Curriculum Vitae: Håkon Wium Lie
Born 26 July 1965, Halden, Norway
Formal education
- 81-83
- Christian August high school.
- 84-86
- Østfold College, DH-candidate, Computer Science
- 86-87
- West Georgia College: BS in computer science
- 89-91
- 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
- 87-88
- OECD Halden Reactor Project (Halden, Norway)
- 88-89
- Norwegian Telecom Research (Kjeller, Norway): I
participated in the Texas project, programming a desktop manager under
unix/X11
- 90
- 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.
- 91-94
- 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
- 94-95
- 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.
- 95->
- 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.