Who's Who at the World Wide Web Consortium...

Steve joined the World Wide Web Consortium in January 2002, serving first as COO and now CEO. He has primary responsibility for worldwide operations and outreach, including overall management of Member relations, the W3C Process, the Team, strategic planning, budget, legal matters, external liaisons and major events.

Prior to joining the W3C, Steve held leadership and research positions within industry and government, and served on scientific and arms control delegations. In 1997, he was named Coordinator of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty International Data Centre in Vienna, Austria. There he was responsible for establishing the data center, global communications infrastructure, and standards for data exchange between more than 300 world-wide sensors and 170 nations. From 1984 to 1997, Steve led research initiatives -- first at Science Applications International Corporation and then as a program manager at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency -- to develop advanced concepts for real-time sensor monitoring, intelligent analysis and international data communications. Since 1993, Web technologies have played the central role in support of the sharing of data, information and knowledge within the complex systems that he has designed and deployed.

Steve received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his B.S. from the Pennsylvania State University.

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...

Tim is now the overall Director of the W3C. He is a Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science.

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 outeach; 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.

Daniel Dardailler joined the W3C team in July 1996 and is now Associate Chair for Europe. He is also involved in the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) and the QA activity of W3C.

Prior to that, he was acting as a Software Architect for the X Window System Consortium, responsible for the Motif toolkit and others CDE (Unix Desktop) components.

Daniel holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Nice/Sophia-Antipolis (89).

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.

Philipp Hoschka, W3C Deputy Director, is responsible for technical contacts with European research and development. In addition, Philipp heads the W3C Interaction Domain, which delivers W3C's key user interface specifications, such as HTML, SVG and VoiceXML. Philipp currently focuses on making mobile Web access work, and is leading W3C's "Mobile Web Initiative". In the past, he spearheaded the development of the SMIL Recommendation at W3C.

Previously, Philipp was responsible for the W3C Architecture Domain, which issues all core XML specifications from the W3C. Philipp chaired numerous W3C workshops that explored new Web developments, most notably the 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.

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 on a system called "Centaur". After spending more than six years in France and six months in Italy working with the University of Bologna Computer Science Department, he moved back to New York City in 1994 to do some creative writing. He currently lives in Chicago, IL (USA).

Alan joined W3C in May 1997 as W3C Associate Chair. He is responsible for managing contractual relations with W3C Members. He coordinates the efforts of the worldwide W3C Systems and Web Team and is site manager of the W3C MIT site.

Alan retired from Digital Equipment Corp. in the fall of 1996 after 34 years service. He was chief architect of the PDP-10 family of computers, and held senior engineering positions in Digital's storage, telecommunications and software organizations. As a member of the Corporate Strategy Group, he was instrumental in creating Digital's Internet Business Group, which he joined as Technical Director. Alan was an early supporter of the W3C, became Digital's representative to the W3C Advisory Committee, and was involved with several W3C activities.

Alan received BSEE and MSEE degrees from MIT and an MBA from Clark University. His technical interests are in web security and integrity.

Philippe joined W3C at INRIA in January 1999 to test some W3C Recommendations (especially CSS2). He completed an internship at W3C in the summer of 1997 and made the CSS validator. He is a former Chair of the DOM (DOM) Working Group, and remains the DOM Activity Lead.

Philippe has degrees in mathematics and computer science at the University of Nice (France).

Philippe is the Architecture Domain Leader, which contains the XML, Web Services, DOM, URI and Internationalization Activities.

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 Vice President of Keio 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.

Daniel Weitzner is Director of the World Wide Web Consortium's Technology and Society activities. As such, he is responsible for development of technology standards that enable the web to address social, legal, and public policy concerns such as privacy, free speech, protection of minors, authentication, intellectual property and identification. He is also the W3C's chief liaison to public policy communities around the world and a member of the ICANN Protocol Supporting Organization Protocol Council.

Weitzner holds an appointment as Principal Research Scientist at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, co-directs MIT's Decentralized Information Group with Tim Berners-Lee, and teaches Internet public policy at MIT.

As one of the leading figures in Internet public policy community, he was the first to advocate the use of user control technologies such as content filtering and rating as a means to protect children and avoid government censorship of Intenet content. He successfully advocated for adoption of amendments to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act creating new privacy protections for online transactional information such as Web site access logs.

Before joining the W3C, Mr. Weitzner was co-founder and Deputy Director of the Center for Democracy and Technology, an Internet civil liberties organization in Washington, DC. He was also Deputy Policy Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Mr. Weitzner has a degree in law from Buffalo Law School, and a B.A. in Philosophy from Swarthmore College. His publications on communications policy have appeared in the Yale Law Review, Global Networks, MIT Press, Computerworld, Wired Magazine, Social Research, Electronic Networking: Research, Applications & Policy, and The Whole Earth Review. He is also a commentator for NPR's Marketplace Radio.

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.

Alexandra joined the team in September 2002 as a replacement for Caroline Baron and dealt with accountancy.

She joined the Communications team in February 2003 as W3C Europe Communications assistant. She handled quicktips shipments for Europe, Africa and Australia, she edited press-clippings on "W3C in the Press", processed membership contracts for Europe and handled their queries.

She joined the Administrative Support in September 2003 and assists the Sophia and Europe team.

Coralie is the administrative manager for W3C Europe and is also involved in the Communications Team. Her duties include large meetings (AC Meetings, Technical Plenary) preparation, handling travel and reimbursement requests, managing the ERCIM travel budget. She is also in charge of the Advisory Board scribe duties and meetings planning, and handles W3C press clippings. She joined the team in January 1999.

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.

Philippe joined W3C at INRIA in January 1999 to test some W3C Recommendations (especially CSS2). He completed an internship at W3C in the summer of 1997 and made the CSS validator. He is a former Chair of the DOM (DOM) Working Group, and remains the DOM Activity Lead.

Philippe has degrees in mathematics and computer science at the University of Nice (France).

Philippe is the Architecture Domain Leader, which contains the XML, Web Services, DOM, URI and Internationalization Activities.

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 multiagent systems.

Dan Connolly serves on the Technical Architecture Group and the Web Ontology Working Group. He manages to find a little time for Semantic Web Development.

He began contributing to the World Wide Web project, and in particular, the HTML specification, while developing hypertext production and delivery software in 1992.

He presented a draft of HTML 2.0 at the first Web Conference in 1994 in Geneva, and served as editor until it became a Proposed Standard RFC in November 1995.

He was the chair of the W3C Working Group that produced HTML 3.2 and HTML 4.0, and collaborated with Jon Bosak to form the W3C XML Working Group and produce the W3C XML 1.0 Recommendation.

Dan received a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990. His research interest is investigating the value of formal descriptions of chaotic systems like the Web, especially in the consensus-building process.

Hugo Haas joined W3C in June 1999.

He holds an engineering degree from the "Grande Ecole" Ecole Centrale Paris, and a Diploma in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge where he worked on resource reservation for ATM networks with devolved control (DCAN). Prior to joining the Consortium, Hugo worked as a software engineer for 3Com in England.

He has been active in the open source community since 1997, including in the Debian Project until 2003.

Hugo currently is Web Services Activity Lead, Team contact for the Web Services Addressing Working Group, Web Services Description Working Group and the Web Services Coordination Group. At W3C, he also served as Webmaster, and Team contact for the XML Protocol and Web Services Architecture Working Groups.

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, chair and staff contact of the Internationalization Guidelines, Education and Outreach (GEO) Working Group, and staff contact for the Internationalized Tag Set (ITS) Working Group. He is also co-chair of the Internationalization & Unicode Conference.

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.

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.

Yves is now the Jigsaw activity leader and XML Protocol activity leader.

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.

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 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 project, 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 alternate contact for the XML Query and Binary Characterization Working Groups.

Liam's personal home page

Michael Sperberg-McQueen serves as chair of the XML Schema Working Group, which is part of the W3C XML Activity, and of the XML Coordination Group. Before the XML Schema work started, he served as co-editor (with Tim Bray and Jean Paoli) of the first edition of the W3C Recommendation XML 1.0. He works full-time for W3C from his home in Española, New Mexico (twenty miles north of Santa Fe, on the road to Taos).

From 1988 to 2001, Michael served as editor in chief of the Text Encoding Initiative, an international cooperative project to develop and disseminate guidelines for the encoding and interchange of electronic texts for research purposes. He also serves as co-coordinator of the Model Editions Partnership, a project to apply the TEI guidelines to the creation of electronic historical documentary editions. He holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Stanford University.

Henry S. Thompson divides his time between the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, where he is Reader in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, based in the Language Technology Group of the Human Communication Research Centre, and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), where he works in the XML Activity.

He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1980. His university education was divided between Linguistics and Computer Science, in which he holds an M.Sc. While still at Berkeley he was affiliated with the Natural Language Research Group at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, where he participated in the GUS and KRL projects. He research interests have ranged widely, including natural language parsing, speech recognition, machine translation evaluation, modelling human lexical access mechanisms, the fine structure of human-human dialogue, language resource creation and architectures for linguistic annotation. His current research is focussed on articulating and extending the architectures of XML.

He was a member of the SGML Working Group of the World Wide Web Consortium which designed XML, is the author of the XED, the first free XML instance editor and co-author of the LT XML toolkit and is currently a member of the XML Core and XML Schema Working Groups of the W3C. He is lead editor of the Structures part of the XML Schema W3C Recommendation, for which he co-wrote the first publicly available implementation, XSV. He has presented many papers and tutorials on SGML, DSSSL, XML, XSL and XML Schemas in both industrial and public settings over the last eight years.

He is also interested in the philosophical foundations of computer science and AI, and is actively involved in promoting awareness of the moral and social implications of AI research.

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 on a system called "Centaur". After spending more than six years in France and six months in Italy working with the University of Bologna Computer Science Department, he moved back to New York City in 1994 to do some creative writing. He currently lives in Chicago, IL (USA).

Klaus, based in Germany, graduated as mathematician at the University of Bonn in 1974. He joined the German research institute in computer science (GMD) where he worked since then in several areas. After a few years of research on software technology he was appointed head of GMD's computer center Bonn in 1980. He gave lectures on computerscience at the University of Cologne and the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg. He acted as head of the network engineering group and the competence center "Computer Networks and Society" in GMD and later in Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communication.

Klaus has a strong computer networks background. Among other roles he was founding member of the European Academic Research Network (EARN) and deputy director of EARN Germany, member of the operational committee of the German Research Network (DFN), member of the EASInet steering committee and chairman of the German Chapter of the Internet Society.

Before joining the W3C team Klaus worked for W3C as head of the German/Austrian Office, AB member, and AC rep of GMD/Fraunhofer. As team member - on a part time basis - Klaus is involved in the development of the Offices program and works with the Comm Team to develop outreach materials for presentations of W3C work.

Janet is W3C's Global Communications Officer. She manages media relations for the Consortium. Janet joined the Team in February 1999 as Head of Public Relations, and directed the Communications Team from January 2000 through June 2004.

Janet previously served as Information Officer at Project Athena, one of the first successful experiments in heterogeneous network computing that preceded the Web. In 1994, she became one of the first Webmasters at MIT, and taught courses on Internet and Web use; in 1995 she launched and wrote a column on Web publishing.

After MIT, Janet ventured into the start-up world. Notably, in 1996, she became the first production manager at Tripod, Inc., with responsibilities for site management, establishing house style for content, editing and producing content modules. She was also responsible for championing and enforcing W3C HTML Specification compliance.

Janet holds a Bachelor's degree in English from the University of Massachusetts.

Karl Dubost joined W3C in July 2000 as Conformance Manager. He is working from Tokyo, Japan.

Karl holds in 1995 a DEA (Msc) in Astrophysics and Spatial Techniques at Meudon Observatory after a BSc in Physics at Montreal University. He worked for various companies and spent three years as webmaster/system manager/project manager in the education field at IUFM de Paris. He has also translated several W3C Recommendations in french as a volunteer.

Marie-Claire Forgue joined W3C at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis in January 2001, as European Communications Officer.
Marie-Claire received a Ph.D. degree 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.

Ivan graduated as mathematician at the Eötvös Lóránd 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 a Head of Offices in January 2001 while maintaining his position at CWI. He is also member of the Semantic Web Coordination Group at W3C. As part of his work at W3C, Ivan regularly gives presentations on W3C technologies, as well as tutorials, for example on SVG or the Semantic Web.

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 member of the Executive Committee of the Eurographics Association for 15 years, and vice-chair of Association between 2000 and 2002. He was the co-chair of the 9th World Wide Web Conference, in Amsterdam, May 2000. He is also member of IW3C2, the committee responsible for the World Wide 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 personal home page.

Yasuyuki (a.k.a chibao) joined W3C in April 1999 as a part-time systems administrator of the Keio team, and also joined the Communications Team as a communications liaison of the Keio Team as from April 2002. He serves Asian Communications Officer now since July 2003.

He is a PhD student and also a project research associate of the Graduate School of Media and Governance of Keio University, Japan. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Keio University.

Susan Lesch joined the W3C Communications Team as a technical editor in June 2000. She reviews communications materials, publishes the W3C Newsletter and public Weekly News, helps support the Web site, led the W3C10 design team, supports press releases and Member communications, tracks presentations and manages the W3C home page. Susan earned a B.A. in Studio Art from the University of Minnesota and a 4.0 GPA at San Diego Mesa College in Computer Science. She works from San Diego, California and Saint Paul, Minnesota in the USA.

Coralie is the administrative manager for W3C Europe and is also involved in the Communications Team. Her duties include large meetings (AC Meetings, Technical Plenary) preparation, handling travel and reimbursement requests, managing the ERCIM travel budget. She is also in charge of the Advisory Board scribe duties and meetings planning, and handles W3C press clippings. She joined the team in January 1999.

Philipp Hoschka, W3C Deputy Director, is responsible for technical contacts with European research and development. In addition, Philipp heads the W3C Interaction Domain, which delivers W3C's key user interface specifications, such as HTML, SVG and VoiceXML. Philipp currently focuses on making mobile Web access work, and is leading W3C's "Mobile Web Initiative". In the past, he spearheaded the development of the SMIL Recommendation at W3C.

Previously, Philipp was responsible for the W3C Architecture Domain, which issues all core XML specifications from the W3C. Philipp chaired numerous W3C workshops that explored new Web developments, most notably the 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.

Bert Bos completed his Ph.D. in Groningen, The Netherlands, on a protoyping language for graphical user interfaces. He then went on to develop browser software and support for humanities scholars, before joining the W3C at INRIA/Sophia-Antipolis in October 1995. He is now working on stylesheets, XML and internationalization. Here is another picture.

Stephane Boyera studied network and telecommunications at ESSTIN, an engineering school in Sophia-Antipolis, France. Since 1991 he used to work on Artificial Intelligence at INRIA.

He joined the W3C in September 1995 as system administrator for the European part of the W3C. There, he has been involved in the distribution and management of www.w3.org mirrors over Europe, and particularly he managed the Web Mirroring Activity

Since Feb. 2001, Stephane is member of the Device Independent Activity and since february 2002, he is the staff contact for the Device Independence Working Group which is dealing with all mobile related technologies like CC/PP for instance

Since January 2003, Stephane is involved in the W3C European Site management, managing hardware and telecommunication budgets

In February 2004, Stephane became the co-activity lead of Device Independence Activity

Dominique is employed by ERCIM. He joined W3C's Communication and Systems Team as a member of the Webmaster Team in October 2000; after having joined then lead the QA Activity until September 2005, Dom took part to the Mobile Web Initiative as Staff Contact for the Best Practices Working Group.

Dominique holds an engineering degree from the "Grande Ecole" Ecole Centrale Paris.

Masayasu joined the W3C at Keio-SFC in June 1997. Masayasu is the Team contact for the Compound Document Formats Working Group and the MWI Device Description Working Group.

Cédric is Team Contact for the Device Independence Activity. He's also involved in the Mobile Web Initiative.

Prior to joining W3C in 2006, he studied IT and knowledge management, and worked as a web developer mainly in the field of content management.

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).

At the end of the 80's, Steven with a group of colleagues built a browser with extensible markup, a DOM, stylesheets, client-side scripting, etc. Following from this work, he organised two workshops at the first WWW conference in 1994 on client-side computation and electronic publishing.

He chaired the first-ever W3C event, the workshop on style sheets, the first W3C internationalisation workshop, and was a long-time member of the CSS and HTML working groups. He now chairs the HTML and Forms working groups.

He is editor-in-chief of ACM/interactions.

He is based at the CWI, Amsterdam. For more information: www.cwi.nl/~steven.

Karl Dubost joined W3C in July 2000 as Conformance Manager. He is working from Tokyo, Japan.

Karl holds in 1995 a DEA (Msc) in Astrophysics and Spatial Techniques at Meudon Observatory after a BSc in Physics at Montreal University. He worked for various companies and spent three years as webmaster/system manager/project manager in the education field at IUFM de Paris. He has also translated several W3C Recommendations in french as a volunteer.

Alan joined W3C in May 1997 as W3C Associate Chair. He is responsible for managing contractual relations with W3C Members. He coordinates the efforts of the worldwide W3C Systems and Web Team and is site manager of the W3C MIT site.

Alan retired from Digital Equipment Corp. in the fall of 1996 after 34 years service. He was chief architect of the PDP-10 family of computers, and held senior engineering positions in Digital's storage, telecommunications and software organizations. As a member of the Corporate Strategy Group, he was instrumental in creating Digital's Internet Business Group, which he joined as Technical Director. Alan was an early supporter of the W3C, became Digital's representative to the W3C Advisory Committee, and was involved with several W3C activities.

Alan received BSEE and MSEE degrees from MIT and an MBA from Clark University. His technical interests are in web security and integrity.

Stephane Boyera studied network and telecommunications at ESSTIN, an engineering school in Sophia-Antipolis, France. Since 1991 he used to work on Artificial Intelligence at INRIA.

He joined the W3C in September 1995 as system administrator for the European part of the W3C. There, he has been involved in the distribution and management of www.w3.org mirrors over Europe, and particularly he managed the Web Mirroring Activity

Since Feb. 2001, Stephane is member of the Device Independent Activity and since february 2002, he is the staff contact for the Device Independence Working Group which is dealing with all mobile related technologies like CC/PP for instance

Since January 2003, Stephane is involved in the W3C European Site management, managing hardware and telecommunication budgets

In February 2004, Stephane became the co-activity lead of Device Independence Activity

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.

Matthieu joined the W3C Systems Team 1 August 2004 as a Webmater at MIT host site in Cambridge, MA. He replaced Vivien Lacourba.

He will graduate in October 2004 from the Ecole Supérieure en Sciences Informatiques (ESSI) in Sophia-Antipolis, France with an engineering degree in Computer Science, specialized in Networks.

In September 2000, he received a two year degree in Computer Programming (DUT Informatique) at the University of Villetaneuse (Paris XIII), France.

In June 1999, he received a two year degree in Computer Networks and Telecommunications (DUT Génie des Télécommunications et Réseaux) at the University of Villetaneuse (Paris XIII), France.

Ted joined the W3C in January of 2000 to be a part of the Systems Team at MIT. 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, attended Middlebury's Russian School and Chubb Computer Services. He also spent some time as an English as a Second Language and Mathematics instructor. He is working on W3C's Mirroring activity, W3C's infrastructure applications and services, XSLT, and various other sundry hacks.

Dominique is employed by ERCIM. He joined W3C's Communication and Systems Team as a member of the Webmaster Team in October 2000; after having joined then lead the QA Activity until September 2005, Dom took part to the Mobile Web Initiative as Staff Contact for the Best Practices Working Group.

Dominique holds an engineering degree from the "Grande Ecole" Ecole Centrale Paris.

Simon joined the W3C Systems Team 1 September 2000 as a System Administrator.

Prior to joining the Consortium Simon worked at Sybase, Inc., where he assisted in the management of a large global internetwork of production business, engineering, and tech support servers and workstations, and rollout of such services as My.Sybase.Com.

In a previous incarnation, Simon lived in Japan and studied Comparative Culture and Japanese at Sophia University in Tokyo. He also attended the School of Library and Information Studies (now the School of Information Management & Systems) at the University of California at Berkeley.

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 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.

Daigo joined W3C in April 2002 as a part-time system administrator at Keio, and he is full-time since July 2003. He is a Project Research Assistant of Graduate School of Media and Governance at Keio University. He had received Bachelor's and Master's degree from Keio University, his research interests were Augmented Reality and location-based computing with Web. At W3C he is working on various system administration and development especially W3C mailing list archive.

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. He has also worked as a Web consultant for various companies in the Edmonton area, and as a technical writer for IBM Canada in Toronto.

In his free time Gerald enjoys travel, photography, and writing software.

Gerald has a Bachelor of Science with specialization in Computing Science from the University of Alberta.

olivier coordinates the Open Source development of QA Tools and works on Education and Outreach. He also builds and maintains internal tools and services for the W3C Systems team.

Olivier joined W3C at Keio University in October 2000.

Daniel Weitzner is Director of the World Wide Web Consortium's Technology and Society activities. As such, he is responsible for development of technology standards that enable the web to address social, legal, and public policy concerns such as privacy, free speech, protection of minors, authentication, intellectual property and identification. He is also the W3C's chief liaison to public policy communities around the world and a member of the ICANN Protocol Supporting Organization Protocol Council.

Weitzner holds an appointment as Principal Research Scientist at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, co-directs MIT's Decentralized Information Group with Tim Berners-Lee, and teaches Internet public policy at MIT.

As one of the leading figures in Internet public policy community, he was the first to advocate the use of user control technologies such as content filtering and rating as a means to protect children and avoid government censorship of Intenet content. He successfully advocated for adoption of amendments to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act creating new privacy protections for online transactional information such as Web site access logs.

Before joining the W3C, Mr. Weitzner was co-founder and Deputy Director of the Center for Democracy and Technology, an Internet civil liberties organization in Washington, DC. He was also Deputy Policy Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Mr. Weitzner has a degree in law from Buffalo Law School, and a B.A. in Philosophy from Swarthmore College. His publications on communications policy have appeared in the Yale Law Review, Global Networks, MIT Press, Computerworld, Wired Magazine, Social Research, Electronic Networking: Research, Applications & Policy, and The Whole Earth Review. He is also a commentator for NPR's Marketplace Radio.

Dan Connolly serves on the Technical Architecture Group and the Web Ontology Working Group. He manages to find a little time for Semantic Web Development.

He began contributing to the World Wide Web project, and in particular, the HTML specification, while developing hypertext production and delivery software in 1992.

He presented a draft of HTML 2.0 at the first Web Conference in 1994 in Geneva, and served as editor until it became a Proposed Standard RFC in November 1995.

He was the chair of the W3C Working Group that produced HTML 3.2 and HTML 4.0, and collaborated with Jon Bosak to form the W3C XML Working Group and produce the W3C XML 1.0 Recommendation.

Dan received a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990. His research interest is investigating the value of formal descriptions of chaotic systems like the Web, especially in the consensus-building process.

Yoshio Fukushige is a W3C fellow at Keio University from Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Panasonic). He became a fellow in the Technology and Society domain, in January, 2004.

His research area is natural language processing (NLP), and he is an ex-member of the EDR project, a national project of Japan to build large-scale dictionaries for NLP, such as machine translation. He has been interested in probabilistic reasoning and its application to document processing these couple of years.

He holds a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Tokyo.

Before joining W3C in December 2000, Sandro worked on free-form interoperability issues at The Information Roads Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. He remains as Executive Director on a volunteer basis. He has a BS in Interdisciplinary Science/Computer Science from Rensselaer.

Sandro holds a Research Scientist appointment at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science.

Eric Miller is the Activity Lead for the W3C World Wide Web Consortium's Semantic Web.

Eric's responsibilities include the architectural and technical leadership in the design and evolution of Semantic Web infrastructure. Responsibililities additionally include working with W3C Working Group members so that both working groups in the Semantic Web activity, as well as other W3C activities, produce Web standards that support Semantic Web requirements. Additionally, to build support among user and vendor communities for the Semantic Web by illustrating the benefits to those communities and means of participating in the creation of a metadata-ready Web. And finally to establish liaisons with other technical standards bodies involved in Web-related technology to ensure compliance with existing Semantic Web standards and collect requirements for future W3C work.

Before joining the W3C, Eric was a Senior Research Scientist at OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the co-founder and Associate Director of the The Dublin Core Metdata Initiative, an open forum engaged in the development of interoperable online metadata standards that support a broad range of purposes and business models.

Eric holds a Research Scientist appointment at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science.

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.

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 outeach; 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.

Shadi Abou-Zahra joined the W3C in August 2003 as a Web Accessibility Specialist for Europe with the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). His responsibilities include editing and developing resources for the WAI Education and Outreach Working Group; serving as a representative for W3C/WAI in Europe to help coordinate with disability organizations, standards bodies, policy makers, accessibility research organizations, and other stakeholders; and chairing the WAI Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group which develops techniques to evaluate and repair Web content for accessibility.

Prior to joining W3C, Shadi worked as a Web developer, managed the design and implementation of several Web productions. From 2001 to 2003, Shadi was a Web Consultant for the International Data Centre of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization at the United Nations in Vienna, Austria. From 1998 to 2003, he was a Systems and Web Developer for Edelweiss Medienwerkstadt, a multimedia and online games development company. During his Computer Science studies, Shadi participated in the Austrian national student council at the Technical University of Vienna as a representative for students with disabilities and advocated for equal opportunities in education.

Daniel Dardailler joined the W3C team in July 1996 and is now Associate Chair for Europe. He is also involved in the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) and the QA activity of W3C.

Prior to that, he was acting as a Software Architect for the X Window System Consortium, responsible for the Motif toolkit and others CDE (Unix Desktop) components.

Daniel holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Nice/Sophia-Antipolis (89).

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 Team contact for 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.