WEBSUB - Key Persons
Alain is an undergraduate working with ECP/PT on a browser for Windows on PCs. Phone: 8265, no email yet. In CERN mostly in the afternoons.
Alexandra Lacourba Role: W3C Global Events & Operations Coordinator Alexandra joined W3C in September 2002. She is the global Events and Operations coordinator, in charge of events, staff travel and Membership administration. Alexandra holds a bachelor in Event Project Management from Lille University and a Master in Management from EDHEC Business School. More... alex@w3.org Alexandra's Github account
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Board
- Media Relations Coordinator
Role: Media Relations Coordinator
Amy van der Hiel is the Media Relations Coordinator for the W3C Communications Team and the Team Contact for the Advisory Board.
For many years Amy worked as the Special Assistant to Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Emeritus Director. Before joining the W3C, Amy worked at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and was the Assistant to the Director and Curatorial Associate at the Exhibitions Department of the Massachusetts College of Art. She has her Bachelors in Art History from Bard College, NY and her Masters in Art Education from Mansfield University, PA.
Angel Li joined W3C China Office in 2006. Since 2010, she had been devoted to setting up the fourth host of W3C in China together with W3C Team and Beihang University. In January 2013, as the Host of W3C in China was officially launched in Beihang University, Angel Li was assigned as the Site Manager of W3C/Beihang site and was responsible for managing W3C activities in China. Angel left W3C in June 2018 and took an adventure in the industry with Alibaba. In Nov 2021, Angel rejoined W3C as the Deputy Director of W3C China. She is currently based in Beijing, China.
Role: W3C Team
Atsushi joined the W3C team in November 2018. Currently in the Projects team, and staff for internationalization, Immersive-Web WG, and Timed-Text WG.
Atsushi holds a PhD in Science, with a research area in Astrophysics (observations of Active Galactic Nucleus) from Kyoto University in Japan.
One of the WWWizards at SLAC, Bebo enthusiastically spreads the word. During a short stay at CERN in summer 1992, Bebo put up a number of servers for information from the Aleph experiment.
Bernd is responsible for the "XFIND" indexes on the CERNVM node, for their operation and, largely, their contents. Bernd is in the AS group of CN division. He has contributed code for the FIND server which allows hypertext access to this large store of information.
Role: Communications
Bert Bos completed his Ph.D. in Groningen, The Netherlands, on a prototyping language for graphical user interfaces. He then went on to develop a browser targeted at humanities scholars, before joining the W3C at INRIA/Sophia-Antipolis in October 1995. He is co-inventor of CSS and created & led W3C's Internationalization activity. After working on HTML and XML, he led for many years the CSS and later also the Mathematics activities. He is now working on privacy technologies and is part of the W3C communications team.
Carine joined the W3C team in 2001 as part of the Jigsaw HTTP server development team. She holds an engineer degree and a PhD in Computer Science, with a research area in distributed artificial intelligence and multi-agent systems.
She has worked in the Web Services Activity and the XML Activity as staff contact for multiple Working Groups, in several EU-funded projects, in the Systems Team, and in internal tools development.
Carl was at CERN for a six month period during his degree course at Brunel University, UK. Carl worked on the server side, on client authentication and multiple format handling.
Role: Technical Director
Chris is a Technical Director. He is also staff contact for the Audio, CSS, WebFonts and PNG Working Groups. His interests include advanced 2D graphics - both vector and raster - color management, and multilingual typography. He is the W3C liaison to the International Color Consortium (ICC). He was for three years a member of the TAG and for many years co-chaired the Hypertext Coordination Group. Chris joined W3C in 1996. He holds a BSc in Biochemistry, an MSc in Biological Computation and a postgraduate diploma in Bioinformatics. Previously at the Computer Graphics Unit, University of Manchester in the UK, Chris has been working with Web Graphics since 1993.
Chris works on NCSA Mosaic and Windows NT Mosaic. ( more )
Job Titles:
- Assistant Director, Academic Computing
Assistant Director, Academic Computing, U. of Texas Health Science Center Houston <cshotton@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu> (713) 794-5650. Author of the MacHTTP, the W3 server for the Macintosh.
Chunming Hu Role: Board of Directors Chunming Hu had worked for the W3C China office since 2006 and then he joint W3C team in Jan 2013 as the Deputy Director of W3C/Beihang. He has a PhD degree on computer science and currently works as an full professor at Beihang University. Now he is the Dean of School of Software, Beihang University and his main research interests includes large scale distributed systems, software middleware, system virtualization and resource scheduling in cloud/big data systems. hucm@w3.org Chunming's Github account
Job Titles:
- Head
- Head of W3C Marketing & Communications
Role: Head of W3C Marketing and Communications
Coralie is Head of W3C Marketing & Communications. Since February 2015, she manages the Consortium's Comm activities, including messaging, press relations, W3C website, branding, marketing, internal communications as well as Public and Member communications. Previously and since 2005, Coralie was W3C Communications Team assistant.
Since joining W3C in January 1999 with degrees in secretarial work and English as a foreign language, Coralie held a number of positions such as W3C Europe team assistant, W3C Europe administration manager (2001-2006). She was team contact for the W3C Advisory Board (2005-2017), helped with community outreach and developer relations.
Role: Accessibility Specialist
Daniel Montalvo joined the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) in 2019 to edit the Curricula on Web Accessibility. He is currently the Staff Contact for the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) Working Group, the WCAG2ICT Task Force, and the Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Task Force. He supports accessibility across W3C, providing guidance and reviews. Daniel liaises with standards organizations, people with disabilities, and other stakeholders to support W3C standardization efforts.
Daniel Montalvo supports accessibility Working Groups and standards harmonization in Europe.
Dave leads W3C's Data activity and champions the Web of Things and the role of AI/ML + computational statistics for the Sentient Web. He has been closely involved with the development of Web standards since 1992, contributing to work on HTML, HTTP, MathML, XForms, voice and multimodal interaction, ubiquitous web applications, financial data, privacy and identity. Dave has participated in many European research projects: Boost 4.0, Create-IoT, and F-Interop, and before that VRE4EIC, HTML5Apps, COMPOSE, webinos, Serenoa, and PrimeLife. In addition to work on standards, Dave is a keen programmer, and has developed experimental web browsers (e.g. Arena), a plugin for rendering math from natural language (EzMath), a tool for cleaning up HTML (Tidy), a web page library for HTML slide presentations (Slidy), a Firefox add-on for enhanced privacy (Privacy Dashboard), customizable browser-based editing of HTML and more recently, an open source implementation for the Web of Things (Arena Web Hub). He was educated in England and obtained his doctorate from the University of Oxford, and is a visiting professor at the University of the West of England. For more information see Dave's home page.
Denis joined W3C in August 2011, as part of the Systems Team, to become the W3C Webmaster at the MIT host site in Cambridge, MA, USA.
From October 2013 to May 2014, he joined the Interaction Domain to work on the HTML5 test suite.
Denis is now based in Reunion Island
Dominique Hazaël-Massieux Role: W3C Community Management Lead, W3C Staff Contact & VR/AR Strategy Specialist Dominique is W3C Developer Relations Lead, W3C Community Development Lead (in charge of managing the Community Groups program), part of the W3C Project Management team, W3C Strategy Specialist on Virtual and Augmented Reality, and serves as staff contact in the Web Real-Time Communications Working Group, the Web and Machine Learning Web Working Group, and the Web & Networks Interest Group. He is the General Manager of ERCIM, the W3C Partner in Europe. He also develops tools and applications as needed in his various roles. He joined initially W3C's Communication and Systems Team as a member of the Webmaster Team in October 2000; after having joined then led the QA Activity until September 2005, Dom took part in the Mobile Web Initiative as Staff Contact for the Best Practices Working Group and later as co-Chair of the Mobile Web Test Suites Working Group. Dom also served as Staff Contact for the Device and sensors Working Group Dominique holds an engineering degree from the "Grande Ecole" École Centrale Paris. More... dom@w3.org Dominique's Github account
Job Titles:
- Deputy Director
- General Manager
Dr. Philipp Hoschka is General Manager of ERCIM and a Deputy Director of the W3C. He was founding W3C Industry Lead. He was responsible for W3C industry relationships; including having mutually reinforcing visions; working well in their ecosystems, and identifying new industry requirements for W3C Working Groups. His current work focuses on the "Web of Things", which is about leveraging open Web technology to overcome current silos in the "Internet of Things". In 2012, Philipp launched W3C efforts on automotive, focusing on the use of HTML5 for in-car infotainment apps. He also founded W3C's Ubiquitous Web Domain which had the mission to bring the benefits of Web technology to the emerging "Post-PC" world, including mobile and television devices. In the past, Philipp created W3C's Mobile Web Initiative and pioneered work on integrating audio and video into the Web leading to the W3C Standard SMIL. Philipp has been principal investigator in six EC research projects supporting the Ubiquitous Web Vision (MWeb, 3GWeb, MobiWeb2.0, OMWeb, MobiWebApp, HTML5Apps). Philipp holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, and a Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. He was visiting scholar at MIT LCS from 1998 until 2002.
François takes part in on-going discussions and developments around the convergence between Web and media, serving both as Entertainment Champion in the Industry team and as Media Specialist in the Strategy team. François is also staff contact for the media-related Media Working Group, Second Screen Working Group and GPU for the Web Working Group.
François initially joined W3C in November 2007 from Microsoft where he integrated an on-portal mobile search engine called MotionBridge. From 2007 to 2011, he served as staff contact for the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group, the Web and TV Interest Group, the Web Real-Time Communications Working Group and was co-Activity Lead for the Web and TV Activity. He left W3C at the end of 2011 to develop cross-platform Web applications in a French start-up called Joshfire. François came back to W3C on May 2014.
Fuqiao Xue Fuqiao Xue joined W3C in July 2017. He has been involved in free software since 2010, including GNU, Mozilla, and many other free software projects. More... xfq@w3.org Fuqiao's Github account
Gerald joined W3C in September 1997 as a member of the Systems Team. He helps maintain W3C's system infrastructure including the web and mail servers, mailing lists and publishing tools. He created W3C's HTML Validation Service based on an earlier validation service he began as a student.
Prior to joining W3C, Gerald worked at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, and as a technical writer for IBM Canada in Toronto.
Role: Payments Lead
As of 1 Feb 2015, Ian leads W3C's Web Payments Activity.
From September 2004 through January 2015, Ian was the Head of W3C Marketing and Communications. He managed the Consortium's Comm activities, including press, publications, branding, marketing, and aspects of Member relations.
Ian began at W3C in 1997 and for 7 years co-edited a number of specifications, including HTML 4.0, CSS2, DOM Level 1, three WAI Guidelines (Web Content, User Agent, Authoring Tool), the TAG's Architecture of the World Wide Web, and the W3C Process Document.
Ian received a degree in Engineering from Yale then a master's degree in software engineering from the CERICS in France. Ian then worked as a software engineer for five years, including at the INRIA.
Ivan Herman graduated at the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest, Hungary, in 1979. After a brief scholarship at the Université Paris VI he joined the Hungarian research institute in computer science (SZTAKI) where he worked for 6 years. He left Hungary in 1986 and, after a few years in industry in Munich, Germany, he joined the Centre for Mathematics & Computer Sciences (CWI) in Amsterdam where he had a tenure position between 1988 and the year of his retirement, i.e., in 2021. He received a PhD degree in Computer Science in 1989 at the University of Leiden, in the Netherlands.
He joined the W3C Permanent Staff in January 2001 while maintaining his position at CWI, and has remained as an emeritus W3C team member since his retirement from CWI. As a W3C staff member, he served as Head of Offices until June 2006, then as Semantic Web Activity Lead until December 2013. He is currently the Publishing@W3C Technical Lead, as well as the W3C staff representative for the work on Publishing Maintenance and on Verifiable Credentials. He was also member of the Strategy, as well as the Technical & Architecture teams of W3C until 2021.
Before joining W3C he worked in different areas (distributed and dataflow programming, language design, system programming), but he spent most of his research years in computer graphics and information visualization. He also participated in various graphics-related ISO standardization activities and software developments. See his professional web site for further details, including his list of publications, presentations, and various social activities.
During his stay at CERN as "cooperant", J-F joined the project in September 1991. He wrote the gateway to the VMS Help system , worked on a new modular browser architecure, and helped support and present WWW at all levels. He later as consultant ported the communications code to DECnet in order to set up servers for physics experiments., and helped the Danish Technical Library set up their W3 server. JF also worked for NeXT Europe. He now is a consultant in networked information systems (Contact) jfg@infodesign.ch
Role: Systems Team
Jean-Guilhem joined the W3C Systems Team in August 2006 as the W3C Webmaster at the MIT/CSAIL host site in Cambridge, MA USA.
He graduated in October 2006 from Polytech'Nice-Sophia Computer Science Department (formerly known as ESSI: Ecole Supérieure en Sciences Informatiques) specialized in Networks.
In September 2003 he received a two year degree in Mathematics and Computer Science (DEUG MIAS) at the University Jean-François Champollion in Albi, France.
Online Support group, FNAL. Jonathan put up a VMS server using DCL and later C. He helped debug the Mac browser.
José joined W3C's technical staff, at INRIA Rhône-Alpes, in January 1996. He participates in the development of Amaya, and in various other projects, including W3C's hypertext mailing list archives. José holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the Université de Rennes I (1997) and a specialization degree in computer networks from the École Supérieure d'Électricité (SUPELEC), Rennes.His research interests include distributed systems and W3 security.
Kazuyuki Ashimura Role: Team Contact for WoT and ME; Project Specialist; Smart Cities Industry Champion Project Professor, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University Kaz joined the W3C Team at Keio University SFC in April 2005. Prior to joining the Team, Kaz worked for twelve years on research and development on speech and natural language processing. He is interested in Web technologies in general, esp. those related to Voice/Multimodal, Web&TV, WoT and Smart Cities. He would like to make people happy using the Web technologies. Kaz received his B.S. in Mathematics from Kyoto University and his Doctor of Engineering degree from Nara Institute of Science and Technology. ashimura@w3.org Kazuyuki's Github account
Role: Accessibility Technical Lead
Kevin is Accessibility Technical Lead for the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). In this role Kevin contributes to internationally recognized standards that support accessibility. He leads the WAI-CooP, co-funded by the European Commission. Kevin provides support and oversight of the accessibility Working Groups, collaborates on WAI strategic planning, and manages W3C accessibility support.
Kevin White leads technical accessibility work, including oversight of accessibility Working Groups.
Role: Systems Team
Laurent joined the W3C team in September 2000 to participate in the development of Amaya. He is now part of the Sytems Team.
Before joining the W3C, he worked as an engineer at INRIA Grenoble.
Laurent hold an engineering degree in computer science from the CNAM Grenoble (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers) in 1997.
Job Titles:
- Author of an Http Server Written in Tcl / Tk Called Jungle
Lou is the author of "Lynx", a curses based hypertext browser, and Lynx 2.0 which is a WWW browser. He is a student/employee of the University of Kansas and is actively spreading the WWW word to whoever will listen. Picture .
Job Titles:
- Head
- Head of W3C Training
Role: Head of W3C Training
Marie-Claire Forgue serves as Head of W3C Training. She developed the W3Cx MOOC program, in partnership with edX, where Web developers worldwide can learn front-end Web development techniques using W3C Web standards. Previously, she crafted W3DevCampus, a learning platform hosting small private courses. Additionally, Marie-Claire is a member of the W3C Developer relations team, organizing meetups and participating in online and in-person communities via forums, social media (@w3cdevs), etc.
She is also involved in the dissemination activities of several projects funded by the European Commission. She joined W3C in 2001 and served as Head of W3C European Communications for over 10 years.
Marie-Claire received a Ph.D. degree (computer graphics and parallel processing) in Computer Science from the University of Côte d'Azur and INRIA, France. After a year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Dynamic Graphics Project Lab at the University of Toronto, Canada, she worked at NTT's Human Interface Lab, Japan, for two years. Her research interests were focused on illumination algorithms and scene modeling. After that, she studied filmmaking in Vancouver, Canada. She has directed several short films and documentaries, and got interested in interactive multimedia back in 1993.
Marty Voshell Role: W3C Evangelist - Automotive Twenty plus years international industrial markets experience in Automotive, Chemical/Petroleum, Electronics and Aerospace/Defense. Focus on strategic planning, engineering systems/services and alliance development. marty.voshell@w3.org
Role: W3C Member Relations Lead | W3C Japan Site Manager
Naomi is the W3C Member Relations Lead to ensure member satisfaction, encourage participation in W3C groups and events. She is also appointed as the site manager of W3C Japan.
Prior to joining W3C, Naomi worked at AT&T Japan as a manager of Marketing Communications for AT&T World Access. She worked on a team that created an innovative prepaid card, produced publications and bids for designs, and developed sales channels. She was awarded a Grand Prize for Best Operations Manager in 1996.
She earned an MBA of International Management, from Aoyama Gakuin University, accredited by EFMD.
With the project from November 1990 to August 1991, and October 1992 to ??. A graduate of Leicester Polytechnic, UK, Nicola wrote the original line mode browser . ( More ). Nicola is now (Oct 92) working on the Mac browser .
Paul took the W3 word across to SLAC, installed the clients and inspired the setting up of servers by the WWWizards. Paul spreads enthusiasm for all sort of good ideas such as OO programming, NeXTs, etc...
Pei is the author of " Viola", a hypertext browser, and the ViolaWWW variant which is a WWW browser. He was at the University of California at Berkeley, Experimental Computing Facility, now full time with O'Reilly and Associates, Sebastopol, CA, USA. Email: wei@xcf.berkeley.edu
While at the DESY lab in Hamburg (DE), Peter did the port of the line-mode browser onto MVS and, indirectly, VM/CMS. These were the most difficult of the ports to date. He also overcame many incidental problems in making a large amount of information in the DESY database available.
Philippe Le Hegaret Role: Strategy and Project Lead Philippe Le Hegaret is the Strategy and Project Lead for W3C, responsible for the technical mission of the Consortium. As Project Lead, he is responsible to meet all of the milestones of all of the groups, facilitate the work of Team Contacts, Chairs, and Editors, and drive the work necessary to achieve operational success. He is the current co-Chair of the W3C Process Community Group. Until 2016, he was for the former W3C Interaction Domain, which produced frontend Web technologies including HTML5, CSS3, SVG, WOFF, or Web APIs. Prior to 2009, Philippe lead the W3C Architecture Domain, which produced the W3C Core technologies in the area of XML, Web Services, and Internationalization. He is a former Chair of the Document Object Model (DOM) Working Group. Prior to joining W3C, Philippe promoted the use of XML inside Bull in 1998, also focusing on the interaction between XML and object structures. He wrote the first version of the CSS validator in 1997. Philippe holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Nice (France). More... plh@w3.org Philippe's Github account
Role: Data Strategist
Pierre-Antoine joined W3C in February 2021, as a fellow from ERCIM, then from Inria. He is a member of the Strategy Team, with a focus on Data Interoperability. Before that, he has been involved in many Linked Data and Semantic Web related working groups (including RDF 1.1, Linked Data Platform and JSON-LD). He has been working with RDF and other Semantic Web technologies for as long as he can remember.
Pierre-Antoine received an engineering degree from INSA Lyon in 1997 and a PhD in Computer Science from Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 in 2002. He is currently based in Lyon, France.
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Interim President
- Interim CEO
Role: Chief Executive Officer
Ralph joined W3C in January 1997, to focus on the Privacy and Demographics project. As that project (now called P3P) was starting, Ralph also started the Metadata project. The Resource Description Framework became a full-time responsibility when the Metadata Activity turned into the Semantic Web Activity. In 2007 Ralph became the leader of the Technology and Society Domain and in 2009 was appointed Acting Chief Operating Officer. As of 2010 the 'acting' qualifier was removed. Then in 2022 Ralph was appointed as Interim Chief Executive Officer of the new W3C, Inc.
Ralph came to W3C from the X Consortium, where he was Technical Director for the X Window System. Ralph brings to W3C both a systems background and an application background. Long involved with the X Window System, Ralph was one of the architects of the Xt Intrinsics (user interface) toolkit.
Prior to joining the X Consortium, Ralph was a software engineer for Digital Equipment Corporation in their Office Systems Advanced Development Group. There he worked on information filtering tools (software agents) and computer-supported cooperative work tools. Before that, Ralph was in Digital's Corporate Research Group working at MIT Project Athena. Ralph holds a BS in Physics and Mathematics from Carnegie-Mellon University.
Ralph's interests are in applications of Web technologies to support human-human interaction, especially over time and distance.
Ralph Swick (as CEO) has a standing invitation to the Advisory Board.
Role: Activity Lead, I18n; I18n Core WG Staff contact; I18n IG Staff contact
Richard joined the W3C team in July 2002, where he is Strategy Specialist and also Architecture & Technology Specialist for internationalization. He is staff contact for and contributes technically to the W3C Internationalization Working Group.
He serves on the Unicode Editorial Committee, the Unicode Script Ad Hoc committee, and the Unicode Conference board (and has a Unicode Bulldog Award), and coordinated the MultilingualWeb initiative. He developed the W3C Internationalization Checker, and in his spare time creates tools (such as UniView) for working with characters and scripts.
Richard has a background in translation and interpreting, computational linguistics, software engineering, and translation tools. Prior to joining the W3C, he was a Global Design Consultant at Xerox, providing services and training to external clients as well as to internal development teams with regard to the international design and localizability of user interfaces and documents. He received a corporate award for work on the Xerox product development process.
Rigo Wenning joined W3C in 1999 with a focus on privacy and digital signatures. He works as Legal counsel in team-legal and on Linked data
Formerly in programming language design and compiler construction, Robert has been interested in document production since 1975, when he designed and implemented a widely used document markup and formatting system. He ran CERN's Office Computing Systems group from 87 to 89. He is a long-time user of Hypercard, which he used to such diverse ends as writing trip reports, games, bookkeeping software, and budget preparation forms. Robert is mainly supporting physics experiments with WWW. There are more personal data, CERN coordinates Be aware of his agenda .
Ruoxi Ran Role: Web Accessibility Engineer Roy (冉若曦) joined World Wide Web Consortium in August 2017, working as a Web Accessibility Specialist in W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). Roy is currently based in Beijing, W3C China host of Beihang University. He works with the Accessible Platform Architectures Working Group, Accessibility Guidelines Working Group and Education and Outreach Working Group. Also, he is responsible for the promotion, coordination, and harmonization of web accessibility standards in China. Roy received his Master's Degree in Software Engineering and did some research work on accessibility during his postgraduate life, meanwhile, he is working on a PhD at Zhejiang University. More... ran@w3.org Ruoxi's Github account
Samuel Weiler Sam leads W3C privacy standardization efforts and serves as W3C's liaison to the IETF. weiler@w3.org Samuel's Github account
Role: Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Program Lead
Shawn joined W3C in February 2003 to lead worldwide education and outreach activities promoting digital accessibility for people with disabilities through the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). As WAI Program Lead she directs collaboration on WAI vision, strategic plan, and implementation priorities. She works with W3C management and staff to coordinate stakeholder engagement in W3C accessibility activities.
Shawn focuses her personal passion for accessibility on bringing together the needs of individuals and the goals of organizations in designing human-computer interfaces. She particularly enjoys introducing and encouraging accessible user experience, that is, how people with disabilities successfully interact with accessible technology.
Before joining W3C, Shawn worked as a consultant with research centers, education providers, government agencies, non-profit organizations, Fortune 500 companies, and international standards organizations to develop and implement strategies to optimize design for usability and accessibility. She holds a BSc in English with focus on computer science and technical writing, and an MSc in Digital Inclusion.
Shawn Lawton Henry leads accessibility communication, education, and WAI's collaborative strategic planning.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Founder
- Founding Director
- Founder, Emeritus
- Inventor of the Web
- W3C Emeritus Director
- Web Inventor
Role: Founder, Emeritus Director, Honorary Member of the Board of Directors, World Wide Web Consortium
Tim is W3C's Founder, Emeritus Director, Honorary Member of the Board of Directors. He is the 3COM Founders Professor of Engineering in the School of Engineering, and at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT's CSAIL.
Tim founded and is on the board of the World Wide Web Foundation, whose mission is consistent with W3C's only broader. The Web Foundation will put the power of the Web into the hands of people around the world through effective, high-impact programs.
Tim invented the World Wide Web in 1989 while working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. He wrote the first WWW client (a browser-editor running under NeXTStep) and the first WWW server along with most of the communications software, defining URLs, HTTP and HTML. Prior to his work at CERN, Tim was a founding director of Image Computer Systems, a consultant in hardware and software system design, real-time communications graphics and text processing, and a principal engineer with Plessey Telecommunications in Poole, England. He is a graduate of Oxford University. More...
Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium in 1994 to ensure the long-term growth of the Web.
Sir Tim is the Founder, Emeritus Director, and an Honorary Member of the Board of Directors of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a Web standards organization that he founded in 1994 which develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. He is a Director of the World Wide Web Foundation which was launched in 2009 to coordinate efforts to further the potential of the Web to benefit humanity.
A graduate of Oxford University, Sir Tim invented the Web while at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory, in 1989. He wrote the first web client and server in 1990. His specifications of URIs, HTTP and HTML were refined as Web technology spread.
He is the Emeritus 3Com Founders Professor of Engineering in the School of Engineering with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence ( CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he founded the Decentralized Information Group (DIG).
The Decentralized Information Group, works on the Solid Project to give people control of their own data and to re-decentralize the Web. He is the co-founder and CTO of inrupt, the company committed to the success of the Solid platform and its open source community, and to build the ecosystem that supports it.
He is also a Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Oxford, UK. He is President of and co-founder the Open Data Institute in London.
In 2001 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society. He has been the recipient of several international awards including the Japan Prize, the Prince of Asturias Foundation Prize, the Millennium Technology Prize and Germany's Die Quadriga award. In 2004 he was knighted by H.M. Queen Elizabeth and in 2007 he was awarded the Order of Merit. In 2009 he was elected a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences. He is the author of "Weaving the Web".
On March 18 2013, Sir Tim, along with Vinton Cerf, Robert Kahn, Louis Pouzin and Marc Andreesen, was awarded the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering for "ground-breaking innovation in engineering that has been of global benefit to humanity."
On 4 April 2017, Sir Tim was awarded the ACM A.M. Turing Prize for inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and the fundamental protocols and algorithms allowing the Web to scale. The Turing Prize, called the "Nobel Prize of Computing" is considered one of the most prestigious awards in Computer Science.
In September 2022, he won the Seoul Peace Prize for his work promoting data sovereignty and leading the movement to "decentralize" the web dominated by tech giants.
Job Titles:
- Research Associate
- Formerly a Staff Member
Formerly a staff member in charge of computer operations at the Cornell Law School, Tom is now a research associate working on a variety of projects involving the dissemination of legal information on the Internet. He is the author Cello, an all-singing, all-dancing WWW browser for Microsoft Windows. E-mail:tom@law.mail.cornell.edu.
Job Titles:
- Member of Technical Staff at Berkeley Software Design, Inc
Role: Head of Systems Team
Vivien joined W3C in May 2003 as the W3C Webmaster at the MIT/CSAIL host site in Cambridge, MA, USA.
Since September 2004 Vivien is working as a Systems & Network Engineer for W3C Europe at the ERCIM host site in Sophia-Antipolis, France.
Vivien graduated in September 2003 from the Polytech Nice Sophia engineering school (formerly known as ESSI) in Sophia-Antipolis, France.
He holds an engineering degree in Computer Science, specializing in Networks. In June 2000, he received a two year degree in Computer Programming at the University of Lyon, France.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Board
at NIKHEF, WIllem put up many servers and has provided much useful feedback about the w3 browser code.
Role: W3C China Site Manager
Ms. Wu Xiaoqian (吴小倩) joined W3C in October 2013. Since then, she has been serving as a team contact for a few working groups, including the Web Applications Working Group and the Web Editing Working Group.
In September 2018, she became the W3C China Site Manager, responsible for our daily operation in China.
Xiaoqian holds a BA in Software Engineering and an MSc in Animation Design.
Xueyuan Jia joined W3C in May 2015. She was the primary meeting planner at W3C/Beihang, and also the Media Contact in China as a member of W3C Marketing and Communications team. Since June 2017, she fully joined Marketing and Communications team to be committed to Member communications, W3C groups and team supports, as well as to expand W3C press relations in China.
Yves Lafon studied Mathematics and computer science at ENSEEIHT in Toulouse, France, and at Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal in Montreal, Canada. His field of study was signal recognition and processing. He discovered Internet Relay Chat and the Web in Montreal in 1993 and has been making robots and games for both. He joined the W3C in October 1995 to work on W3C's experimental browser, Arena. Then he worked on Jigsaw, W3C's Java-based server, on HTTP/1.1 and started the work on SOAP 1.2.
Yves is now the TAG Team Contact and WebApps Team Contactr.
Zhenjie joined W3C in May 2017 as the Administration staff and meeting planner at the Beihang host site in China ,she hold a bachelor degree in law when she graduated from Shandong university in 2010, then got an opportunity to do interdisciplinary studies of law and economics at three European universities---Bologna university, Hamburg university and Vienna university, after this one-year programme she received her master degree in Law and Economics in February 2017.