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<h1><a href="../../"><img border="0" alt="W3C"
src="../../Icons/WWW/w3c_home" /></a> Ian Jacobs at W3C</h1>

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<li><a href="#w3c">Work at W3C</a></li>

<li><a href="#pre-w3c">Pre W3C</a></li>

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<h2><img src="../../Icons/right" alt="" /><a id="w3c"
name="w3c">Work at W3C</a></h2>

<p>I am Head of W3C Marketing and Communications.</p>

<h3><a id="active" name="active">Current Activities</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>Marketing and Communications</li>
<li>Development of W3C Community Groups</li>
<li>Patent Policy Implementation</li>
</ul>

<h3><a id="past" name="past">Past work on W3C Recommendations and technical
reports</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>Co-editor of 
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-webarch-20041215/">Architectural Principles of the 
World Wide Web, Volume One</a>, authored by W3C's
<a href="/2001/tag/">Technical Architecture Group</a> (TAG)</li>

<li><a href="../../TR/2002/REC-UAAG10-20021217/">User Agent
Accessibility Guidelines 1.0</a> Recommendation, with Jon Gunderson
and Eric Hansen. Refer also to the <a
href="../../TR/2002/NOTE-UAAG10-TECHS-20021217/">Techniques for UAAG
1.0</a>, published as a Note at the same time as the
Recommendation.</li>

<li><a href="../../TR/2001/NOTE-cuap-20010206">Common User Agent
Problems</a>, W3C Note, with Karl Dubost and Hugo Haas.</li>

<li><a href="../../TR/2000/REC-ATAG10-20000203">Authoring Tool
Accessibility Guidelines 1.0</a> Recommendation, with Jutta
Treviranus, Charles McCathieNevile, and Jan Richardson. Refer also
to the <a href="../../TR/2000/NOTE-ATAG10-TECHS-20000203">
Techniques for Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0</a>,
published as a Note at the same time as the Recommendation.</li>

<li><a href="../../TR/SMIL-access">Accessibility Features of
SMIL</a>, W3C Note, with Marja Koivunen.</li>

<li><a href="../../TR/CSS-access">Accessibility Features of
CSS</a>, W3C Note, with Judy Brewer.</li>

<li><a href="../../TR/1999/WAI-WEBCONTENT-19990505/">Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines 1.0</a> Recommendation, with Wendy
Chisholm and Gregg Vanderheiden. Refer also to the <a
href="../../TR/1999/WAI-WEBCONTENT-TECHS-19990505">Techniques for
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0</a>, published as a Note
at the same time as the Recommendation.</li>

<li><a href="../../TR/REC-DOM-Level-1/">DOM Level 1
Recommendation</a> (helping a little with the HTML portion of the
specification).</li>

<li><a href="../../TR/REC-CSS2/">CSS 2.0 Recommendation</a>,
with <a href="../Bos">Bert Bos</a>, <a href="../Howcome">
H&aring;kon Lie</a>, and <a href="../Lilley">Chris Lilley</a>.</li>

<li><a href="../../TR/REC-html40/">HTML 4.0 Recommendation</a>,
with <a href="../Raggett">Dave Raggett</a> and <a href="../Arnaud">
Arnaud Le Hors</a>.</li>
</ul>

<h3><a id="tag-findings" name="tag-findings">Technical
Architecture Group (TAG) Findings</a></h3>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/whenToUseGet.html">URIs,
Addressability, and the use of HTTP GET and POST</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/mime-respect.html">Authoritative Metadata</a></li>
</ul>

<h3><a id="w3c-articles" name="w3c-articles">Articles for
W3C</a></h3>

<ul>
<li><a href="../../Consortium/Points">W3C in Seven Points</a></li>

<li>An article on accessibility improvements in HTML 4.0, entitled
<a href="../../WAI/References/HTML4-access">"WAI Resource: HTML 4.0
Accessibility Improvements"</a> with <a href="../Brewer/">Judy
Brewer</a> and and <a href="../danield">Daniel Dardailler</a>.</li>

<li><a href="../Khare">Rohit Khare</a> and I wrote a summary
version of the paper <a
href="../../Protocols/HTTP/Performance/Pipeline.html">Network
Performance Effects of HTTP/1.1, CSS1, and PNG</a> entitled <a
href="../../Protocols/NL-PerfNote.html">W3C Recommendations Reduce
'World Wide Wait'</a></li>

</ul>

<h3><a id="other-articles" name="other-articles">Articles outside
of W3C</a></h3>

<ul>
<li><a
href="http://www.xml.com/pub/2000/04/10/standards/w3c/index.html">
W3C and the Web Community</a> for <a href="http://www.xml.com">
xml.com</a>.</li>
</ul>

<h3><a id="talks" name="talks">Talks</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>January 2004: <a href="/2004/Talks/0121-ij-xmlgov/">Architecture
of the World Wide Web</a>, at 
<a href="http://www.xml.gov">xml.gov</a> in Washington, D.C.</li>

<li>March 2002: <a href="/Talks/2002/ij-italy/">W3C
Technologies and Accessibility</a>, for the
Universities of Venezia and Bologna (Forli).</li>

<li>March 2001: <a href="/2001/Talks/winwriters-20010305/">
Authoring Accessible Help for the Web</a>, for <a
href="http://www.winwriters.com/">WinWriters Conference
2001</a>.</li>

<li>May 2000: <a href="../../2000/Talks/www9-wai/">Web
Accessibility and Device Independence</a>, by Judy Brewer and Ian
Jacobs, presented at the <a href="http://www9.org/">Ninth
International World Wide Web Conference (WWW9)</a>, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands.</li>

<li>February 2000: <a
href="../../2000/Talks/PalazzoChigi-20000208/">W3C and
accessibility</a>, presented at Palazzo Chigi in Rome, Italy.</li>

<li>15 November 1999: <a href="../../Talks/1999/11/15-WAI-MS/">
Making the Web Accessible</a>, with Charles McCathieNevile at
Microsoft in Seattle Washington (USA).</li>

<li>18 December 1998: <a href="../../Talks/1998/12/18-unibo/">
Architecture of the World Wide Web</a>, at the <a
href="http://www.cs.unibo.it/">University of Bologna Computer
Science Department</a> in Bologna, Italy (in Italian).</li>
</ul>

<h2><img src="../../Icons/right" alt="" /><a id="pre-w3c"
name="pre-w3c">Pre W3C</a></h2>

<ul>
<li>From 1994 to 1997 I lived in New York City working as a teacher
of English as a second language, a translator, and then a computer
consultant. I put together some documents (Postscript generated
from TeX) while teaching English as a Second Language: 

<ul>
<li><a href="pronunciation.ps">List of frequently mispronounced
English words</a></li>

<li><a href="tenses.ps">English Verb Tenses</a></li>

<li><a href="modals.ps">English Modal Verbs</a></li>
</ul>
</li>

<li>From March through August 1994 I lived in Bologna, Italy and
worked at the <a href="http://www.cs.unibo.it/">University of
Bologna Computer Science Dept.</a> I believe I designed the Dept.'s
first Web site, although it no longer exists. I also worked on a
paper (though not as a co-author) entitled "<a
href="http://www.cs.unibo.it/projects/relacs/abst9415.html">Replicated
File Management in Large-Scale Distributed Systems</a>". I coined
the name of the system: RELACS. One of the authors of the paper, <a
href="http://www.cs.unibo.it/~ozalp/">Ozalp Babaoglu</a>, was
responsible for my being able to work at the University, as was my
friend <a href="http://www.cs.unibo.it/~asperti/">Dr. Andrea
Asperti</a>, whom I had met while working at the <a
href="http://www.inria.fr/Unites/ROCQUENCOURT-fra.html">INRIA in
Rocquencourt</a>.</li>

<li>From early 1990 to 1994 I lived in Paris at 6 rue Saint Sulpice
and worked in the Chloe Project at the <a
href="http://www.inria.fr/Unites/ROCQUENCOURT-fra.html">INRIA in
Rocquencourt</a> (the project no longer exists, sadly). I worked on
a system called <a
href="http://www-sop.inria.fr/croap/centaur/centaur.html">
Centaur</a>, an generator of programming language environments,
that was produced by the <a
href="http://www-sop.inria.fr/croap/CROAP-eng.html">Croap
project</a> at INRIA Sophia and managed by Gilles Kahn. I was
responsible for all of the documentation and published several
INRIA reports about this work: 

<ol>
<li>RT-0150 <a href="http://www.inria.fr/RRRT/RT-0150.html">The
Sophtalk reference manual</a></li>

<li>RT-0149 <a href="http://www.inria.fr/RRRT/RT-0149.html">
Sophtalk tutorials</a></li>

<li>RT-0140 <a href="http://www.inria.fr/RRRT/RT-0140.html">A
Centaur tutorial</a></li>
</ol>
</li>

<li>I worked at the <a
href="http://www.inria.fr/Unites/SOPHIA-fra.html">INRIA Sophia</a>
from approximately September 1989 until January 1990 in the Croap
project on Centaur. I lived in the back of a small house outside
the village of Opio.</li>

<li>I got a Master's Degree in Software Engineering from the Cerics
in Sophia Antipolois, France from the fall of 1988 until the
summary of 1989. My fellow students included Arnaud Le Hors,
Vincent Prunet, Renaud Marlet, and young colleague <a
href="../danield">Daniel Dardailler</a>.</li>

<li>I arrived in France in the fall of 1987 to work at the <a
href="http://www-cemef.cma.fr/">Ecole des Mines de Paris</a> in
Sophia Antipolis, France. I had a one year "stage" (internship)
that lasted until the fall of 1988.</li>

<li>I graduated from <a href="http://www.yale.edu/">Yale</a> in May
1987, where I majored in Electrical Engineering. My primary fun
activity there was in an improvisational comedy group known as the
<a href="http://www.purplecrayon.org/">Purple Crayon</a>, founded
in 1985 by Eric Berg and 14 others of us. The group continues to
this day.</li>
</ul>

<h3>Some old geek humor</h3>

<ul>
<li><a href="sham.html">SHAM: The Superior Higher Abstract
Machine</a></li>
<li><a href="ian-talk.html">Reducing Hyper-Links between Distributed
Context-Free Polymorphic Analog-to-Digital WYSIWYG (Deep Breath)
Distributed Real-Time Logical Network Data Things</a></li>
<li><a href="ian-cfp.html">Call for papers: The 1994 Ian Jacobs Conference on Computing Sciences</a></li>
</ul>

<h2><img src="../../Icons/right" alt="" /><a id="photos"
name="photos">Photo Ops</a></h2>

<p><img src="sicily-headshot.gif"
alt="Ian headshot from Sicily" />This photo taken in Sicily in
1999. My brother Greg was cropped out.</p>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.ianjacobs.org/">More recent photos</a></li>
<li>Oct 2001: <a href="2001/10/wtc">World Trade Center, ground zero</a></li>
<li>May 2001: <a href="http://www.ianjacobs.org/2001/05/hk/">Hong Kong</a>. See <a
href="http://dardailler.net/hk2001">photos from Daniel
Dardailler</a>, and in particular a <a
href="http://www.w3.org/People/danield/dardailler.net/hk2001/20010504/IMG_0051.JPG">
photo of Daniel and Ian</a>.</li>

<li>April 2001: <a
href="http://larve.net/people/hugo/pictures/2001/04/12/visiting_ian">
Hugo, Philipp, Joe, and Tim visit Santa Cruz</a>.</li>

<li>November 2000: <a href="2000/12/ac/">Advisory Committee meeting
in Cambridge, MA</a>. Funny <a
href="http://www.mnot.net/photo/conferences/w3-ac-00/3.html">
picture with Gerald Oskoboiny('s likeness)</a>.</li>

<li>October 2000: <a href="2000/09/bristol/">Bristol</a>, <a
href="2000/09/london/">London</a>, <a href="2000/10/chicago/">
Chicago</a> (Wedding of Mia and Adam, Purple Crayon folks, and
more)</li>

<li>September 2000: <a href="2000/09/nyc/">New York</a>, <a
href="2000/09/paris/">Paris</a>, <a href="2000/09/nice/">
Nice</a></li>

<li>February 2000: <a href="2000/02/palazzo-chigi">Photo at Palazzo
Chigi</a> (refer also to <a
href="../../2000/Talks/PalazzoChigi-20000208/">presentation I gave
on W3C</a>). <a href="2000/02/pc-at-w3c">Photo at W3C a week later
at W3C</a>.</li>

<li>November 1998: <a href="Japan">Kyoto and Tokyo</a></li>

<li><a href="GlenEden">Glen Eden</a> (a place in Michigan where I
have spent part of many summers).</li>
</ul>

<p>See lots of photos at <a href="http://impressive.net/people/gerald/">Gerald
Oskoboiny's site</a>.</p>

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<address id="contact">Ian Jacobs (<a
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1997</i><br />
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