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
Phil Archer joined the team working on the Mobile Web Initiative in February 2009, specifically to work on developing and delivering training in this area. Before joining the team he'd been a participant in the Mobile Web Best Practices working group (joining at its inception in June 2006) with a particular interest in the mobileOK scheme. Previous careers include work in broadcasting advertising, education, countryside conservation and online child safety.
Separately from his W3C team remit, Phil is also involved with the Semantic Web activity as chair of the POWDER working group. More details on his personal Web site.
phila@w3.org
ashimura@w3.org
Stéphane is W3C Staff since 1995. Leading the W3C Device Independence Working Group since 2001, he has been a key participant in the development and launch of the W3C Mobile Web Initiative, managing the Device Description Working Group till the end of 2005. At the same time, Stéphane took also part in the management of the Voice and Multimodal Activities. Since 2006, he is now leading the W3C work on the Mobile Web in Developing Countries.
Before joining W3C, Stéphane studied network and telecommunications at ESSTIN, an engineering school in Sophia-Antipolis, France. From 1991 to 1995, he worked on Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge modeling at INRIA.
boyera@w3.org
Before December 2007, François helped develop an on-portal mobile search engine called MotionBridge from its first minimalist draft within a small French start-up to a full-featured version within Microsoft. This kept him busy for more than seven years.
Then he joined the W3C where he learned the theory behind all that stuff he had used in the past, and now happily tries to conciliate theory and practice within the Mobile Web Initiative. He maintains the online W3C mobileOK Checker, contributes as a tutor to the online training sessions on Mobile Web Best Practices and serves as Staff Contact for the Best Practices Working Group.
François holds an engineering degree from the Ecole Centrale Paris.
fd@w3.org
Dominique is the Activity Lead of the Mobile Web Initiative, co-chairs the Mobile Web Test Suites Working Group, serves as staff contact in the Device APIs and Policy Working Group, and develops tools and applications as part of the W3C Systems Team.
He joined intially W3C’s Communication and Systems Team as a member of the Webmaster Team in October 2000; after having joined then lead the QA Activity until September 2005, Dom took part to the Mobile Web Initiative as Staff Contact for the Best Practices Working Group.
Dominique holds an engineering degree from the “Grande Ecole” École Centrale Paris.
dom@w3.org
Liam joined the W3C in 2000; he's been working with text-based markup and digital typography since nroff days (1981) and with SGML since 1987. He worked for Yuri Rubinsky at SoftQuad Inc. in Toronto, where he was involved in the development of SoftQuad's HoTMetaL, the first commercial HTML editor for the Web, and also with SoftQuad Panorama, a browser plugin to display SGML; this in turn demonstrated a need to standardise the use of SGML on the Web, and Liam was involved in the development of the XML specification.
Liam has been involved in free software since 1983, including lq-text, a text retrieval package for Unix, the GNOME and GIMP projects, a collection of royalty-free pictures from old books, and uses and contributes to Mandriva Linux, and many other open source and free projects.
At the W3C today, Liam is XML Activity Lead and W3C technical participant for the XML Query and XSL (XSL-FO) Working Groups, and alternate contact for several other Working Groups.
liam@w3.org
Dave is a W3C Fellow sponsored by JustSystems. He has been closely involved with the development of Web standards since 1992, contributing to work on HTML, HTTP, MathML, XForms, voice and multimodal interaction, and more recently Ubiquitous Web Applications. Dave is now focused on realizing the potential of the Semantic Web for exploring and analyzing financial data (especially XBRL). He also chairs the Model-Based User Interface Incubator Group, and is a Staff Contact in the Ubiquitous Web Applications WG. He was educated in England and obtained his doctorate from the University of Oxford. For more information see Dave's home page.
dsr@w3.org
Henry S. Thompson divides his time between the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, where he is Reader in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, based in the Language Technology Group of the Human Communication Research Centre, and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), where he works in the XML Activity.
He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1980. His university education was divided between Linguistics and Computer Science, in which he holds an M.Sc. While still at Berkeley he was affiliated with the Natural Language Research Group at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, where he participated in the GUS and KRL projects. He research interests have ranged widely, including natural language parsing, speech recognition, machine translation evaluation, modelling human lexical access mechanisms, the fine structure of human-human dialogue, language resource creation and architectures for linguistic annotation. His current research is focussed on articulating and extending the architectures of XML.
He was a member of the SGML Working Group of the World Wide Web Consortium which designed XML, is the author of the XED, the first free XML instance editor and co-author of the LT XML toolkit and is currently a member of the XML Core and XML Schema Working Groups of the W3C. He is lead editor of the Structures part of the XML Schema W3C Recommendation, for which he co-wrote the first publicly available implementation, XSV. He has presented many papers and tutorials on SGML, DSSSL, XML, XSL and XML Schemas in both industrial and public settings over the last eight years.
He is also interested in the philosophical foundations of computer science and AI, and is actively involved in promoting awareness of the moral and social implications of AI research.
ht@w3.org
Matt is the Ubiquitous Web Activity Lead and serves as the staff contact for the Ubiquitous Web Applications, Geolocation, and Voice Browser Working Groups.
Before joining the W3C in April 2007, Matt worked on mobile Web applications and standards at the research and development branch of a large European mobile operator.
Prior to that Matt worked at a number of Boston area startup companies in the areas of speech recognition, VoIP, and the Web on mobile devices.
mdw@w3.org
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