----------------------------------------------------------------- W3C Seminar ----------------------------------------------------------------- Speaker: Dr. Ivan Herman Head of W3C Offices Topic: "2D Web Graphics: SVG" Date: Monday, September 2, 2002. Time: 3:00 pm - 4:00pm Venue: Room 4480 (Phase II, via lift 25-26) HKUST Capacity: 30 persons (please e-mail yammie@cs.ust.hk for reservation and enquiry) Biography: Ivan graduated as a mathematician at the University of Budapest, Hungary, in 1979. After a brief scholarship at the Universite Paris VI he joined a Hungarian research institute in computer science (SZTAKI) where he worked for 6 years (and turned into a computer scientist...). He then spent three years at a software house in Munich, Germany, before joining the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Sciences in Amsterdam in 1989, where he holds a tenure position. He received a PhD degree in computer science in 1990 at the University of Leiden, in the Netherlands. Although Ivan worked in quite different areas (distributed and data flow programming, language design, system programming), he spend most of these years in computer graphics and visualization. He also participated in various related ISO standard ization activities. If you want to see a really dull list of his publications and the projects he participated in, you can go to his home page at CWI... Ivan has been active in the Eurographics Association since 1985. He is now vice-chair of the Association. His activities in EG also provided him with his first active encounter with the Web: he created and maintained the Web site of the Association back in 1994 (or there abouts) and he was the head of the online activities until the end of 2000. He was the co-chair of the 9th World Wide Web Conference, in Amsterdam, in May 2000. He was also the AC Rep for CWI, and head of the W3C Dutch Office until he joined the W3C team. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------