Curriculum Vitae: Håkon Wium Lie

Formal education

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Christian August high school.

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Østfold College, DH-candidate, Computer Science

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West Georgia College: BS in computer science

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MS in Visual Studies I held a Research Assistantship in the MIT Media Lab and worked for Walter Bender in the Electronic Publishing group. Title of thesis: The Electronic Broadsheet - All the News that fits the Display.

Work experience

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OECD Halden Reactor Project (Halden, Norway)

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Norwegian Telecom Research (Kjeller, Norway): I participated in the Texas project, programming a desktop manager under unix/X11

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Sun Microsystems (Mt.View, California) I was a summer student working in the OpenWindows group with James Gosling and others. My main achievement was to write a pinball game using only the X11 OpenLook toolkit.

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Norwegian Telecom Research (Kjeller, Norway): I held a Research Scientist position. Projects I was involved in included aspects of Graphical User Interfaces, Virtual Reality, Distributed Information Systems, Electronic News Distribution, Computer Supported Cooperative Work. I was also the guest editor of one issue of Telektronikk; Norwegian Telecom's technical journal. The electronic version earned an honorable mention in the Best of Web `94

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CERN (Geneva, Switzerland): I was a scientific associate in the WWW project working for Tim Berners-Lee. I co-developed Arena, a testbed HTML3 browser. Also, I was the technical coordinator of the CERN WWW development team.

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INRIA (Sophia Antipolis, France): As the first W3C employee at INRIA/Sophia-Antipolis, I coordinated the a rapidly expnding technical team. Also, I was the W3C area leader for Style Sheets and a lead architect of Cascading Style Sheets.