swick@w3.org
Tim is now the overall Director of the W3C. He is the 3COM Founders Professor of Engineering in the School of Engineering, and at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT's CSAIL.
Tim founded and is on the board of the World Wide Web Foundation, whose mission is consistent with W3C's only broader. The Web Foundation will put the power of the Web into the hands of people around the world through effective, high-impact programs.
Tim invented the World Wide Web in 1989 while working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. He wrote the first WWW client (a browser-editor running under NeXTStep) and the first WWW server along with most of the communications software, defining URLs, HTTP and HTML. Prior to his work at CERN, Tim was a founding director of Image Computer Systems, a consultant in hardware and software system design, real-time communications graphics and text processing, and a principal engineer with Plessey Telecommunications in Poole, England. He is a graduate of Oxford University. More...
timbl@w3.org
Judy Brewer joined W3C in September 1997 as Director of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) International Program Office. She is Domain Leader for WAI, and coordinates five areas of work with respect to Web accessibility: ensuring that W3C technologies support accessibility; developing guidelines for Web content, browsers, and authoring tools; improving tools for evaluation and repair of Web sites; conducting education and outeach; and coordinating with research and development that can affect future Web accessibility.
Judy is W3C's chief liaison on accessibility policy and standardization internationally, promoting awareness and implementation of Web accessibility, and ensuring effective dialog among industry, the disability community, accessibility researchers, and government on the development of consensus-based accessibility solutions.
Prior to joining W3C, Judy was Project Director for the Massachusetts Assistive Technology Partnership, a U.S. federally-funded project promoting access to assistive technology for people with disabilities. She worked on several national initiatives to increase access to mainstream technology for people with disabilities and to improve dialog between industry and the disability community. Judy has a background in applied linguistics, education, technical writing, management and disability advocacy.
jbrewer@w3.org
Jérôme joined the W3C Team in June 2006. Prior to that, Jérôme worked as a researcher and research director at INRIA, France, in the areas of automatic VLSI design, software engineering, and knowledge-based systems. Jérôme was the main inventor and developer of the programming language Le-Lisp. Jérôme co-founded ILOG in 1987, taking on the roles of Chief Scientific Officer and Director. Up till 2000, he was a member of the French Co-ordination Committee for Science and Information Technology and Communication of the National Ministry for Education, Research and Technology. Starting in 1995, he was Chief Information Officer of the genomics company GENSET.
On May 2005, ERCIM's Board of Directors has nominated Jérôme as Manager of ERCIM.
jerome@w3.org
Daniel Dardailler joined the W3C team in July 1996 and after leading various technical projects, like the WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative) or the W3C QA activity, and serving as Europe operational manager for several years, he is now W3C Associate Chair for Europe and W3C Director of International Relations and Offices.
Prior to working for W3C, Daniel was already working for standard as a Software Architect for the X Window System Consortium, responsible for pieces of the Motif toolkit and the Common Unix Desktop.
Daniel holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Nice/Sophia-Antipolis (89) in the area of digital typography and X protocol network.
danield@w3.org
Ted joined the W3C in January of 2000. He comes to the Consortium from the corporate IT community having worked for a mortgage and investment company, a power utility, an internet service provider, and a marketing and communications company. He earned a bachelors in Russian from Hobart College. He also spent some time as an English as a Second Language and Mathematics instructor.
ted@w3.org
Tatsuya joined W3C at Keio-SFC in September 1997 as Deputy Director for Asian operations. He is Professor of the Faculty of Environmental Information at Keio University.
His current areas of interests are System Software and Web Technology. He received his Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh.
hagino@w3.org
Philipp Hoschka is a Deputy Director of the W3C. His main interest is bringing the benefits of Web technology to mobile and other non-PC devices. Since 2006, he is leading W3C's Ubiquitous Web Domain which includes W3C's Mobile Web Initiativecreated by Philipp in 2005. In the past, he pioneered work on integrating audio and video into the Web. Philipp founded, chaired and served as editor for the Working Group that developed the W3C Standard SMIL which today is an integral part of mobile phone MMS messaging. Philipp also lead W3C's "Television and the Web" Activity. He previously directed W3C's Architecture Domain, which issues all core XML specifications from the W3C. Philipp chaired numerous W3C workshops that explored new Web developments, such as Workshops on the Mobile Web Initiative, Web Services, Television and the Web, Push Technology and Real-Time Multimedia and the Web. Philipp holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, and a Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.
ph@w3.org
Masao joined the W3C Team in January 2009 as the W3C/Keio site Manager. He is responsible for managing the W3C/Keio site and W3C Asian activities including Member recruiting and other member related work. He is a professor of Keio University.
Masao has been working at Toshiba for 27 years on consumer electronics business (hardware and software design of air-conditioner (15 years)), system design and business coordination for collaboration, and also as a leader for a new business creating project. He was involved in energy conservation technology, simulation for room temperature distribution, Genetic Algorism application and data mining for life log. His latest work there was a general manager of the home network business division (10 years), which developed a home IT system. He also worked for the ECHONET Consortium, which develops a global standard for the Web based home network system. ECHONET Consortium consists of 100 member companies. Masao was a steering committee member for 6 years and the chairman for 1 year in that consortium.
Masao holds a Ph.D. degree in heat transfer engineering from the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, and a master's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Tokyo Institute of Technology. He currently lives in Tokyo, Japan.
masao@w3.org
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
Philippe joined W3C at INRIA in January 1999 to test a set of W3C Recommendations (especially CSS2). Philippe heads the W3C Interaction Domain, which produces technologies several areas including HTML and CSS. Until July 2008, Philippe lead the W3C Architecture Domain, which produced the W3C Core technologies in the area of XML, Web Services, and Internationalization. He is a former Chair of the Document Object Model (DOM) Working Group and co-editor of two DOM specifications. He was the co-Chair of the W3C Workshop on Video on the Web, focusing on making video a first class Web citizen, including making it easy to create, link to and from, describe, and search.
Prior to joining W3C, Philippe promoted the use of XML inside Bull in 1998, also focusing on the interaction between XML and object structures. He wrote the first version of the CSS validator in 1997.
Philippe holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Nice (France).
plh@w3.org
Mauro joined the Consortium in October 2006 as North American Business Manager, and serves as W3C Business Manager since March 2008. His primary goal is to foster a business and operating environment that is cost-effective, productive and positive, across all W3C operating locations. He coordinates financial matters across the Consortium, prepares budget plans and reports, monitors budget execution, coordinates legal matters, and supports Membership development. Mauro coordinates the Invited Expert Program and is a member of the Web Foundation's Board of Directors, representing W3C.
A Fulbright Scholar, Mauro holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso and a Master's degree in Business Administration from Suffolk University.
mauro@w3.org
Thomas Roessler joined the W3C Team in November 2004 to work on security, privacy, and European policy issues. He currently serves as Security Activity Lead and Acting Technology and Society Domain Leader.
Prior to joining W3C, Thomas worked at the University of Bonn on numerics of partial differential equations, and collected programming, systems administration and computer forensics experience. He served as the lead maintainer of the free software mail user agent mutt. Thomas has published and given talks on topics including anonymization services, legal questions of digital signatures, and online privacy. He holds a degree in mathematics.
Thomas served as the Technical Liaison to the ICANN Board in 2009, and is chair of the Board of the World Wide Web Foundation (Delaware, US).
tlr@w3.org
Nobuo is directing the W3C team at Keio University, where he established the third Consortium host in September 1996. And he also serves at 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.
nobuo.saito@w3.org
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