Dan Connolly
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.
Contacting Me ...
- In Person: I'm affiliated with the MIT/CSAIL host site, but I usually work in a remote office in the vicinity of the Kansas City International Airport (39.2975, -94.7139). 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.
Aside: Email Integrity and Confidentiality
I'm studying DigitalSignatureDeployment. My key is 6E52C29E, since May 2002. It used to expire 2005-05-06, until Sep 2004 when KjetilK helped me figure out Updating a key's expiration time. I made key 27B7C2C9 back on 1995/07/18 but I sorta lost track of the secret key.
Misc Writings and Talks
-
Semantic Web Tutorial Using N3
Berners-Lee,
Connolly, Hawke 2003
including Semantic Web Travel Tools
- Celebrating OWL interoperability and spec quality
- Semantic Web Data Integration with hCalendar and GRDDL presentation at XML 2005.
- RDF Calendar - an application of the Resource Description Framework to iCalendar Data, Connolly and Miller September 2005
- Specifying Web Architecture with Larch 9th International World Wide Web Conference Amsterdam May 2000
See also older and pubs/writings, research notebook, software notes.