Philipp Hoschka

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Bio

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.

W3C Activities

Current

Since Jan '08: Mobile Web 2.0 Project Lead (ICT FP7 project)
Since Mar '06: W3C Ubiquitous Web Domain Leader
Since Apr '03: W3C Deputy Director for Europe

Past

Jan '06-Dec '07: Web Beyond 3G (3GWeb) Project Lead (IST FP6 project)
May '05-Jul '07: W3C "Mobile Web Initiative" Activity Lead
Oct '06: Mobile Web in Developing Countries Workshop Program Committee Member
Jun '01-Mar '06: W3C Interaction Domain Leader
Nov '04: Co-Chair W3C "Mobile Web Initiative" Workshop
Jan '04-Aug '05: Multimodal Web Interaction (MWeb) Coordinator and Project Lead (IST FP6 project)
Jan '04-Jul '05: AMI Project Board Member (IST FP6 project)
Jan '03-May '05: Chair Hypertext Coordination Group [Member only]
Mar '02: Member Program Committee W3C Workshop on Delivery Context
Feb '02-Feb '03: Member Multimodal Interaction WG [Member only] - for public info, see Multimodal Interaction activity overview
Jan '02-Mar '04: Member Sychronized Multimedia IG [Member only] - for public info, see Synchronized Multimedia activity overview
Apr '01: Co-Chair W3C Workshop on Web Services
Sep '00-Dec '01: W3C Representative on ICANN Protocol Support Organization (PSO) Protocol Council
Oct '99-Dec '01: Member Sychronized Multimedia WG [Member only]
Jul '99-Aug '02: Co-Editor SMIL 2.0 W3C Recommendation
Mar '99-Oct '99: Chair second Sychronized Multimedia WG [Member only]
Oct '98-Apr '99: Co-Author "XHTML 1.0: The Extensible HyperText Markup Language"
Oct '98-Apr '02: Chair Television and the Web Interest Group
Oct '98-Jun '01: W3C Architecture Domain Leader
Jun '98: Chair W3C Workshop on "Television and the Web"
Jun '97-Jul '98: Editor SMIL 1.0 W3C Recommendation
Mar '97-Jun '98: Chair first Synchronized Multimedia WG [Member only]
Sep '97: Chair W3C Workshop on "Push Technology"
Oct '96: Chair W3C Workshop on "Real-Time Multimedia and the Web"
Jan '96-Oct '99: Activity Lead Synchronized Multimedia Activity

Talks

Upcoming

Past

For more recent talks, see W3C Talks page

2008

April 2008, "Analysing The Importance Of Standardisation In Driving Mobile Internet Usage", Mobile Internet, Berlin

2007

November 2007, "What's New in the Ubiquitous Web Domain", (W3C member-only link), Boston
October 2007, "W3C's Mobile Web Initiative, 3GWeb and NEM", 5th NEM General Assembly, Brussels
October 2007, "W3C Mobile Web Initiative - Crossing the Chasm", Mobile Monday London, London
September 2007, "Will W3C Mobile Web Best Practices Help End Fragmentation of Standards and Enable a Coherent Web Experience?", Panel, Informa Mobile Web 2.0 Conference, London
July 2007, "W3C Richtlinien für das Mobile Web", Webinar
May 2007, "What's New in the Ubiquitous Web Domain", (W3C member-only link), W3C Advisory Council Meeting, Banff
March 2007, "The Web on the Move - W3C's Mobile Web Initiative", Mobile Web 20 Forum Opening Ceremony, Seoul

2006

December 2006,"Best Practices for Mobile Web Content", 3G World Congress & Mobility Marketplace 2006, Hong Kong
December 2006, "Welcome & overview", 3G World Congress & Mobility Marketplace 2006, Hong Kong
November 2006, "What's New in the Ubiquitous Web Domain" (W3C member-only link), W3C Advisory Council Meeting, Tokyo
October 2006, "Mobile Web Initiative and Ubiquitous Access", ERCIM Days, Nice
September 2006, "The Web on the Move", MapOS (Mobile Application Platforms & Operating Systems) 2006, London
May 2006, "What's New in the Ubiquitous Web Domain", (W3C member-only link), W3C Advisory Council Meeting, Edinburg
April 2006, " The Web on the Move", Mobile Web Initiative Analyst meeting, London
February 2006, " The Web on the Move", Analyst meeting at 3GSM, Barcelona

2005

December 2005, "What's New in the Interaction Domain" (W3C member-only link), W3C Advisory Council Meeting, Montreal
November 2005, , "Interaction Domain Introduction" (W3C member-only link), W3C Advisory Council Meeting, Montreal
November 2005, "Vision and Ambition for the Mobile Web", W3C 'Mobile Web Initiative' Event, London
November 2005, "Too Many Technologies? Too Many Standards?", Panel, "Mobile Application Platforms and OSS", Vienna
September 2005, "The W3C Mobile Web Initiative (MWI)", Berliner XML Tage, Berlin
June 2005, "What's New in the Interaction Domain" (W3C member-only link), W3C Advisory Council Meeting, Mandelieu
June 2005, "Interaction Domain Introduction" (W3C member-only link), W3C Advisory Council Meeting, Mandelieu
March 2005, "The Role of Web Standards in Technology Transfer", AMI Technology Transfer Event, Brussels (watch talk on video)

2004

December 2004, "What's New in the Interaction Domain" (W3C member-only link), W3C Advisory Council Meeting, Cambridge
December 2004, "Towards Enabling the Mobile Web (Finally)", W3C10 Symposium, Boston
November 2004, "Ideas on Starting W3C's "Mobile Web Initiative"", W3C "Mobile Web Initiative Workshop, Barcelona
November 2004, "W3C "Mobile Web Initiative" Workshop", W3C "Mobile Web Initiative Workshop, Barcelona
October 2004, "W3C: Building the Mobile Web", Berliner XML Tage, Berlin
August 2004, "Towards Multimodal Web Interaction", IFIP World Computer Congress 2004 (WCC), Toulouse
May 2004, "The W3C Interaction Domain" (W3C member-only link), W3C Advisory Council Meeting, New York
May 2004, "Interaction Domain Introduction" (W3C member-only link), W3C Advisory Council Meeting, New York
February 2004 - "W3C: Building the Mobile Web", 3GSM World Congress, Cannes

2003

November 2003, W3C Technologies for Motor Vehicle Telecommunications, ITU Workshop on Standardization in Telecommunications for motor vehicles , Geneva
November 2003, "The W3C Interaction Domain" (W3C member-only link), W3C Advisory Council Meeting, Yokohama
November 2003, "Interaction Domain Introduction" (W3C member-only link), W3C Advisory Council Meeting, Yokohama
November 2003, Future Web Interface Technologies, China International Forum on WWW's Development 2003, Beijing
November 2003, Mobile Web, China International Forum on WWW's Development 2003, Beijing
October 2003, Voice Access and the Web: Present and Future, Berliner XML Tage, Berlin
September 2003, An Introduction to W3C and RDF, SMPTE Engineering Committee Meeting, Geneva
June 2003, "Anwendungen des Semantic Web" (Applications of the Semantic Web, in German), W3C Semantic Web Tour, Munich
May 2003, "The W3C Interaction Domain" (W3C member-only link), W3C Advisory Council Meeting, Budapest
February 2003, "Multimedia at the Web Consortium: a global overview", SMIL Europe 2003, Paris

2002

November 2002, "The W3C Interaction Domain" (W3C member-only link), W3C Advisory Council Meeting, Cambridge
November 2002, "Interaction Domain Introduction" (W3C member-only link), W3C Advisory Council Meeting, Cambridge
September 2002, Keynote "W3C: Das Web zwischen Forschung und Praxis", Informatik 2002, Dortmund
July 2002, "SMIL - An Introduction", SIGGRAPH 2002, San Antonio
June 2002, "Device Independence Activity", W3C Interop Tour, Brussels
May 2002, "Interaction Domain Report" (W3C member-only link), W3C Advisory Council Meeting, Honolulu
May 2002, "Interaction Domain Introduction" (W3C member-only link), W3C Advisory Council Meeting, Honolulu
March 2002, "Using XML for Voice Applications", Net 2002, Paris
March 2002, "Point sur les besoins des nouveaux terminaux sur le Web", Aristote Seminar, Paris

2001

November 2001, Keynote "The Future of Streaming Media on the Web", Streaming Media Japan 2001, Tokyo
November 2001, "Issues: Interaction Domain" (W3C member-only link), W3C Advisory Council Meeting, Nice
November 2001, "Interaction Domain Introduction" (W3C member-only link), W3C Advisory Council Meeting, Nice
October 2001, Tutorial "Future Web Interface Technologies", SBMIDIA 2001, Florionapolis
August 2001, "Synchronized Multimedia at W3C", Summer School "Production et Diffusion sur l'Internet de Documents Multimedia Synchronisé, Autrans
June 2001, "SMIL - Un Introduction" (SMIL - An Introduction, in French), University of Montpellier, Montpellier
May 2001, "Architecture Domain Overview", W3C Advisory Council Meeting, Hong Kong
February 2001, "Multimedia Applications based on SMIL", European Broadcasting Union XML Seminar, Geneva
February 2001, "Towards Streaming Media Interoperability", Japanese Society for Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities, Tokyo
January 2001, "Towards Streaming Media Interoperability", International Development Institute Streaming Media Seminar, Paris

2000

December 2000, "Architecture Domain Overview", W3C German Meeting, Bonn
November 2000, "Architecture Domain Overview", W3C Advisory Council Meeting, Cambridge
October 2000, "The W3C Architecture Domain", Opening of W3C Office in Morroco, EMI, Rabat
September 2000, "SMIL - Multimedia For Everyone", Keynote at XML Seminar Pro-Solutions, Helsinki
September 2000, "XML - A Tour d'Horizon", XML Seminar Pro-Solutions, Helsinki
September 2000, "XML and Web Architecture", Keynote at Barclay's Bank Technology Seminar, London
May 2000, "Architecture Domain Overview", W3C Advisory Council Meeting, Amsterdam
March 2000, "The Audiovisual Web", NEC seminar, Tokyo
February 2000, "The Audiovisual Web", Imagina, Monaco

1999

December 1999, "Overview Web Architecture Domain", W3C French Member Meeting, Paris
November 1999, "Architecture Domain Overview", W3C Advisory Council Meeting, Cambridge
October 1999, Keynote "Multimedia Activities at the World Wide Web Consortium", Eurecom/Hitachi Seminar, Sophia-Antipolis
September 1999, "XML: Hot Topics", WAP Forum meeting, London
March 1999, "Web Architecture: Hot Topics", Opening of Italian W3C Office, Pisa
May 1999, "SMIL: Multimedia for Everyone", WWW8 Conference, Toronto
May 1999, "Television and the Web", WWW8 Conference, Toronto
May 1999, "Architecture Domain Overview", W3C Advisory Council Meeting, Toronto
May 1999, "Television and the Web Activity", Highlight presentation at W3C Advisory Council Meeting, Toronto

1998

November 1998, "The Web of the Next Millennium", Keio University Open Day, Tokyo
November 1998, "Architecture Domain Overview", W3C Advisory Council Meeting, Kyoto
September 1998, "Making the Web Come Alive", Lucent Bell Labs, Murray Hill
August 1998, "Integrating SDP Functionality into SMIL", IETF MMUSIC WG Meeting, Chicago
May 1998, "SMIL - The Inside Story", RealNetworks Conference, San Francisco
February 1998, "Making the Web Come Alive", Imagina, Monaco

1997

December 1997, "Laying Foundations - W3C Architecture Domain", Opening of UK W3C Office, London
November 1997, "Making the Web Come Alive", Columbia University Seminar, New York
November1997, "SMIL - Making the Web Come Alive", Intel Architecture Labs Seminar, Hillsboro
November 1997, "SMIL - Making the Web come Alive", ACM Multimedia '97, Birds of a Feather Session on SMIL, Seattle
October 1997, "Making the Web Come Alive", INRIA XML Seminar, Sophia-Antipolis
September 1997, "Making the Web Come Alive", ATT Labs Seminar, Murray Hill
June 1997, "Synchronized Multimedia Activity" (W3C member-only link), Highlight at W3C Advisory Council Meeting, Tokyo
February 1997, "Working on Standards for Video&Audio Streaming", Broadcast@Internet IBC conference, London

Publications

Journals

Hoschka, P. (1998). Compact and Efficient Presentation Conversion Code. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. IEEE Transactions on Networking, Vol. 6, No. 4 (pp. 389-396).

Hoschka, P. (1998). An Introduction to the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language, IEEE Multimedia , Vol. 5, No. 4, Oct.-Dec (pp. 84 -88).

Hoschka, P. (1997). Towards Synchronized Multimedia on the Web, World Wide Web Journal, Vol. 2, No. 2

Bolot, J. & Hoschka, P. (1996). Performance Engineering of the World Wide Web: Application to dimensioning and cache design. Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, vol. 28 (pp. 645-651).

Refereed Conferences

Hoschka, P. & Smith, M. (2007) Best Practices: Making Mobile Browsing Better. In MobileHCI07 - Workshop on Mobile Internet User Experience, Singapore, 2007.

Hoschka, P. , & Froumentin, M. (2004) What Graphics Designers should know about the Mobile Web. In SIGGRAPH 2004.

Hoschka, P. (2002). SMIL - An Introduction. In SIGGRAPH 2002 Conference Abstracts and Applications, (pp. 321).

Hoschka, P. (1996). Automating Performance Optimisation by Heuristic Analysis of a Formal Specification. In Reinhard Gotzhein, Jan Bredereke (Ed.), IFIP Formal Description Techniques IX, (pp. 77-92).

Castellucia, C., & Hoschka, P. (1995). A Compiler-Based Approach to Protocol Optimization. In S.-P. Chang (Ed.), Third Workshop on High Performance Communication Subsystems, (pp. 73-78).

Hoschka, P. & Huitema, C. (1994). Automatic Generation of Optimized Code for Marshalling Routines. In Manual Medina & N. Borenstein (Ed.), IFIP TC6/WG6.5 International Working Conference on Upper Layer Protocols, Architectures and Applications, (pp. 131-146).

Hoschka, P. & Huitema, C. (1993). Control Flow Graph Analysis for Automatic Fast Path Implementation. In A. Tantawy (Ed.), Second Workshop on High Performance Communication Subsystems, (pp. 29-33).

Hoschka, P. (1993). Towards Tailoring Protocols to Application Specific Requirements. In IEEE INFOCOM '93, (pp. 647-653).

Contact

E-mail: ph@w3.org
Fax: +33 (0) 4 92 38 78 22
Mail: W3C/INRIA, 2004, Route des Lucioles, B.P. 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis, France

Philipp Hoschka, ph@w3.org

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