W3C and the Mobile World

Speaker:	Dr. Ivan Herman
		Head of W3C Offices

Title:		"W3C and the Mobile World"

Date:		Monday, 24 April 2006

Time:		4:00pm - 5:00pm

Venue:		Lecture Theatre F
		(Leung Yat Sing Lecture Theatre, near lift nos. 25/26)
		HKUST

ABSTRACT:

The advancement of Mobile Technologies has made it possible to access the
World Wide Web from an increasing variety of mobile devices. This
evolution raises new challenges both from the hardware side but also on
the side of Web technologies. This presentation gives a general overview
of the technologies, activities, and plans related to this problem and
that are currently under way at the World Wide Web Consortium.



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Biography:

Ivan graduated as mathematician at the Eotvos (http://teo.elte.hu/fs/)
Lorand University of Budapest, Hungary, in 1979. After a brief scholarship
at the Universite Paris VI, he joined the Hungarian research institute in
computer science (http://www.sztaki.hu) where he worked for 6 years. He
left Hungary in 1986 and, after a few years in industry, he joined the
Centre for Mathematics and Computer Sciences (CWI) in Amsterdam where he
has held a tenure position since 1988. He received a PhD degree in
Computer Science in 1990 at the Leiden University, in the Netherlands.
Ivan joined the W3C team as a Head of Offices in January 2001 while
maintaining his position at CWI. He is also member of the Semantic Web
Coordination Group at W3C. As part of his work at W3C, Ivan regularly
gives presentations on W3C technologies, as well as tutorials, for example
on SVG or the Semantic Web. He was the co-chair of the 9th World Wide Web
Conference , in Amsterdam, May 2000. He is also member of
IW3C2 , the committee responsible for the World Wide
Web Conference series.