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W3C Speakers

Speakers, Moderators and panelists at W3C10 Asia

About the Speakers

Tim Berners-LeeTim Berners-Lee has served as Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) since its inception. A graduate of Oxford University, England, Tim is a Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL). With a background of system design in real-time communications and text processing software development, in 1989 he invented the World Wide Web, an Internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing. While working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory, he wrote the first Web client (browser-editor), first Web server, and first version of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) in 1990.

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

Noritoshi DemizuNoritoshi Demizu was deeply involved in establishing the W3C Asia Host.

Martin J. DürstMartin J. Dürst is Associate Professor at the Department of Integrated Information Technology at Aoyama Gakuin University, doing research on Web architecture, Web technology, and software internationalization. He chairs the W3C Internationalization Interest Group and co-chairs the IETF LTRU Working Group. From 1998 to 2005, based at Keio University (Japan), Martin led the W3C Internationalization Activity. From 2002 to 2004, he was a Visiting Scientist at LCS/CSAIL at MIT (USA). Martin has contributed to a large number of Web and Internet standards, starting with HTML Internationalization. Martin earned a masters degree from the University of Zürich and a Dr. sc. from the University of Tokyo.

Ivan HermanIvan Herman graduated as a mathematician from 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.

Masayasu IshikawaMasayasu Ishikawa joined the W3C at Keio-SFC in June 1997. Masayasu is a Team Contact for the Compound Document Formats Working Group.

Keith JefferyKeith Jeffery, ERCIM President, is currently Director, IT of CCLRC (Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils), based at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK. Keith holds a BSc in Geology, a Ph.D. in Geology and is a Fellow of both the Geological Society of London and the British Computer Society. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Irish Computer Society and a trustee emeritus (past secretary and vice-president) of the Endowment Board of the VLDB (Very Large Database) Conference, and is a member of the boards controlling the EDBT (Extending Database Technology) conference, CAiSE (Conference on Advanced Systems Engineering) and OOIS (Object-Oriented Information Systems) conference.

Kazuhito KidachiKazuhito Kidachi is a corporate officer and a front-end engineer at Mitsue-Links, a Tokyo-based information integration company. He creates standards-friendly Web sites for Mitsue-Links' clients, and he's also enthusiastic about being a Web standards advocate. He is a member of the Web Standards Project (WaSP) and is doing some translation work as a liaison in Japan. He has acted as a supervising editor for the Japanese editions of several foreign books on Web standards.

Jiro KokuryoJiro Kokuryo, is a Professor at Keio University's Faculty of Public Management as well as its Graduate School of Media and Governance. He also serves as the Executive Director of Keio Research Institute at SFC (Shonan Fujisawa Campus). His research and teaching interests center on the development of business and social models that maximize the benefits of information technologies. He is particularly active in studying effective uses of open systems. He received many awards for his academic work including awards from the Japan Society for Management Information (annual best paper award) and the Telecommunications Advancement Foundation (Telecommunications Social Science Award).

Shinichi MatsuiShinichi Matsui is a councilor at Corporate R&D Strategy Office, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Panasonic). He has been a participant in the W3C HTML Working Group since 1998, and is a co-editor of XHTML Basic (1.0). Shinichi's ongoing interests are in applying Web technologies to digital appliances and working on those kinds of products, including mobile phones, digital TV sets and even microwave ovens. Shinichi joined the Team as a visiting engineer and W3C Fellow at Keio University in 1998-1999.

Jun MuraiJun Murai is a Professor, Faculty of Environmental Information, Keio University, since April 1997, and a Vice-President of Keio University since May 2005. He was an Executive Director of Keio Research Institute at SFC, Keio University, from 1999 to 2005. He was appointed an advisory member of IT Strategy Headquarters in August 2000, to the Information Security Policy Council in May 2005, and a member of the Science Council of Japan in October 2005. He received the 2005 Jonathan B. Postel Service Award from the Internet Society on 16 August 2005.

Makoto MurataMakoto Murata was a member of the original W3C XML Working Group, which designed XML 1.0. He contributed to RELAX NG (an XML schema language), XML Japanese profile, and IETF RFC 3023 (XML media types). He received the best paper award from the Japanese Internet Conference in 1998 and the Industrial Achievement Award from the Information Processing Society of Japan.

Masafumi NakaneMasafumi Nakane was a member of the W3C Team from 1997 to April 2001. Prior to joining W3C, he was already participating in some of the activities of the Web Accessibility Initiative as a researcher in the area of information accessibility. He continues to take part in WAI activities and devotes time and effort to raising awareness about Web accessibility and WAI activities in Japan.

Takeshi NatsunoTakeshi Natsuno, Senior Vice President of NTT DoCoMo, is responsible for developing the business strategy of all DoCoMo multimedia related services including i-mode strategic alliances with global application/content providers and key Internet players. Mr. Natsuno, one of the key developers of the i-mode business model, managed the Japan launch of i-mode in 1999. The service has achieved tremendous success, attracting more than 45 million subscribers to date while pioneering the world's non-voice communications market. Widely regarded as a leading expert on the Internet and multimedia, he was named one of the world's 25 most influential e-business leaders by Business Week in 2001.

Kishik ParkKishik Park is the manager of the W3C Korea Office. He is currently Vice President of ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) for IT Services Research Division and the Chairman of SG3 of ITU-T after serving an 8 year Vice-Chairmanship of ITU-T TSAG (Telecommunications Standardization Advisory Group) together with its WP3 Chairmanship since 1996. He is a member of the advisory board of APT Standardization Program (ASTAP) regionally, and chairman of strategic planning of committee of TTA (Telecommunications Technology Association of Korea) domestically.

Nobuo SaitoNobuo Saito directs the W3C team at Keio University, where he established the third Consortium host in September 1996. He also serves as 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.

Toshihiro TakadaToshihiro Takada is a Senior Researcher at NTT Communication Science Labs., Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. He was deeply involved in establishing the W3C Asia Host.

Satoru TakagiSatoru Takagi is a researcher and developer at the YRP Ubiquitous Networking Laboratory where his research interests include Web Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) and Web Mapping Systems. In 1996, he invented a distributed GIS which can overlay a map of graphic layers on the Web. The system's technology was incorporated into the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 specification and opened to the public. He is now developing and trying to standardize a new Web GIS and Web Mapping System using Semantic Web architecture, to enhance a human- and machine-understandable geospatial information system. His standardization activities include participation in the W3C Geospatial Incubator Group as an Invited Expert, PlaceXML standardization for Japan Industrial Standard and ISO TC211.

Eva TamEva Tam received her Master's degree in International Business Management at the City University of Hong Kong in 1998. She has been working in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of HKUST since 1994. In April 2004, Eva took additional responsibility as Administrator for the W3C Office in Hong Kong. She handles all Membership related matters and coordinates the office's activities.

Toshihiko YamakamiToshihiko Yamakami is Senior Specialist, Product Strategy Management, ACCESS, engaged in Application Layer Standardization for 20 years. Prior to joining ACCESS in 1999, he worked for NTT Laboratories in research and standardization. He was ISO SC18/WG4 Japanese National Body Chair, Information Processing Society Groupware SIG vice-chair, W3C XHTML Basic Co-editor, and WAP Forum WML 2.0 Editor. He was a Guest Professor at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology.

Du Zongxia is a teacher at Beihang University where she received her Doctor's degree in Computer Science and Technology in 2005. She specializes in network midware and Web services. She has more than 10 academic papers published in various core journals as well as conferences of worldwide influence. She is in charge of operations at the W3C China Office.