In September 2004, Ian became Head of W3C Communications. He manages the Consortium's Comm activities, including press, publications, branding, marketing, and some member relations.
Ian began at W3C in 1997. Since then he has co-edited a number of specifications, including HTML 4.0, CSS2, DOM Level 1, three WAI Guidelines (Web Content, User Agent, Authoring Tool), the TAG's Architecture of the World Wide Web, and the W3C Process Document.
Ian Jacobs studied computer science in France after college (Yale), and worked at INRIA for five years on a system called "Centaur". After spending more than six years in France and six months in Italy working with the University of Bologna Computer Science Department, he moved back to New York City in 1994 to do some creative writing. He currently lives in Chicago, IL (USA).
ij@w3.org
madamic@w3.org
Klaus, based in Germany, graduated as mathematician at the University of Bonn in 1974. He joined the German research institute in computer science (GMD) where he worked since then in several areas. After a few years of research on software technology he was appointed head of GMD's computer center Bonn in 1980. He gave lectures on computerscience at the University of Cologne and the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg. He acted as head of the network engineering group and the competence center "Computer Networks and Society" in GMD and later in Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communication.
Klaus has a strong computer networks background. Among other roles he was founding member of the European Academic Research Network (EARN) and deputy director of EARN Germany, member of the operational committee of the German Research Network (DFN), member of the EASInet steering committee and chairman of the German Chapter of the Internet Society.
Before joining the W3C team Klaus worked for W3C as head of the German/Austrian Office, AB member, and AC rep of GMD/Fraunhofer. After leaving Fraunhofer he launched his own company from where he works for W3C. As team member - on a part time basis - Klaus works offices coordinator in the W3C offices team.
Klaus@w3.org
Marie-Claire Forgue joined W3C at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis in January 2001,
as Head of W3C European Communications.
Marie-Claire received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Nice and INRIA, France. After a year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Dynamic Graphics Project Lab at the University of Toronto, Canada, she worked in NTT's Human Interface Lab, Japan, for two years. Her research interests were focused on illumination algorithms and scene modeling.
After that, she studied filmmaking in Vancouver, Canada. She has directed several short films and documentaries, and got interested in interactive multimedia back in 1993.
mcf@w3.org
Coralie is in the W3C Communications Team. Her duties include large meetings (AC Meetings, Technical Plenary) preparation. She is also in charge of the Advisory Board scribe duties and meetings planning, and handles W3C press clippings. As well as monitoring translators' list, contact person for official translations. She joined the team in January 1999.
coralie@w3.org
karen@w3.org
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