Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants (2004)

January 2004

22 January

Klaus Birkenbihl gives a talk on behalf of the German and Austrian Office entitled "Die Zukunft des Web in 6 Punkten (The Future ofthe Web in 6 Points)" at the "Ausschusstreffen "Innovation und Umwelt" der IHK Köln (Workshop of the IHK Köln on Innovation and Environment)" on Thursday, 22 January 2004, in Sankt Augustin, Germany.

22 January

David Booth gives a talk entitled " W3C Web Services Architecture: An Overview and Update" and participates at a panel entitled "Web Services and XML Standards: Can we benefit while avoiding pitfalls?" at the " OOP 2004" , on Thursday, 22 January 2004, in Munich, Germany.

February 2004

11 February

Ossi Nykänen gives an invited talk entitled "Verkkosisällön tekninen saavutettavuus soveltajan silmin (Developer's point of view: Web Content Accessibility)" at the "Finnish DfA forum" on Wednesday, 11 February 2004, in Helsinki, Finland.

18 February

Daniel J. Weitzner participates at a panel entitled "Machine Enforceable Policies" at the "4th Annual Privacy & Security Summit & Expo" on Wednesday, 18 February 2004, in Washington, DC, USA.

23, 24, 25, 26 February

Marie-Claire Forgue runs a booth and Philipp Hoschka gives a talk entitled "W3C: Building the Mobile Web" on Monday, 23 February 2004 at the "3GSM World Congress 2004" , Cannes, France.

24 February

Ossi Nykänen gives a talk entitled "XML - mahdollisuudet ja kehitys (XML - the potential and development)" at the "3S Conference" on Tuesday, 24 February 2004, in Espoo, Finland.

24 February

Ossi Nykänen gives a talk entitled "XML, standardointi ja kehitys (XML, standardisation and development)" at the "XML käytännössä (XML in Practice)" on Tuesday, 24 February 2004, in Helsinki, Finland.

26 February

Ivan Herman gives a talk on behalf of the Hungarian Office entitled "Áttekintés a Szemantikus Webről (Overview of the Semantic Web)" at the "Ontológiák és metaadatok műhelykonferencia (Workshop on ontologies and metadata)" on Thursday, 26 February 2004, in Budapest, Hungary.

26 February

Daniel J. Weitzner gives a talk entitled "Layers of Responsibility: Perspectives on Internet Governance" at the " Workshop on Internet Governance" on Thursday, 26 February 2004, in Geneva, Switzerland.

March 2004

9 March

Tatsuya Hagino gives a talk entitled "Standardization Activities in the World Wide Web Consortium" at the " International Symposium on Large-scale Knowledge Resources (LKR2004)" on Tuesday, 9 March 2004, in Tokyo, Japan.

11 March

Ossi Nykänen gives an invited talk entitled "Semanttinen Web ja Web-teknologiat (Semantic Web and Web Technologies)" at the "XML in software engineering meeting" on Thursday, 11 March 2004, in Tampere, Finland.

13 March

Wendy Chisholm , John Slatin, and Jeff Veen participate at a panel entitled "Accessibility is for Everybody" at the "SXSW (South by Southwest) Interactive Festival" on Saturday, 13 March 2004, in Austin, TX, USA.

16 March

Oreste Signore gives a talk entitled "Accessibilità e usabilità (Accessibility and usability)" at the "Seminari di presentazione del manuale per la qualità dei siti web culturali pubblici (Presenting the manual on the quality of public cultural sites)" on Tuesday, 16 March 2004, in Roma, Italy.

17, 18, 19, 20 March

• Judy Brewer gives a talk entitled " Why Standards Harmonization Is Essential to Web Accessibility, and What You Can Do to Make It Happen" on Wednesday, 17 March 2004;
• Marja-Riitta Koivunen gives a talk entitled " Accessibility Of Web Collaboration Technologies" on Thursday, 18 March 2004;
• Matthew May gives a talk entitled " An Assessment Of Accessible Alternatives To Visual Verification For Web Site Security" on Friday, 19 March 2004;
• Wendy Chisholm gives a talk entitled " WCAG 2.0: Technology-specific Techniques, Test Suite, and Transition Plan from WCAG 1.0" on Saturday, 20 March 2004;

at the "CSUN 19th Annual International Conference, Technology and Persons With Disabilities" , Northridge, CA, USA.

18 March

Hugo Haas gives a keynote entitled "Standardisation des Services Web : Où En Sommes-Nous ? (Standardaziation of Web Services: Where Are We?)" and Marie-Claire Forgue runs a booth at the "2èmes Rencontres Web Services (2nd Web Services Meeting)" , on Thursday, 18 March 2004, in Paris, France.

19 March

Oreste Signore gives an invited talk entitled "Dalle Literary Machines al Semantic Web (From Literary Machines to Semantic Web)" at the "Giornata di Studi ‘Confronti di metodo: saggi di interazione epistemologica’ (Workshop ‘confrontation of methods: testing epistemologic interaction’)" on Friday, 19 March 2004, in Varese, Italy.

24 March

Klaus Birkenbihl gives an invited talk on behalf of the German and Austrian Office entitled "Standards für die Zukunft des Web (Standards for the Future of the Web)" at the "LogOn Briefing im Rahmen der CeBIT 2004 (LogOn Briefing at CeBIT 2004)" on Wednesday, 24 March 2004, in Hannover, Germany.

24 March

Jesús García gives an invited talk entitled "WAI, Iniciativa de Accesibilidad Web (WAI, Web Accessibility Initiative)" at the "Tecnología y Discapacidad Visual (Technology and Visual Disabilities)" on Wednesday, 24 March 2004, in Madrid, Spain.

24, 25 March

Jim Larson gives a talk entitled "W3C Voice Browser Working Group\'s activities" on Wednesday, 24 March 2004 and Deborah Dahl gives a talk entitled " Multimodal Standards: Activities in the W3C Multimodal Interaction Working Group" on Thursday, 25 March 2004 at the "AVIOS SpeechTEK Spring" , San Francisco, CA, USA.

24 March

Charles McCathieNevile gives a talk entitled "A W3C Perspective" organized by the University of Melbourne, on Wednesday, 24 March 2004, in Melbourne, Australia.

25, 31 March

Ossi Nykänen gives an invited talk entitled "W3C and Web-teknologiat (W3C and Web technologies)" on Thursday, 25 March 2004 and gives a talk entitled "W3C ja Web-teknologiat (W3C and Web Technologies)" on Wednesday, 31 March 2004 at "The 10th anniversary of the Web service of the University of Tampere" , Tampere, Finland.

25 March

Oreste Signore gives an invited talk entitled "Interrogare collezioni di documenti XML: una interfaccia utente (Querying XML document collections: a user interface)" at the "XML per i Beni Culturali - Esperienze e prospettive per il trattamento di dati strutturati e semistrutturati (XML for cultural values - Experience and prospectives for the management of structural and semistructual data)" on Thursday, 25 March 2004, in Pisa, Italy.

25 March

Ossi Nykänen gives a talk entitled "W3C & verkkojulkaisun standardit (W3C and Standards of Web Publishing)" at the "Web Publishers' Meeting at Tampere" on Thursday, 25 March 2004, in Tampere, Finland.

29 March

Oreste Signore gives a talk entitled "Accessibilità e usabilità (Accessibility and usability)" at the "Seminari di presentazione del manuale per la qualità dei siti web culturali pubblici (Presenting the manual on the quality of public cultural sites)" on Monday, 29 March 2004, in Milano, Italy.

31 March; 1, 2 April

• Andrea Vine gives a talk entitled "Internationalized Software Testing" ; Michael McKenna gives a talk entitled "Introduction to Distributed Systems and Unicode" ; Richard Ishida gives a tutorial entitled " An Introduction to Writing Systems: A review of script characteristics affecting computer-based script support and Unicode" ; Steve Billings gives a talk entitled "Planning Your Internationalization Project" ; Tex Texin and Yves Savourel give a talk entitled " Web Internationalization: Standards and Practice" on Wednesday, 31 March 2004;
• Addison Phillips and Mark Davis give a talk entitled " Language Tags and Locale Identifiers" ; Mark Davis gives a talk entitled "The Common Locale Data Repository" and gives a talk entitled "ICU Overview: The Open-Source Unicode Library, v2.8" ; Martin Dürst gives a talk entitled "Comparison of Unicode Programming Models in Programming Languages" ; Michael McKenna gives a talk entitled "Handling Unicode in Legacy Applications" and gives a talk entitled "Federated Metasearch Strategies and Issues: Searching, Finding, and Archiving Data of the World from Disparate Public Systems" on Thursday, 1 April 2004;
• Addison Phillips gives a talk entitled "Web Services and Internationalization" ; Martin Dürst gives a talk entitled "Recent Progress on Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs)" ; Michael Rys gives a talk entitled " XQuery: Combining Structured and Full-Text Queries on XML Data" ; Michel Suignard gives a talk entitled "Microsoft WinFX: Composite Font and CJK Extension B Support" ; Richard Ishida gives a talk entitled " Associating Character Encoding and language Information with HTML, XHTML and CSS Files" ; Tex Texin and Bill Kirtz give a talk entitled "Using Jujitsu to Globalize Web Applications" on Friday, 2 April 2004;

at the "25th Internationalization and Unicode Conference" , Alexandria, VA, USA.

April 2004

1 April

Oreste Signore gives an invited talk entitled "W3C Technologies as a Key for Interoperability" at the "Workshop on: Web Enabling Technologies and Strategies for Scientific e-Learning" on Thursday, 1 April 2004, in Trieste, Italy.

1 April

Michael Sperberg-McQueen gives a talk entitled "XML and the WWW" at the "Austrian Academy Corpus (AAC) Scientific Advisory Board Meeting" on Thursday, 1 April 2004, in Vienna, Austria.

1 April

Brian Matthews gives a talk entitled "Deploying Trust Policies on the Semantic Web " at the "iTrust - 2nd International Trust Management Conference 2004" on Thursday, 1 April 2004, in Oxford, UK.

1 April

Massimo Marchiori gives a keynote entitled "W5: The Five W's of the World Wide Web" at the "2nd International Conference on Trust Management" on Thursday, 1 April 2004, in Oxford, UK.

2 April

Oreste Signore gives a talk entitled "Accessibilità e usabilità (Accessibility and usability)" at the "EVA 2004 Florence - Seminari di presentazione del manuale per la qualità dei siti web culturali pubblici (Presenting the manual on the quality of public cultural sites)" on Friday, 2 April 2004, in Firenze, Italy.

5 April

Oreste Signore gives an invited talk entitled "Accessibilità e usabilità (Accessibility and usability)" at the "Presenting the manual on the quality of public cultural sites" on Monday, 5 April 2004, in Torino, Italy.

6 April

László Kovács and Nóra Vásárhelyi give a talk entitled "Webhez kapcsolódó szabványosítás Magyarországon (Web Related Standardization in Hungary)" at the "Networkshop 2004" on Tuesday, 6 April 2004, in Győr, Hungary.

6 April

Oreste Signore gives an invited talk entitled "Nessun escluso (Nobody is excluded)" at the "Donna è Web - Premio webitalia 2004 (Women and the Web - Webitalia 2004 Prize)" on Tuesday, 6 April 2004, in Viareggio, Italy.

6 April

Steven Pemberton gives a talk entitled "XForms: What and Why" at the " Industry XForms Briefing" on Tuesday, 6 April 2004, in London, UK.

7 April

Ivan Herman gives a talk entitled "Introduction to the Semantic Web" at the "Visualisation Ontology Workshop" on Wednesday, 7 April 2004, in Edinburgh, UK.

11 April

Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "XML Schema - Perspectives" organized by the National Tax Administration, on Sunday, 11 April 2004, in Stockholm, Sweden.

17 April

Patrick Hung gives a talk on behalf of the Hong Kong Office entitled "Introduction to Web Services" at the "Sixth Asia Pacific Web Conference" on Saturday, 17 April 2004, in Huangzhou, China.

19 April

Klaus Birkenbihl gives an invited talk on behalf of the German and Austrian Office entitled "Standards für die Zukunft des Web (Standards for the Future of the Web)" organized by the Fachhochschule Rosenheim, on Monday, 19 April 2004, in Rosenheim, Germany.

19 April

Daniel J. Weitzner participates at a panel entitled "Technological Responses to Spyware" at the " FTC Spyware Workshop" on Monday, 19 April 2004, in Washington, DC, USA.

19 April

Liam Quin gives a keynote entitled "Lessons From an XML Query-Qriven SVG+XHTML Web Site" and Steven Pemberton gives a keynote entitled "On the Design of Notations" at the "XML Europe 2004" , on Monday, 19 April 2004, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

19 April

Ivan Herman gives a talk entitled "Introduction to the Semantic Web" at the "Boundaryless Information Flow: Managing the Flow, OpenGroup" on Monday, 19 April 2004, in Brussels, Belgium.

22 April

Daniel J. Weitzner participates at a panel entitled "Trusted Computing" at the "14th Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference (CFP 2004) " on Thursday, 22 April 2004, in Berkeley, CA, USA.

22 April

Richard Ishida participates at a panel entitled "Barriers to Localization" at the "UK UPA (Usability Professionals Association) Monthly Event" on Thursday, 22 April 2004, in London, UK.

24 April

Deborah Dahl gives a keynote entitled "Speech and the Web" at the "4th annual SITE Tech Conference" on Saturday, 24 April 2004, in Springfield, IL, USA.

25 April

Steven Pemberton gives a tutorial entitled "XForms: Improving the Web Forms Experience" at the "CHI2004" on Sunday, 25 April 2004, in Vienna, Austria.

May 2004

1 May

Ivan Herman gives a tutorial entitled "Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)" organized by the Professional Development Seminars Series of the Greater Boston Chapter of the ACM, on Saturday, 1 May 2004, in Cambridge, MA, USA.

1 May

Ossi Nykänen gives a talk entitled "World Wide Web Consortium: Enabling Technologies" at the "A DMI event for a visiting delegation from Italy" on Saturday, 1 May 2004, in Tampere, Finland.

6 May

Dominique Hazaël-Massieux participates at a panel entitled "Normes et standards ouverts de l'internet (Open norms and standards of the Internet)" organized by the Université de Printemps de la Fondation Internet Nouvelle Génération, on Thursday, 6 May 2004, in Aix-en-Provence, France.

7 May; 3 June

• Oreste Signore gives a regular talk entitled "Web Accessibility: la normativa italiana (Web accessibility: the Italian regulation)" and gives a talk entitled "Stima e misura della qualità di un sito web (Evaluating web sites quality)" on Friday, 7 May 2004;
• Oreste Signore gives a talk entitled "Stima e misura della qualità di un sito web (Evaluating web sites quality)", and gives a regular talk entitled "Web Accessibility: la normativa italiana (Web accessibility: the Italian regulation)" on Thursday, 3 June 2004;

at the "Webbit2004" , Padova, Italy.

7 May; 25 June

• Dean Jackson gives a talk entitled "SVG" ; Jane Hunter gives a talk entitled "The Semantic Web" ; Max Froumentin gives a talk entitled "Giving Voice to the Web" on Friday, 7 May 2004;
• Jane Hunter gives a talk entitled "The Semantic Web Services" ; Zoran Milosevic gives a talk entitled "New Generation of Web Forms: experience with XForms trials" on Friday, 25 June 2004;

at the "W3C Workshops" , Canberra, Australia.

10 May

Jesús García gives an invited talk entitled "Herramientas de validación y reparación de accesibilidad (Evaluation and Repair Tools for Web Accessibility)" at the "Bibliotecas Accesibles en la Web (Web Accessible Libraries)" on Monday, 10 May 2004, in Madrid, Spain.

12 May

Daniel J. Weitzner participates at a panel entitled " The changing Internet standards game" at the "INET 2004" on Wednesday, 12 May 2004, in Barcelona, Spain.

15 May

Massimo Marchiori gives a keynote entitled "Semantic Web and Web Architecture" at "The 7th International Conference on Current Research Information Systems (CRIS 2004)" on Saturday, 15 May 2004, in Antwerpen, Belgium.

18 May

Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "XML Schema & modellering - nu och i framtiden (XML Schema & modelling - today and tomorrow)" at the "XML Schema - praktik och erfarenhet (XML Schema - Best Practices and Experiences, W3C Swedish Office event)" on Tuesday, 18 May 2004, in Stockholm, Sweden.

19, 21 May

Oreste Signore gives a talk entitled "Stima e misura della qualità di un sito web (Evaluating web sites quality)" on Wednesday, 19 May 2004 and gives a talk entitled "Web Accessibility: principi, quadro internazionale e normativa italiana (Web Accessibility: principles, international context and Italian regulations)" on Friday, 21 May 2004 at the " CMG 2004 - XVII Convegno Annuale (17th Anual Convention)" , Pisa, Italy.

19, 20, 21 May

• Bert Bos gives a talk entitled "CSS for Behaviors and Hypertext" ; Dan Connolly gives a talk entitled "W3C TAG and the Architecture of the Web" ; Dean Jackson gives a talk entitled "Mixed Markup" ; Judy Brewer gives a talk entitled "WAI: Why Standards Harmonization is Essential to Web Accessibility" ; Karl Dubost gives a talk entitled "W3C Standards Into Action" ; Richard Ishida gives a talk entitled "Internationalization Update" ; Steve Bratt gives a talk entitled "Overview of the World Wide Web Consortium" ; Steven Pemberton gives a talk entitled "Web Forms – XForms 1.0" ; Wendy Chisholm gives a talk entitled "Update of WCAG 2.0" on Wednesday, 19 May 2004;
• David Booth gives a talk entitled "Update on Web Services Description Language 2.0 – WSDL 2.0" ; Eric Miller gives a talk entitled "Semantic Web Activity Update" ; Hugo Haas gives a talk entitled "XML Security" and gives a talk entitled "Architecture and Future of Web Services: from SOAP to Semantic Web Services" ; Liam Quin gives a talk entitled "Binary Interchange of XML" ; Lionel Villard gives a talk entitled "XSLT 2.0" ; Michael Rys gives a talk entitled "XML Query – XPath 2.0" ; Yves Lafon gives a talk entitled "Web Services Choreography" on Thursday, 20 May 2004;
• Dave Raggett gives a talk entitled "Overview of Web Mobile Standards" and gives a talk entitled "Multimodal Interaction" ; Dean Jackson gives a talk entitled "SVG 1.2 and Mobile" ; Max Froumentin gives a talk entitled "W3C\'s Speech Interface Framework and Voice XML 2.0" ; Stéphane Boyera gives a talk entitled "Device Independent Web" ; Tim Berners-Lee gives a talk entitled "What is coming up in W3C?" on Friday, 21 May 2004;

at the "W3C Track, The 13th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2004)" , New York, USA.

19 May

Tim Berners-Lee gives a keynote at "The 13th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2004)" on Wednesday, 19 May 2004, in New York, USA.

June 2004

3 June

Jane Hunter gives a talk on behalf of the Australian Office entitled "The Semantic Web Services" at the "W3C Workshops" on Thursday, 3 June 2004, in Darwin, Australia.

3 June

Charles McCathieNevile gives a talk entitled "W3C and the Semantic Web" organized by the European Coordination Committee on Human Rights Documentation, on Thursday, 3 June 2004, in Venice, Italy.

4 June

Daniel Dardailler gives a talk entitled " W3C/WAI/Education" at the " DeViNT'2004" on Friday, 4 June 2004, in Sophia Antipolis, France.

8 June

Ivan Herman gives a talk on behalf of the German and Austrian Office entitled "Tutorial on Basic Semantic Web Technologies" at the "W3C DE/AT Office Tutorials" on Tuesday, 8 June 2004, in Sankt Augustin, Germany.

8 June

Oreste Signore gives a talk entitled "Accessibilità e usabilità (Accessibility and Usability)" at the "Seminari di presentazione del manuale per la qualità dei siti web culturali pubblici (Presenting the manual on the quality of public cultural sites)" on Tuesday, 8 June 2004, in Napoli, Italy.

9 June

Oreste Signore gives an invited talk entitled "W3C e accessibilità (da WCAG 1.0 a WCAG 2.0) (W3C and accessibility (from WCAG 1.0 to WCAG 2.0))" at the "WWW e l' accessibilità all' informazione (The Web and the Accessibility to Information)" on Wednesday, 9 June 2004, in Pisa, Italy.

9 June

Ossi Nykänen gives a talk entitled "W3C, Suomi ja verkkosisällön saavutettavuusohjeistus (W3C, Finland, and Web Content Accessibility)" at the "DfA network meeting day" on Wednesday, 9 June 2004, in Tampere, Finland.

11 June

Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a talk entitled "Access to the Web" at the "IANIS Conference" on Friday, 11 June 2004, in Budapest, Hungary.

11, 12 June

Steve Bratt gives a talk entitled "Spinning Threads for the Next Generation of the Web" on Friday, 11 June 2004 and gives a talk entitled "Weaving a Web for the Next Generation of Science" on Saturday, 12 June 2004 at the "16th Annual IRIS Workshop" , Tucson, AZ, USA.

13 June

Charles McCathieNevile gives a talk entitled "Introducción al uso de la Web Semántica (Introduction to the use of the Semantic Web)" and José Kahan gives a tutorial entitled "Implementing Annotea in Amaya using Raptor and Redland" organized by the Semantic Web Advanced Development for Europe (SWAD-Europe), on Sunday, 13 June 2004, in Madrid, Spain.

16 June

Kangchan Lee gives an invited talk entitled "Web Services Standards Presence and Perspective" at the "International Web Services Conference and Exhibition 2004" on Wednesday, 16 June 2004, in Seoul, Korea.

16, 21 June

Zoran Milosevic gives a talk entitled "New Generation of Web Forms: experience with XForms trials" on Wednesday, 16 June 2004 and Jane Hunter gives a talk entitled "The Semantic Web Services" on Monday, 21 June 2004 at the "W3C Workshops" , Brisbane, Australia.

16 June

Tim Berners-Lee gives a talk entitled "The History and Future of the World Wide Web" at the "Millennium Technology Conference, Finnish Technology Award Foundation" on Wednesday, 16 June 2004, in Espoo, Finland.

17 June

Hoylen Sue gives a talk entitled "New Generation of Web Forms: experience with XForms trials" and Jane Hunter gives a talk entitled "The Semantic Web Services" at the "W3C Workshops" , on Thursday, 17 June 2004, in Adelaide, Australia.

18 June

Jane Hunter gives a talk entitled "The Semantic Web Services" and Zoran Milosevic gives a talk entitled "New Generation of Web Forms: experience with XForms trials" at the "W3C Workshops" , on Friday, 18 June 2004, in Melbourne, Australia.

22 June

Oreste Signore gives a talk entitled "Querying Structured XML Document Collections" at the "SEBD 2004 - Dodicesimo Convegno Nazionale su Sistemi Evoluti per Basi di Dati (12th National Convention on Evolutionary Systems for Databases)" on Tuesday, 22 June 2004, in S.Margherita di Pula, Italy.

22 June

Michael Wilson gives a talk entitled "Creating a Lingua Franca for the Web Out of SOAP" at the "Telco Web Services Conference" on Tuesday, 22 June 2004, in London, UK.

22 June

Max Froumentin gives a talk entitled "Zakim - A Multimodal Software System for Large-Scale Teleconferencing " at the " Joint AMI/PASCAL/IM2/M4 Workshop on Multimodal Interaction and Related Machine Learning Algorithms" on Tuesday, 22 June 2004, in Martigny, Switzerland.

23 June

Jesús García gives a talk entitled "Accesibilidad en e-administración (Web Accesibility for e-administration)" at the "I Foro Programa Ciudades Digitales (Digital Cities Programme Forum)" on Wednesday, 23 June 2004, in Logroño, Spain.

23 June

Jane Hunter gives a talk entitled "The Semantic Web Services" and Zoran Milosevic gives a talk entitled "New Generation of Web Forms: experience with XForms trials" at the "W3C Workshops" , on Wednesday, 23 June 2004, in Sydney, Australia.

24 June

Ivan Herman gives an invited talk on behalf of the Korean Office entitled "Current developments at W3C, and the Semantic Web" at the "KRTNET 2004 Conference" on Thursday, 24 June 2004, in Seoul, Korea.

24 June

Michael Wilson participates at a panel entitled "Developments in XML Schema Languages" at the "Developments in XML Schema Languages" on Thursday, 24 June 2004, in Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire, UK.

24 June

Henry Thompson gives a talk on behalf of the United Kingdom and Ireland Office entitled "W3C XML Schema: Key features, plans and prospects" at the "Developments in XML Schema Languages" on Thursday, 24 June 2004, in Didcot, Oxon, UK.

25 June

Hugo Haas gives a talk entitled "Développement et standardisation des technologies services web (Development and Standardization of the Web Service Technologies)" organized by the Bouygues Telecom, on Friday, 25 June 2004, in Vélizy, France.

27 June

Klaus Birkenbihl gives an invited talk on behalf of the German and Austrian Office entitled "Standards und Visionen: Das World Wide Web Consortium (Standards and Visions: the World Wide Web Consortium)" at the "Annual Swiss IT Leadership Forum" on Sunday, 27 June 2004, in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Switzerland.

29 June

Liam Quin gives a talk entitled "Typography and Graphic Design for Programmers" at the "GUADEC (GNOME Users And Developer European Conference) " on Tuesday, 29 June 2004, in Kristiansand, Norway.

30 June

Hoylen Sue gives a talk entitled "New Generation of Web Forms: experience with XForms trials" and Jane Hunter gives a talk entitled "The Semantic Web Services" at the "W3C Workshops" , on Wednesday, 30 June 2004, in Hobart, Australia.

30 June

Hoylen Sue gives a talk entitled "New Generation of Web Forms: experience with XForms trials" and Jane Hunter gives a talk entitled "The Semantic Web Services" at the "W3C Workshops" , on Wednesday, 30 June 2004, in Perth, Australia.

July 2004

6 July

Oreste Signore gives a talk entitled "Semantic Web: il contesto per le applicazioni sul patrimonio culturale?" at the "Rappresentazione della conoscenza nel semantic web culturale (Representation of Knowledge in the Cultural Semantic Web)" on Tuesday, 6 July 2004, in Rome, Italy.

6 July

Shadi Abou-Zahra , Andrew Arch , Sylvie Duchateau, and Shawn Henry give a tutorial entitled "Web Accessibility Best Practices Evaluation Training" organized by the WAI-TIES Project, on Tuesday, 6 July 2004, in Paris, France.

8 July

Michael Wilson gives an invited talk entitled "The Future of the Web?" at the "BNCOD 2004 - 21st Annual British National Conference on Databases" on Thursday, 8 July 2004, in Edinburgh, UK.

8 July

Tex Texin gives a tutorial entitled "Hitchhiker's Guide to Globalization" at the "IWIPS 2004" on Thursday, 8 July 2004, in Vancouver, Canada.

9 July

José Manuel Alonso gives an invited talk on behalf of the Spanish Office entitled "Estándares Web del W3C (W3C Web Standards)" at the "Partyzipa " on Friday, 9 July 2004, in Monzón, Huesca, Spain.

25 July

Max Froumentin gives a talk entitled "Extensible MultiModal Annotation markup language (EMMA)" at the "4th Workshop on NLP and XML (NLPXML-2004) " on Sunday, 25 July 2004, in Barcelona, Spain.

26 July

Stéphane Boyera gives a talk entitled "Device Independent Web" at the " Workshop on Device Independent Web Engineering (DIWE'04)" on Monday, 26 July 2004, in Munich, Germany.

30 July

Oreste Signore gives a talk entitled "A Systematic Approach Towards Museum Web Site Quality" and gives a talk entitled "Querying XML Document Collections" at the "EVA2004 London Conference" , on Friday, 30 July 2004, in London, UK.

August 2004

3 August

Eric Miller and Michael Sperberg-McQueen give a talk entitled "On mapping from colloquial XML to RDF using XSLT" at the "Extreme Markup Languages 2004" on Tuesday, 3 August 2004, in Montréal, Quebec, Canada.

5 August

Daniel J. Weitzner gives a talk entitled "The Transparency Paradox: Privacy design strategies for open information networks" at the " Location Privacy Workshop: Individual Autonomy as a Driver of Design" on Thursday, 5 August 2004, in Schoodic Peninsula, Acadia National Park, Maine, USA.

7 August

John Wilbanks gives a talk entitled "The Role of Semantic Technologies in the Emerging Grid" at the "PharmaGRID 2004 Retreat" on Saturday, 7 August 2004, in Diessenhofen, Switzerland.

11 August

Dean Jackson gives a talk entitled "Mobile Web" at the "SIGGRAPH 2004" on Wednesday, 11 August 2004, in Los Angeles, CA, USA.

14 August

Tatsuya Hagino gives a talk entitled "When does the Semantic Web take off?" at the " XML Consortium Seminar" on Saturday, 14 August 2004, in Shinagawa, Japan.

21 August

Charles McCathieNevile gives a talk entitled "La Web Semántica por herramientas (Semantic Web for Tools)" at the "La Web Semántica en América Latina (The Semantic Web in Latin-America)" on Saturday, 21 August 2004, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

27 August

Philipp Hoschka gives a talk entitled "Towards Multimodal Web Interaction" at the "IFIP World Computer Congress 2004 (WCC) " on Friday, 27 August 2004, in Toulouse, France.

31 August

Ivan Herman gives a talk entitled "Questions (and Answers) on the Semantic Web" and Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "Varför ontologier? En karta (Why ontologies? A map)" at the " Ontologier i arbete (Ontology at Work)" , on Tuesday, 31 August 2004, in Kista, Sweden.

September 2004

2 September

Ivan Herman gives a talk on behalf of the Finnish Office entitled "Towards the Semantic Web" at the "Symposium on Web Intelligence, STeP2004" on Thursday, 2 September 2004, in Helsinki, Finland.

7, 8, 9 September

• Richard Ishida gives a tutorial entitled "An Introduction to Writing Systems: A review of script characteristics affecting computer-based script support and Unicode" on Tuesday, 7 September 2004;
• Andrea Vine gives a talk entitled "Creating a Software Internationalization Requirements Taxonomy" ; Richard Ishida gives a tutorial entitled "Creating Bidi XHTML/HTML Pages" and gives a tutorial entitled "Associating Character Encoding and Language Information with HTML, XHTML and CSS Files" ; Tex Texin and Yves Savourel give a talk entitled " Web Internationalization: Standards and Practice" on Wednesday, 8 September 2004;
• Addison Phillips gives a talk entitled " What's in a Name? Handling Personal Names and Information in a Global Application" and gives a talk entitled "WS-I18N: Why Web Services are Not Internationalized" ; Martin Dürst gives a talk entitled "Fun with Regular Expressions: An Implementation of the Unicode Bidi Algorithm" and gives a talk entitled "Internationalized Resource Identifiers" ; Michael McKenna gives a talk entitled "Federated Metasearch Strategies and Issues: Searching, Finding, and Archiving Data of the World from Disparate Public Systems" ; Michel Suignard gives a talk entitled "IDN and Applications" and gives a talk entitled "Microsoft WinFX: Composite Font and Typography Extension" on Thursday, 9 September 2004;

at the "26th Internationalization and Unicode Conference" , San Jose, CA, USA.

8 September

Eric Miller gives a keynote at the "Second Annual Semantic Technologies for eGovernment Conference" on Wednesday, 8 September 2004, in McLean, VA, USA.

14, 15, 16 September

• Deborah Dahl gives a talk entitled "W3C Activities in Multimodal Standards" ; Jim Larson, Rob Marchand, and Dave Burke give a tutorial entitled "Introduction to VoiceXML 2.0" ; Matt Oshry and Jeff Kusnitz give a talk entitled "VoiceXML vs. SALT: What's the Same and What's Different" ; Tim Berners-Lee gives a keynote on Tuesday, 14 September 2004;
• Brandon Porter, Jim Larson, and Deborah Dahl participate at a panel entitled "Speech Standards: From Core Ideas to Key Details" ; Scott McGlashan gives a tutorial entitled "Advanced VoiceXML 2.0" on Wednesday, 15 September 2004;
• Dave Burke gives a tutorial entitled "AM Grammars" ; Luc Van Tichelen gives a tutorial entitled "Semantic Interpretation" ; Scott McGlashan gives a talk entitled "MultiModal on Mobile Devices." and gives a talk entitled "Developing Call Control Applications with CCXML" ; Wu Chou and Michael Johnston give a talk entitled "EMMA: Extended Multimodal Annotation Markup" on Thursday, 16 September 2004;

at the "SpeechTEK 2004 10th Anniversary Conference and Exhibition" , New York, NY, USA.

15, 16 September

David Booth gives a talk entitled "What Is New in WSDL 2.0" on Wednesday, 15 September 2004 and gives a talk entitled "From Web Services to the Semantic Web: Global Data Reuse" on Thursday, 16 September 2004 organized by the IBM, Toronto, Canada.

21 September

Kangchan Lee gives a tutorial entitled "RDF Tutorial" organized by the Hanbat University, on Tuesday, 21 September 2004, in Daejeon, Korea.

21 September

Robin Berjon gives a talk entitled "W3C XML Binary Characterization (XBC) Working Group" at the "XML for Binary Interchange" on Tuesday, 21 September 2004, in Hampton, VA, USA.

21 September

Massimo Marchiori gives a talk entitled " Towards a People's Web: Metalog" at the "IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2004)" on Tuesday, 21 September 2004, in Beijing, China.

21 September

Oreste Signore gives a talk entitled "Web accessibility: principles, international context and italian regulations" at the "EuroCMG 2004" on Tuesday, 21 September 2004, in Vienna, Austria.

23 September

Steve Bratt gives a talk entitled "Web Standards that Link Scientists, Systems and Data" organized by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, on Thursday, 23 September 2004, in Woods Hole, MA, USA.

25 September

Najib Tounsi gives a talk entitled "Le Consortium W3C (The W3C Consortium)" and Richard Ishida gives a talk entitled "Creating Bidi XHTML/HTML Pages" at the " La typographie entre les domaines de l'art et de l'informatique (Typography Between Art and Informatics)" , on Saturday, 25 September 2004, in Rabat, Morocco.

25 September

Karl Dubost gives a talk entitled "Normes et formats de fichiers ouverts (Standards and Formats of Open Files)" at the "Informatique Libre (Open Computing)" on Saturday, 25 September 2004, in Montréal, Québec, Canada.

28 September

Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "Webbstandarder - mot framtiden (Standards for the web - a view towards the future)" at the "Networks Telecom 2004" on Tuesday, 28 September 2004, in Stockholm, Sweden.

29 September

Michael Sperberg-McQueen gives a tutorial entitled "What does XML have to do with Immanuel Kant?" at the "Net.Object Days 2004" on Wednesday, 29 September 2004, in Erfurt, Germany.

29 September

Tim Berners-Lee gives a keynote entitled "The Semantic Web" at the "MIT Technology Review Emerging Technologies conference" on Wednesday, 29 September 2004, in Cambridge, MA, USA.

29 September

Matthew May gives a tutorial entitled "Content and Interface Accessibility for your CMS" at the "OSCOM 4 (Fourth International Open Source Content Management Conference with Apache Track)" on Wednesday, 29 September 2004, in Zürich, Switzerland.

October 2004

1 October

Michael Sperberg-McQueen gives a talk on behalf of the German and Austrian Office entitled "The Meaning and Interpretation of Markup" organized by the W3C German and Austrian Office, on Friday, 1 October 2004, in Sankt Augustin, Germany.

5 October

Yasuyuki Hirakawa gives a talk entitled "Overview of W3C’s Web Standardization" at the "9th Workshop: Overview of Web Standardization Organizations" on Tuesday, 5 October 2004, in Tokyo, Japan.

11 October

Marie-Claire Forgue and Bert Bos run a booth at the "Fête de la Science 2004 (Science Festivity 2004)" between Monday, 11 October, and Sunday, 17 October 2004, in Sophia Antipolis, France.

11 October

Shawn Henry gives a keynote, representing the Education & Outreach Working Group, entitled "A Web Revolution Through Higher Education" at the "HighEdWebDev 2004, eMergingVisions" on Monday, 11 October 2004, in Rochester, NY, USA.

12 October

Oreste Signore gives a talk entitled "The Cultural Semantic Web — Representation of Knowledge" at the "EVA 2004" on Tuesday, 12 October 2004, in Jerusalem, Israel.

13 October

Carine Bournez gives a talk entitled "Web Services" ; Klaus Birkenbihl gives a talk entitled "Bericht über die aktuelle Arbeit in W3C (Report on the current works at W3C)"; Philipp Hoschka gives a talk entitled "Das mobile Web (The Mobile Web)" at the " W3C-Tag (W3C Day)" , on Wednesday, 13 October 2004, in Rosenheim, Germany.

13 October

Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "Tjänstearkitekturer, standarder och framtidssäkring (Service-Oriented Architectures and web standards)" at the "17th Sundsvall42 conference 2004" on Wednesday, 13 October 2004, in Sundsvall, Sweden.

13 October

Eric Miller gives a keynote entitled "The Semantic Web" at the "International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Appplications 2004" on Wednesday, 13 October 2004, in Shanghai, China.

20 October

Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "Information och kunskap i en distribuerad värld (Information and knowledge in a distributed world)" at the "Information Resource Management - trender (Information Resource Management - future trends)" on Wednesday, 20 October 2004, in Stockholm, Sweden.

20 October

Massimo Marchiori gives a keynote entitled "The Zero-Cost Semantic Web" at the "Symposium of the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association (JEITA)" on Wednesday, 20 October 2004, in Tokyo, Japan.

21 October

Tim Berners-Lee gives a lunchtime talk organized by the British American Business Council of New England, on Thursday, 21 October 2004, in Boston, MA, USA.

21 October

José Manuel Alonso gives a talk on behalf of the Spanish Office entitled "Presentación de la Oficina Española de W3C (Introducing the W3C Spanish Office)" at the "Jornada W3C: Hacia un Nuevo Web (W3C Date: a New Web)" on Thursday, 21 October 2004, in Madrid, Spain.

25 October

Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "Den semantiska webben - vad som erbjuds, hur vi kan utnyttja det och vilka effekter vi kan uppnå (The Semantic Web - what it offers, how to use ít, and what benefits it can give)" at the "Den semantiska webben - kunskapslyft eller hype? (The Semantic Web - improved power or hype?)" on Monday, 25 October 2004, in Linköping, Sweden.

27 October

Tim Berners-Lee gives a talk entitled "The Semantic Web" at the "W3C Workshop on Semantic Web for Life Sciences" on Wednesday, 27 October 2004, in Cambridge, MA, USA.

27 October

Ossi Nykänen gives a talk entitled "W3C ja alueellinen standardointi (W3C and Regional Standardization)" at the "JHS Seminar (Planning and implementation of the Web services" on Wednesday, 27 October 2004, in Helsinki, Finland.

November 2004

2 November

Ivan Herman gives a tutorial on behalf of the Spanish Office entitled "Tutorial on Semantic Web Technologies" organized by the School of Informatics Engineering, University of Oviedo, on Tuesday, 2 November 2004, in Oviedo, Spain.

2 November

Ossi Nykänen gives a talk entitled "Semanttinen Web (Semantic Web)" at the "Annual Finnish ADP Days" on Tuesday, 2 November 2004, in Lappeenranta, Finland.

3 November

Steve Bratt gives a talk entitled "What's on the Horizon?" at the "ERCIM Strategy Workshop" on Wednesday, 3 November 2004, in Malaga, Spain.

4, 6 November

Steven Pemberton gives a tutorial entitled "XForms: Improving the Web Forms Experience" on Thursday, 4 November 2004 and gives a tutorial entitled "Styling the New Web Using CSS" on Saturday, 6 November 2004 at the "User Experience 2004" , Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

5 November

Ivan Herman gives a tutorial on behalf of the Spanish Office entitled "Tutorial on Semantic Web Technologies" at the "Gira Estándes W3C 2004 (Standards Tour W3C 2004)" on Friday, 5 November 2004, in Bilbao, Spain.

9 November

Steve Bratt gives a keynote entitled "Weaving a Web for the Next Generation of Science" at the "Geological Society of America Annual Meeting" on Tuesday, 9 November 2004, in Denver, USA.

9 November

Daniel J. Weitzner gives a talk entitled "Patents, Standards and the Dynamics of Innovation on the World Wide Web" at the "First Annual JOLT Symposium: Patent Policy in the Context of Internet Open Standards Development" on Tuesday, 9 November 2004, in Los Angeles, USA.

9 November

Eric Miller gives a talk entitled "The Semantic Web Initiative and its Implications for Publishing" at the "CrossRef Annual Member Meeting 2004" on Tuesday, 9 November 2004, in Boston, USA.

10 November

Bert Bos gives a talk on behalf of the Spanish Office entitled "Multiple Input Media, Multiple Output Media, but only One Web" at the "Gira Estándes W3C 2004 (Standards Tour W3C 2004)" on Wednesday, 10 November 2004, in Barcelona, Spain.

10 November

Daniel J. Weitzner gives a talk entitled "The Transparency Paradox: Privacy-enhancing architectures for open information networks" at the "Distinguished Lecture Series, UC Berkeley School of Information Management and Systems" on Wednesday, 10 November 2004, in Berkeley, USA.

11 November

Dominique Hazaël-Massieux gives a talk on behalf of the Spanish Office entitled "W3C Semantic Web Technologies in real life" at the "Gira Estándes W3C 2004 (Standards Tour W3C 2004)" on Thursday, 11 November 2004, in Valencia, Spain.

12 November

Ivan Herman gives a talk entitled "2D Web Graphics: SVG" at the "Media Elements 2004" on Friday, 12 November 2004, in Enschede, The Netherlands.

15, 16, 17 November

Michael Sperberg-McQueen gives a tutorial entitled "Introduction to XML Schema" on Monday, 15 November 2004 and gives a talk entitled "Building a document delivery system from off-the-shelf standards-conformant parts" on Tuesday, 16 November 2004; Hugo Haas gives a talk entitled "WSDL 2.0: what's new?" on Wednesday, 17 November 2004 at the "XML 2004" , Washington D.C., USA.

15 November

Tim Berners-Lee gives a keynote entitled "Managing and Enhancing Information: Cultures and Conflicts" at the "American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) conference" on Monday, 15 November 2004, in Providence, RI, USA.

16 November

Richard Ishida gives a talk entitled "W3C: SOAP to OWL, and hot Web schemas" at the "Localization World" on Tuesday, 16 November 2004, in San Francisco, USA.

16 November

Thomas Baker gives a talk on behalf of the German and Austrian Office entitled "Introduction to Semantic Web" at the "Arbeitskreis Application Development & Integration Technologies (Application Development & Integration Technologies Working Group)" on Tuesday, 16 November 2004, in Berlin, Germany.

16 November

Eric Miller gives a talk entitled "The Semantic Web Initiative and Implications to Digital Preservation " at the "National Archive Partnerships in Innovation - Serving a Networked Nation" on Tuesday, 16 November 2004, in Washington D.C., USA.

17 November

Steve Bratt gives a talk entitled "Developing Core Web Services Standards at the World Wide Web Consortium" at the "Application Integration and Web Services Summit" on Wednesday, 17 November 2004, in Orlando, FL, USA.

18 November

Judy Brewer gives a keynote entitled "Web Accessibility: The Next Stage" at the "Techshare 2004" on Thursday, 18 November 2004, in Birmingham, UK.

18 November

Tim Berners-Lee gives a keynote entitled "Web Services - Hopes and Fears" at the "2nd International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC)" on Thursday, 18 November 2004, in New York, NY, USA.

18 November

Max Froumentin gives a talk on behalf of the Spanish Office entitled "Multimodal Interaction on the Web" at the "Gira Estándes W3C 2004 (Standards Tour W3C 2004)" on Thursday, 18 November 2004, in Madrid, Spain.

20 November

Eric Miller gives a tutorial entitled "Weaving Meaning: An Overview of the Semantic Web" at the "Greater Boston Chapter / ACM Professional Development Seminar 2004" on Saturday, 20 November 2004, in Boston, USA.

24 November

Martin Dürst gives a talk entitled "Next step of W3C Internationalization Activity" ; Masayasu Ishikawa gives a talk entitled "Compound Document Formats in XML" ; Yoshio Fukushige gives a talk entitled "Semantic Web enters on the Second Phase" at the "Open Research Forum (ORF) 2004" , on Wednesday, 24 November 2004, in Roppongi-Hills, Tokyo, Japan.

25 November

Daniel Dardailler gives a talk entitled "Proteger l'innovation avec les standards (Protecting innovation with standards)" at the "Forum Integration" on Thursday, 25 November 2004, in Paris, France.

26 November

Kangchan Lee gives a talk entitled "W3C10, and W3C Overview" at the "Next Generation Web Technologies" on Friday, 26 November 2004, in Seoul, Korea.

30 November

Matthew May gives a talk entitled "“Open” Document Formats, XHTML vs. HTML, XSL vs. CSS & Other Industry Debates" at the "Gilbane Content Management Technologies Conference" on Tuesday, 30 November 2004, in Boston, USA.

December 2004

1 December

Alan Kotok participates at a panel entitled "How It All Started" ; Dave Raggett participates at a panel entitled "How It All Started" ; Tim Berners-Lee participates at a panel entitled "How It All Started" at the "W3C Tenth Anniversary Celebration" , on Wednesday, 1 December 2004, in Cambridge, MA, USA.

7 December

Guus Schreiber gives a talk entitled "OWL: the W3C Web Ontology Language" and Ivan Herman gives a talk entitled "Questions (and Answers) on Semantic Web" at the "W3C Day, Evolve Conference" , on Tuesday, 7 December 2004, in Brisbane, Australia.

7 December

Kishik Park gives a keynote on behalf of the Korean Office entitled "Web Standards in E-Business" at "The International Conference on e-Commerce 2004" on Tuesday, 7 December 2004, in Seoul, Korea.

8, 10 December

Shawn Henry gives a tutorial entitled "Web Accessibility for Designers" on Wednesday, 8 December 2004 and gives a talk entitled "Web Accessibility: A Foundation for International Cooperation and Local Implentation" on Friday, 10 December 2004 at the "Designing for the 21st Century III" , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

9 December

Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "Arkitektur för framtiden - katedral eller koloniområde? (Future architectures - Cathedral or Allotment Area?)" at the "Gårdagens och morgondagens plattformar (Platforms Yesterday and Tomorrow)" on Thursday, 9 December 2004, in Stockholm, Sweden.

9 December

Steven Pemberton gives a keynote entitled "XML to the Desktop: XForms" at the "XML Holland 2004" on Thursday, 9 December 2004, in Hilversum, The Netherlands.

19 December

Henry Thompson gives a talk entitled "The Internet and the World Wide Web: Past, Present and Future" at the "British University in Dubai Open Lecture" on Sunday, 19 December 2004, in Knowledge Village, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.