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<h1>W3C Alumni</h1>
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<h3>Jean-François Abramatic</h3>

<p>Jean-François was Chairman of the World Wide Web Consortium from 1996 to
2001. Formerly Associate Director of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
(1997-1998) and Director of Development and Industrial Relations at INRIA
(1992- 1999), he was responsible for establishing the European branch of W3C in
partnership with MIT LCS in 1995. He was the General Chairman of the Fifth
International World Wide Web Conference which was held in Paris in May 1996.</p>

<p>Jean-François was asked by the French government to prepare a report
entitled "Développement Technique de l'Internet". The report was published in
June 1999.</p>

<p>His areas of expertise include networking, image processing and graphics.
Jean-François received his Master's degree from Ecole des Mines in Nancy and
his PhD from the University of Paris VI.</p>

<h3>Pamela Ahern</h3>

<p>Pamela joined W3C at MIT as Senior Office Assistant at MIT to assist Susan
Hardy with W3C office administration. She was with W3C from September 1996
through December 1997.</p>

<h3>José Manuel Alonso</h3>

<p>José came to W3C as a W3C Fellow in January 2007 working in the Technology
and Society Domain. José is employed by <a
href="http://www.fundacionctic.org/">Fundación CTIC</a> who sponsor his W3C
fellowship. The purpose of the fellowship is to understand specific government
and citizens' needs related to eGovernment services, identify eGovernment
aspects that put Web interoperability at risk, to suggest how governments can
deliver better and more efficient services through computer technologies, and
to coordinate discussions and actions for possible future efforts of the
Consortium in eGovernment.</p>

<p>Prior to joining W3C, José was the manager of the <a
href="http://www.w3c.es/">W3C Spain Office</a> for three years and also served
as the Advisory Committee Representative for CTIC.</p>

<p>José received Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Masters degree in
Enterprise Application Integration, both from the <a
href="http://euitio.uniovi.es/" hreflang="es">University of Oviedo</a>, where
he also worked at its Research and Innovation departments as a researcher,
developer and teacher. He also worked previously as consultant and even founded
his own Web company back in 1997.</p>

<p>José left W3C in September 2009</p>

<h3>Andrew Arch</h3>

<p>Andrew joined W3C in November 2007 as the Web Accessibility and Ageing
Specialist to work on the European Commission funded <a
href="/WAI/WAI-AGE/">WAI-AGE project</a>. The objectives of this project were
to increase the accessibility of the Web for those with accessibility needs
related to ageing within European Union Member States and around the world.
This project coordinates closely with the WAI <a href="/WAI/EO/">Education and
Outreach</a> working group.</p>

<p>Prior to joining W3C, Andrew worked at <a
href="http://www.visionaustralia.org/ais/">Vision Australia</a> for seven years
leading a team that provided consulting, reviewing and training services around
Web accessibility. He was heavily involved with W3C WAI during this time.</p>

<p>Andrew left W3C in September 2010.</p>

<h3>Takuya Asada</h3>

<p>Takyua completed his Master's degree in image processing and color
representation from the Information &amp; Computer Science department at Chiba
University. He has worked as a programmer and system administrator for over two
years before joining W3C at Keio-SFC in October 1997.</p>

<p>Takuya left W3C in October 2000.</p>

<h3>Katsutoshi Asaki</h3>

<p>Katsu was a W3C Fellow from Hitachi from September 2007 to September 2008.
Katsu received a study grant from Hitachi to join the Team at MIT to work on
infrastructure tools for enterprise deployment of Semantic Web technologies.</p>

<p>Katsu is a software engineer working on Hitachi's enterprise information
systems.</p>

<h3>Anselm Baird-Smith</h3>

<p>Anselm worked at W3C from October 1995 through August 1997 to design and
implement <a href="../Jigsaw/">Jigsaw</a>, W3C's award-winning object oriented
Java-based server software. His interests include communication protocols,
distributed objects and scripting languages. Anselm received his Ph.D. in
Computer Science from Universite de Jussieu, Paris VI.</p>

<h3>Art Barstow</h3>

<p>Art had been a W3C Team member since May, 2000 (part of that time was as
Visiting Fellow).</p>

<p>Prior to this current position, he worked on a <a
href="http://www.wapforum.org">WAP</a> simulation toolkit and a WAP browser at
<a href="http://www.nokia.com">Nokia</a> . He also has worked at the <a
href="http://www.x.org/">X Consortium</a> and at <a
href="http://www.hp.com">Hewlett-Packard</a>.</p>

<p>Art was a member of the Technology and Society Domain's <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/">Semantic Web Activity</a> and a member of the
<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/">RDF Core Working Group</a> . He
was also a member of the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/sw/">Semantic Web
Advanced Development</a> group.</p>

<p>Art left W3C in November 2001.</p>

<h3><a name="Bertot" id="Bertot">Janet Bertot</a></h3>

<p>Janet joined the W3C-Sophia team in January 1997, to work part-time with Luc
Ottavj and Stephane Boyera on system administration.</p>

<h3><a name="birkenbihl" id="birkenbihl">Klaus Birkenbihl</a></h3>

<p>Klaus, based in Germany, graduated as mathematician at the <a
href="http://www.uni-bonn.de/">University of Bonn</a> in 1974. He joined the
German research institute in computer science (GMD) where he worked since then
in several areas. After a few years of research on software technology he was
appointed head of GMD's computer center Bonn in 1980. He gave lectures on
computer science at the <a href="http://www.uni-koeln.de/">University of
Cologne</a> and the <a href="http://www.fh-brs.de/">University of Applied
Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg</a>. He acted as head of the network engineering group
and the competence center "Computer Networks and Society" in GMD and later in
<a href="http://www.imk.fraunhofer.de/en/index.html">Fraunhofer Institute for
Media Communication</a>. </p>

<p>Klaus has a strong computer networks background. Among other roles he was
founding member of the European Academic Research Network (EARN) and deputy
director of EARN Germany, member of the operational committee of the <a
href="http://www.dfn.de/content/index.php?id=74989&amp;L=2">German Research
Network (DFN)</a>, member of the <a
href="http://www.caster.xhost.de/Sj92str.htm">EASInet</a> steering committee
and chairman of the German Chapter of the <a
href="http://www.isoc.org/">Internet Society.</a> </p>

<p>Before joining the W3C team Klaus worked for W3C as head of the <a
href="http://www.w3c.de/">German/Austrian Office</a>, AB member, and AC rep of
<a href="http://www.fraunhofer.de/fhg/EN/index.jsp?mod=1">GMD/Fraunhofer</a>.
After leaving Fraunhofer launched his own company <a
href="http://www.ict-media.de/" hreflang="de">ict Media GmbH</a> from where he
works for W3C. As team member - on a part time basis - Klaus worked as
Coordinator of W3C World Offices. </p>

<p>Klaus left W3C in January 2011. </p>

<h3><a name="dbooth" id="dbooth">David Booth</a></h3>

<p>David was a W3C Fellow from Hewlett-Packard from 6-Feb-2002 through
15-Apr-2005. His main interests were Web Services and the Semantic Web.</p>

<p>He was alternate W3C Team Contact for the <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/desc/">Web Services Description Working
Group</a> and the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/arch/">Web Services
Architecture Working Group</a>, and edited the <a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl20-primer">Web Services Description Language
(WSDL) 2.0 Primer</a> and the <a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-ws-arch-20040211/">Web Services
Architecture</a>.</p>

<p>At HP, he is a Senior Research Architect. Previously, he was Director of
Training for Bluestone Software (until Bluestone was acquired by HP), and led
Bluestone's use of Web technologies for training purposes. He also served on
the W3C's Advisory Committee as Bluestone's representative. Before working at
Bluestone, he was a research scientist for ATT Bell labs.</p>
David has been programming for many years on a variety of operating systems,
currently preferring Java or Perl. 

<p>David holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA, where he specialized in
programming language design.</p>

<h3 id="bratt">Steve Bratt</h3>

<p>From January 2002 through June 2009, Steve served as the W3C Chief Operating
Officer, then Chief Executive Officer.</p>

<p>In October 2008, <a href="mailto:steve@webfoundation.org">Steve Bratt</a>
was named the first Chief Executive Officer of the <a
href="http://webfoundation.org/">World Wide Web Foundation</a>. The Web
Foundation is not-for-profit organization, founded by Web inventor Tim
Berners-Lee, focused on connecting and empowering all people on the planet
through the Web, and ensuring that this powerful medium advances in a free and
open manner. Under the direction of the Board, Steve has primary responsibility
for launching the Foundation and for worldwide operations, including overall
management of strategic planning, programs, fund-raising, communications,
budget, legal matters, liaisons, and events.</p>

<p>Steve received his Ph.D. from the <a
href="http://www.mit.edu/">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a>, and his
B.S. from the <a href="http://www.psu.edu/">Pennsylvania State University</a>.
Prior to joining the W3C, Steve held leadership and research positions within
industry and government, and served on scientific and arms control delegations.
In 1997, he was named Coordinator of the <a
href="http://www.ctbto.org/">Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
Organization's</a> International Data Centre in Vienna, Austria. There he was
responsible for establishing the data center, global communications
infrastructure, and standards for data exchange between more than 300
world-wide sensors and 170 nations. From 1984 to 1997, Steve led research
initiatives -- first at <a href="http://www.saic.com/">Science Applications
International Corporation</a> and then as a program manager at <a
href="http://www.darpa.mil/">Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency</a> --
to develop advanced concepts for real-time global sensor monitoring,
intelligent data analysis and international telecommunications. Steve also held
the position of Research Scientist within MIT's <a
href="http://www.csail.mit.edu/">Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory</a>. </p>

<h3><a name="danbri" id="danbri">Dan Brickley</a></h3>

<p>Dan worked mainly on the Semantic Web, with a side interest in Web Services
technology, particular service description and composition. Dan was chair of
the RDF Interest Group, co-editor of the RDF Schema Specification, and has a
background in digital library research and services.</p>

<p>He was in charge of coordinating W3C's involvement in the Semantic Web
Advanced Development for Europe (SWAD-Europe) project.</p>

<p>Dan left W3C in February 2006.</p>

<h3><a name="Bruyeron" id="Bruyeron">Renaud Bruyeron</a></h3>

<p>Renaud holds an engineering degree from the "Grande Ecole" <a
href="http://www.ecp.fr/">Ecole Centrale de Paris</a>, and a Master of Sciences
degree in Computer Science from <a href="http://www.ucla.edu/">UCLA</a>. He
worked in UCLA's <a href="http://irl.cs.ucla.edu/">Internet Research
Laboratory</a> on TCP performance issues.</p>

<p>In his spare time, Renaud likes to torture Linux systems.</p>

<h3>Michael Carmack</h3>

<p>Michael joined the Team as a Systems programmer. He left in July 2001.</p>

<h3>Catherine Chat</h3>

<p>Catherine worked with the Consortium from July - December 1996 to promote
the W3C activities exploiting and demonstrating the potential of its
developments. Her charter included working on an application-oriented branch of
the W3C website dedicated to Web users.</p>

<p>Catherine holds a Masters degree in Software Engineering and a Ph.D. in
Earth Sciences which doesn't have much to do with the Web except wonderful
World Wide experiences.</p>

<p>Catherine was the Webmaster of the Fifth International World Wide Web
Conference.</p>

<h3><a name="wendy" id="wendy">Wendy Chisholm</a></h3>

<p>Wendy joined the W3C in October 1999 to coordinate the development of tools
and create guidelines to increase the accessibility of the Web for people with
disabilities. As a human factors engineer at the Trace Center at the University
of Wisconsin, she investigated the accessibility of emerging Web trends and
technologies. She was co-editor of the W3C's Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines 1.0 and is the W3C Team Contact for the WCAG WG and co-editor of
WCAG 2.0. Wendy has a background in Industrial Engineering, Computer Science,
and Psychology.</p>

<h3>Eui-Suk Chung</h3>

<p>Eui-Suk joined W3C in August 1996 on secondment from <a
href="http://www.ericsson.com">Ericsson Telecom</a>. Before joining W3C, he was
working on query processing for object-oriented database systems at the <a
href="http://www.pmg.lcs.mit.edu">Programming Methodology Group</a> at the MIT
Laboratory for Computer Science. He was a visiting scientist on a grant from
Sweden.</p>

<p>Eui-Suk is interested in distributed systems, object-oriented database
systems, and programming languages. He is interested in most aspects of the
Web, and his work was focused on electronic commerce, real-time audio/video,
distributed computing and mobile code.</p>

<p>In October 1997, Eui-Suk returned full-time to Ericsson to launch the
Ericsson CyberLab. CyberLab partners include A.H. Belo, Hewlett-Packard,
Juniper Networks, Marimba, Mariposa, Moonfire, Oz, Silicon Graphics, and Sun
Microsystems.</p>

<div class="foaf-person">
<h3><a name="connolly" id="connolly" class="foaf-name"><span
class="foaf-given">Dan</span> <span class="foaf-family">Connolly</span></a>,
Technical Staff</h3>
</div>

<p>Dan Connolly was a <span class="title">research scientist</span> at the MIT
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (<a
rel="foaf-workplaceHomepage" href="http://www.csail.mit.edu/">CSAIL</a>) in the
Decentralized Information Group (<a rel="foaf-currentProject"
href="http://dig.csail.mit.edu/">DIG</a>) and a member of the technical staff
of the World Wide Web Consortium (<a class="org" rel="foaf-workplaceHomepage"
href="../../">W3C</a>). His research interest was investigating the value of
formal descriptions of complex systems like the Web, especially in the
consensus-building process.</p>

<p>Dan received bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the <a
href="http://www.utexas.edu/">University of Texas at Austin</a> in 1990. He
moved to the Dallas area to join <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convex_Computer">Convex Computer
Corporation</a> as a software engineer in 1991. From there, he began
collaborating across the Internet with <a href="../Berners-Lee/">Tim
Berners-Lee</a> on the World Wide Web project. He moved back to Austin to work
at Atrium, a start-up software company, in 1993. He joined <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Computer_Systems">HAL Computer
Systems</a> in 1994.</p>

<p>In 1995, Dan moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts to join the W3C staff at MIT.
From 1995 to 1997, during the intense struggle between Microsoft Internet
Explorer and Netscape Navigator, Dan chaired the working group that preserved
HTML as an open standard.</p>

<p>Since 1997, Dan has worked for MIT from his home, first in Austin, Texas and
later in the Kansas City area.</p>

<p>Dan left W3C in June of 2010.</p>

<h3>Beth Curran</h3>

<p>Beth was Jean-François Abramatic's administrative assistant, and maintained
the list of W3C Members. Prior to supporting Jean-François Abramatic, Beth was
assistant to Albert Vezza.</p>

<h3>Michelle Curry</h3>

<p>Michelle was Communications Assistant for the W3C MIT team.</p>

<p>Michelle left W3C in July 2001.</p>

<h3>Janet Daly</h3>

<p>Janet served the W3C Communications Team in multiple capacities over nine
years. She joined the team in February 1999 as Head of Public Relations and
directed the Communications Team from January 2000 through June 2004, helping
to develop strategic messaging, member relations and member communications,
working with the W3C Webmaster and Ian Jacobs on refinements for the the W3C
Publishing process, and leading W3C's media relations efforts. After returning
from maternity leave in October 2004, Janet served as Global Communications
Officer and continued her role as W3C spokesperson until her departure at the
end of 2007.</p>

<h3>François <a name="Daoust" id="Daoust">Daoust</a></h3>

<p>François Daoust joined W3C in December 2007 from Microsoft where he
integrated on-portal mobile search engine called MotionBridge he had developed
in a French start-up. From 2007 to 2010, he served as staff contact for the <a
href="/2005/MWI/BPWG/">Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group</a>. François
became co-Activity Lead for the <a href="/2011/webtv/Activity.html">Web and TV
Activity</a>. He served as staff contact for the <a href="/2011/webtv/">Web and
TV Interest Group</a> and for the <a href="/2011/04/webrtc/">Web Real-Time
Communications Working Group</a> created in May 2011. He contributed as a tutor
to the <a href="/Mobile/training/">online training sessions on Mobile Web
Application Best Practices</a>, maintained the online <a
href="http://validator.w3.org/mobile/">W3C mobileOK Checker</a>, and took part
in discussions and developments on cross-browser and cross-platform testing at
W3C.</p>

<p>François left W3C on 30 November 2011.</p>

<h3>Sally DeAngelis</h3>

<p>Sally DeAngelis joined the W3C in October 1999 as an assistant to the
administrative team. She also worked as a development and marketing consultant
to arts organizations. Sally has a Masters of Education in Creative Arts in
Learning from Lesley College. She dances with Back Pocket Dance, an
intergenerational performing group based in Cambridge, Mass., and various other
groups.</p>

<p>Sally left W3C in June 2001.</p>

<h3>Philip A. DesAutels</h3>

<p>Philip DesAutels was a project manager at MIT LCS responsible for W3C's work
on <a href="http://www.w3.org/Security/DSig/">digital signatures</a> and <a
href="http://www.w3.org/P3P/">privacy on the Web</a>. He joined W3C after
working for <a href="http://www.ac.com/">Andersen Consulting</a>, <a
href="http://www.s390.ibm.com/">IBM</a> and <a
href="http://www.jhancock.com/">John Hancock</a> where he has been a project
manager and management advisor. He also spent a year with the <a
href="http://http://www.peacecorps.gov/www/io/uzbekistan/uzbekistan.html">Pe
ace Corps in Uzbekistan</a>, where he helped to establish an electronic mail
infrastructure, taught business computing courses at Namangan Polytechnic
Institute and worked to develop other local industries. Philip's research
interests are in the area of social interactions on the Web and trust.</p>

<p>Philip holds an M.S. degree in <a
href="http://www.rpi.edu/dept/dses/www/aboutime.html">Industrial and Management
Engineering (IME)</a> from <a href="http://www.rpi.edu">Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute</a> where he worked for the <a
href="http://www.ssti.org/ny.htm">North East Manufacturing Technology
Center</a> and did research in exploratory data analysis.</p>

<h3><a name="Marisol" id="Marisol">Marisol Diaz</a></h3>

<p>Marisol was part of the Administrative team based in Cambridge, at MIT.
Marisol is fluent in Spanish and English. She was originally/primarily
responsible for organizing travel and accounting.<br />
Marisol joined the W3C-MIT Administrative Team in May of 2000 and left W3C on
August 2010. </p>

<h3><a name="Dietl" id="Dietl">Josef Dietl</a></h3>
<a href="/People/JDietl/">Josef</a> was responsible for W3C's Member Relations,
as well as leading the W3C Office activities worldwide. 

<p>Born in Munich, Germany, Josef completed his Master's Degree in Physics at
Technical University Munich and co-founded FITUG, the Förderverein
Informationstechnik und Gesellschaft (Association for the advancement of
information technology and society) at that time. Later, he joined CompuServe
in Munich to help them deal with illegal and potentially harmful content. Among
other responsibilities, he implemented PICS on their web pages and first got in
touch with the World Wide Web Consortium. In June 1997 Josef joined W3C to lead
the Electronic Commerce Activity, and handle Member Relations, originally in
Europe, now world wide.</p>

<p>Josef left W3C in December 1999.</p>

<h3><a name="karl" id="karl">Karl Dubost</a></h3>

<p>Karl Dubost was the Web Community Liaison of W3C. He joined in July 2000 as
Conformance Manager.</p>

<p>Karl holds in 1995 a DEA (Msc) in Astrophysics and Spatial Techniques at <a
href="http://www.obspm.fr/">Meudon Observatory</a> after a BSc in Physics at <a
href="http://www.umontreal.ca/">Montreal University</a>. He worked for various
companies and spent three years as webmaster/system manager/project manager in
the education field at <a href="http://www.paris.iufm.fr/">IUFM de Paris</a>.
He has also translated several <a href="http://www.la-grange.net/w3c/">W3C
Recommendations in french</a> as a volunteer.</p>

<p>Karl left W3C in December 2009</p>

<h3><a name="duerst" id="duerst"></a>Martin Dürst</h3>

<p>Martin joined the W3C Team at Keio-SFC in December 1997 to work on
Internationalization. From Nov. 2002 to March 2004, he was a Visiting Scientist
at MIT/LCS. During most of his time at the W3C, Martin was Activity Lead of the
Internationalization Activity. Prior to joining W3C, he was at the University
of Zurich, Department of Computer Science, and had been an active participant
within the HTML and CSS Working Groups as an invited expert on
internationalization.</p>

<p>Martin obtained his masters degree from the University of Zurich in computer
science, business administration, and Japanese studies. He has a Ph.D from the
University of Tokyo in computer science with a thesis on compression and
progressive transmission of images.</p>

<p>Martin left W3C in April 2005 for a position at <a
href="http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp/D%C3%BCrst/">Aoyama Gakuin University</a>.
He continues to chair the Internationalization Interest Group and participates
as an Invited Expert in several Internationalization-related Working groups.</p>

<h3><a name="Esplin" id="Esplin">Kathryn Esplin</a></h3>

<p>Kathryn Esplin joined W3C as a Communications Specialist on contract at MIT
from January until May 1998. Prior to joining W3C, Kathryn was a news reporter
for general-interest newspapers, and brought several years' experience as a
technical and business writer for leading computer journals. Kathryn also was
copy editor of <a
href="http://cseng.aw.com/bookdetail.qry?ISBN=0%2D201%2D17805%2D2&amp;ptype=0">Raggett
on HTML 4</a>. Kathryn was educated in Canada and the United States, with a
master of science in journalism from Northwestern University.</p>

<h3>Henri Fallon</h3>

<p>Henri began as Webmaster while he was completing his studies at the French
<a href="http://www.ecp.fr/">Ecole Centrale Paris</a>. He was part of both the
systeam &amp; the comm team</p>

<p>Henri left W3C in August 2003</p>

<h3 id="feng">Patrick Feng</h3>

<p>Patrick joined the W3C team in May 2000 as research assistant in the
Technology and Society domain. He works primarily on privacy issues and P3P.
Patrick is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY.</p>

<p>Patrick left W3C in August 2000.</p>

<h3>Roy Fielding</h3>

<p>Roy is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Information and Computer Science
at the University of California, Irvine. His work on the World-Wide Web project
began in 1993 while developing tools for web maintenance. He created the
wwwstat httpd log analyzer, the Multi-Owner Maintenance Spider (MOMspider), and
the WWW protocol library for clients written in perl (libwww-perl).</p>

<p>Roy has been an active participant in the IETF standardization of the WWW
protocols (HTTP,HTML, and URI). He is the author of the Internet Proposed
Standard on Relative Uniform Resource Locators (RFC 1808) and co-author of the
HTTP/1.x Specifications. He was a Visiting Scholar at MIT/LCS + W3C during the
Summer of `95 and continues to work with the W3C team on various standards
issues.<br />
</p>

<h3>Pierre Fillault</h3>

<p>A visiting engineer from Aerospatiale, Pierre <a
href="mailto:fillault@w3.org"></a>joined W3C's Communications Team in May 1997
as a member of the Webmaster team, and its technical lead after after December
1997. He left W3C in August 1998.</p>

<p>Pierre worked in Aerospatiale's Image Processing Department in France. He
holds an engineering degree from the "grande ecole" Supelec and a Master of
Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign.</p>

<h3>Ron Fink</h3>

<p>Ron Fink joined the W3C administrative team at MIT in May 1998. Prior to
working for W3C he was refurbishing computer monitors for a surplus electronics
firm in Marlboro, MA. He has also worked producing presentation graphics for a
small consulting firm in Cambridge. Ron was born and raised in the Boston area.
He attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY and also lived in
Portland, Oregon for six years.</p>

<h3><a name="fonteneau" id="fonteneau">Christelle Fonteneau</a></h3>

<p>Christelle was a W3C Administrative Assistant based in Europe at INRIA. She
was in charge of the administration of European Members. Christelle joined the
team in 2001 and left in January 2003.</p>

<h3>Daichi Funato</h3>

<p>Daichi was a system administrator for the W3C Keio team. He contributed to
build the global W3C network and system.</p>

<p>Daichi left W3C in April 1998.</p>

<h3><a name="mf" id="mf">Max Froumentin</a></h3>

<p>Max joined W3C at INRIA in July 2000. Prior to that, he completed a PhD in
computer graphics in 1996 at University of Lille, France, and has worked for
three years as a research assistant at University of Bath, UK. His interests
are 2D and 3D graphics, styling and typography.</p>

<p>Max left the Team in February 2007.</p>

<h3><a name="yoshio" id="yoshio">Yoshio Fukushige</a></h3>

<p>Yoshio Fukushige was a W3C fellow at Keio University from Matsushita
Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Panasonic). He became a fellow in the Technology
and Society domain, in January, 2004.</p>

<p>His research area is natural language processing (NLP), and he is an
ex-member of the EDR project, a national project of Japan to build large-scale
dictionaries for NLP, such as machine translation. He has been interested in
probabilistic reasoning and its application in the Semantic Web. He holds a
Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Tokyo</p>

<p>Yoshio left the Team in February 2006.</p>

<h3><a name="matthieu" id="matthieu">Matthieu Fuzellier</a></h3>

<p><a href="http://www.mattiouz.com/people/matthieu/">Matthieu</a> joined the
W3C Systems Team in July 2004 as the W3C Webmaster replacing <a
href="/People/Vivien">Vivien Lacourba</a>. He spent 2 years at MIT (the US host
site of W3C) in Cambridge, MA.</p>

<p>He graduated from the Ecole Supérieure en Sciences Informatiques (<a
href="http://www.essi.fr">ESSI</a>) in Sophia-Antipolis, France in Dec 2004
with a Master's degree in Computer Science, specialized in Networks.</p>

<p>In 1999 he received a French <a
href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipl%C3%B4me_universitaire_de_technologie">D.U.T.</a>
(somewhat equivalent to a Bachelor's Degree) in Computer Networks and
Telecommunications and in 2000 he received a French <a
href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipl%C3%B4me_universitaire_de_technologie">D.U.T.</a>
in Computer Programming, both from the <a
href="http://www.iutv.univ-paris13.fr/">Paris XIII University</a> in
Villetaneuse, France.</p>

<h3><a name="jg" id="jg">Jim Gettys</a></h3>

<p><a href="Gettys">Jim Gettys</a> joined W3C in July 1995 on secondment from
<a href="http://www.digital.com/">Digital Equipment Corporation</a>'s Industry
Standards and Consortia Group. Jim is one of the authors of <a
href="http://www.research.digital.com/CRL/projects/AF/home.html">AF</a>, a
network transparent audio server system, and one of the principle authors of
the <a href="http://www.x.org/">X Window System</a>.</p>

<p>Jim's interests and experience span systems design and implementation,
collaborative systems, teleconferencing and most areas of Web technology. He is
interested in making the Web more usable in high latency and low bandwidth
situations (home and mobile use).</p>

<p>Jim left W3C in February 2000.</p>

<h3><a name="bgilman" id="bgilman">Brian Gilman</a></h3>

<p>Brian Gilman joined W3C in January 2006 to work in the Semantic Web area.</p>

<p>Brian left W3C in July 2006.</p>

<h3>Tom Greene</h3>

<p>Tom joined W3C as manager of Special Projects in January 1995. His work
included communication and assistance to Consortium Members. At MIT LCS since
1986, Tom was manager of Project Scout, and returned to LCS full time as
Manager of Special Projects in January 1998. Prior to that, he taught physics
and computer science as an Associate Professor in the College of Engineering at
the University of Petroleum and Minerals in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.</p>

<h3>Ramzi Guetari</h3>

<p>Ramzi graduated from the University of Nantes with a degree in Computer
Science, and obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Savoie. He was working
on Object-Oriented Languages, Parallelism and concurrency; and is also
interested in compilers.</p>

<p>He joined INRIA in October 1995 and the Amaya team at W3C in October
1996.</p>

<h3><a name="hugo" id="hugo">Hugo Haas</a></h3>

<p><a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Hugo/">Hugo Haas</a> joined W3C in June
1999 as Webmaster and later integrated to the Architecture Domain team. He
became <a href="http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/">Web Services Activity</a> Lead when
the Activity was started in January 2002, and worked on SOAP 1.2, WSDL 2.0, Web
Services Addressing 1.0, and Web Services Architecture. Hugo left the W3C Team
on 31 May 2006 to join <a href="http://www.yahoo.com/">Yahoo!</a>. His email
address is <a href="mailto:hugo@larve.net">hugo@larve.net</a>.</p>

<h3>Phil Hallam-Baker</h3>

<p>Phillip is a computer scientist who has been active in W3 issues since 1992.
He has contributed to the HTML 3.0 Maths markup and is currently active in Web
security issues. Before working on the Web he worked on parallel processing,
code synthesis and formal methods. He joined the W3C/MIT team from the CERN
Programming Techniques Group (which is also active in W3 development).</p>

<h3>Simon J. Hernandez</h3>

<p>Simon joined the W3C Systems Team 1 September 2000 as a System Administrator
and departed 1 July 2008 to become Operations Manager at <a
href="http://zepheira.com/about/">Zepheira</a>.</p>

<p>Prior to joining the Consortium Simon worked at <a
href="http://www.sybase.com">Sybase, Inc.</a>, where he assisted in the
management of a large global internetwork of production business, engineering,
and tech support servers and workstations, and rollout of such services as <a
href="http://my.sybase.com">My.Sybase.Com</a>.</p>

<p>In a previous incarnation, Simon lived in Japan and studied Comparative
Culture and Japanese at <a
href="http://www.sophia.ac.jp/home.nsf/E/home?OpenDocument">Sophia
University</a> in Tokyo. He also attended the School of Library and Information
Studies (now the <a href="http://www.sims.berkeley.edu">School of Information
Management &amp; Systems</a>) at the <a
href="http://www.berkeley.edu">University of California at Berkeley</a>.</p>

<h3><a name="chibao" id="chibao">Yasuyuki Hirakawa</a></h3>

<p>Yasuyuki (<abbr title="also known as">a.k.a</abbr> chibao) joined <abbr
title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</abbr> in April 1999 as a part-time
systems administrator at W3C Keio, and moved to the Communications Team from
April 2002. He served as W3C Asian Communications Officer since July 2003 until
his departure at the end of September 2008.</p>

<p>As W3C Asian Communications Officer, he organized W3C Tenth Anniversary
Ceremony in Asia, <a href="http://www.w3.org/2006/11/W3C10">W3C10 Asia</a>,
Tokyo, Japan in November 2006. He also organized various promotional events and
public seminars in Japan.</p>

<p>He was a <abbr title="Doctor of Philosophy">PhD</abbr> student and also a
project research associate, and then an assistant professor of the Graduate
School of Media and Governance of Keio University, Japan. He holds bachelor's
and master's degrees from Keio University.</p>

<h3><a name="hjelm" id="hjelm">Johan Hjelm</a></h3>

<p><a href="http://www.42forlag.com/Johan/whois.htm">Johan Hjelm</a> joined the
team in July 1998 as a visiting engineer from Ericsson, on secondment form the
User Applications lab.</p>

<p>Prior to joining the W3C, he among other things wrote the first book about
the Internet in Swedish (in 1994), and has been editor-in-chief of a computer
magazine.</p>

<p>As research manager for the Bonnier Media Lab, he was running their
participation in the <a href="http://www.sics.se/~onthemove/">On the Move +
project</a>, an EU project where several companies got together to research the
future of mobile information distribution.</p>

<p>He is working on the relations with the <a href="http://www.wapforum.org/">W
+AP Forum</a> and with other mobility-related items, as well as being part of
the mobile access interest group, and pursue a personal interest by being part
of the user characterisation working group.</p>

<p>Johan left W3C in July 2000.</p>

<h3>Bob Hopgood</h3>

<p>Bob Hopgood received his degree in Mathematics from the University of
Cambridge in 1959. His early career was in the area of quantum chemistry before
spending much of the 1960s writing compilers. In the period 1968 to 1975 his
main interest was in computer graphics and, in particular, computer animation.
From 1975 to 1979 he was responsible for all the interactive facilities at the
Rutherford Laboratory. In the period 1979 to 1994 he was Head of the Computing
Department. Since 1994, he has been responsible for activities related to the
World-Wide Web.</p>

<p>He has a part-time appointment in the Computer Science Department at Brunel
University where he has taught since 1967.</p>

<p>He has a Dr. Ing. E.h. from theUniversity of Darmstadt awarded in 1992 and
an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) awarded in the 2000 New Year's Honours
List for services to computer science, in particular computer graphics and
standards.</p>

<p>His interest in computer graphics has continued throughout his career. He
was co-editor of the GKS and PHIGS ISO standards and chairs BSI's IST/31
Committee responsible for computer graphics and image processing. He has been
involved with the ISO standardisation of PNG, the Web CGM Profile and is
currently involved with the definition of SVG.</p>

<p>He was the W3C Advisory Comittee Representative for RAL (CCLRC) until quite
recently and was responsible for the Awareness Workpackage of the Esprit
Leveraging action that set up the European Offices of W3C.</p>

<p>Bob left W3C in February 2001.</p>

<h3>Thilo Horstmann</h3>

<p>Thilo was at W3C on secondment from GMD, Germany, where he has worked on
several European research projects in the areas of Distributed OO Systems,
Autonomous Agents, CSCW and W3. Before coming to W3C at INRIA in November 1995,
he was involved with the development of the BSCW system - an extension to a W3
server which provides basic facilities for collaborative information sharing
over the Web.</p>

<p>At W3C Thilo was investigating how object-oriented technologies might be
applied to the Web architecture. In addition, he is interested in pursuing his
investigations into the use of the Web to support collaborative work.</p>

<h3><a name="hubbard" id="hubbard">Thomas Hubbard</a></h3>

<p>Thomas joined the W3C team in February, 2000, as a visiting Engineer from
Nokia. Before joining W3C, Thomas helped to design and develop the Nokia WAP
browser. In addition to development, Thomas was the chair of the Architecture
Working Group of the WAPForum from 12/98 until 6/99. Thomas' initial focus on
the W3C team will be to work on a P3P and CC/PP interaction mechanism.</p>

<p>Thomas left W3C in October 2000.</p>

<h3><a name="yudai">Yudai Iwasaki</a></h3>

<p>Yudai joined W3C in October of 2009 while continuing his studies in cyber
informatics at Graduate School of Media and Governance of Keio university. He
left W3C in April 2011 to go work at NTT lab.</p>

<h3><a name="ishikawa" id="ishikawa">Masayasu Ishikawa</a></h3>

<p>Masayasu joined the <abbr title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</abbr> at
Keio-<abbr title="Shonan Fujisawa Campus">SFC</abbr> in June 1997 and left in
March 2007.</p>

<h3><a name="ishikura" id="ishikura">Naoko Ishikura</a></h3>

<p>Naoko joined W3C in February 2009 and was in charge of administrative
support at Keio SFC. Before joining W3C, Naoko worked for a Toyota group
company in Kentucky, USA for 6 years as a sales/purchasing/planning specialist.
Her interests are: music (studied music at college and plays the piano),
languages (speaks Japanese, English and *a little bit* of Spanish and would
love to learn more…), ‘good’ films (watching and analyzing), reading,
writing, Yoga, Zumba, and many more.</p>

<p>Naoko left W3C in July 2010.</p>

<h3><a name="iwasa" id="iwasa">Kanako Iwasa</a></h3>

<p>Kana joined the W3C Team at Keio University SFC in May 2007 in
Administrative Support. She takes charge of the business trip arrangements,
accounting and the member contract procedure.</p>

<p>Kanako left W3C in March 2009.</p>

<h3><a name="jackson" id="jackson">Dean Jackson</a></h3>

<p>Dean was the Activity lead for <a href="http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/">Rich
Web Clients</a> which includes the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2006/webapi/">Web
APIs Working Group</a> and the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2006/appformats/">Web
Application Formats Working Group</a>. He was also the contact for the <a
href="http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG">SVG Working Group</a> and was in charge
of the sheep dip.</p>

<h3><a name="fumi" id="fumi">Fumihiro Kato</a></h3>

<p>Fumihiro joined the W3C in April 2006 as a system administrator at Keio
University SFC. His interests were in Web Technology, Semantic Web and Mobile
Computing. He holds Master's and Bachelor's degrees from Keio University.</p>

<p>Fumihiro left W3C in December 2008.</p>

<h3>Rohit Khare</h3>

<p>Rohit joined the W3C in May 1995 to work on technology and protocol design
behind several Technology and Society Domain security and electronic commerce
projects. He later served as Technology Expert/Web Evangelist for the Promotion
and Dissemination team.</p>

<p>Rohit graduated from Caltech with Bachelor's degrees in Engineering &amp;
Applied Science and Economics. Before W3C, he was involved in several
technology ventures involving cryptography, connectivity, and hypermedia
authoring, as well as forays into technical journalism, research on software
architecture, and web standardization. At Caltech, he designed and implemented
the eText Engine, a system for creating and publishing interactive multimedia
textbooks.</p>

<p>He is currently the Editor of the World Wide Web Journal.</p>

<h3>Sally Khudairi</h3>

<p>In April 1996, Sally joined W3C as "Keeper of the Public Image", bringing
with her over seven years of consulting experience in multidisciplinary design
and project administration. Some of her clients include Ziff Davis Interactive,
Yahoo!Computing, Lycos, Houghton Mifflin Company, SkyMedia, Central
Artery/Tunnel Project, Automobiles Citroen, PowerEgypt, and Coopers &amp;
Lybrand.</p>

<p>Sally led the Communiations Team, and worked on the redesign of the W3C
website as well as providing direction on all W3C public relations,
communication, and publishing efforts. She left W3C in September 1998.</p>

<h3><a name="Kiss" id="Kiss">Cédric Kiss</a></h3>

<p><a href="../People/Cedric/">Cédric</a> was Team Contact for the MWI Device
Description Working Group. He was also involved in the Device Independence
Activity.</p>

<p>Prior to joining W3C in 2006, he studied <acronym
title="information technology">IT</acronym> and knowledge management, and
mainly worked in content management systems consultancy and engineering.</p>

<h3><a name="Kitagawa" id="Kitagawa">Kazuhiro Kitagawa</a></h3>

<p>Kazuhiro "Kaz" Kitagawa, joined W3C on 1 April as a member of the Keio team.
He was the Activity lead for the W3C World Wide Web Consortium's Device
Independence. He holds a Project Associate Professor appointment at the
Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University.</p>

<p>He was responsible for the architectural and technical leadership in the
area of universal Web access from various kind of devices including cellphones,
PDAs and appliances.</p>

<p>His research interests are digital typography in general, computer
networking, Web for small devices and privacy for Mobile devices. Before
joining W3C, he worked at Shukutoku University. He holds a BA and a MS in
mathematics from Keio University</p>

<p>Kazuhiro Kitagawa left W3C in April 2005.</p>

<h3><a name="Koga" id="Koga">Youichirou Koga</a></h3>

<p>Youichirou joined the W3C-Keio team in June 1997 as a visiting engineer from
NEC Corporation (Internet Engineering Laboratory, Networking Systems
Laboratories) in Tokyo. His areas of interests are network application
protocols over TCP/IP. He is also interested in information sharing systems on
the Internet.</p>

<h3><a name="koike" id="koike">Yuichi Koike</a></h3>

<p>Yuichi joined the W3C/MIT team in November 1999 as a visiting engineer from
<a href="http://www.nec.co.jp/">NEC</a>. He mainly works on the P3P user agent
(client software) implementation, in the Technology and Society Domain. He is
also interested in applying the P3P technology to various areas, such as mobile
communications, TV broadcast, and BtoB E-commerce.</p>

<p>Yuichi left W3C in October 2000.</p>

<h3><a name="koivunen" id="koivunen">Marja-Riitta Koivunen</a></h3>

<p>Marja joined W3C in January 1998 as a Visiting Engineer from Helsinki
Telephone Corporation (HPY), where she is conducting research in the area of
usability in information society. She has extensive experience in
usability-related issues, and is involved in developing new services utilizing
new technologies and applying usability methods to helping people in their
daily lives.</p>

<p>While at HPY, Marja worked on various research projects and developed new
services to the Web including Infocities; Virtual Language School; Underground
Helsinki, a 3-D digital meeting place; and Helsinki Arena 2000, which utilizes
a 3-D model of Helsinki.</p>

<p>Marja received her Ph.D. (D.Tech.) from Helsinki University of Technology
(HUT), where she worked as an Assistant Professor teaching human-computer
interaction, and headed the Usability Group and Usability Laboratory.</p>

<p>Marja left W3C in January 2004</p>

<h3><a name="komura" id="komura">Kiriko Komura</a></h3>

<p>Kiriko was actually a graduate school (master &gt;course) student at Keio
University when she joined W3C and she had to do both study and W3C at the same
time.</p>

<p>Kiriko left W3C in March 2001.</p>

<h3><a name="kotok" id="kotok">Alan Kotok</a></h3>

<p>Alan joined W3C in May 1997 as W3C Associate Chair. He was responsible for
managing contractual relations with W3C Members. He coordinated the efforts of
the worldwide W3C Systems and Web Team and was site manager of the W3C MIT
site.</p>

<p>Alan retired from Digital Equipment Corp. in the fall of 1996 after 34 years
service. He was chief architect of the PDP-10 family of computers, and held
senior engineering positions in Digital's storage, telecommunications and
software organizations. As a member of the Corporate Strategy Group, he was
instrumental in creating Digital's Internet Business Group, which he joined as
Technical Director. Alan was an early supporter of the W3C, became Digital's
representative to the W3C Advisory Committee, and was involved with several W3C
activities.</p>

<p>Alan received BSEE and MSEE degrees from MIT and an MBA from Clark
University. His technical interests are in web security and integrity.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.w3.org/News/2006#item99">Alan passed away</a> at his
home in Cambridge, Massachusetts in May 2006.</p>

<h3><a name="LaLiberte" id="LaLiberte">Daniel LaLiberte</a></h3>

<p>Daniel LaLiberte joined W3C in February 1999 to work initially on P3P
implementations for the Technology and Society Domain. Prior to that he was at
GTE Labs working on various experimental web technologies such as navigational
aids for electronic commerce. From 1988 to 1997 he was at <a
href="http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/">NCSA</a>'s Software Development Group where
Mosaic was developed. He worked on scientific visualization and collaboration
tools, such as <a href="http://www.hypernews.org/">HyperNews</a>, and
investigated WWW architecture issues including searching, URIs, and annotation
capabilities, and was the PI for a DARPA funded project to develop a Framework
for Integrated Synchronous and Asynchronous Collaboration.</p>

<p>He received his B.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of
Minnesota in 1978, and did graduate studies at the University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign studying software engineering, programming languages, and the
evolution of information organization.</p>

<p>Daniel left W3C in January 2000.</p>

<h3>Ora Lassila</h3>

<p>Ora joined W3C in June 1996 as a visiting scientist on secondment from <a
href="http://www.nokia.com/company/overview/nrc_company.html">Nokia Research
Center</a>. Before joining Nokia, he was a project manager at the <a
href="http://www.ri.cmu.edu/">Robotics Institute</a> of Carnegie Mellon
University. Ora is interested in object oriented programming, mobile code, and
wireless communications as well as related applications. His previous research
focused on OOP languages and knowledge representation, logistics and production
scheduling, and mixed-initiative decision support. Ora holds an M.Sc (Eng.) in
Software Technology and Telecommunications from the <a
href="http://www.hut.fi/english.html">Helsinki University of Technology</a>. He
is the author of more than 30 conference papers, journal articles and technical
reports.</p>

<p>Ora remains an active participant in W3C as a member of the RDF Schema and
Data Model &amp; Syntax Working Groups, editor of the Resource Description
Framework (RDF) Model and Syntax Working Draft, as well as the Advisory
Committee Representative to Nokia Corporation.</p>

<h3>Arnaud Le Hors</h3>

<p>Arnaud joined W3C in January 1997 to work in the User Interface Domain on
the development of HTML.</p>

<p>He came from the X Consortium where he worked on the CDE project and the X
Window System (Broadway/X11R6.3). Prior to XC Arnaud worked for Groupe Bull as
a reasearch engineer specializing in X. Among other things, he has led the
design of XPM, a color icon format, which has become an X/Open standard.</p>

<h3>Susan Lesch</h3>

<p>Susan Lesch was a member of the W3C Communications Team from June 2000
through October 2007. She edited the news, published newsletters, and helped
support Member communications, publications, patent policy and the Web site.
Susan studied studio art at the University of Minnesota and computer science at
San Diego Mesa College.</p>

<h3>Håkon Lie</h3>

<p>As the first W3C employee at INRIA, Håkon handled the coordination of the
growing development team in addition to working on <a href="/Style/">style
sheets</a> and <a href="/Arena/">Arena</a>.</p>

<p>He came to W3C in July 1995 from CERN where he was a research associate in
the WWW project. He is a graduate of the <a
href="http://www.media.mit.edu/">MIT Media Lab</a> where he worked in the
Electronic Publishing group.</p>

<p>Håkon left W3C in March 1999.</p>

<h3>Karen MacArthur</h3>

<p>Karen studied computer science and artificial intelligence at Princeton
University, completing her B.S.E. in 1993. She was Webmaster for W3C from
February 1995 until June 1996. In addition, Karen worked on Collaboration over
the World Wide Web and coordinated the Workshop on WWW and Collaboration.</p>

<h3>Benoît Mahé</h3>

<p>Benoît Mahé joined W3C at INRIA in October 1997 to work the development of
W3C's Java-based server, Jigsaw. He completed an internship at W3C in the
summer of 1997 as part of the Jigsaw development team.</p>

<p>Benoit has degrees in mathematics and computer science at the University of
Nice (France) and at ESSI (School of Computer Engineering in Sophia
Antipolis)</p>

<p>Benoit left W3C in January 2001</p>

<h3>Massimo Marchiori</h3>

<p>Massimo joined W3C at <a href="http://web.mit.edu/">MIT</a> in February 1998
to work on various activities within the Technology &amp; Society Domain,
including Privacy, Semantic Web, Query and Reasoning.</p>

<p>He received his M.S. in Mathematics with Highest Honors, and the Ph.D. in
Computer Science with a thesis that won an EATCS (European Association for
Theoretical Computer Science) best Ph.D. thesis award. Before joining W3C at
MIT, he has worked at the <a href="http://www.unipd.it/">University of
Padua</a>, at <a href="http://www.cwi.nl/">CWI</a>, and at the <a
href="http://www.lcs.mit.edu/">MIT Lab for Computer Science</a> in the <a
href="http://www.csg.lcs.mit.edu/">Computation Structures Group</a>. His
research interests include World Wide Web and Intranets (information retrieval,
search engines, semantic web, metadata, query languages, web advertisement),
programming languages (constraint, visual, functional, logic), visualization,
genetic algorithms, rewriting systems, complex systems (small worlds,
bioinformatics). Massimo has published <a
href="http://www.w3.org/People/Massimo/papers/">over thirty refereed papers</a>
on the above topics in various journals and proceedings of international
conferences, achieving several <a
href="http://www.w3.org/People/Massimo/shortbio.html">important results</a></p>

<p>At W3C Massimo started the W3C <a
href="http://www.w3.org/TandS/QL/QL98/">Query Languages</a> effort, is W3C
Contact for the <a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/Query">XML-Query activity</a>,
chief editor of the <a href="http://www.w3.org/P3P/">P3P project</a>,
researcher in the Semantic Web initiative. In addition to his MIT/W3C position,
Massimo is also professor of computer science at the University of Venice.</p>

<p>Massimo left W3C In June 2005</p>

<h3><a name="daigo" id="daigo">Daigo Matsubara</a></h3>

<p>Daigo joined W3C in April 2002 as a part-time system administrator at Keio,
and has been full-time since July 2003. He was a Project Research Assistant of
Graduate School of Media and Governance at Keio University. He had received
Bachelor's and Master's degree from Keio University, his research interests
were Augmented Reality and location-based computing with Web. At W3C he was
working on various system administration and development especially <a
href="http://lists.w3.org/">W3C mailing list archive</a>.</p>

<h3>Yumiko Matsubara</h3>

<p>Yumiko joined W3C in January 1998 to help with the administration of the
Keio site as well as handling public relations in Japan. She left in November
1998. Prior to joining W3C, she worked for a Japanese educational institution
in the development of international exchange programs for nearly 7 years. She
completed her master's degree in cross-cultural counseling at Syracuse
University.</p>

<h3>Shin'ichi Matsui</h3>

<p>Shin'ichi joined W3C in October 1998 as a visiting engineer on assignment
from Matsushita Electric Industrial (Panasonic). He is interested in applying
Web technology to home appliances, and has been involved in work on mobile
access. He graduated from the Department of Mathematical Engineering and
Information Physics at Tokyo University.</p>

<h3><a name="McCathieNevile" id="McCathieNevile">Charles McCathieNevile</a></h3>

<p>At W3C, Charles was working on the <a href="/2001/sw/Europe">SWAD-E Semantic
Web project</a>, after 4 years working on <a href="../WAI">Web
Accessibility</a>.</p>

<p>Before joining W3C in November 1998, Charles worked for <a
href="http://www.sunriseresearch.com.au">Sunrise</a> on a variety of things
including Web Accessibility, internationalisation, and teaching people about
the Web.</p>

<p>Charles comes from Melbourne Australia, where he did his honours degree
(Medieval History, with a little chemistry and biology and a lot of dead
languages).</p>

<p>Charles departed W3C 31 January 2005.</p>

<h3>Matt May</h3>

<p>Matt May joined the W3C in June 2002 as a Web Accessibility Specialist with
the <a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/">Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)</a>,
and staff contact for the WAI Protocols and Formats, <a
href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/">Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines</a>
and <a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/">User Agent Accessibility Guidelines</a>
Working Groups.<br />
Prior to W3C, Matt was a user interface designer and Web developer for two
online groceries in the United States (HomeGrocer.com and the Webvan Group).</p>

<p>Matt left the W3C in June 2005.</p>

<h3>Eric Miller</h3>

<p>Eric Miller was the Activity Lead for the W3C World Wide Web Consortium's <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw">Semantic Web</a>.</p>

<p>Eric's responsibilities included the architectural and technical leadership
in the design and evolution of Semantic Web infrastructure. Responsibililities
additionally included working with W3C Working Group members so that both
working groups in the Semantic Web activity, as well as other W3C activities,
produce Web standards that support Semantic Web requirements. Additionally, to
build support among user and vendor communities for the Semantic Web by
illustrating the benefits to those communities and means of participating in
the creation of a metadata-ready Web. And finally to establish liaisons with
other technical standards bodies involved in Web-related technology to ensure
compliance with existing Semantic Web standards and collect requirements for
future W3C work.</p>

<p>Before joining the W3C, Eric was a Senior Research Scientist at <a
href="http://www.oclc.org">OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.</a> and
the co-founder and Associate Director of the <a
href="http://dublincore.org">The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative</a>, an open
forum engaged in the development of interoperable online metadata standards
that support a broad range of purposes and business models.</p>

<p>Eric holds a Research Scientist appointment at MIT's Laboratory for Computer
Science.</p>

<h3>Jim Miller</h3>

<p>Jim joined the W3C in June 1995 as Domain Leader for Technology &amp;
Society, having designed and implemented numerous innovative and useful
real-world systems over more than twenty years. His work involves people
interacting with computers to perform tasks better than either can do alone. He
creates systems which allow each partner in the task to understand the other's
abilities and limitations, enabling each to make informed decisions about the
division of labor. His work deals with creating simple models of what the
computer does and conveying them to the human partners.</p>

<p>Jim was one of the principal designers of the PICS (Platform for Internet
Content Selection) specifications in addition to overseeing development in
Payments, Demographics and Privacy, Intellectual Property Rights, and
Security.</p>

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<h3>Yukari Mitsuhashi</h3>

<p>Yukari joined the Consortium in September 1996 to administer W3C membership
issues in Asia. She was responsible for administration at the Office of
Research Development and Administration at Keio Research Institute at SFC
[Shonan Fujisawa Campus]. In November 1997, Yukari accepted reassignment within
Keio University to a new group at the Yagami Campus.</p>

<h3><a name="Montigaud" id="Montigaud">Stephan Montigaud</a></h3>

<p>Stephan joined the W3C's Promotion and Dissemination team as Webmaster from
September 1996 until December 1997. He was responsible for the technical
administration and maintenance of the W3C website. Prior to joining the
Consortium, Stephan launched the Internet division at <a
href="http://www.sgip.fr/">SGIP</a> (Societe de Gestion et d'Informatique de <a
href="http://www.publicis.fr/">Publicis</a>) and was responsible for network
installation and administration, training, consulting and marketing.</p>

<p>Stephan holds an engineering degree from the "Grande Ecole" <a
href="http://www.ecp.fr/">Ecole Centrale de Paris</a>, and a post-graduate
degree of higher education in computer science and automation from <a
href="http://www-isia.cma.fr/">Institut Superieur d'Informatique et
d'Automatique, Ecole des Mines de Paris</a> (ISIA) in Sophia Antipolis.</p>

<h3>Masafumi Nakane</h3>

<p>Masafumi (aka Max) joined W3C at Keio as a part-time team member in December
1997. Prior to joining W3C, he has been involved in the Web Accessibility
Initiative from its launch as an invited accessibility expert. His primary
interest is in accessibility of computer and computer network for the
physically and/or socially challenged.</p>

<p>Masafumi left W3C in April 2001.</p>

<h3><a name="Nelson" id="Nelson">Rolf Nelson</a></h3>

<p>Rolf joined W3C in July 1998 to manage the implementation and deployment of
P3P. He has a Master's degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences and a Bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College in computer science. He
has four years of software engineering experience; at the Digital Equipment
Corporation, he led a four-person team that developed award-winning
cross-platform system administration software. At SatelLife, an international
development NGO, he developed GetWeb, a service for fetching web sites through
electronic mail. As of mid-1998, GetWeb has over 10,000 active users, many of
whom are in the developing world.</p>

<p>Rolf's interests include human-computer interaction and computer-supported
collaborative work, or groupware.</p>

<p>Rolf left W3C in June 1999.</p>

<h3><a name="Nicolora" id="Nicolora">Carol Nicolora</a></h3>

<p>Carol Nicolora joined W3C in March, 2002. She was the Administrative
Assistant to the W3C and handles invoicing, teleconferences, and conference
support. Carol had over ten years experience in conference planning at MIT and,
before coming to W3C, worked as a Web Publisher/Technical Writer for Akamai
Technologies. Carol holds a BA in English and Art Studio from U/MASS Boston as
well as graduate studies in writing and graphics.</p>

<p>Carol departed W3C 31 January 2005.</p>

<h3>Henrik Frystyk Nielsen</h3>

<p>Henrik Frystyk completed his Master of Electrical Engineering in
Telecommunications from Aalborg University, Denmark. He worked at the World
Wide Web project at CERN before joining the W3C in March 1995 to work on
formalized Web API's and advanced Web protocols.</p>

<p>His primary research project has been the design and implementation of the
<a href="/Library">W3C Reference Library</a> [also known as "libwww"], as well
as the development of <a href="/Protocols">HTTP</a>. Henrik was Project Manager
for the HTTP-NG Activity.</p>

<h3><a name="mauro">Mauro Nunez</a></h3>

<p><a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Mauro/">Mauro</a> joined the Consortium in
October 2006 as North American Business Manager, and served as W3C Business
Manager from March 2008 until he left in June 2010. His primary goal was to
foster a business and operating environment that was cost-effective, productive
and positive, across all W3C operating locations. He coordinated financial
matters across the Consortium, prepared budget plans and reports, monitored
budget execution, coordinated legal matters, and supported Membership
development. Mauro coordinated the <a
href="/2005/10/Process-20051014/groups.html#invited-expert-wg">Invited Expert
Program</a> and was a member of the <a href="http://www.webfoundation.org">Web
Foundation</a>'s Board of Directors, representing W3C.</p>

<p>A <a href="http://www.cies.org/about_fulb.htm">Fulbright Scholar</a>, Mauro
holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from <a
href="http://www.pucv.cl/">Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso</a>
and a Master's degree in Business Administration from <a
href="http://www.suffolk.edu/">Suffolk University</a>.</p>

<h3><a name="Ohto" id="Ohto">Hidetaka Ohto</a></h3>

<p>Taka joined the W3C-MIT team in November 1998 as a visiting engineer from
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.,Ltd(a.k.a Panasonic) in Osaka. He graduated
from the University of Osaka in Japan with his master degrees of Computer
Science in 1989. His area of interests is the adaptation of Web technologies
for home appliances such as mobile terminals and TV sets.</p>

<p>He has been a W3C-Keio team member since September 2000 and until March 2001
when he left W3C.</p>

<h3><a name="Hanako" id="Hanako">Hanako Onozuka</a></h3>

<p>Hanako joined the W3C Team at Keio University SFC in April 2005 in
Administrative Support. Before joining the Team, Hanako had worked for an
Internet service provider and as an assistant in a seminar management company.
Hanako left W3C in March 2007.</p>

<h3><a name="Ottavj" id="Ottavj">Luc Ottavj</a></h3>

<p>Luc joined W3C in November 1996 to lead the Consortium's global System
Administration activities. Luc is the head of SEMIR, the Computer System
Support team at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis.</p>

<h3>Steven Pemberton</h3>

<p>Steven Pemberton was a team member for a decade and a day starting 29 June
2001, and was principally responsible for HTML, XHTML, and XForms. He is still
to be found in the XForms, RDFa and HCG groups. He is a researcher based in
Amsterdam, and more information about him can be found on his <a
href="http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/">web site</a>.</p>

<h3>Yves Peynaud</h3>

<p>Yves headed up W3C Marketing and Promotions efforts in Europe from October
1995 to December 1996. His extensive background in marketing and business
development, along with his Ph.D. in Computer Science enabled him to address
issues in both the technical and business arenas.</p>

<p>Yves was the overall Conference Manager for the 5th International World Wide
Web Conference.</p>

<h3><a name="quint" id="quint">Vincent Quint</a></h3>

<p>Vincent Quint was the <a href="/DF/">W3C Document Formats Domain</a> Leader
and served as chair of the Hypertext Coordination Group. He is a Research
Director at INRIA in Grenoble, France.</p>

<p>Prior to joining the W3C team in February 1996, he was leading project Opera
at INRIA, which is interested in various aspects of electronic documents, such
as document models and structures, structured editors, hypertext, and digital
typography. During the previous ten years, he had been deeply involved in the
design and development of various document processing systems, including Amaya.
His research interests include document models, document production systems,
document engineering, hypertext and multimedia.</p>

<p>Vincent left W3C in January 2003.</p>

<h3><a name="raggett" id="raggett">Jenny Raggett</a></h3>

<p>Educated at Imperial College and Oxford University, Jenny was originally a
biochemist. Realizing that she was more interested in writing about science
than actually doing the research, she sensibly moved into a career as a
free-lance technical writer. Jenny specializes in explaining science and
technology to a non-specialist audience. She has been joint author of three
books: "Artifical Intelligence from A to Z", a book on HTML 3.2 and now one on
HTML 4.0. Her books have been translated into Hungarian, German, Chinese and
Japanese. Jenny has been writing about W3C's HTML activity since mid 1997, and
began formally consulting for the Consortium in December 1997.</p>

<p>Jenny left W3C in December 1999.</p>

<h3>Marie-Line Ramfos</h3>
Marie-Line was assistant to the Sophia-Antipolis W3C between May 1997 and
January 1999. She shared her time between W3C and INRIA Scientific Director
Gilles Kahn. 

<h3>Joseph Reagle</h3>

<p><a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Reagle/">Joseph Reagle</a> joined the
Consortium in October of 1996 to focus on policy issues related to digital
signatures, intellectual property, and privacy. He received a <a
href="http://www.cs.umbc.edu/">Computer Science</a> degree from <a
href="http://gopher.umbc.edu">UMBC</a> and continued on to the <a
href="http://web.mit.edu/tpp/www/">Technology and Policy</a> program at <a
href="http://web.mit.edu/">MIT</a> for his Masters. While at MIT he worked the
<a href="http://farnsworth.mit.edu/">Research Program on Communication
Policy</a> and during the summer of 95, he worked at <a
href="http://www.openmarket.com/">Open Market</a> on electronic commerce
protocols. After graduating from MIT, he did Internet and interactive media
consulting with McCann-Erickson, and Internet gambling consulting for <a
href="http://www.go-digital.net/">go-Digital</a>.</p>

<p>In Febuary 1999 Joseph returned to MIT from a short sabbatical as a Resident
Fellow at the <a href="http://cyber.harvard.edu/">Berkman Center for Internet
&amp; Society</a> at the <a href="http://www.law.harvard.edu/">Harvard Law
School,</a> where he <a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/reagle.html">looked
at</a> the relationships between Web technology and the law.</p>

<h3>Josiane Roberts</h3>

<p>Josiane Roberts was W3C Executive Assistant based in Europe, at INRIA. She
assisted Jean-François Abramatic, Chairman of W3C, and was in charge of the
administration of European Members.</p>

<p>Josiane joined INRIA in 1992 to assist Jean-François when he became
Director of Development. Prior to that, she was his assistant when he was
Chairman and CEO of a private company. Before working for Jean-François,
Josiane had been executive assistant to several top executives of the private
industry in areas such as aeronautics, semi-conductors, optical components and
lasers.</p>

<p>Josiane holds a degree in English from the University of Aix-en-Provence and
has also studied business administration.</p>

<p>Josiane left W3C in January 2002.</p>

<h3>Nancy Ryan</h3>

<p>Nancy joined the W3C Administrative Team at MIT in September 1997. She had
been a part of the MIT community for six years, most recently at MIT's
Corporate Relations/Industrial Liaison Program. She left W3C in September
1998.</p>

<h3>Janne Saarela</h3>

<p>Janne worked in the W3C team at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis from September 1997
to February 1999 to work within the User Interface Domain on a white paper
project on using HTML, XML and CSS in multi-purpose publishing.</p>

<p>He had special interest in developing value-added services such as
production management tools and logic based query engines to both content
providers and end-users with the help of metadata descriptions. He was involved
in the Architecture domain implementing such document management systems with
RDF.</p>

<h3>Lesley Sakey</h3>

<p>Lesley joined W3C in December of 1998. She primarily assisted Susan
Westhaver with meeting planning. Previous to W3C, Lesley worked at the Ford
Hall Forum, a public lecture series in Boston, scheduling lectures and planning
events.</p>

<p>Lesley left W3C in December 2000</p>

<h3><a name="sasaki" id="sasaki">Felix Sasaki</a></h3>

<p>Felix Sasaki was at W3C from April 2005 through Mars 2009 to work in the
Internationalization Activity. </p>

<p>His main field of interest was the combined application of W3C technologies
for representation and processing of multilingual information.<br />
From 1993 until 1999, Felix studied Japanese and Linguistics in Berlin, Nagoya
(Japan) and Tokyo. Since 1999 he worked in the Department of Computational
Linguistics and Text-technology, at the University of Bielefeld (Germany),
where he finished his PhD in 2004. The PhD deals with the integration of
heterogenous linguistic resources using XML-based (e.g. linguistic corpora) and
RDF-based (e.g. lexica, conceptual models) representations. His hobbies -
except playing with his children - are reading and Karaoke. </p>

<h3>Arthur Secret</h3>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Arthur/">Arthur</a> was at W3C from January
through December 1996 to coordinate the <a href="http://vlib.org/">Virtual
Library</a> project. While studying at Ecole Internationale des Sciences du
Traitement de l'Information[EISTI] in Cergy, France, he wrote the first <a
href="http://www.w3.org/History/1994/WWW/RDBGate/Implementation.html">W3-Oracle
gateway</a> as an intern at CERN. He remained at CERN through 1995, working on
the www code library, user support, system administration, and authored the
W3-email browser, Agora. He now works at <a
href="http://www.heidi-production.com/">heidi production</a>. 

<h3>Jay Sekora</h3>

<p>Jay was W3C Systems Administrator at MIT from July 1995 through July 1996.
He was previously at Boston University, as systems administrator for the
Distributed Systems Group. Prior to that, he worked at Princeton University,
first in user services, and then as a systems administrator. He received a BA
in Linguistics from Yale University in 1989.</p>

<h3><a name="nobu" id="nobu">Nobuhisa "Nobu" Shiraishi</a></h3>

<p>Nobuhisa "Nobu" Shiraishi joined W3C in December 2002 as a W3C Fellow
(Visiting Scientist) from <a href="http://www.nec.com/">NEC Corporation</a>. At
NEC, he is an Assistant Manager of Optical Network Division and engaged in
software development for network management and network security.</p>

<p>His research interests are "RDF Signature" (a study about how to bind
?semantics? to the signature of the contents using RDF metadata) and "RDF
translator into user native language" (an usecase of RDF, a translator which
translates RDF metadata attached to the contents into user native language and
display it with the contents) in <a
href="http://www.w3.org/TandS/#Semantic">Semantic Web Activity</a>, Technology
and Society domain.</p>

<p>He received his B.E. in Electronic Engineering from <a
href="http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/">University of Tokyo</a> in 1993.</p>

<p>Nobu left W3C in January 2004</p>

<h3><a name="Takano" id="Takano">Michiko Takano</a></h3>

<p>Michiko joined the W3C at Keio in April 2004 as an Administrative Support.
She has worked as a accounting's staff at one of the economic organizations in
Japan for four years . And then, she has worked at General affairs department
of Keio University at Shonan Fujisawa by the three-years employment
contract.</p>

<p>Michiko Takano left W3C in April 2005.</p>

<h3><a name="Takeuchi" id="Takeuchi">Saeko Takeuchi</a></h3>

<p>Saeko joined the W3C at Keio in April 2001 as an Administrative Support.</p>

<p>Saeko left W3C in March 2004.</p>

<h3><a name="ot" id="ot">Olivier Théreaux</a></h3>

<p>Olivier joined the W3C staff at Keio University in October 2000 after
graduating from <a href="http://www.ecp.fr/">Ecole Centrale Paris</a> and a
stint in Internet Security. </p>

<p>He then spent the next 3000+ days in various roles ranging from developing
tools such as <a href="http://www.w3.org/Search/Mail"><abbr
title="W3C Mailing-lists Archive Search Engine">MASE</abbr></a>, co-chairing of
the consortium's <acronym title="Quality Assurance">QA</acronym> Interest
Group, to leading the development of the open source <a
href="/QA/Tools">Validators and QA Tools</a>.</p>

<p>Olivier left W3C in April 2009.</p>

<h3><a name="touyama" id="touyama">Norio Touyama</a></h3>

<p>Norio joined W3C in April 1999 as a part-time system administrator of the
Keio team. When he was not working at W3C, he was a doctor course student at
the Graduate School of Media and Governance of Keio University.</p>

<p>Just prior to joining W3C, he finished his Master's degree from Keio
University with a thesis about a proxy agent system for WWW servers on mobile
computers. His major interests include mobile network systems and operating
system architecture.</p>

<p>Norio left the W3C Systems Team in Keio in April 2002, for a position at the
Keio ITC (Information Technology Center).</p>

<h3><a name="vatton" id="vatton">Irène Vatton</a></h3>

<p>Irène is the Amaya architect. She is a research engineer at INRIA and is
based in Grenoble, France.</p>

<p>Before joining the W3C team in February 1996, Irène was working in the
project Opera at INRIA, which is interested in various aspects of electronic
documents, such as document models and structure, structured editors,
hypertext, and digital typography. She designed and developed various document
production systems: Grif, Thot and Amaya.</p>

<p>Irène holds a Ph.D. from the University of Grenoble, France.</p>

<p>Irène left W3C in January 2003.</p>

<h3><a name="veillard" id="veillard">Daniel Veillard</a></h3>

<p><a href="http://rpmfind.net/veillard/">Daniel Veillard</a> obtained his
Ph.D. from the University of Grenoble. His dissertation was about the design
and the implementation of a portable and efficient multicast protocol for
Ethernet LANs.</p>

<p>In February 1996, he joined the W3C team in Grenoble to be in charge of the
implementation of Cascading Style Sheets in Amaya. In October 1997 Daniel
joined the Architecture Domain to work on HTTP-NG. He now works mostly on XML,
especially XML Fragment, XLink and will work on XML Packaging.</p>

<p>Daniel is also interested in Operating Systems design and is a specialist of
Linux. He has ported the Thot library to Linux and maintained the Linux version
of Amaya. He also works on <a href="http://xmlsoft.org">XML tools</a> used in
the <a href="http://www.gnome.org">Gnome</a> project.</p>

<p>Daniel left W3C in January 2001</p>

<h3>Albert Vezza</h3>

<p>Albert was W3C Chairman, Associate Director and Senior Research Scientist at
the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science until his retirement from MIT in
September 1996. He created the World Wide Web Consortium in 1994, and oversaw
Consortium activities including membership, relations with the research
community, and was the spokesperson for the Platform for Internet Content
Selection (PICS).</p>

<p>Albert's career at MIT spanned over thirty-two years. He took a leave of
absence from MIT-LCS from 1984 to 1986 to become the Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer of Infocom, Inc. of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Prior to his
leave of absence, he was a Group Leader and Associate Director of the LCS.</p>

<p>He received his Bachelor of Science from Rochester Institute of Technology
in Rochester, New York, and his Master of Science from Northeastern University
in Boston, Massachusetts.</p>

<h3>Hiromi Wada</h3>

<p>Hiromi joined W3C in September 1999 as a visiting engineer on assignment
from Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Panasonic). She is interested in
applying Web technologies to mobile equipment. Before joining the W3C team, she
designed and developed a browsing architecture for mobile access terminals. She
graduated from the faculty of science at Osaka City University.</p>

<p>Hiromi left W3C in November 2000.</p>

<h3><a name="Watanabe" id="Watanabe">Yuko Watanabe</a></h3>

<p>Yuko joined the W3C in April 1999. She is working as a project secretary at
W3C Keio Team. Before she joined W3C, she worked at Keio University Media
Center for three years.</p>

<h3><a name="Wilbanks" id="Wilbanks">John Wilbanks</a></h3>

<p>John Wilbanks was a W3C Fellow from the Interoperable Informatics
Infrastructure Consortium (I3C). Based at MIT, he was part of the W3C
Technology and Society Domain's Semantic Web Activity. John's work focused on
the application of semantic technologies to life sciences research. He founded
and led to acquisition Incellico, a bioinformatics company that built semantic
graph networks for use in pharmaceutical discovery. Before founding Incellico,
John was at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School
and also spent time in Washington, DC, USA as a legislative aideto U.S.
Representative Fortney ("Pete") Stark. John holds a Bachelor of Arts in
Philosophy from Tulane University.</p>

<p>John left the Consortium staff in January 2005.</p>

<h3><a name="Yamane1" id="Yamane1">Takeshi "Yamachan" Yamane</a></h3>

<p>Yamachan joined W3C in April 1997 as System Administrator at Keio University
Shonan Fujisawa Campus.</p>

<p>Yamachan has just finished his Master's degree at the Graduate School of
Media and Governance at Keio-SFC. His major interests are network application
protocols and Internet information distribution systems, and is also interested
in the educational applications of the Internet.</p>

<p>Yamachan left the Consortium in March 1999.</p>
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