The executive management and select technical staff members of the
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
will be at WWW7 to present the sole "Annual
Report" to the broader Web community on the history, overview, accomplishments
and next steps of key activities within the Consortium's four technical
Domains:
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Architecture,
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User Interface,
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Technology & Society,
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Web Accessibility Initiative.
Tim Berners-Lee, W3C
Director and inventor of the World Wide Web, will deliver
WWW7's opening keynote speech and kickoff the three-day W3C
Track. As in past WWW conferences, following each presentation will be
a panel discussion with W3C
staff, working group chairs, and invited industry experts. Following the
positive response at last year's WWW6
conference, the W3C
Track will close with a "Town Hall" session with W3C
executive management, allowing the community to offer feedback on W3C's
direction and representation.
Confirmed W3C representatives participating at WWW7
include members of the technical staff, visiting engineers from W3C Member
organizations, and management. The executive management includes:
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Tim Berners-Lee, Director
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Jean-François Abramatic, Chairman;
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Nobuo Saito, Associate Chairman;
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Alan Kotok, Associate Chairman Acting Technology & Society Domain
Leader;
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Vincent Quint, Deputy Director for Europe and User Interface Domain Leader;
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Tatsuya Hagino, Deputy Director for Asia;
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Judy Brewer, Director of the Web Accessibility Initiative International
Program Office;
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Dan Connolly, Architecture Domain Leader;
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Sally Khudairi, Head of Communications
Leading the World Wide Web to its full potential, the W3C
was created to develop common protocols that enhance the interoperability
and promote the evolution of the Web. It is an international industry consortium
jointly run by the :
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MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) in the USA,
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the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA)
in France
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Keio University in Japan.
Services provided by the Consortium include: a repository of information
about the World Wide Web for developers and users; reference code implementations
to embody and promote standards; and various prototype and sample applications
to demonstrate use of new technology. To date, over 235 organizations are
Members of the Consortium.
DAY 1-- Wednesday, April 15
* W3C - Leading the Web to its Full Potential - Presented by:
Jean-François
Abramatic
* W3C Architecture Domain - Presented by: Dan Connolly
* HTTP - NG: Web Characterization - Presented by: Jim Pitkow,
Xerox PARC
* HTTP - NG: Protocol Design - Presented by: Henrik Frystyk
Nielsen
* Extensible Markup Language (XML) - Presented by: Dan Connolly
* Developments and Extensions in Jigsaw - Presented by: Daniel
Veillard
and Yves Lafon
* Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) - Presented
by:
Dick Bulterman, CWI; Mark Hakkinen,
Productivity Works;
and George Kerscher, Daisy Consortium
Day 2 -- Thursday, April 16
* User Interface Domain Overview - Presented by: Vincent Quint
* The Future of HTML - Presented by: Dave Raggett and Tatsuya
Hagino
* Internationalization (I18N) - Presented by: Bert Bos and Martin
Duerst
* Cascading Style Sheets, eXtensible Style Language, Fonts,
and Graphics
- Presented by: Håkon Lie and Chris Lilley
* Document Object Model (DOM) - Presented by: Lauren Wood, SoftQuad
* Amaya - A Complete Web Authoring and Browsing Environment
- Presented
by: Irène Vatton,
* W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) - Presented by: Judy
Brewer and
Daniel Dardailler
DAY 3 -- Friday, April 17
* W3C Technology & Society Domain - Presented by: Alan Kotok
* Resource Description Framework (RDF) - Presented By: Josef
Dietl
* Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) - Presented by: Lorrie
Faith
Cranor, AT&T
* Electronic Commerce - Presented by: Josef Dietl
* W3C Town Hall Session - Presented by the W3C Executive Management
For more information about W3C, see http://www.w3.org/Conferences/WWW7/W3CTrack
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