FORKS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Admin Team
- Assistant to Tim Berners - Lee
Amy van der Hiel is the assistant to Tim Berners-Lee, a meeting planner and part of the administrative team.
Before joining the W3C, Amy was the Assistant to the Director and Curatorial Associate at the Exhibitions Department of the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston. She has her Bachelors in Art History from Bard College, NY and her Masters in Art Education from Mansfield University, PA.
Job Titles:
- Site Manager of W3C / Beihang
joint W3C China Office as the business manager in the year of 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. Now she is responsible for managing the W3C/Beihang site and W3C China activities including Member recruiting and other W3C related work. She is currently based in Beijing, China.
Benfeng Chen has years of research and work experience in web browser technology. He is the founder and CEO of AllMobilize Inc, which poineered the website mobilzation technology in China. Prior to founding AllMobilize, he worked at Microsoft core development team in Redmond that was responsible for the introduction of IE 8 & IE 9 and the design & development of HTML5 engine. While working at Microsoft, he co-founded the Seattle Entrepreneurship Club, which has become the most influential group supporting Chinese entrepreneurs in Seattle area. He also developed a US-patented mobile browsing technology while doing research at W3C Hong Kong office. Benfeng studied at University of Science and Technology of China. He was early engineer at Anhui USTC iFlyTek Co., which later went IPO and is now the market leader in computed speech technology in China.
Job Titles:
- EMEA Business Development Leader
Bernard Gidon joined W3C in 2011 to lead business development in Europe, Middle-East and Africa (EMEA). He is based in Sophia Antipolis, France. In the last 20 years, he has developed organizations and activities for hardware, software and telecom companies (Apricot,Softway, Retix, Vertel, AdvenNet, Plantronics) with channel and direct accounts activities. Bernard's background in business development and sales activities, brings to W3C growth capabilities in EMEA.
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 is now leading the CSS and Mathematics activities.
Job Titles:
- Web Accessibility Specialist
Job Titles:
- Am Badedeich 7 25899 Dagebüll Germany
Michael[tm] Smith joined the W3C in January 2007, as part of the W3C's Mobile Web Initiative. He's now involved with work on core standards related to browsing technologies; in particular, the phenomenon known as HTML5, as well as other standards related to Web Applications. Mike has been based in Tokyo since 2001, and prior to joining the W3C, worked for Opera Software and Openwave Systems (and was for most of that time involved with design, development, testing, and deployment of software for mobile operators in Japan).
Carine joined the Sophia Antipolis W3C team in December 2001 as XML engineer, in the Jigsaw activity. She holds an engineer degree and a PhD in Computer Science. Her research area was distributed artificial intelligence and multi-agent systems.
Since 2002, she has been working in the Web Services Activity and the XML Activity as staff contact (XML Protocol, WS Choreo WG, SWS IG, SAWSDL WG, XBC and EXI WGs, XSL WG) and in the EU-funded project on Web Services and Semantics (WS2).
Job Titles:
- Administrative Manager
- Finance
Job Titles:
- Standards Evangelist and Dev.Opera Editor
- W3C Fellow
Chris Mills is a W3C Fellow (on secondment from Opera), working on the webplatform.org project, developing content and doing outreach, with very close links to the devrel team. More specifically, he is:
an open standards evangelist and general dogsbody working for Opera
an HTML(5) and CSS(3) obsessive
a mobile/cross-browser/cross-device enthusiast
a JavaScript blagger
an accessibility advocate
a web education agitator (I spend a lot of my time bullying universities about improving their web-related courses)
an experienced tech writer and editor (I worked for various tech publishers for 8 years before working for Opera)
a proud father of three
a heavy metal drummer
Job Titles:
- Deputy Director of W3C / Beihang Host
Chunming Hu had worked for the ex 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 associate professor at Beihang University. Now he is the Vice Dean of School of Computer Science, Beihang University and his main research interests includes distributed systems, software middleware, system virtualization and resource scheduling in cloud systems.
Job Titles:
- Marketing and Communications Agent
Coralie joined the team in January 1999, as W3C Europe administrative assistant, with a degree in secretarial work and English as a foreign language. She became W3C Europe administration manager and five years later she joined the W3C Communications Team. Her duties include Advisory Board scribe duties and meetings planning, W3C press clippings, management of Supporters Program applications, monitoring translators' list, being contact person for authorized translations. She is also involved in community development and outreach (microblogging, W3C blog). She was Incubator Activity Lead and is now involved in managing W3C Community and Business Groups.
Job Titles:
- Research Scientist at MIT Computer Science
Dan Connolly is a research scientist at MIT Computer Science and AI Lab - CSAIL - and a member of the technical staff of the Worldwide Web Consortium, also known as W3C, which develops interoperable technologies, specifications, guidelines, software, et cetera, to lead the web, as it says, to its full potential.
Job Titles:
- Associate Chair & Dir Intl Relations
Daniel Dardailler joined the W3C team in July 1996 and after leading various technical projects, like the WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative) or the W3C QA activity, and serving as Europe operational manager for several years, he is now W3C Associate Chair for Europe and W3C Director of International Relations.
Prior to working for W3C, Daniel was already working for standard as a Software Architect for the X Window System Consortium, responsible for pieces of the Motif toolkit and the Common Unix Desktop.
Daniel holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Nice/Sophia-Antipolis (89) in the area of digital typography and X protocol network.
Based at the Keio University host in Japan, Daniel splits his time between a communications role and a technical, team contact role. Previously he worked as part of the Developer Relations team at Opera Software, also based in Japan. He blogs occasionally on his personal site.
Dave is the W3C Staff contact for the System Applications Working Group, Near Field Communications Working Group and the Model-Based UI Working Group. 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 is currently involved in three European FP7 research projects: webinos, Serenoa and COMPOSE, and before that PrimeLife. He has a special interest in the Web of Things. 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), and most recently, work on real-time browser-based multi-user editing of HTML and XML. 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.
He is based at the MIT site.
Dominique is the Activity Lead of the Mobile Web Initiative, serves as staff contact in the Web Real-Time Communications Working Group and the Device APIs Working Group. He also develops tools and applications as part of the W3C Systems Team.
Doug Schepers became Developer Relations Lead in 2012. He also acts as project coordinator (staff contact) for the Audio, WebApps, and Web Events Working Groups, and Rich Web Client Activity Lead. He is also active in the SVG Working Group. He joined the W3C Team in June 2007 as a Compound Document Specialist, and was previously AC Representative for Vectoreal and has been creating Web Applications for many years.
Eric joined W3C again in February 1998 to provide system support and manage tool programming. He currently works on RDF and XML protocols.His primary goal is to see that information be easily and logically accessible.
Prior to joining W3C full-time, Eric worked as a contract programmer for various organizations, including W3C, where he worked on libwww and the client applications, a PEP model library, and several system-related projects.
Eric has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and is still baffled by the futility of a college education in determining one's fate.
Felix Sasaki joined the W3C in 2005 to work in the Internationalization Activity until March 2009. In 2012 he rejoined the W3C team as a fellow on behalf of DFKI (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence). His main field of interest is the application of Web technologies for representation and processing of multilingual information.
Harry Halpin is a W3C Fellow funded by Eduserv, working as staff contact for the RDB2RDF Working Group and co-chairing the Social Web Incubator Group. Previously he was Chair of the GRDDL Working Group that focused on combining microformats and XML with the Semantic Web. Guiding his work at the W3C is his commitment to keeping the Web an universal space of information for the development of collective intelligence. He enjoys working with diverse communities to make their data accessible on the Web.
He received his Ph.D. in Informatics from the University of Edinburgh under Henry Thompson and Andy Clark, with a thesis on theories of reference on the Web combining information retrieval and knowledge representation. Previously, he worked on the intersection of philosophy and literature with computing at Duke University and held a DAAD scholarship to Freie Universität Berlin. He enjoys studying Web phenomena empirically, such as the development of consensus in collaborative tagging.
Hiroki joined W3C team in November 2010 as W3C Fellow from Internet Academy(Japanese company).
He is working for the making educational material for beginners.
Hirotaka joined W3C in April of 2010 after graduating from Keio University, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies. Before joining W3C, Hirotaka worked at a number of startups and had a lots of experiences from them. Hirotaka holds a master's degree in computer Science from Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University.
Job Titles:
- Head of W3C Communications
In September 2004, Ian became Head of W3C Communications. He manages the Consortium's Comm activities, including press, publications, branding, marketing, and some member relations.
Ian began at W3C in 1997. Since then he has 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 Jacobs studied computer science in France after college (Yale), and worked at INRIA for five years.
Ivan graduated as mathematician 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, he joined the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Sciences (CWI) in Amsterdam where he has held a tenure position since 1988. He received a PhD degree in Computer Science in 1990 at the Leiden University, in the Netherlands. Ivan joined the W3C team as Head of Offices in January 2001 while maintaining his position at CWI. He served as Head of Offices until June 2006, when he was asked to take the Semantic Web Activity Lead position. Finally, in 2013, he also took up the position of Activity Lead for the Digital Publishing Activity.
Before joining W3C Ivan worked in quite different areas (distributed and dataflow programming, language design, system programming), but he spend most of his research years in computer graphics and visualization. He also participated in various graphics related ISO standardization activities and software developments. He was the co-chair of the 9th World Wide Web Conference, in Amsterdam, May 2000. He is member of IW3C2, the committee responsible for the World Wide Web Conference series, as well as of SWSA, the committee responsible for the International Semantic Web Conference series.
His home page at CWI contains a list of his publications and details of the various projects he participated in. You can also look at his home page or his personal blog.
Job Titles:
- Global Business Development Leader
Alan Bird is the Global Business Development Lead for W3C. In this role, Mr. Bird leads W3C staff efforts internationally to strengthen the W3C Membership program, identify business development strategies, and seek new revenue streams to support the organization. Alan joined W3C in January 2011.
Before joining W3C, Alan was a key executive in two small information security companies where he drove strategic business development. Prior to these appointments, he spent several years each with IBM, Compuware, Legent, and Cullinet in a wide variety of roles, many of which involved creating new business opportunities. Earlier in his career, he worked in the IT organization of Burlington Industries, AVX Ceramics, Family Dollar Stores, and Ingersoll-Rand. This combination of work experiences has provided Alan with a solid foundation from which to drive W3C's business development activities.
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.
Job Titles:
- Independent Web Developer
- W3C in 2008 As Web Accessibility Engineer
Jeanne Spellman joined the W3C in 2008 as Web Accessibility Engineer. She is the team contact for the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group and the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group. Jeanne also contributes to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group.
Prior to joining W3C, Jeanne has worked as an independent web developer and accessibility consultant. Jeanne has developed accessible web sites and has evaluated web pages for accessibility in a variety of technologies including HTML, CSS, Flash, Flex, PDF and AJAX. Jeanne has worked with major corporations to develop and train designers, developers, quality assurance engineers and project managers in accessibility techniques.
Jinsong joined W3C from Nokia. He worked on service enablers, digital home and mobile internet standards, then technologies and products planning in Nokia. Jinsong was ever WG vice Chair in CCSA/TC11 and TC2 (China Communications Standards Association), co-Chair of DLNA China Task Force. Jinsong holds a Ph.D. degree in EE from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.
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.
Job Titles:
- Director of the Web Accessibility Initiative ( WAI ) International Program Office
- W3C 's Chief
Judy Brewer joined W3C in September 1997 as Director of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) International Program Office. She is Domain Leader for WAI, and coordinates five areas of work with respect to Web accessibility: ensuring that W3C technologies support accessibility; developing guidelines for Web content, browsers, and authoring tools; improving tools for evaluation and repair of Web sites; conducting education and outreach; and coordinating with research and development that can affect future Web accessibility.
Judy is W3C's chief liaison on accessibility policy and standardization internationally, promoting awareness and implementation of Web accessibility, and ensuring effective dialog among industry, the disability community, accessibility researchers, and government on the development of consensus-based accessibility solutions.
Prior to joining W3C, Judy was Project Director for the Massachusetts Assistive Technology Partnership, a U.S. federally-funded project promoting access to assistive technology for people with disabilities. She worked on several national initiatives to increase access to mainstream technology for people with disabilities and to improve dialog between industry and the disability community. Judy has a background in applied linguistics, education, technical writing, management and disability advocacy.
Job Titles:
- Associate Chair of W3C / Keio
Job Titles:
- ERCIM Site Manager & ERCIM Office Manager
Jérôme joined the W3C Team in June 2006. Prior to that, Jérôme worked as a researcher and research director at INRIA, France, in the areas of automatic VLSI design, software engineering, and knowledge-based systems. Jérôme was the main inventor and developer of the programming language Le-Lisp. Jérôme co-founded ILOG in 1987, taking on the roles of Chief Scientific Officer and Director. Up till 2000, he was a member of the French Co-ordination Committee for Science and Information Technology and Communication of the National Ministry for Education, Research and Technology. Starting in 1995, he was Chief Information Officer of the genomics company GENSET.
On May 2005, ERCIM's Board of Directors has nominated Jérôme as Manager of ERCIM.
Karen Myers develops Membership outreach at W3C. She originally joined W3C July 2004 to support media relations, member communications, speaking engagements, and special assignments such as W3C10, the World Wide Web's ten year anniversary celebration. Prior to W3C, Karen ran her own company and also worked for marketing and communications agencies such as BrandEquity International and Leo Burnett Technology Group, where she established a ten-person strategic planning group in Boston, and managed a global client services team in Frankfurt, Germany. She has consulted for a diversity of technology clients including Akamai, Allaire, Aprisma, Axis, CMGI, Digital, Comdial,Computer Associates, Heidelberg, IBM, Information Builders, KPMG, and Unisys.
Job Titles:
- Web Accessibility Engineer
Kenny Zhang has been focusing on accessibility technology since 2006. He was a consultant worked at IBM Accessibility Center, contributing in accessibility technology, product and service. Before that period, he served as an IT engineer for IBM China Research Lab and Vanceinfo from 2002 to 2006.
Laurent joined the W3C team at Inria-Grenoble in September 2000 to participate in the development of Amaya. Before joining the W3C, he worked as an engineer in the OPERA project at Inria-Grenoble.
Laurent hold an enineering degree in computer science from the CNAM Grenoble (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers) in 1997.
Liam joined the W3C in 2000; he's been working with text-based markup and digital typography since nroff days (1981) and with SGML since 1987. He worked for Yuri Rubinsky at SoftQuad Inc. in Toronto, where he was involved in the development of SoftQuad's HoTMetaL, the first commercial HTML editor for the Web, and also with SoftQuad Panorama, a browser plugin to display SGML; this in turn demonstrated a need to standardise the use of SGML on the Web, and Liam was involved in the development of the XML specification.
Liam has been involved in free software since 1983, including lq-text, a text retrieval package for Unix, the GNOME and GIMP projects, a collection of royalty-free pictures from old books, and uses and contributes to Mandriva Linux, and many other open source and free projects.
At the W3C today, Liam is XML Activity Lead and W3C technical participant for the XML Query and XSL (XSL-FO) Working Groups, and alternate contact for several other Working Groups.
Job Titles:
- Executive Assistant
- Assistant to Dr. Jeffrey Jaffe
Maria Auday is assistant to Dr. Jeffrey Jaffe, CEO. She is part of the administrative team and organizes some of the annual W3C meetings that are lead by Jeff.
Marie-Claire Forgue now serves as Head of W3C Training and is a passionate advocate for the Web Developer community. She recently developed and launched the W3DevCampus portal where Web developers worldwide can sign up for W3C online training courses related to mobile Web and HTML5 technologies. Additionally, Marie-Claire continues to participate in the dissemination activities of European projects. She joined W3C in 2001 and served as Head of W3C European Communications for over 10 years.
Marie-Claire Forgue now serves as Head of W3C Training and is a passionate advocate for the Web Developer community. She recently developed and launched the W3DevCampus portal where Web developers worldwide can sign up for W3C online training courses related to mobile Web and HTML5 technologies. Additionally, Marie-Claire continues to participate in the dissemination activities of European projects such as Webinos and Voices. 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 Nice and INRIA, France. After a year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Dynamic Graphics Project Lab at the University of Toronto, Canada, she worked in 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.
Job Titles:
- Marketing and Communications
Marilyn joined W3C in November 2011 as part of the Marketing and Communications Team. She brings 25 years of experience in Hi-Tech and higher education.
Marilyn is based at the MIT site.
Job Titles:
- Web Accessibility Engineer
Martin joined the W3C Team at Keio-SFC in December 1997 to work on 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 internationalization.
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 progressive transmission of images.
Martin left W3C in April 2005 for a position at Aoyama Gakuin University. He continues to chair the Internationalization Interest Group and participates as an Invited Expert in several Internationalization-related Working groups.
Masao joined the W3C Team in January 2009 as the W3C/Keio site Manager. He is responsible for managing the W3C/Keio site and W3C Asian activities including Member recruiting and other member related work. He is a professor of Keio University.
Masao has been working at Toshiba for 27 years on consumer electronics business (hardware and software design of air-conditioner (15 years)), system design and business coordination for collaboration, and also as a leader for a new business creating project. He was involved in energy conservation technology, simulation for room temperature distribution, Genetic Algorism application and data mining for life log. His latest work there was a general manager of the home network business division (10 years), which developed a home IT system. He also worked for the ECHONET Consortium, which develops a global standard for the Web based home network system. ECHONET Consortium consists of 100 member companies. Masao was a steering committee member for 6 years and the chairman for 1 year in that consortium.
Masao holds a Ph.D. degree in heat transfer engineering from the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, and a master's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Tokyo Institute of Technology. He currently lives in Tokyo, Japan.
Job Titles:
- Web Accessibility Specialist
Michael joined the W3C in June 2006 as a Web Accessibility Specialist with the Web Accessibility Initiative. Michael is the Team Contact for the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group, which develops authoring guidelines and techniques to create accessible content; and for the Protocols and Formats Working Group, which supports the W3C to make new Web technologies accessible and develops accessibility practices. He has been involved in W3C standards for many years in the context of his work at Watchfire and CAST developing accessibility evaluation software.
Naomi joined the team in July 2010 to provide membership contact, member relations, administration, finance, contract and personnel. 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 Coordinator in 1996. Naomi has a Bachelors in Literature from Aoyama Gakuin University.
Nick Doty works on privacy in Web standards, acting as the team contact for the Tracking Protection Working Group and Privacy Interest Group.
Nick is also a graduate student at the UC Berkeley, School of Information where he occasionally teaches the Information Organization Lab and does research on Internet privacy.
Nobuo is directing the W3C team at Keio University, where he established the third Consortium host in September 1996. And he also serves at the Consortium's Associate Chair for Asia.
As Emeritus Professor of Keio University and Dean of Faculty of Global Media Studies, Komazawa University, Nobuo's areas of expertise are in Operating Systems, Parallel Processing, Distributed Processing Environments, Document Processing, Software Engineering, Software Development and Digital Media Environments.
Nobuo received his PhD in Engineering from the Graduate School of Engineering at the University of Tokyo. Before becoming a Vice President of Keio University, he was Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Information.
Job Titles:
- Asia Business Development Leader at W3C Keio University
Osamu "Sam" Sugimoto is the Asia Business Development Leader at W3C Keio University. In 1993 while he was working as a visiting scholar at Stanford University Electrical Engineering Department, he pioneered eCommerce in Japan specializing in selling books and media products into the Japanese retail/wholesale market. Since then he was running various startup companies as a founder/co-founder/board of director until he joined W3C Keio in March 2013. He has given lectures at numerous Japanese government & trade meetings including METI, DA, and MAFF. Project Associate Professor of Keio University Graduate School of Media and Governance. Former Associate Professor of Tohoku University.
Phil Archer originally joined the team to work on the Mobile Web Initiative in February 2009, specifically to work on developing and delivering training in this area. Before joining the team he'd been a participant in the Mobile Web Best Practices working group (joining at its inception in June 2005) with a particular interest in the mobileOK scheme. Phil was an editor of, or acknowledged contributor to, 6 of the documents created by the MWBP Working Group.
Separately from his W3C team remit, Phil has also been involved with the Semantic Web activity as chair of the POWDER working group. As part of this role he co-edited all documents (except the Primer) and created one of the two reference implementations. It was this work that lead Phil to focus on the area of linked data and, eventually, to take up his current role in the Technology and Society domain working on eGovernment projects.
Job Titles:
- Deputy Director
- Deputy Director of the W3C
Philipp Hoschka is a Deputy Director of the W3C. His main interest is bringing the benefits of Web technology to mobile and other non-PC devices. Since 2006, he is leading W3C's Ubiquitous Web Domain which includes W3C's Mobile Web Initiative created by Philipp in 2005. In the past, he pioneered work on integrating audio and video into the Web. Philipp founded, chaired and served as editor for the Working Group that developed the W3C Standard SMIL which today is an integral part of mobile phone MMS messaging. Philipp also lead W3C's "Television and the Web" Activity. He previously directed W3C's Architecture Domain, which issues all core XML specifications from the W3C. Philipp chaired numerous W3C workshops that explored new Web developments, such as Workshops on the Mobile Web Initiative, Web Services, Television and the Web, Push Technology and Real-Time Multimedia and the Web. Philipp holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, and a Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.
Job Titles:
- Interaction Domain Leader
Philippe Le Hegaret heads the W3C Interaction Domain, which produces frontend Web technologies including HTML5, CSS3, SVG, WOFF, or Web APIs. Until July 2008, 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).
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' qualfier was removed. Ralph came to us 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.
Job Titles:
- Developer
- Operations Engineer
- Application Developer
Renoir Boulanger is is an application developer fascinated with web standards. He has been developing websites and web applications in PHP for over ten years. His experience includes server management and web development for several communications agencies in the province of Quebec. He created web integration libraries, and participated in the development of various specialized web applications, some of which were for big-name clients such as Ericsson, Telefilm Canada, and the Union des Artistes.
Renoir's involvement to the W3C is as a member both developer relations and system teams, mainly contributing on the WebPlatform Docs project to maintain the site stability, improve the site features, strengthen the hosting and deployment infrastructure, act as a technical liaison with Open-source communities, and contribute to the success of the site.
In addition to having an easily identifiable name on the web, he can be found as @renoirb or at https://renoirboulanger.com/#is
Job Titles:
- Activity Lead, I18n I18n Core WG Staff Contact I18n IG Staff Contact MultilingualWeb EC Project Coordinator
Richard joined the W3C team in July 2002 to expand the work of the Internationalization Activity. He is attached to ERCIM in France, but based in the UK.
He is Internationalization Activity Lead and staff contact of the Internationalization Core Working Group. He also coordinated the MultilingualWeb initiative.
Richard has a background in translation and interpreting, computational linguistics, software engineering, and translation tools. Prior to joining the W3C, he was an internationalization consultant, evangelizing and educating people with regard to the international design and localizability of user interfaces and documents.
Rigo Wenning joined W3C in 1999 with a focus on privacy and digital signatures. He is the Privacy Activity Lead and has taken over responsibility as a legal counsel to W3C. Rigo studied law in Germany and France and holds a german law degree. Before joining W3C Rigo was a researcher at the Institute of Law and Informatics. He was involved in the first german law portal as early as 1994.
Robin Berjon has long worked as part of the Web standards community, before joining W3C in 2012 where he edits the HTML specification. He has notably contributed to the binary XML groups, SVG, WebApps, DAP, Core Mobile Web Platform, and several other efforts.
He likes to hack on things, mostly using JavaScript, and has a long history of contributing to the open source community.
He lives in Paris with wife, daughters, and cat. You can follow @robinberjon on Twitter.
Job Titles:
- Software Developer and Systems Architect at W3C
Sandro Hawke is a Software Developer and Systems Architect at W3C and a Research Scientist at MIT's Decentralized Information Group. He leads the W3C's eGovernment activity and is staff contact for the RIF, OWL, and SPARQL Working Groups. A member of the W3C Semantic Web staff since 2000, Sandro's professional focus is on developing global-scale decentralized systems using ideas from both Web Architecture and Knowledge Representation. He occasionally blogs at decentralyze.com.
Job Titles:
- Activity Lead, WAI International Program Office
Shadi Abou-Zahra works with the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) as Activity Lead of the WAI International Program Office, which includes groups that are responsible for education and outreach, coordination with research, general discussion on web accessibility, coordination with the WAI Technical Activity, and WAI liaisons with other organizations including standards organizations and disability groups. Shadi coordinates WAI outreach in Europe, accessibility evaluation techniques, and international standards promotion and harmonization activities. He chairs the W3C/WAI Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group (ERT WG), is the staff contact of the W3C/WAI Research and Development Working Group (RDWG), and participates in the W3C/WAI Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG).
Shawn Henry joined W3C in February 2003 as Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Outreach Coordinator to coordinate W3C's worldwide education and outreach activities promoting Web accessibility for people with disabilities. Within W3C, Shawn is Chair of the WAI Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG), helps coordinate the WAI Interest Group (WAI IG), and works with the WAI Steering Council.
Prior to joining W3C, Shawn worked as a consultant with international standards bodies, research centers, government agencies, non-profit organizations, education providers, and Fortune 500 companies to develop and implement strategies to optimize design for usability and accessibility. More About Shawn.
Shinji joined W3C team in November 2011 as W3C/MIT Fellow from NTT Corp in Japan. He is working for the making "web signage." And also, he works at NTT Cyber Solutions Laboratories.
Stéphane is W3C Staff since 1995. Leading the W3C Device Independence Working Group since 2001, he has been a key participant in the development and launch of the W3C Mobile Web Initiative, managing the Device Description Working Group till the end of 2005. At the same time, Stéphane took also part in the management of the Voice and Multimodal Activities. Since 2006, he is leading the W3C work on the Mobile Web for Social Development Interest Group.
As of 1st January 2009, after participating in the Web Foundation Task Force during 2008, Stéphane joined the newly launched World Wide Web Foundation as program manager for the Web in Society program
Before joining W3C and the Web Foundation, Stéphane studied network and telecommunications at ESSTIN, an engineering school in Sophia-Antipolis, France. From 1991 to 1995, he worked on Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge modeling at INRIA.
Susan Hardy joined the W3C in September 1995. She is the head of the Administrative staff at MIT and primary organizer of W3C workshops, US Advisory Committee meetings and working group meetings. Previously, Susan worked with Bob Scheifler and the MIT X Consortium for three years, and has been a part of the Laboratory for Computer Science for nearly ten years.
Tatsuya joined W3C at Keio-SFC in September 1997 as Deputy Director for Asian operations. He is Professor of the Faculty of Environmental Information at Keio University.
His current areas of interests are System Software and Web Technology. He received his Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh.
Ted joined the W3C in January of 2000. He comes to the Consortium from the corporate IT community having worked for a mortgage and investment company, a power utility, an internet service provider, and a marketing and communications company. He earned a bachelors in Russian from Hobart College. He also spent some time as an English as a Second Language and Mathematics instructor.
Thierry joined W3C at INRIA in August 1998 as leader of the ECommerce/Micropayment Activity.
Then he has lead the XForms Activity.
Currently he leads the Synchronized Multimedia Activity (SYMM WG and Timed Text WG).
Thierry holds a Diplome d'Etudes Approfondies (D.E.A) in Genetics - Statistics and Information Technology (University Paris VII).
Thomas joined W3C in 2009. He has been involved in W3C validators development, and particularly in Unicorn and the I18n Checker. He is now one of the main developer of the Validator Suite project.
Thomas Roessler joined the W3C Team in November 2004 to work on security, privacy, and European policy issues. He currently serves as Technology and Society Domain Leader.
Prior to joining W3C, Thomas worked at the University of Bonn on numerics of partial differential equations, and collected programming, systems administration and computer forensics experience. He served as the lead maintainer of the free software mail user agent mutt. Thomas has published and given talks on topics including anonymization services, legal questions of digital signatures, and online privacy. He holds a degree in mathematics.
Thomas served as the Technical Liaison to the ICANN Board in 2009 and again in 2012, and is chair of the Board of the World Wide Web Foundation (Delaware, US).
Tim is now the overall Director of the W3C. 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...
Job Titles:
- Chief Financial Officer
- Chief Financial Officer ( CFO ) of the World Wide Web Consortium
Veronica Thom is Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the World Wide Web Consortium. In this role she has cross-W3C responsibility for finance, budget, financial plans and controls, and with her combined business/finance background, will advise W3M on future initiatives.
Before joining W3C in July 2012, Veronica served as Vice President for Nordic, Mexico and Australia markets with PartyLite, Inc. a direct selling company of Blyth, Inc. She was responsible for leading these new and emerging markets in sales and marketing, as well as driving profitability.
Prior to that Veronica held several financial management roles at The Gillette Company. She provided executive and financial leadership in various areas including the North America Supply Chain, Personal Care and Blade/Razor business units, Distribution and Manufacturing and Internal Audit. Veronica earned her degree in Economics and Finance from Simmons College and an MBA from Babson College.
Job Titles:
- Systems & Network Engineer
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 Ecole Supérieure en Sciences Informatiques 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.
Wendy comes to W3C in 2012 from a tour of legal academia and, before that, Electronic Frontier Foundation. She was drawn into open code as a law student, as the first webmaster for Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and hasn't been able to escape since. Wendy's legal research focuses on "openness," in the law and technology of online expression, user-innovation, privacy, and anonymity.
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, WebApps Team Contact, HTTPbis editor and Web Services Activity leader.