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<title>Dan Connolly, W3C</title>
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<div class="aboutme organizer" id="me">
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<div class="vcard">
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<img alt="Dan in 1997" class="photo foaf-img"
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src="9704/dan_c_thumb.jpg"
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<h1 class="fn foaf-name">Dan Connolly</h1>
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<a class="url" rel="foaf-homepage" href="http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/"
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><!-- kludge --></a>
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</div>
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<p>June 2010: <cite><a href="../../QA/2010/06/thanks_for_a_great_15_years_at.html">Thanks for a great 15 years at W3C</a></cite>.</p>
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<p>I expect to continue to visit <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/interest/#swig_chan">#swig</a> and the
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<a href="http://freenode.net/">FreeNode</a> developer community as <a
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href="irc://irc.freenode.net/DanC,isnick" rel="foaf-nick">DanC</a>, and I
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hope to surface in <cite><a href="http://www.madmode.com/">Mad
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Mode</a></cite> from time to time (for example: <cite><a
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href="http://www.madmode.com/2010/06/new-firehose-to-drink-from.html">A
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new firehose to drink from: bioinformatics</a></cite>).
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</p>
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<p>My <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy"
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>pgp</a> key is <a
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href="http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x6E52C29E"
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>6E52C29E</a>. I <a
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href="http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html#AEN329" >renew</a> it
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from time to time.
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<small><a
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href="http://www.w3.org/Search/Mail/Public/advanced_search?keywords=D3C2+887B+0F92+6005&hdr-1-name=subject&hdr-1-query=&hdr-2-name=from&hdr-2-query=connolly%40w3.org&hdr-3-name=message-id&hdr-3-query=&period_month=&period_year=&index-type=g&index-grp=Public__FULL&type-index=&resultsperpage=50&sortby=date-asc"
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>Over 2500 messages</a> to public W3C mailing lists going back to
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October 2004 bear the fingerprint, <code>D3C2 887B 0F92 6005 C541 0875
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0F91 96DE 6E52 C29E</code>, establishing a preponderance of evidence (as
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discussed in <a href="http://www.w3.org/2002/03/key-free-trust.html"
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>Reagle's 2002 article</a>).</small></p>
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<div id="contact">
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<h3>Other W3C Team Members to Contact</h3>
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<p>As of June 2010, these are some other team members responsible
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for things I used to work on:</p>
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<dl>
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<dt>HTML Standards (tags and attributes)</dt>
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<dd>In the <a href="../../html/wg/">HTML Working Group</a>, the W3C team
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contact is <a href="../all#mike">Mike Smith</a> (who works near
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Tokyo), and the Domain Lead (manager) is <a href="../all#plh">Philippe
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Le Hégaret</a> (near Boston).
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</dd>
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<dt>HTML Validation Service</dt>
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<dd>Ted Guild (Boston) and various other members of the W3C systems team
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run the validation services. See the <a
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href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/">www-validator</a>
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mailing list for discussion and support and <a
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href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-qa-dev/">public-qa-dev</a>
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for development.</dd>
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<dt>Technical Architecture of the Web</dt>
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<dd>In the W3C Technical Architecture Group (<a
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href="/2001/tag/">TAG</a>), which includes work related to URIs/URLs
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and HTTP, the team contact is <a href="../all#ylafon">Yves Lafon</a> (Nice),
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and the chair is <a href="../all#timbl">Tim Berners-Lee</a> (Boston).
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</dd>
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<dt>Semantic Web Standards: RDF, OWL, SPARQL, GRDDL</dt>
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<dd>The leader of the <a href="../../2001/sw/#activity">W3C Semantic
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Web Activity</a> is <a href="../all#ivan" >Ivan Herman</a>
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(Amsterdam). Contact <a href="../all#sandro">Sandro Hawke</a>
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(Boston) or follow <a
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href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-owl-dev/"
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>public-owl-dev</a> for OWL work. For SPARQL work, contact <a
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href="../all#sandro" >Eric Prud'hommeaux</a> (Boston) or follow <a
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href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sparql-dev/"
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>public-sparql-dev</a>. For GRDDL work, contact <a
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href="../all#hhalpin">Harry Halpin</a> (Edinburgh), and for all of the
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above, plus microformats, linked data, and related topics, follow <a
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href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web/"
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>semantic-web@w3.org</a>.
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</dd>
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<dt>XML</dt>
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<dd>In W3C's <a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/">XML Working Groups</a>,
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the team contacts are <a href="../all#cmsmcq">Michael Sperberg-McQueen</a> (Santa Fe)
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and <a href="../all#liam">Liam Quin</a> (Toronto).
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</dd>
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</dl>
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<p>For interview requests, membership questions, etc.,
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see <a href="../../Consortium/contact">About W3C: Contact</a>.</p>
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</div>
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<hr />
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<div id="bio"><h2>Bio, with a Note on Collaboration</h2>
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<p>My work on HTML started a couple years after graduating from
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U.T. Austin, with messages such as <cite><a
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href="http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/archives/WWW-TALK/www-talk-1992.messages/144.html"
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>rethinking the HTML DTD</a></cite> to www-talk in July 1992:</p>
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<blockquote>
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<p>I have been troubled by the fact that HTML documents look like SGML documents,
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but technically, they are not. So I have tried to come up with a DTD that
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captures the features of HTML.</p>
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<p>I have come to the conclusion that HTML has very little structure, and that this
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is by design.</p>
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<p>I am beginning to wonder how much the needs of WWW have in common with the
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features of SGML.</p>
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</blockquote>
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<p>In 2006, I was invited back to U.T. Austin by the President of
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the university, and the person who introduced me to the <a
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href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/symposium/">symposium</a> had this to say:</p>
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<blockquote>
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<p>Dan Connolly is a
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research scientist at MIT Computer Science and AI Lab –
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CSAIL – and a member of the technical staff of the
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Worldwide Web Consortium, also known as W3C, which
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develops interoperable technologies, specifications,
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guidelines, software, et cetera, to lead the web, as it
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says, to its full potential.
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</p><p>
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In particular, he's a member of the Semantic
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Web Coordination Group established to serve a leadership
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role in both the design of enabling specifications and
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technologies that support the automation, integration and
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reuse of data.
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</p><p>
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He is, I'm glad to say, a UT graduate from the
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CS department. He's authored several important papers and
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worked closely with Tim Berners-Lee on semantic web
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technologies and policy issues.
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</p><p>
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From '95 to '97, and this is definitely worth
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noting, during the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_web_browser#Late_1990s:_Microsoft_vs_Netscape"
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>struggle between Microsoft's Internet
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Explorer and Netscape Navigator</a>, Dan chaired the working
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group which ensured that HTML remained an open standard,
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and for that, he was named by Interactive Magazine in '97
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as one of the 25 unsung heroes of the web.
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</p>
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</blockquote>
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<h3>Details</h3>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="misc/vita">resume/vita</a>:
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Computer Science degree from the <a
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href="http://www.utexas.edu/">University of Texas at Austin</a>,
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Software Engineer at a supercomputer company (Convex) and a start-up (Dazel),
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then W3C work on HTML, XML,
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<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/connollydan">etc.</a>
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Meanwhile, some MIT research
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(research
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interest: investigating the value of formal descriptions of complex
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systems like the Web, especially in the consensus-building
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process).
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</li>
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<li><a rel="foaf-publications"
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href="pubs">publications/writings</a>: a few academic
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publications, plus misc articles on
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programming, early design of the web, collaboration,
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and standards
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</li>
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<li><a id="travl" href="events/">presentations, appearances, and
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events</a> on HTML, XML, microformats, security, formal systems,
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Internet protocols (IETF), python programming, etc. (with some
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photos).</li>
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<hr />
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<address>
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<a rel="foaf-primaryTopic" href="#me">Dan Connolly</a><br />
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created <span class="dcq-created" title="1994-02">Feb 1994</span><br />
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Copyright 1994-2010 W3C. <a rel="license dcq-license"
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href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-documents-20021231">some rights reserved</a>.<br />
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<small class="owl-versionInfo">$Revision: 1.563 $ of <span class="dcq-modified">$Date: 2011/08/20 22:57:17 $</span></small><br />
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