the Communications Team from
|
|
April 2002. He served as W3C Asian Communications Officer since July 2003 until
|
|
his departure at the end of September 2008.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>As W3C Asian Communications Officer, he organized W3C Tenth Anniversary
|
|
Ceremony in Asia, <a href="http://www.w3.org/2006/11/W3C10">W3C10 Asia</a>,
|
|
Tokyo, Japan in November 2006. He also organized various promotional events and
|
|
public seminars in Japan.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>He was a <abbr title="Doctor of Philosophy">PhD</abbr> student and also a
|
|
project research associate, and then an assistant professor of the Graduate
|
|
School of Media and Governance of Keio University, Japan. He holds bachelor's
|
|
and master's degrees from Keio University.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="hjelm" id="hjelm">Johan Hjelm</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p><a href="http://www.42forlag.com/Johan/whois.htm">Johan Hjelm</a> joined the
|
|
team in July 1998 as a visiting engineer from Ericsson, on secondment form the
|
|
User Applications lab.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Prior to joining the W3C, he among other things wrote the first book about
|
|
the Internet in Swedish (in 1994), and has been editor-in-chief of a computer
|
|
magazine.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>As research manager for the Bonnier Media Lab, he was running their
|
|
participation in the <a href="http://www.sics.se/~onthemove/">On the Move +
|
|
project</a>, an EU project where several companies got together to research the
|
|
future of mobile information distribution.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>He is working on the relations with the <a href="http://www.wapforum.org/">W
|
|
+AP Forum</a> and with other mobility-related items, as well as being part of
|
|
the mobile access interest group, and pursue a personal interest by being part
|
|
of the user characterisation working group.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Johan left W3C in July 2000.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3>Bob Hopgood</h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Bob Hopgood received his degree in Mathematics from the University of
|
|
Cambridge in 1959. His early career was in the area of quantum chemistry before
|
|
spending much of the 1960s writing compilers. In the period 1968 to 1975 his
|
|
main interest was in computer graphics and, in particular, computer animation.
|
|
From 1975 to 1979 he was responsible for all the interactive facilities at the
|
|
Rutherford Laboratory. In the period 1979 to 1994 he was Head of the Computing
|
|
Department. Since 1994, he has been responsible for activities related to the
|
|
World-Wide Web.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>He has a part-time appointment in the Computer Science Department at Brunel
|
|
University where he has taught since 1967.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>He has a Dr. Ing. E.h. from theUniversity of Darmstadt awarded in 1992 and
|
|
an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) awarded in the 2000 New Year's Honours
|
|
List for services to computer science, in particular computer graphics and
|
|
standards.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>His interest in computer graphics has continued throughout his career. He
|
|
was co-editor of the GKS and PHIGS ISO standards and chairs BSI's IST/31
|
|
Committee responsible for computer graphics and image processing. He has been
|
|
involved with the ISO standardisation of PNG, the Web CGM Profile and is
|
|
currently involved with the definition of SVG.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>He was the W3C Advisory Comittee Representative for RAL (CCLRC) until quite
|
|
recently and was responsible for the Awareness Workpackage of the Esprit
|
|
Leveraging action that set up the European Offices of W3C.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Bob left W3C in February 2001.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3>Thilo Horstmann</h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Thilo was at W3C on secondment from GMD, Germany, where he has worked on
|
|
several European research projects in the areas of Distributed OO Systems,
|
|
Autonomous Agents, CSCW and W3. Before coming to W3C at INRIA in November 1995,
|
|
he was involved with the development of the BSCW system - an extension to a W3
|
|
server which provides basic facilities for collaborative information sharing
|
|
over the Web.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>At W3C Thilo was investigating how object-oriented technologies might be
|
|
applied to the Web architecture. In addition, he is interested in pursuing his
|
|
investigations into the use of the Web to support collaborative work.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="hubbard" id="hubbard">Thomas Hubbard</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Thomas joined the W3C team in February, 2000, as a visiting Engineer from
|
|
Nokia. Before joining W3C, Thomas helped to design and develop the Nokia WAP
|
|
browser. In addition to development, Thomas was the chair of the Architecture
|
|
Working Group of the WAPForum from 12/98 until 6/99. Thomas' initial focus on
|
|
the W3C team will be to work on a P3P and CC/PP interaction mechanism.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Thomas left W3C in October 2000.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="yudai">Yudai Iwasaki</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Yudai joined W3C in October of 2009 while continuing his studies in cyber
|
|
informatics at Graduate School of Media and Governance of Keio university. He
|
|
left W3C in April 2011 to go work at NTT lab.</p>
|
|
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<h3><a name="ishikawa" id="ishikawa">Masayasu Ishikawa</a></h3>
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<p>Masayasu joined the <abbr title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</abbr> at
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Keio-<abbr title="Shonan Fujisawa Campus">SFC</abbr> in June 1997 and left in
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March 2007.</p>
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<h3><a name="ishikura" id="ishikura">Naoko Ishikura</a></h3>
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<p>Naoko joined W3C in February 2009 and was in charge of administrative
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support at Keio SFC. Before joining W3C, Naoko worked for a Toyota group
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company in Kentucky, USA for 6 years as a sales/purchasing/planning specialist.
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Her interests are: music (studied music at college and plays the piano),
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languages (speaks Japanese, English and *a little bit* of Spanish and would
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love to learn more…), ‘good’ films (watching and analyzing), reading,
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writing, Yoga, Zumba, and many more.</p>
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<p>Naoko left W3C in July 2010.</p>
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<h3><a name="iwasa" id="iwasa">Kanako Iwasa</a></h3>
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<p>Kana joined the W3C Team at Keio University SFC in May 2007 in
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|
Administrative Support. She takes charge of the business trip arrangements,
|
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accounting and the member contract procedure.</p>
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|
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<p>Kanako left W3C in March 2009.</p>
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<h3><a name="jackson" id="jackson">Dean Jackson</a></h3>
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<p>Dean was the Activity lead for <a href="http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/">Rich
|
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Web Clients</a> which includes the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2006/webapi/">Web
|
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APIs Working Group</a> and the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2006/appformats/">Web
|
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Application Formats Working Group</a>. He was also the contact for the <a
|
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href="http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG">SVG Working Group</a> and was in charge
|
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of the sheep dip.</p>
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<h3><a name="fumi" id="fumi">Fumihiro Kato</a></h3>
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<p>Fumihiro joined the W3C in April 2006 as a system administrator at Keio
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|
University SFC. His interests were in Web Technology, Semantic Web and Mobile
|
|
Computing. He holds Master's and Bachelor's degrees from Keio University.</p>
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|
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<p>Fumihiro left W3C in December 2008.</p>
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<h3>Rohit Khare</h3>
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<p>Rohit joined the W3C in May 1995 to work on technology and protocol design
|
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behind several Technology and Society Domain security and electronic commerce
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projects. He later served as Technology Expert/Web Evangelist for the Promotion
|
|
and Dissemination team.</p>
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|
|
|
<p>Rohit graduated from Caltech with Bachelor's degrees in Engineering &
|
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Applied Science and Economics. Before W3C, he was involved in several
|
|
technology ventures involving cryptography, connectivity, and hypermedia
|
|
authoring, as well as forays into technical journalism, research on software
|
|
architecture, and web standardization. At Caltech, he designed and implemented
|
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the eText Engine, a system for creating and publishing interactive multimedia
|
|
textbooks.</p>
|
|
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<p>He is currently the Editor of the World Wide Web Journal.</p>
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|
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<h3>Sally Khudairi</h3>
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|
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<p>In April 1996, Sally joined W3C as "Keeper of the Public Image", bringing
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with her over seven years of consulting experience in multidisciplinary design
|
|
and project administration. Some of her clients include Ziff Davis Interactive,
|
|
Yahoo!Computing, Lycos, Houghton Mifflin Company, SkyMedia, Central
|
|
Artery/Tunnel Project, Automobiles Citroen, PowerEgypt, and Coopers &
|
|
Lybrand.</p>
|
|
|
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<p>Sally led the Communiations Team, and worked on the redesign of the W3C
|
|
website as well as providing direction on all W3C public relations,
|
|
communication, and publishing efforts. She left W3C in September 1998.</p>
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|
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<h3><a name="Kiss" id="Kiss">Cédric Kiss</a></h3>
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|
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<p><a href="../People/Cedric/">Cédric</a> was Team Contact for the MWI Device
|
|
Description Working Group. He was also involved in the Device Independence
|
|
Activity.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Prior to joining W3C in 2006, he studied <acronym
|
|
title="information technology">IT</acronym> and knowledge management, and
|
|
mainly worked in content management systems consultancy and engineering.</p>
|
|
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<h3><a name="Kitagawa" id="Kitagawa">Kazuhiro Kitagawa</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Kazuhiro "Kaz" Kitagawa, joined W3C on 1 April as a member of the Keio team.
|
|
He was the Activity lead for the W3C World Wide Web Consortium's Device
|
|
Independence. He holds a Project Associate Professor appointment at the
|
|
Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>He was responsible for the architectural and technical leadership in the
|
|
area of universal Web access from various kind of devices including cellphones,
|
|
PDAs and appliances.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>His research interests are digital typography in general, computer
|
|
networking, Web for small devices and privacy for Mobile devices. Before
|
|
joining W3C, he worked at Shukutoku University. He holds a BA and a MS in
|
|
mathematics from Keio University</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Kazuhiro Kitagawa left W3C in April 2005.</p>
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|
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|
<h3><a name="Koga" id="Koga">Youichirou Koga</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Youichirou joined the W3C-Keio team in June 1997 as a visiting engineer from
|
|
NEC Corporation (Internet Engineering Laboratory, Networking Systems
|
|
Laboratories) in Tokyo. His areas of interests are network application
|
|
protocols over TCP/IP. He is also interested in information sharing systems on
|
|
the Internet.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="koike" id="koike">Yuichi Koike</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Yuichi joined the W3C/MIT team in November 1999 as a visiting engineer from
|
|
<a href="http://www.nec.co.jp/">NEC</a>. He mainly works on the P3P user agent
|
|
(client software) implementation, in the Technology and Society Domain. He is
|
|
also interested in applying the P3P technology to various areas, such as mobile
|
|
communications, TV broadcast, and BtoB E-commerce.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Yuichi left W3C in October 2000.</p>
|
|
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|
<h3><a name="koivunen" id="koivunen">Marja-Riitta Koivunen</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Marja joined W3C in January 1998 as a Visiting Engineer from Helsinki
|
|
Telephone Corporation (HPY), where she is conducting research in the area of
|
|
usability in information society. She has extensive experience in
|
|
usability-related issues, and is involved in developing new services utilizing
|
|
new technologies and applying usability methods to helping people in their
|
|
daily lives.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>While at HPY, Marja worked on various research projects and developed new
|
|
services to the Web including Infocities; Virtual Language School; Underground
|
|
Helsinki, a 3-D digital meeting place; and Helsinki Arena 2000, which utilizes
|
|
a 3-D model of Helsinki.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Marja received her Ph.D. (D.Tech.) from Helsinki University of Technology
|
|
(HUT), where she worked as an Assistant Professor teaching human-computer
|
|
interaction, and headed the Usability Group and Usability Laboratory.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Marja left W3C in January 2004</p>
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|
|
|
<h3><a name="komura" id="komura">Kiriko Komura</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Kiriko was actually a graduate school (master >course) student at Keio
|
|
University when she joined W3C and she had to do both study and W3C at the same
|
|
time.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Kiriko left W3C in March 2001.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="kotok" id="kotok">Alan Kotok</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Alan joined W3C in May 1997 as W3C Associate Chair. He was responsible for
|
|
managing contractual relations with W3C Members. He coordinated the efforts of
|
|
the worldwide W3C Systems and Web Team and was site manager of the W3C MIT
|
|
site.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Alan retired from Digital Equipment Corp. in the fall of 1996 after 34 years
|
|
service. He was chief architect of the PDP-10 family of computers, and held
|
|
senior engineering positions in Digital's storage, telecommunications and
|
|
software organizations. As a member of the Corporate Strategy Group, he was
|
|
instrumental in creating Digital's Internet Business Group, which he joined as
|
|
Technical Director. Alan was an early supporter of the W3C, became Digital's
|
|
representative to the W3C Advisory Committee, and was involved with several W3C
|
|
activities.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Alan received BSEE and MSEE degrees from MIT and an MBA from Clark
|
|
University. His technical interests are in web security and integrity.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a href="http://www.w3.org/News/2006#item99">Alan passed away</a> at his
|
|
home in Cambridge, Massachusetts in May 2006.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="LaLiberte" id="LaLiberte">Daniel LaLiberte</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Daniel LaLiberte joined W3C in February 1999 to work initially on P3P
|
|
implementations for the Technology and Society Domain. Prior to that he was at
|
|
GTE Labs working on various experimental web technologies such as navigational
|
|
aids for electronic commerce. From 1988 to 1997 he was at <a
|
|
href="http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/">NCSA</a>'s Software Development Group where
|
|
Mosaic was developed. He worked on scientific visualization and collaboration
|
|
tools, such as <a href="http://www.hypernews.org/">HyperNews</a>, and
|
|
investigated WWW architecture issues including searching, URIs, and annotation
|
|
capabilities, and was the PI for a DARPA funded project to develop a Framework
|
|
for Integrated Synchronous and Asynchronous Collaboration.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>He received his B.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of
|
|
Minnesota in 1978, and did graduate studies at the University of Illinois,
|
|
Urbana-Champaign studying software engineering, programming languages, and the
|
|
evolution of information organization.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Daniel left W3C in January 2000.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3>Ora Lassila</h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Ora joined W3C in June 1996 as a visiting scientist on secondment from <a
|
|
href="http://www.nokia.com/company/overview/nrc_company.html">Nokia Research
|
|
Center</a>. Before joining Nokia, he was a project manager at the <a
|
|
href="http://www.ri.cmu.edu/">Robotics Institute</a> of Carnegie Mellon
|
|
University. Ora is interested in object oriented programming, mobile code, and
|
|
wireless communications as well as related applications. His previous research
|
|
focused on OOP languages and knowledge representation, logistics and production
|
|
scheduling, and mixed-initiative decision support. Ora holds an M.Sc (Eng.) in
|
|
Software Technology and Telecommunications from the <a
|
|
href="http://www.hut.fi/english.html">Helsinki University of Technology</a>. He
|
|
is the author of more than 30 conference papers, journal articles and technical
|
|
reports.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Ora remains an active participant in W3C as a member of the RDF Schema and
|
|
Data Model & Syntax Working Groups, editor of the Resource Description
|
|
Framework (RDF) Model and Syntax Working Draft, as well as the Advisory
|
|
Committee Representative to Nokia Corporation.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3>Arnaud Le Hors</h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Arnaud joined W3C in January 1997 to work in the User Interface Domain on
|
|
the development of HTML.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>He came from the X Consortium where he worked on the CDE project and the X
|
|
Window System (Broadway/X11R6.3). Prior to XC Arnaud worked for Groupe Bull as
|
|
a reasearch engineer specializing in X. Among other things, he has led the
|
|
design of XPM, a color icon format, which has become an X/Open standard.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3>Susan Lesch</h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Susan Lesch was a member of the W3C Communications Team from June 2000
|
|
through October 2007. She edited the news, published newsletters, and helped
|
|
support Member communications, publications, patent policy and the Web site.
|
|
Susan studied studio art at the University of Minnesota and computer science at
|
|
San Diego Mesa College.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3>Håkon Lie</h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>As the first W3C employee at INRIA, Håkon handled the coordination of the
|
|
growing development team in addition to working on <a href="/Style/">style
|
|
sheets</a> and <a href="/Arena/">Arena</a>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>He came to W3C in July 1995 from CERN where he was a research associate in
|
|
the WWW project. He is a graduate of the <a
|
|
href="http://www.media.mit.edu/">MIT Media Lab</a> where he worked in the
|
|
Electronic Publishing group.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Håkon left W3C in March 1999.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3>Karen MacArthur</h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Karen studied computer science and artificial intelligence at Princeton
|
|
University, completing her B.S.E. in 1993. She was Webmaster for W3C from
|
|
February 1995 until June 1996. In addition, Karen worked on Collaboration over
|
|
the World Wide Web and coordinated the Workshop on WWW and Collaboration.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3>Benoît Mahé</h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Benoît Mahé joined W3C at INRIA in October 1997 to work the development of
|
|
W3C's Java-based server, Jigsaw. He completed an internship at W3C in the
|
|
summer of 1997 as part of the Jigsaw development team.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Benoit has degrees in mathematics and computer science at the University of
|
|
Nice (France) and at ESSI (School of Computer Engineering in Sophia
|
|
Antipolis)</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Benoit left W3C in January 2001</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3>Massimo Marchiori</h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Massimo joined W3C at <a href="http://web.mit.edu/">MIT</a> in February 1998
|
|
to work on various activities within the Technology & Society Domain,
|
|
including Privacy, Semantic Web, Query and Reasoning.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>He received his M.S. in Mathematics with Highest Honors, and the Ph.D. in
|
|
Computer Science with a thesis that won an EATCS (European Association for
|
|
Theoretical Computer Science) best Ph.D. thesis award. Before joining W3C at
|
|
MIT, he has worked at the <a href="http://www.unipd.it/">University of
|
|
Padua</a>, at <a href="http://www.cwi.nl/">CWI</a>, and at the <a
|
|
href="http://www.lcs.mit.edu/">MIT Lab for Computer Science</a> in the <a
|
|
href="http://www.csg.lcs.mit.edu/">Computation Structures Group</a>. His
|
|
research interests include World Wide Web and Intranets (information retrieval,
|
|
search engines, semantic web, metadata, query languages, web advertisement),
|
|
programming languages (constraint, visual, functional, logic), visualization,
|
|
genetic algorithms, rewriting systems, complex systems (small worlds,
|
|
bioinformatics). Massimo has published <a
|
|
href="http://www.w3.org/People/Massimo/papers/">over thirty refereed papers</a>
|
|
on the above topics in various journals and proceedings of international
|
|
conferences, achieving several <a
|
|
href="http://www.w3.org/People/Massimo/shortbio.html">important results</a></p>
|
|
|
|
<p>At W3C Massimo started the W3C <a
|
|
href="http://www.w3.org/TandS/QL/QL98/">Query Languages</a> effort, is W3C
|
|
Contact for the <a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/Query">XML-Query activity</a>,
|
|
chief editor of the <a href="http://www.w3.org/P3P/">P3P project</a>,
|
|
researcher in the Semantic Web initiative. In addition to his MIT/W3C position,
|
|
Massimo is also professor of computer science at the University of Venice.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Massimo left W3C In June 2005</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="daigo" id="daigo">Daigo Matsubara</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Daigo joined W3C in April 2002 as a part-time system administrator at Keio,
|
|
and has been full-time since July 2003. He was a Project Research Assistant of
|
|
Graduate School of Media and Governance at Keio University. He had received
|
|
Bachelor's and Master's degree from Keio University, his research interests
|
|
were Augmented Reality and location-based computing with Web. At W3C he was
|
|
working on various system administration and development especially <a
|
|
href="http://lists.w3.org/">W3C mailing list archive</a>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3>Yumiko Matsubara</h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Yumiko joined W3C in January 1998 to help with the administration of the
|
|
Keio site as well as handling public relations in Japan. She left in November
|
|
1998. Prior to joining W3C, she worked for a Japanese educational institution
|
|
in the development of international exchange programs for nearly 7 years. She
|
|
completed her master's degree in cross-cultural counseling at Syracuse
|
|
University.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3>Shin'ichi Matsui</h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Shin'ichi joined W3C in October 1998 as a visiting engineer on assignment
|
|
from Matsushita Electric Industrial (Panasonic). He is interested in applying
|
|
Web technology to home appliances, and has been involved in work on mobile
|
|
access. He graduated from the Department of Mathematical Engineering and
|
|
Information Physics at Tokyo University.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="McCathieNevile" id="McCathieNevile">Charles McCathieNevile</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>At W3C, Charles was working on the <a href="/2001/sw/Europe">SWAD-E Semantic
|
|
Web project</a>, after 4 years working on <a href="../WAI">Web
|
|
Accessibility</a>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Before joining W3C in November 1998, Charles worked for <a
|
|
href="http://www.sunriseresearch.com.au">Sunrise</a> on a variety of things
|
|
including Web Accessibility, internationalisation, and teaching people about
|
|
the Web.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Charles comes from Melbourne Australia, where he did his honours degree
|
|
(Medieval History, with a little chemistry and biology and a lot of dead
|
|
languages).</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Charles departed W3C 31 January 2005.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3>Matt May</h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Matt May joined the W3C in June 2002 as a Web Accessibility Specialist with
|
|
the <a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/">Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)</a>,
|
|
and staff contact for the WAI Protocols and Formats, <a
|
|
href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/">Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines</a>
|
|
and <a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/">User Agent Accessibility Guidelines</a>
|
|
Working Groups.<br />
|
|
Prior to W3C, Matt was a user interface designer and Web developer for two
|
|
online groceries in the United States (HomeGrocer.com and the Webvan Group).</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Matt left the W3C in June 2005.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3>Eric Miller</h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Eric Miller was the Activity Lead for the W3C World Wide Web Consortium's <a
|
|
href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw">Semantic Web</a>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Eric's responsibilities included the architectural and technical leadership
|
|
in the design and evolution of Semantic Web infrastructure. Responsibililities
|
|
additionally included working with W3C Working Group members so that both
|
|
working groups in the Semantic Web activity, as well as other W3C activities,
|
|
produce Web standards that support Semantic Web requirements. Additionally, to
|
|
build support among user and vendor communities for the Semantic Web by
|
|
illustrating the benefits to those communities and means of participating in
|
|
the creation of a metadata-ready Web. And finally to establish liaisons with
|
|
other technical standards bodies involved in Web-related technology to ensure
|
|
compliance with existing Semantic Web standards and collect requirements for
|
|
future W3C work.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Before joining the W3C, Eric was a Senior Research Scientist at <a
|
|
href="http://www.oclc.org">OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.</a> and
|
|
the co-founder and Associate Director of the <a
|
|
href="http://dublincore.org">The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative</a>, an open
|
|
forum engaged in the development of interoperable online metadata standards
|
|
that support a broad range of purposes and business models.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Eric holds a Research Scientist appointment at MIT's Laboratory for Computer
|
|
Science.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3>Jim Miller</h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Jim joined the W3C in June 1995 as Domain Leader for Technology &
|
|
Society, having designed and implemented numerous innovative and useful
|
|
real-world systems over more than twenty years. His work involves people
|
|
interacting with computers to perform tasks better than either can do alone. He
|
|
creates systems which allow each partner in the task to understand the other's
|
|
abilities and limitations, enabling each to make informed decisions about the
|
|
division of labor. His work deals with creating simple models of what the
|
|
computer does and conveying them to the human partners.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Jim was one of the principal designers of the PICS (Platform for Internet
|
|
Content Selection) specifications in addition to overseeing development in
|
|
Payments, Demographics and Privacy, Intellectual Property Rights, and
|
|
Security.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p align="center"> </p>
|
|
|
|
<h3>Yukari Mitsuhashi</h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Yukari joined the Consortium in September 1996 to administer W3C membership
|
|
issues in Asia. She was responsible for administration at the Office of
|
|
Research Development and Administration at Keio Research Institute at SFC
|
|
[Shonan Fujisawa Campus]. In November 1997, Yukari accepted reassignment within
|
|
Keio University to a new group at the Yagami Campus.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="Montigaud" id="Montigaud">Stephan Montigaud</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Stephan joined the W3C's Promotion and Dissemination team as Webmaster from
|
|
September 1996 until December 1997. He was responsible for the technical
|
|
administration and maintenance of the W3C website. Prior to joining the
|
|
Consortium, Stephan launched the Internet division at <a
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href="http://www.sgip.fr/">SGIP</a> (Societe de Gestion et d'Informatique de <a
|
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href="http://www.publicis.fr/">Publicis</a>) and was responsible for network
|
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installation and administration, training, consulting and marketing.</p>
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|
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<p>Stephan holds an engineering degree from the "Grande Ecole" <a
|
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href="http://www.ecp.fr/">Ecole Centrale de Paris</a>, and a post-graduate
|
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degree of higher education in computer science and automation from <a
|
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href="http://www-isia.cma.fr/">Institut Superieur d'Informatique et
|
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d'Automatique, Ecole des Mines de Paris</a> (ISIA) in Sophia Antipolis.</p>
|
|
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<h3>Masafumi Nakane</h3>
|
|
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<p>Masafumi (aka Max) joined W3C at Keio as a part-time team member in December
|
|
1997. Prior to joining W3C, he has been involved in the Web Accessibility
|
|
Initiative from its launch as an invited accessibility expert. His primary
|
|
interest is in accessibility of computer and computer network for the
|
|
physically and/or socially challenged.</p>
|
|
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<p>Masafumi left W3C in April 2001.</p>
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|
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<h3><a name="Nelson" id="Nelson">Rolf Nelson</a></h3>
|
|
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<p>Rolf joined W3C in July 1998 to manage the implementation and deployment of
|
|
P3P. He has a Master's degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and
|
|
Sciences and a Bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College in computer science. He
|
|
has four years of software engineering experience; at the Digital Equipment
|
|
Corporation, he led a four-person team that developed award-winning
|
|
cross-platform system administration software. At SatelLife, an international
|
|
development NGO, he developed GetWeb, a service for fetching web sites through
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electronic mail. As of mid-1998, GetWeb has over 10,000 active users, many of
|
|
whom are in the developing world.</p>
|
|
|
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<p>Rolf's interests include human-computer interaction and computer-supported
|
|
collaborative work, or groupware.</p>
|
|
|
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<p>Rolf left W3C in June 1999.</p>
|
|
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<h3><a name="Nicolora" id="Nicolora">Carol Nicolora</a></h3>
|
|
|
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<p>Carol Nicolora joined W3C in March, 2002. She was the Administrative
|
|
Assistant to the W3C and handles invoicing, teleconferences, and conference
|
|
support. Carol had over ten years experience in conference planning at MIT and,
|
|
before coming to W3C, worked as a Web Publisher/Technical Writer for Akamai
|
|
Technologies. Carol holds a BA in English and Art Studio from U/MASS Boston as
|
|
well as graduate studies in writing and graphics.</p>
|
|
|
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<p>Carol departed W3C 31 January 2005.</p>
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|
|
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<h3>Henrik Frystyk Nielsen</h3>
|
|
|
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<p>Henrik Frystyk completed his Master of Electrical Engineering in
|
|
Telecommunications from Aalborg University, Denmark. He worked at the World
|
|
Wide Web project at CERN before joining the W3C in March 1995 to work on
|
|
formalized Web API's and advanced Web protocols.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>His primary research project has been the design and implementation of the
|
|
<a href="/Library">W3C Reference Library</a> [also known as "libwww"], as well
|
|
as the development of <a href="/Protocols">HTTP</a>. Henrik was Project Manager
|
|
for the HTTP-NG Activity.</p>
|
|
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<h3><a name="mauro">Mauro Nunez</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p><a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Mauro/">Mauro</a> joined the Consortium in
|
|
October 2006 as North American Business Manager, and served as W3C Business
|
|
Manager from March 2008 until he left in June 2010. His primary goal was to
|
|
foster a business and operating environment that was cost-effective, productive
|
|
and positive, across all W3C operating locations. He coordinated financial
|
|
matters across the Consortium, prepared budget plans and reports, monitored
|
|
budget execution, coordinated legal matters, and supported Membership
|
|
development. Mauro coordinated the <a
|
|
href="/2005/10/Process-20051014/groups.html#invited-expert-wg">Invited Expert
|
|
Program</a> and was a member of the <a href="http://www.webfoundation.org">Web
|
|
Foundation</a>'s Board of Directors, representing W3C.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>A <a href="http://www.cies.org/about_fulb.htm">Fulbright Scholar</a>, Mauro
|
|
holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from <a
|
|
href="http://www.pucv.cl/">Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso</a>
|
|
and a Master's degree in Business Administration from <a
|
|
href="http://www.suffolk.edu/">Suffolk University</a>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="Ohto" id="Ohto">Hidetaka Ohto</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Taka joined the W3C-MIT team in November 1998 as a visiting engineer from
|
|
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.,Ltd(a.k.a Panasonic) in Osaka. He graduated
|
|
from the University of Osaka in Japan with his master degrees of Computer
|
|
Science in 1989. His area of interests is the adaptation of Web technologies
|
|
for home appliances such as mobile terminals and TV sets.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>He has been a W3C-Keio team member since September 2000 and until March 2001
|
|
when he left W3C.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="Hanako" id="Hanako">Hanako Onozuka</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Hanako joined the W3C Team at Keio University SFC in April 2005 in
|
|
Administrative Support. Before joining the Team, Hanako had worked for an
|
|
Internet service provider and as an assistant in a seminar management company.
|
|
Hanako left W3C in March 2007.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="Ottavj" id="Ottavj">Luc Ottavj</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Luc joined W3C in November 1996 to lead the Consortium's global System
|
|
Administration activities. Luc is the head of SEMIR, the Computer System
|
|
Support team at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3>Steven Pemberton</h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Steven Pemberton was a team member for a decade and a day starting 29 June
|
|
2001, and was principally responsible for HTML, XHTML, and XForms. He is still
|
|
to be found in the XForms, RDFa and HCG groups. He is a researcher based in
|
|
Amsterdam, and more information about him can be found on his <a
|
|
href="http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/">web site</a>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3>Yves Peynaud</h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Yves headed up W3C Marketing and Promotions efforts in Europe from October
|
|
1995 to December 1996. His extensive background in marketing and business
|
|
development, along with his Ph.D. in Computer Science enabled him to address
|
|
issues in both the technical and business arenas.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Yves was the overall Conference Manager for the 5th International World Wide
|
|
Web Conference.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="quint" id="quint">Vincent Quint</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Vincent Quint was the <a href="/DF/">W3C Document Formats Domain</a> Leader
|
|
and served as chair of the Hypertext Coordination Group. He is a Research
|
|
Director at INRIA in Grenoble, France.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Prior to joining the W3C team in February 1996, he was leading project Opera
|
|
at INRIA, which is interested in various aspects of electronic documents, such
|
|
as document models and structures, structured editors, hypertext, and digital
|
|
typography. During the previous ten years, he had been deeply involved in the
|
|
design and development of various document processing systems, including Amaya.
|
|
His research interests include document models, document production systems,
|
|
document engineering, hypertext and multimedia.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Vincent left W3C in January 2003.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="raggett" id="raggett">Jenny Raggett</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Educated at Imperial College and Oxford University, Jenny was originally a
|
|
biochemist. Realizing that she was more interested in writing about science
|
|
than actually doing the research, she sensibly moved into a career as a
|
|
free-lance technical writer. Jenny specializes in explaining science and
|
|
technology to a non-specialist audience. She has been joint author of three
|
|
books: "Artifical Intelligence from A to Z", a book on HTML 3.2 and now one on
|
|
HTML 4.0. Her books have been translated into Hungarian, German, Chinese and
|
|
Japanese. Jenny has been writing about W3C's HTML activity since mid 1997, and
|
|
began formally consulting for the Consortium in December 1997.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Jenny left W3C in December 1999.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3>Marie-Line Ramfos</h3>
|
|
Marie-Line was assistant to the Sophia-Antipolis W3C between May 1997 and
|
|
January 1999. She shared her time between W3C and INRIA Scientific Director
|
|
Gilles Kahn.
|
|
|
|
<h3>Joseph Reagle</h3>
|
|
|
|
<p><a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Reagle/">Joseph Reagle</a> joined the
|
|
Consortium in October of 1996 to focus on policy issues related to digital
|
|
signatures, intellectual property, and privacy. He received a <a
|
|
href="http://www.cs.umbc.edu/">Computer Science</a> degree from <a
|
|
href="http://gopher.umbc.edu">UMBC</a> and continued on to the <a
|
|
href="http://web.mit.edu/tpp/www/">Technology and Policy</a> program at <a
|
|
href="http://web.mit.edu/">MIT</a> for his Masters. While at MIT he worked the
|
|
<a href="http://farnsworth.mit.edu/">Research Program on Communication
|
|
Policy</a> and during the summer of 95, he worked at <a
|
|
href="http://www.openmarket.com/">Open Market</a> on electronic commerce
|
|
protocols. After graduating from MIT, he did Internet and interactive media
|
|
consulting with McCann-Erickson, and Internet gambling consulting for <a
|
|
href="http://www.go-digital.net/">go-Digital</a>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>In Febuary 1999 Joseph returned to MIT from a short sabbatical as a Resident
|
|
Fellow at the <a href="http://cyber.harvard.edu/">Berkman Center for Internet
|
|
& Society</a> at the <a href="http://www.law.harvard.edu/">Harvard Law
|
|
School,</a> where he <a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/reagle.html">looked
|
|
at</a> the relationships between Web technology and the law.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3>Josiane Roberts</h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Josiane Roberts was W3C Executive Assistant based in Europe, at INRIA. She
|
|
assisted Jean-François Abramatic, Chairman of W3C, and was in charge of the
|
|
administration of European Members.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Josiane joined INRIA in 1992 to assist Jean-François when he became
|
|
Director of Development. Prior to that, she was his assistant when he was
|
|
Chairman and CEO of a private company. Before working for Jean-François,
|
|
Josiane had been executive assistant to several top executives of the private
|
|
industry in areas such as aeronautics, semi-conductors, optical components and
|
|
lasers.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Josiane holds a degree in English from the University of Aix-en-Provence and
|
|
has also studied business administration.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Josiane left W3C in January 2002.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3>Nancy Ryan</h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Nancy joined the W3C Administrative Team at MIT in September 1997. She had
|
|
been a part of the MIT community for six years, most recently at MIT's
|
|
Corporate Relations/Industrial Liaison Program. She left W3C in September
|
|
1998.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3>Janne Saarela</h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Janne worked in the W3C team at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis from September 1997
|
|
to February 1999 to work within the User Interface Domain on a white paper
|
|
project on using HTML, XML and CSS in multi-purpose publishing.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>He had special interest in developing value-added services such as
|
|
production management tools and logic based query engines to both content
|
|
providers and end-users with the help of metadata descriptions. He was involved
|
|
in the Architecture domain implementing such document management systems with
|
|
RDF.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3>Lesley Sakey</h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Lesley joined W3C in December of 1998. She primarily assisted Susan
|
|
Westhaver with meeting planning. Previous to W3C, Lesley worked at the Ford
|
|
Hall Forum, a public lecture series in Boston, scheduling lectures and planning
|
|
events.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Lesley left W3C in December 2000</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="sasaki" id="sasaki">Felix Sasaki</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Felix Sasaki was at W3C from April 2005 through Mars 2009 to work in the
|
|
Internationalization Activity. </p>
|
|
|
|
<p>His main field of interest was the combined application of W3C technologies
|
|
for representation and processing of multilingual information.<br />
|
|
From 1993 until 1999, Felix studied Japanese and Linguistics in Berlin, Nagoya
|
|
(Japan) and Tokyo. Since 1999 he worked in the Department of Computational
|
|
Linguistics and Text-technology, at the University of Bielefeld (Germany),
|
|
where he finished his PhD in 2004. The PhD deals with the integration of
|
|
heterogenous linguistic resources using XML-based (e.g. linguistic corpora) and
|
|
RDF-based (e.g. lexica, conceptual models) representations. His hobbies -
|
|
except playing with his children - are reading and Karaoke. </p>
|
|
|
|
<h3>Arthur Secret</h3>
|
|
<a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Arthur/">Arthur</a> was at W3C from January
|
|
through December 1996 to coordinate the <a href="http://vlib.org/">Virtual
|
|
Library</a> project. While studying at Ecole Internationale des Sciences du
|
|
Traitement de l'Information[EISTI] in Cergy, France, he wrote the first <a
|
|
href="http://www.w3.org/History/1994/WWW/RDBGate/Implementation.html">W3-Oracle
|
|
gateway</a> as an intern at CERN. He remained at CERN through 1995, working on
|
|
the www code library, user support, system administration, and authored the
|
|
W3-email browser, Agora. He now works at <a
|
|
href="http://www.heidi-production.com/">heidi production</a>.
|
|
|
|
<h3>Jay Sekora</h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Jay was W3C Systems Administrator at MIT from July 1995 through July 1996.
|
|
He was previously at Boston University, as systems administrator for the
|
|
Distributed Systems Group. Prior to that, he worked at Princeton University,
|
|
first in user services, and then as a systems administrator. He received a BA
|
|
in Linguistics from Yale University in 1989.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="nobu" id="nobu">Nobuhisa "Nobu" Shiraishi</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Nobuhisa "Nobu" Shiraishi joined W3C in December 2002 as a W3C Fellow
|
|
(Visiting Scientist) from <a href="http://www.nec.com/">NEC Corporation</a>. At
|
|
NEC, he is an Assistant Manager of Optical Network Division and engaged in
|
|
software development for network management and network security.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>His research interests are "RDF Signature" (a study about how to bind
|
|
?semantics? to the signature of the contents using RDF metadata) and "RDF
|
|
translator into user native language" (an usecase of RDF, a translator which
|
|
translates RDF metadata attached to the contents into user native language and
|
|
display it with the contents) in <a
|
|
href="http://www.w3.org/TandS/#Semantic">Semantic Web Activity</a>, Technology
|
|
and Society domain.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>He received his B.E. in Electronic Engineering from <a
|
|
href="http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/">University of Tokyo</a> in 1993.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Nobu left W3C in January 2004</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="Takano" id="Takano">Michiko Takano</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Michiko joined the W3C at Keio in April 2004 as an Administrative Support.
|
|
She has worked as a accounting's staff at one of the economic organizations in
|
|
Japan for four years . And then, she has worked at General affairs department
|
|
of Keio University at Shonan Fujisawa by the three-years employment
|
|
contract.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Michiko Takano left W3C in April 2005.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="Takeuchi" id="Takeuchi">Saeko Takeuchi</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Saeko joined the W3C at Keio in April 2001 as an Administrative Support.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Saeko left W3C in March 2004.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="ot" id="ot">Olivier Théreaux</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Olivier joined the W3C staff at Keio University in October 2000 after
|
|
graduating from <a href="http://www.ecp.fr/">Ecole Centrale Paris</a> and a
|
|
stint in Internet Security. </p>
|
|
|
|
<p>He then spent the next 3000+ days in various roles ranging from developing
|
|
tools such as <a href="http://www.w3.org/Search/Mail"><abbr
|
|
title="W3C Mailing-lists Archive Search Engine">MASE</abbr></a>, co-chairing of
|
|
the consortium's <acronym title="Quality Assurance">QA</acronym> Interest
|
|
Group, to leading the development of the open source <a
|
|
href="/QA/Tools">Validators and QA Tools</a>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Olivier left W3C in April 2009.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="touyama" id="touyama">Norio Touyama</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Norio joined W3C in April 1999 as a part-time system administrator of the
|
|
Keio team. When he was not working at W3C, he was a doctor course student at
|
|
the Graduate School of Media and Governance of Keio University.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Just prior to joining W3C, he finished his Master's degree from Keio
|
|
University with a thesis about a proxy agent system for WWW servers on mobile
|
|
computers. His major interests include mobile network systems and operating
|
|
system architecture.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Norio left the W3C Systems Team in Keio in April 2002, for a position at the
|
|
Keio ITC (Information Technology Center).</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="vatton" id="vatton">Irène Vatton</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Irène is the Amaya architect. She is a research engineer at INRIA and is
|
|
based in Grenoble, France.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Before joining the W3C team in February 1996, Irène was working in the
|
|
project Opera at INRIA, which is interested in various aspects of electronic
|
|
documents, such as document models and structure, structured editors,
|
|
hypertext, and digital typography. She designed and developed various document
|
|
production systems: Grif, Thot and Amaya.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Irène holds a Ph.D. from the University of Grenoble, France.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Irène left W3C in January 2003.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="veillard" id="veillard">Daniel Veillard</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p><a href="http://rpmfind.net/veillard/">Daniel Veillard</a> obtained his
|
|
Ph.D. from the University of Grenoble. His dissertation was about the design
|
|
and the implementation of a portable and efficient multicast protocol for
|
|
Ethernet LANs.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>In February 1996, he joined the W3C team in Grenoble to be in charge of the
|
|
implementation of Cascading Style Sheets in Amaya. In October 1997 Daniel
|
|
joined the Architecture Domain to work on HTTP-NG. He now works mostly on XML,
|
|
especially XML Fragment, XLink and will work on XML Packaging.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Daniel is also interested in Operating Systems design and is a specialist of
|
|
Linux. He has ported the Thot library to Linux and maintained the Linux version
|
|
of Amaya. He also works on <a href="http://xmlsoft.org">XML tools</a> used in
|
|
the <a href="http://www.gnome.org">Gnome</a> project.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Daniel left W3C in January 2001</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3>Albert Vezza</h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Albert was W3C Chairman, Associate Director and Senior Research Scientist at
|
|
the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science until his retirement from MIT in
|
|
September 1996. He created the World Wide Web Consortium in 1994, and oversaw
|
|
Consortium activities including membership, relations with the research
|
|
community, and was the spokesperson for the Platform for Internet Content
|
|
Selection (PICS).</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Albert's career at MIT spanned over thirty-two years. He took a leave of
|
|
absence from MIT-LCS from 1984 to 1986 to become the Chairman and Chief
|
|
Executive Officer of Infocom, Inc. of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Prior to his
|
|
leave of absence, he was a Group Leader and Associate Director of the LCS.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>He received his Bachelor of Science from Rochester Institute of Technology
|
|
in Rochester, New York, and his Master of Science from Northeastern University
|
|
in Boston, Massachusetts.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3>Hiromi Wada</h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Hiromi joined W3C in September 1999 as a visiting engineer on assignment
|
|
from Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Panasonic). She is interested in
|
|
applying Web technologies to mobile equipment. Before joining the W3C team, she
|
|
designed and developed a browsing architecture for mobile access terminals. She
|
|
graduated from the faculty of science at Osaka City University.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Hiromi left W3C in November 2000.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="Watanabe" id="Watanabe">Yuko Watanabe</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Yuko joined the W3C in April 1999. She is working as a project secretary at
|
|
W3C Keio Team. Before she joined W3C, she worked at Keio University Media
|
|
Center for three years.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="Wilbanks" id="Wilbanks">John Wilbanks</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>John Wilbanks was a W3C Fellow from the Interoperable Informatics
|
|
Infrastructure Consortium (I3C). Based at MIT, he was part of the W3C
|
|
Technology and Society Domain's Semantic Web Activity. John's work focused on
|
|
the application of semantic technologies to life sciences research. He founded
|
|
and led to acquisition Incellico, a bioinformatics company that built semantic
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graph networks for use in pharmaceutical discovery. Before founding Incellico,
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John was at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School
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and also spent time in Washington, DC, USA as a legislative aideto U.S.
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Representative Fortney ("Pete") Stark. John holds a Bachelor of Arts in
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<h3><a name="Yamane1" id="Yamane1">Takeshi "Yamachan" Yamane</a></h3>
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Shonan Fujisawa Campus.</p>
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