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Jean-François is Chairman of the W3C
and Associate Director of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, replacing
Albert Vezza, who retired from MIT in September 1996.
Formerly Director of Development at INRIA (1992 - 1996), he was responsible for establishing the European branch of W3C in partnership with MIT LCS in 1995. He was the General Chairman of the Fifth International World Wide Web Conference which was held in Paris in May 1996.
Between 1988 and 1992, Jean-François was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of a start-up company in the area of X Window terminals.
His areas of expertise include image processing, graphics and networking.
Jean-François received his Master's degree from Ecole des Mines in Nancy and his PhD from the University of Paris VI. He holds two patents and authored more than 40 papers in journals and conferences.
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Tim invented
the World Wide Web in late 1990 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, defini ng
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.
Tim is now the overall Director of the W3C. He is a Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science.
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Alan
joined W3C in May 1997 as Associate Chairman overseeing membership affairs.
He is responsible for recruiting new Members and representing the interests
of existing Members.
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, and became
Digital's representative to the W3C Advisory Committee, and was involved
with several W3C activities.
After leaving Digital, Alan spent a half-year at GCTech, Inc., a Web-commerce
software company. There he was VP Product Marketing, and represented GCTech
at several banking industry associations.
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Vincent
is Deputy Director to Tim for European operations. He is a Research Director
at INRIA and coordinator of the User Interface areas.
Prior to joining the W3C team in February 1996, he was leading project Opera, which is interested in various aspects of electronic documents, such as document models and structure, structured editors, hypertext, and digital typography. During the last ten years, he has been deeply involved in the design and development of various systems, including Grif, Thot and Tamaya. His research interests include document models, document production systems, active documents, document engineering, hypertext and collaborative work.
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Nobuo
is currently establishing the W3C team at Keio University, which in September
1996, joined MIT LCS and INRIA in hosting the Consortium.
As Dean and Professor at the Faculty of Environmental Information at 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.
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Bert 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 internationalization
and stylesheets. Here is another picture.
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Ramzi
graduated from the University of Nantes with a degree in Computer Science,
and obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Savoie. He was working on
Object-Oriented Languages, Parallelism and concurrency; and is also interested
in compilers.
He joined INRIA in October 1995 and the Amaya team at W3C in October 1996.
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Arnaud joined W3C in January
1997 to work in the User Interface Domain on the development of HTML.
He comes from the X Consortium where he worked on the CDE project and the
X Window System (Broadway/X11R6.3). Prior to XC Arnaud worked for Groupe
Bull as a reasearch engineer specializing in X. Among other things, he has
led the design of XPM, a color icon format, which has become an X/Open standard.
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Håkon
is working for W3C at INRIA/Sophia-Antipolis in sourthern France. As the
first W3C employee at INRIA, he handled the coordination of the growing
development team in addition to working on style sheets
and Arena.
He came to W3C in July 1995 from CERN where he was a research associate in
the WWW project. He is a graduate of the MIT
Media Lab where he worked in the Electronic Publishing group.
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Chris, previously at the Computer Graphics
Unit in the UK, joined the Consortium in April 1996. He leads two areas,
Graphics and Fonts, in
addition to being involved with Stylesheets. Chris is based at
INRIA/Sophia-Antipolis, France. He holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees
in things that aren't much to do with the Web.
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Dave
joined W3C in May 1995 on secondment from
HP Labs.He is editor of the HTML
3.0 specification, and developed the Arena browser
as a proof of concept demonstrator for ideas in HTML 3.0. He is the co-chair
of the IETF working group for HTTP, which he set up in December 1994. Earlier
that year he helped initiate work on extending the Web to support distributed
virtual reality. He is also working on exportable/patent free schemes for
authentication and micropayments, and HTML style sheets with the ability
to download fonts over the Web. He was educated in England and obtained his
doctorate at the University of Oxford.
Dave is the author of the HTML 3.2 Specification.
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Irène
is a research engineer based at INRIA in Grenoble, France. She is involved
in the development of Amaya, specifically in the user interface. Before joining
the W3C team in February 1996, Irène was at project Opera, where she
had been working extensively on structured documents and authoring tools.
She is the co-author of the Thot library and initialized the development
of a prototype Web client, Tamaya, from which the new Amaya tool is derived.
Irène holds a Ph.D. from the University of Grenoble.
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Daniel
obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Grenoble. His dissertation was
about the design and the implementation of a portable and efficient multicast
protocol for Ethernet LANs.
He joined project Opera at INRIA to implement style sheets in the Tamaya prototype. In February 1996, he joined the W3C team in Grenoble to be in charge of the implementation of Cascading Style Sheets in Amaya.
Daniel is also interested in Operating Systems design and is a specialist
of Linux. He has ported the Thot library to Linux and maintains the Linux
version of Amaya.
Jim
joined the W3C in June 1995 having designed and implemented numerous innovative
and useful real-world systems over more than twenty years. His work
involves people interacting with computers to perform tasks better than either
can do alone. He creates systems which allow each partner in the task to
understand the other's abilities and limitations, enabling each to make informed
decisions about the division of labor. His work deals with creating simple
models of what the computer does and conveying them to the human partners.
Jim is one of the principal designers of the PICS (Platform for Internet Content Selection) specifications in addition to overseeing development in Payments, Demographics and Privacy, Intellectual Property Rights, and Security.
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Eui-Suk joined W3C in August 1996 on secondment from Ericsson Telecom. Before joining W3C, he was working on query processing for object-oriented database systems at the Programming Methodology Group at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. He was a visiting scientist on a grant from Sweden.
Eui-Suk is interested in distributed systems, object-oriented database systems, and programming languages. He is interested in most aspects of the Web, and will be initially focusing on electronic commerce, real-time audio/video, distributed computing and mobile code.
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Daniel
joined the W3C-Sophia team in July 96 to work in the field of Technology
and Society, for Europe (ecommerce, security, etc).
Prior to that, he was acting as a Software Architect at the X Consortium, responsible for the Motif toolkit and others CDE components.
Daniel holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Nice/Sophia-Antipolis.
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Philip DesAutels, located at MIT, is a project manager responsible for our work on digital signatures and intellectual property rights. Philip holds an M.S. degree in industrial and management engineering from Rensselear Polytechnic Institute. He comes to W3C after working for IBM and John Hancock Insurance where he has been a project manager and management advisor. He also spent a year with the Peace Corps in Uzbekistan, where he helped to establish an electronic mail infrastructure, taught business computing courses at Namangan Polytechnic Institute and worked to develop other local industries.
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Joseph joined the Consortium
in October of 1996 to focus on policy issues related to digital signatures,
intellectual property, and privacy. He received a
Computer Science degree from
UMBC and continued on to the
Technology and Policy program at
MIT for his Masters. While at MIT he worked
the Research Program on Communication
Policy and during the summer of 95, he worked at
Open Market on electronic commerce
protocols. After graduating from MIT, he did Internet and interactive media
consulting with McCann-Erickson, and Internet gambling consulting for
go-Digital.
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Ralph joined W3C in January 1997, to focus on the Privacy and Demographics project. He comes 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 informaiton 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.
Dan
discovered the web project in 1991 soon after graduating from
U.T. Austin while he was at
Convex. His industry experience in online
documentation tools, distributed computing, and information delivery kept
him in touch with the project while he was at
Dazel and
HaLSoft.
In March 1995, Dan joined the W3C, utilizing his background in formal systems
to work on the specification of HTML and other parts
of the web. He was the editor of Issue 2 of the World Wide Web Journal (W3J),
and is currently editor of Web Programmer magazine.
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Anselm
joined INRIA in October 1995 to design and implement
Jigsaw, the W3C server software. His interests include
communication protocols, distributed objects and scripting languages. Anselm
received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Universite de Jussieu, Paris
VI.
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Jim
Gettys joined W3C in July 1995 on secondment from
Digital Equipment Corporation's Industry
Standards and Consortia Group. Jim is one of the authors of
AF,
a network transparent audio server system, and one of the principle authors
of the X Window System.
Jim's interests and experience span systems design and implementation, collaborative systems, teleconferencing and most areas of Web technology. He is interested in making the Web more usable in high latency and low bandwidth situations (home and mobile use).
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Philipp works on the integration
of real-time data transmission (audio, video) into the Web. He organized
a Birds of
a Feather session on this subject at the WWW4 conference in December
1995.
Before joining the W3C in January 1996, Philipp was a member of the high speed networking research groupat INRIA (directed by Christian Huitema , member and former president of the Internet Activities Board (IAB)). This group is one of the leading research groups world-wide in the area of transmission of real-time data over the Internet. Philipp received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science for his work on automatic code optimization of marshalling code. He also holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.
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Yves
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.
Yves is now working on Jigsaw, W3C's Java-based server.
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Ora Lassila is a visiting scientist on secondment from Nokia Research Center. Before joining Nokia, he was a project manager at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University.
Ora is interested in object oriented programming, mobile code, and wireless communications as well as related applications. His previous research focused on OOP languages and knowledge representation, logistics and production scheduling, and mixed-initiative decision support. Ora holds an M.Sc (Eng.) in Software Technology and Telecommunications from the Helsinki University of Technology. He is the author of more than 30 conference papers, journal articles and technical reports.
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Henrik
completed his Master of Electrical Engineering in Telecommunications from
Aalborg University, Denmark. He worked at the World Wide Web project at CERN
before joining the W3C in March 1995 to work on formalized Web API's and
advanced Web protocols.
His primary research project has been the design and implementation of the W3C Reference Library [also known as "libwww"], as well as the development of HTTP.
Janet joined the W3C-Sophia team in January 1997, working part-time with Luc Ottavj and Stephane Boyera on system administration. Prior to that, she worked as software engineer at INRIA in Gilles Kahn's project on software tools. Janet holds a Ph.D in computer science from Brown University.
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Stephane studied network and telecommunications at ESSTIN, an engineering school in Sophia, Antipolis, France. Since 1991 he 's been working on artifical intelligence at INRIA on the Secoia Acacia teams.
He joined the W3C in September 1995 as system administrator for the team in Sophia. There he is involved in the distribution and management of www.w3.org mirrors over Europe.
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A visiting engineer from Aerospatiale, Pierre joined W3C's Promotion & Dissemination group in May 1997 as a member of the Webmaster team.
Pierre worked in Aerospatiale's Image Processing Department in France. He holds an engineering degree from the "grande ecole" Supelec and a Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Daichi joined the Consortium in March 1997 as part-time system administrator for the team in Keio. He has been studying in the Doctor's Program at the Graduate School of Media and Governance at Keio University SFC. His areas of interests are Realtime Microkernel (RT-Mach), Highspeed Networking (ATM) and Resource Reservation Mechanism.
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Arnaud is an intern in the Promotion & Dissemination group and will be working during the summer with the Webmaster team. Arnaud is studying mathematics and computer science at the University of Paris Dauphine.
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Tom has been at MIT LCS since 1986, and was manager of Project Scout. Prior to that, he taught physics and computer science as an Associate Professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Petroleum and Minerals in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
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José joined the INRIA Rhone-Alpes branch of the team in January 1996. Prior to joining the W3C, he was involved in the development of an authorization model for distributed hypermedia systems.
At W3C, José participates in the development of Amaya and administers
a mirror of the www.w3.org server.
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In
April 1996, Sally joined W3C as "Keeper of the Public Image", bringing with
her over seven years of consulting experience in multidisciplinary design
and project administration. Some of her clients include Ziff Davis Interactive,
Yahoo!Computing, Lycos, Houghton Mifflin Company, SkyMedia, Central Artery/Tunnel
Project, Automobiles Citroen, PowerEgypt, and Coopers & Lybrand.
Sally leads the Promotion and Dissemination team, and is currently working on the redesign of the W3C website as well as providing direction on all W3C public relations, communication, and publishing efforts.
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Stephan joined the W3C's Promotion and Dissemination team as Webmaster in September 1996, and is responsible for the technical administration and maintenance of the W3C website. Prior to joining the Consortium, Stephan launched the Internet division at SGIP (Societe de Gestion et d'Informatique de Publicis) and was responsible for network installation and administration, training, consulting and marketing.
Stephan holds an engineering degree from the "Grande Ecole" Ecole Centrale de Paris, and a post-graduate degree of higher education in computer science and automation from Institut Superieur d'Informatique et d'Automatique, Ecole des Mines de Paris (ISIA) in Sophia Antipolis.
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Luc joined W3C in November 1996 to lead the Consortium's global
System Administration activities. Luc is the head of SEMIR, the Computer
System Support team at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis.
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Yamachan joined W3C in April 1997 as System Administrator at Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus.
Yamachan has just finished his Master's degree at the Graduate School of Media and Governance at Keio-SFC. His major interests are network application protocols and Internet information distribution systems, and is also interested in the educational applications of the Internet.
Pamela joined W3C in September 1996 as Senior Office Assistant at MIT to assist Susan Hardy with W3C office administration.
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Beth is assistant to Jean-François Abramatic, and maintains the list of W3C Members. W3C Member organizations should keep Beth informed of any changes to their representative and contact address.
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Susan joined the W3C in September 1995 as the group's Administrative Assistant 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.
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Yukari joined the Consortium in September 1996 to be in charge of the administration of W3C Members in Asia. She is responsible for administration at the Office of Research Development and Administration at Keio Research Institute at SFC [Shonan Fujisawa Campus].
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Marie-Line is assistant to the Sophia-Antipolis W3C team helping with office administration work. She shares her time between W3C and INRIA Scientific Director Gilles Kahn.
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Josiane is W3C Executive Assistant based in Europe, at INRIA. She assists Jean-François Abramatic, Chairman of W3C, and is in charge of the administration of European Members.
Josiane joined INRIA in 1992 to assist Jean-François when he became Director of Development. Prior to that, she was his assistant when he was Chairman and CEO of a private company. Before working for Jean-François, Josiane had been executive assistant to several top executives of the private industry in areas such as aeronautics, semi-conductors, optical components and lasers.
Josiane holds a degree in English from the University of Aix-en-Provence
and has also studied business administration.
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