Tim Berners-Lee has served as Director of the World Wide
Web Consortium (W3C) since its inception. A graduate of Oxford University,
England, Tim is a Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Laboratory for Computer
Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL). With a background of system
design in real-time communications and text processing software development, in
1989 he invented the World Wide Web, an Internet-based hypermedia initiative
for global information sharing. While working at CERN, the European Particle
Physics Laboratory, he wrote the first Web client (browser-editor), first Web
server, and first version of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) in 1990.
Steve Bratt joined the World Wide Web Consortium in
January 2002, serving first as COO and now CEO. He has primary responsibility
for worldwide operations and outreach, including overall management of Member
relations, the W3C Process, the Team, strategic planning, budget, legal
matters, external liaisons and major events. Prior to joining the W3C, Steve
held leadership and research positions within industry and government, and
served on scientific and arms control delegations. Steve received his
Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his B.S. from the
Pennsylvania State University.
Noritoshi Demizu was deeply involved in establishing
the W3C Asia Host.
Martin J. Dürst is
Associate Professor at the Department of Integrated Information Technology at
Aoyama Gakuin University, doing research on Web architecture, Web technology,
and software internationalization. He chairs the W3C Internationalization
Interest Group and co-chairs the IETF LTRU Working Group. From 1998 to 2005, based at Keio University (Japan),
Martin led the W3C Internationalization Activity. From 2002 to 2004, he was a
Visiting Scientist at LCS/CSAIL at MIT (USA). Martin has contributed to a
large number of Web and Internet standards, starting with HTML
Internationalization. Martin earned a masters degree from the University of
Zürich and a Dr. sc. from the University of Tokyo.
Ivan Herman graduated as a mathematician from the
Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest, Hungary, in 1979.
After a brief scholarship at the Université Paris VI he joined the
Hungarian research institute in computer science (SZTAKI) where he worked for
6 years. He left Hungary in 1986 and, after a few years in industry, he
joined the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Sciences (CWI) in Amsterdam
where he has held a tenure position since 1988. He received a PhD degree in
Computer Science in 1990 at the Leiden University, in the Netherlands. Ivan
joined the W3C team as Head of Offices in January 2001 while maintaining his
position at CWI. He served as Head of Offices until June 2006, when he was
asked to take the Semantic Web Activity Lead position.
Masayasu Ishikawa joined the W3C at Keio-SFC in June
1997. Masayasu is a Team Contact for the Compound Document Formats Working
Group.
Keith Jeffery, ERCIM President, is currently Director,
IT of CCLRC (Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils),
based at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK. Keith holds a BSc in Geology,
a Ph.D. in Geology and is a Fellow of both the Geological Society of London
and the British Computer Society. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Irish
Computer Society and a trustee emeritus (past secretary and vice-president)
of the Endowment Board of the VLDB (Very Large Database) Conference, and is a
member of the boards controlling the EDBT (Extending Database Technology)
conference, CAiSE (Conference on Advanced Systems Engineering) and OOIS
(Object-Oriented Information Systems) conference.
Kazuhito Kidachi is a corporate officer and
a front-end engineer at Mitsue-Links, a Tokyo-based information integration
company. He creates standards-friendly Web sites for Mitsue-Links' clients,
and he's also enthusiastic about being a Web standards advocate. He is a
member of the Web Standards Project (WaSP) and is doing some translation work as
a liaison in Japan. He has acted as a supervising editor for the
Japanese editions of several foreign books on Web standards.
Jiro Kokuryo, is a Professor at Keio
University's Faculty of Public Management as well as its Graduate School of
Media and Governance. He also serves as the Executive Director of Keio
Research Institute at SFC (Shonan Fujisawa Campus). His research and
teaching interests center on the development of business and social models
that maximize the benefits of information technologies. He is particularly
active in studying effective uses of open systems. He received many awards
for his academic work including awards from the Japan Society for Management Information
(annual best paper award) and the Telecommunications Advancement Foundation
(Telecommunications Social Science Award).
Shinichi Matsui is a councilor at Corporate
R&D Strategy Office, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Panasonic).
He has been a participant in the W3C HTML Working Group since 1998, and is a
co-editor of XHTML Basic (1.0). Shinichi's ongoing interests are in applying
Web technologies to digital appliances and working on those kinds of
products, including mobile phones, digital TV sets and even microwave ovens.
Shinichi joined the Team as a visiting engineer and W3C Fellow at Keio University
in 1998-1999.
Jun Murai is a Professor, Faculty of
Environmental Information, Keio University, since April 1997, and a Vice-President
of Keio University since May 2005. He was an Executive Director of Keio
Research Institute at SFC, Keio University, from 1999 to 2005. He was
appointed an advisory member of IT Strategy Headquarters
in August 2000, to the Information Security Policy Council
in May 2005, and a member of the Science Council of Japan in
October 2005. He received the 2005 Jonathan B. Postel Service Award from the
Internet Society on 16 August 2005.
Makoto Murata was a member of the original W3C XML Working Group,
which designed XML 1.0. He contributed to RELAX NG (an XML schema language),
XML Japanese profile, and IETF RFC 3023 (XML media types). He
received the best paper award from the Japanese Internet Conference in 1998 and the
Industrial Achievement Award from the Information Processing Society of Japan.
Masafumi Nakane was a member of the W3C Team from 1997 to
April 2001. Prior to joining W3C, he was already participating in
some of the activities of the Web Accessibility Initiative as a researcher in
the area of information accessibility. He continues to take part in WAI
activities and devotes time and effort to raising awareness about Web
accessibility and WAI activities in Japan.
Takeshi Natsuno, Senior Vice President of
NTT DoCoMo, is responsible for developing the business strategy of all DoCoMo
multimedia related services including i-mode strategic alliances with global
application/content providers and key Internet players. Mr. Natsuno, one of
the key developers of the i-mode business model, managed the Japan launch of
i-mode in 1999. The service has achieved tremendous success, attracting more
than 45 million subscribers to date while pioneering the world's non-voice
communications market. Widely regarded as a leading expert on the Internet
and multimedia, he was named one of the world's 25 most influential
e-business leaders by Business Week in 2001.
Kishik Park is the manager
of the W3C Korea Office. He is currently Vice President of ETRI
(Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) for IT Services
Research Division and the Chairman of SG3 of ITU-T after serving an 8 year
Vice-Chairmanship of ITU-T TSAG (Telecommunications Standardization Advisory
Group) together with its WP3 Chairmanship since 1996. He is a member of the
advisory board of APT Standardization Program (ASTAP) regionally, and
chairman of strategic planning of committee of TTA (Telecommunications
Technology Association of Korea) domestically.
Nobuo Saito directs the W3C team at Keio
University, where he established the third Consortium host in September 1996.
He also serves as 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.
Toshihiro Takada is a Senior
Researcher at NTT Communication Science Labs., Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
Corp. He was deeply involved in establishing the W3C Asia Host.
Satoru Takagi is a researcher and developer
at the YRP Ubiquitous Networking Laboratory where his research interests include
Web Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) and Web Mapping Systems. In 1996, he
invented a distributed GIS which can overlay a map of graphic layers on the Web.
The system's technology was incorporated into the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
1.1 specification and opened to the public. He is now developing and trying to
standardize a new Web
GIS and Web Mapping System using Semantic Web architecture, to enhance a human- and machine-understandable geospatial
information system. His standardization activities include participation in the
W3C Geospatial Incubator Group as an Invited Expert, PlaceXML standardization
for Japan Industrial Standard and ISO TC211.
Eva Tam
received her Master's degree in International Business Management at the City
University of Hong Kong in 1998. She has been working in the Department of
Computer Science and Engineering of HKUST since 1994. In April 2004, Eva
took additional responsibility as Administrator for the W3C Office in Hong
Kong. She handles all Membership related matters and coordinates the
office's activities.
Toshihiko Yamakami is Senior Specialist, Product
Strategy Management, ACCESS, engaged in Application Layer Standardization
for 20 years. Prior to joining ACCESS in 1999, he worked for NTT
Laboratories in research and standardization. He was ISO SC18/WG4 Japanese
National Body Chair, Information Processing Society Groupware SIG vice-chair,
W3C XHTML Basic Co-editor, and WAP Forum WML 2.0 Editor. He was a Guest Professor at
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology.
Du Zongxia is a teacher at Beihang University where she received her Doctor's degree in Computer Science and Technology in 2005. She specializes in network midware and Web services. She has more than 10 academic papers published in various core journals as well as conferences of worldwide influence. She is in charge of operations at the W3C China Office.
W3C thanks our sponsors for their generous support of the W3C10 Asia.
For further information about the symposium please contact:
Asia
Yasuyuki Hirakawa
chibao@w3.org
tel: +81.466.49.1170
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Marie-Claire
Forgue
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+33.4.92.38.75.94
Americas, Australia and Elsewhere
Ian Jacobs
ij@w3.org
tel:
+1.718.260.9447