Dan Connolly

Research Scientist, MIT/CSAIL

connolly@w3.org ^*

32 Vassar Street
Room 32-G506 ^*
Cambridge, MA, 02139 USA

+1-617-395-0241, DanC ^*

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standards: TAG, GRDDL WG, RDF Calendar, QA, DAWG/SPARQL, Semantic Web IG, OWL, HTML 2, ESW

research: breadcrumbs journal/weblog, cwm, N3, tabulator, PAW, TAMI, microformats open source

life: family, volleyball, guitar

Dan Connolly is a research scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) in the Decentralized Information Group (DIG) and a member of the technical staff of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). His research interest is investigating the value of formal descriptions of complex systems like the Web, especially in the consensus-building process.

Dan received bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990. He moved to the Dallas area to join Convex Computer Corporation as a software engineer in 1991. From there, he began collaborating across the Internet with Tim Berners-Lee on the World Wide Web project. He moved back to Austin to work at Atrium, a start-up software company, in 1993. He joined HAL Computer Systems in 1994.

In 1995, Dan moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts to join the W3C staff at MIT. From 1995 to 1997, Dan chaired the working group that preserved HTML as an open standard.

Dan played leading roles in the development of URIs, HTTP, XML, RDF, and OWL and currently serves on the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG).

See also: resume/vita, tweets, notes, and links, and travel/talks/events.

Contacting Me ...

• In Person: I'm affiliated with the MIT/CSAIL host site, but I usually work in a remote office in the Kansas City area, where I also do business as Midwest Web Sense. My travel schedule takes me to various conferences and events; perhaps we can meet there.
• Email: The press should try connolly@w3.org,w3t-pr@w3.org or see W3C press contact info.

  If you have a technical question, and you're happy for your question and my answer to go in a public archive, you may send it to connolly@w3.org, www-archive@w3.org and I'll try to answer it. I can rarely justify the time that it takes to answer unsolicited mail privately.

  Note: attachments in proprietary formats are not welcome. See W3C Guidelines for Email Attachment Formats.

• Online: The Semantic Web Interest Group has an IRC channel, #swig, on freenode; I'm often there as DanC.

See also breadcrumbs journal/weblog, mail from me to W3C public lists, del.ici.ous links and notes

Social networking experiments: dckc on identica, dckc on twitter, connolly on friendfeed

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On a good day, this page is maintained thru immersive hypertext editing (see also: Cleaning up the User Interface 2: Hypertext editing Tim BL 3 April 1998.)

I like to use Amaya when it's working. Meanwhile, I get by with emacs and the like. Thank you, James Clark, for nxml-mode! I agree with Tim Bray: Oh My!. Thanks Chris Lawrence and the debian gang for the nxml-mode debian package too! I'd sure like hypertext linking support. See also: my contribution to html-mode.el back in 1992 and some more recent xml-mode hacking with XHTML support.

I keep notes on software and products I use in my office on my personal web site now.

I'm experimenting with Embedded RDF, hCalendar, hcard GRDDL profile. See formal version of this page grddl'd live). Technorati's event service provides conversion to iCalendar format.

I'm also noodling on GRDDL and OpenId.