SpeakersSpeakers and Moderators at W3C10 Europe:
Jean-François Abramatic is Chief Product Officer of ILOG, a
leading provider of enterprise-class software components and services. An
Internet authority, he served as chairman of the W3C, and as a director of
ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). He currently
serves on the W3C Advisory Board, the Forum des Droits de l’Internet and
the Conseil Stratégique des Technologies de l’Information. In addition to
commercial experience, Abramatic has been a research scientist at INRIA.
Jean-François earned an engineering diploma at Ecole des Mines, Nancy, and a
PhD in computer science at the University of Paris VI.
Daniel K. Appelquist is a
senior technology strategist working for Vodafone Group and also serves as
Vodafone's W3C Advisory Committee representative. He was a pioneer in online
media, publishing an Internet fiction magazine before the Web. In the early
days of the Web, he helped to start E-Doc, an electronic media services
company that worked to bring scientific and medical publications including
the journal Nature onto the Web. At TheStreet.com, he led the development of
XML-based content management and publishing solutions. After moving to
London, he helped to launch the award-winning Vodafone Live! mobile portal.
In his current role, he is responsible for Vodafone's participation in
content, browsing and Web Services standards and industry initiatives. Most
recently, he has been working with the W3C Team and Membership to develop and
launch the Mobile Web Initiative. Daniel has a degree in cognitive science
from Carnegie Mellon University.
Tim Berners-Lee has served as
Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) since its inception. A
graduate of Oxford University, England, Tim is a Senior Research Scientist at
the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab
(CSAIL). With a background of system design in real-time communications and
text processing software development, in 1989 he invented the World Wide Web,
an Internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing. While
working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory, he wrote the first
Web client (browser-editor), first Web server, and first version of Hypertext
Markup Language (HTML) in 1990.
After four years heading the European
Parliament's data standards and information architecture work, Peter
Brown has now been seconded to the Austrian government to lead a
programme of work exploring pan-European eGovernment services infrastructure
and policies. In particular, he will be exploring work on federated
information registries for eGovernment services in Europe. He is further
interested in information architecture and semantic interoperability. He has
recently worked as an expert for two cooperation projects: one supported by
the European Union regarding eGovernment in Latin America and another
supported by the UN regarding an interoperability framework for African
parliaments. Peter chairs the recently established "eGovernment Focus Group"
of the European standards organisation, CEN. He is also an individual member
of OASIS, active in the eGovernment and SOA Reference Model Technical
Committees.
Jacques Bus studied
Mathematics at the University of Amsterdam and obtained his PhD with a thesis
in Numerical Mathematics. He worked as a researcher at CWI for 15 years. In
1988 he joined the European Commission services in the Unit for Computer
Integrated Manufacturing in the Esprit programme. Since then he has been
responsible for programme wide operational and organisational affairs in the
Esprit and IST programme and for Informatics support in DG Information
Society. From June 2000 till March 2004, Jacques was Head of the Unit
Software Technologies and Distributed Systems in the IST programme. From
March 2004 he has taken responsibilities for the unit ICT for Trust and
Security in the IST Programme, which includes Network and Information System
Security, Trustworthy Computing and DRM, Biometrics and Identity management,
Critical Infrastructure protection, as well as the tasks related to the
Preparatory Action on Security Research in the EU.
Robert Cailliau holds an MSc
from the University of Michigan in Computer, Information and Control
Engineering, 1971. Robert started working at CERN in December 1974 as a
fellow in the Proton Synchrotron (PS) division, working on the control system
of the accelerator. In April 1987, he left the PS division to become group
leader of Office Computing Systems in Data Handling division. In 1990, he and
Tim Berners-Lee proposed a hypertext system for access to the CERN
documentation. This led to the World Wide Web.
Daniel Dardailler joined the W3C Team in July 1996 and is
currently W3C Associate Chair for Europe. At W3C, he was involved in the Web
Accessibility Initiative (WAI) right at the beginning, and then led the
Quality Assurance Activity. Prior to that, he acted as a Software Architect
for the X Consortium, responsible for the Motif toolkit and other CDE (Unix
Desktop) components. Daniel holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the
University of Nice/Sophia-Antipolis (89).
Richard Ishida is W3C
Internationalization Activity Lead and chair of the Internationalization
Guidelines, Education & Outreach (GEO) Working Group. The
Internationalization Activity has the mission of ensuring universal access to
the Web, regardless of language, script or culture, by proposing &
coordinating any techniques, conventions, guidelines and activities within
the W3C that help to make and keep the Web international. Prior to joining
the W3C his seminars and consulting helped product groups around the world
develop websites, documents software, and on-screen information so that it
can be easily localized for the international marketplace.
Keith Jeffery, ERCIM
President, is currently Director, IT of CCLRC (Council for the Central
Laboratory of the Research Councils), based at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
in UK. Keith holds a BSc in Geology, a Ph.D. in Geology and is a Fellow of
both the Geological Society of London and the British Computer Society. He is
an Honorary Fellow of the Irish Computer Society and a trustee emeritus (past
secretary and vice-president) of the Endowment Board of the VLDB (Very Large
Database) Conference, and is a member of the boards controlling the EDBT
(Extending Database Technology) conference, CAiSE (Conference on Advanced
Systems Engineering) and OOIS (Object-Oriented Information Systems)
conference.
Gilles Kahn is Chairman of
INRIA's Board of Directors and member of the Academy of Sciences. He is an
expert in programming environments and computer aided proof environments. A
former student of the École Polytechnique (1964), he spent several years
conducting research abroad-Stanford University, USA, University of Edinburgh
in UK, the Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK - in collaboration with
scientists of renown. Gilles joined INRIA (then called IRIA) in 1977 as the
head of a project dedicated to the development of programming environments.
In 1983, Gilles Kahn participated in the foundation of the INRIA Sophia
Antipolis Research Unit. In 1993, he joined the Institute's General
Management and became INRIA's Scientific Director. Gilles Kahn is a member of
many scientific boards of companies and research institutions in France and
abroad.
Pierre Laffitte, French
Senator, is the founder of Sophia Antipolis and the President of the Sophia
Antipolis Foundation. Among his other functions, Senator Laffitte is
President of the Franco-German Association for Science and Technology, member
of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, member of the Board of
France 5—a French broadcaster. Senator Laffitte is alumni of the French
Grandes Ecoles: Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole des Mines de Paris. Senator
Laffitte is also Doctor Honoris Causa of the Open University, UK, and of the
Colorado School of Mines; Officier de la Légion d'Honneur et de l'Ordre du
Mérite.
Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin is Member of the French Council of
State and Chairman of the Forum des droits sur l'internet (Internet Rights
Forum), a multi-stakeholders organization supported by the French government
and working on the rights and uses issues related to the Internet. Counsel to
the French government on Internet issues, she is member of Intellectual
Property Commission, of the National French Commission for UNESCO and member
of the French Data protection Authority (CNIL). Isabelle earned diplomas of
Ecole Nationale d'Administration (French College for Senior Civil Servants),
of HEC School of Management and of Institut Multi-médias (French Institute
of Multimedia).
Eric Velleman is director and
specialised ICT accessibility researcher and trainer of the Bartimeus
Accessibility foundation in the Netherlands. He has worked with (visually)
impaired students and ICT for 15 years trying to find solutions for the
barriers they run into. Together with the University of Utrecht, he developed
a series of tests for the visually disabled to automatically generate ICT
related user-profile settings. Now he is advising government and industry on
the accessibility of internet and internet-based multimedia. Eric is
co-author of Site Seeing, the first book about making websites accessible. As
Member of the W3C Advisory Committee and member of different W3C Working
Groups (WCAG and EOWG) he is active in the field of accessibility and
participates in many official documents and projects relating to
accessibility. Currently he and his collegues are working on a Quality Mark
for accessibility of websites, accessibility of games, multimodal data,
semantics and immersion.
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