Stéphane Boyera

Stephane Boyera

Contact Information: 4 rue de cheverny
31170 Tournefeuille
France; Email: stephane@boyera.net
Tel: +33 (0)6 73 84 87 27
Citizenship: French

Work Experience

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Sophia-Antipolis, France (June 1995 to present)

Working in the technical team including the inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, which defines the architecture of the Web and standardizes its core technologies. The team consists of 60 people distributed across four different continents.

Member of the Mobile Web Initiative (April 2004 to present)

One of the founders of the W3C Mobile Web Initiative
Founder and manager of the "Mobile Web for Social Development" Initiative (since July 2006)
Project Leader for the FP7 EU Project Digital World Forum

Coordinator of the Training activity of 3GWeb eu-funded Project (July 2006 to December 2007) and MobiWeb 2.0 eu-funded Project (since January 2008)

Developer and organizer of the Webinar program and the moodle-based program
Manager of the W3C Training activity

Coordinator and Manager of Device Independence, Voice and Multimodal Activities (January 2005-December 2005)

Managing Activity Leaders of each activity

Device Independence Activity Lead (September 2003 to July 2006)

Responsible for leading and coordinating the technical work in the device independent authoring area at W3C
Discussions with W3C Member companies (Microsoft, IBM, Sun, Vodafone, Orange, Opera, Nokia, Sony-Ericsson, Motorola,...) about the standardization of multi-support authoring languages and reaching consensus on this topic
Worked on the design of CC/PP Structure and Vocabularies version 1 and version 2
Worked on the design of DIAL : Device Independent Authoring Language
Worked on the design of DI-Select
Multiple keynotes and presentations all over the world (USA, India, Hong Kong, Japan,...)

Project Leader for the Multimodal Web (MWeb) European Project (January 2004 to December 2005)

Coordinating deliverables, leading the project review
Workpackage Manager for Device Independence Working Group package (WP4)
Workpackage Manager for the demonstrators package (WP2)
- Project Manager for the VoiceXML platform definition and implementation
- Project Manager for the implementation of the multi-modal demonstrator (PC, Mobile, VoiceXML)

W3C-Europe System Team Leader and Member of the global W3C System Team (June 1996 to December 2005)

Administration of Unix servers (Linux, Solaris)
Security manager for the W3C sites in Europe
Network design and administration
Project Architect for the W3C Web Mirroring Systems
Project manager of different W3C internal tools (Meeting Management System, Webinar system, ....)

INRIA, Sophia-antipolis, France, (September 1993-June 1995)

Research Engineer in a joint project (GENIE) between INRIA and Dassault-Aviation

Topics:

Knowledge acquisition and representation in a multi-expertise environment
Artificial Intelligence
Conceptual graphes and Ontologies
Teaching activities :
- Managing Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Acquisition courses at ESSTIN
- Participating in the Mathematics and Computer Science courses at Nice University
Research Papers :
- [Boy93] S. Boyera, «Un generateur de graphes de connaissance pour KATEMES», Rapport de DEA, Universite de Nice, September 1993
- [BTC94] S. Boyera, P.-A. Tourtier, O. Corby, «Simuler le comportement macroscopique d‘un modele conceptuel», JAVA-94 (Journees Acquisition Validation et Apprentissage), Strasbourg, march 1994
- [TB94] P.-A. Toutier, S. Boyera, «Validating at early stages with a causal simulation tool», EKAW-94, Hogaarden, 1994.
- [BC95] S. Boyera, O. Corby, «Etat de l'art sur la multi-expertise», Deliverable L.3.2.2-1, projet Genie, June 1995

Education

ESSI, University of Sophia-Antipolis, France (September 1992 to August 1993): Advanced Studies Diploma (DEA) in Computer Science received in September 1993
ESSTIN, Sophia-Antipolis, France (September 1988 to July 1993): Master of Science in Engineering Science. Degree received in July 1993.

Computer Skills

Web Technologies

Expert in User Interface related technologies : HTML, CSS, Device Independence, Mobile Design, SVG, CC/PP - UAProf, VoiceXML ...

Programming Languages

Fluent in PHP, Perl, JavaScript (AJAX), Visual Basic, ASP

good knowledge of shell programming, Java,

basic knowledge of C, C++, Prolog, ADA, Fortran, Pascal.

Networking

Design and Management of Ethernet networks.

Knowledge of IP, TCP, UDP, SMTP, HTTP protocols, multicast protocols, firewalls, Network security.

Unix systems administration

Administration of several machines running Debian GNU/Linux since 1994. Maintenance of servers running Linux (Debian/Red Hat).

Administration of Solaris servers.

Experience with Transarc Corporation's AFS.

Databases

Administration and programming of Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL

Talks and Workshops Organization

Device Independence / MWI
- 2008
  Talks
  - WWW2008, Beijing, China, April 2008
  - HFT 2008, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, March 2008
  Workshops
  - Chair of the W3C Workshop on the Role of Mobile Technologies in fostering Social Development
- 2007
  Talks
  - 3GSM Africa, Cape Town, South Africa, November 22 2007, Potential and challenges of mobile internet services in Africa
  - 5th Latin America Web Congress, Santiago de Chile, Chile, October 31 2007, Leveraging Web access for rural communities and under-privileged populations
  - Datamatix Gitex Conference 2007, Dubai, UAE, September 10 2007, Opportunities and Challenges of Web Technologies on Mobile Platform
  - 3GSM - East and Central Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, May 17 2007, The Mobile to Bridge the Digital Divide
  - W3C Southern Office Opening, Pretoria, South Africa, May 14 2007, The W3C Mobile Web Initiative
  - IST-Africa 2007, Maputo, Mozambique, May 10 2007, The Mobile Web to bridge the Digital Divide: Paper - Presentation
  Publication
  - Can the Mobile Web Bridge the Digital Divide ? ACM Interaction Magazine, Volume 14 , Issue 3 (May + June 2007)
  Workshops
  - Member of the Program committee of the Workshop on Mobile Internet User Experience
- 2006
  - MWI Seminar, Paris, 16 November 2006 : Bridging the Digital Divide
  - Workshop on the Mobile Web in the Developing Countries, Bangalore, 5-6 December 2006 :
    - Chair of the Workshop
    - The Mobile Web to bridge the Digital Divide
- 2005
  - W3C India Office Opening, New Delhi, 10-11 November 2005 :
    - The Mobile Web Initiative
    - The Device Independent Web
  - WWW 2005, Chiba, Japan : The Mobile Web Initiative
  - W3C representative at 3GSM World : http://www.w3.org/2005/02/3GSM-2005.html
- 2004
  - Co-Chair of the Workshop on Metadata for Content Adaptation
  - DIWE'04, Munich :
    - Device Independent Web
    - Member of the Program committee of DIWE'04
  - UBbiMob 2004, Sophia-Antipolis : Web Mobile et Diversification des Terminaux (french)
  - WWW 2004, New-York : Device Independent Web
  - W3C representative at 3GSM World, Cannes : http://www.w3.org/2004/02/3gsm-pressrelease
- 2003
  - WWW 2003, Budapest : Device Independence for GUI, Voice and Multimodal Application: is it possible ?
  - WWW 2003, Budapest : Device Independence Challenges
  - W3C AC Meeting, Tokyo (W3C Member only) : The Mobile Web
  - Intech Seminar (French) : Les Travaux du W3C dans le domaine Device Independence
- 2002
  - Member of the Program committee of the Device Independent Authoring Workshop
  - WWW 2002, Hawai : Panel on Device Independence
  - Cross Media Publishing Workshop, Bohn : Device Independence Principles
- 2001
  - Organizer of the Workshop on the Delivery Context
W3C Web Mirroring Project
- 1999:
  - W3C-LA EU Project Review, Sophia-Antipolis : W3C-LA Web Mirroring Activity Review
- 1998:
  - Eutelsat meeting, Paris : W3C Web Mirroring Program
- 1997:
  - W3C-LA EU Project Launch, Paris :Web Mirroring Project Roadmap (powerpoint)

Languages

French: Mother tongue
English: Fluent
Spanish: Basic level
Japanese, Indonesian: Notions