chris@w3.org
Bert Bos completed his Ph.D. in Groningen, The Netherlands, on a protoyping language for graphical user interfaces. He then went on to develop a browser targeted at humanities scholars, before joining the W3C at INRIA/Sophia-Antipolis in October 1995. He is co-inventor of CSS and created & led W3C's Internationalization activity. After working on HTML and XML, he is now leading the CSS and Mathematics activities.
bert@w3.org
Dan Connolly is a research scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) in the Decentralized Information Group (DIG) and a member of the technical staff of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). His research interest is investigating the value of formal descriptions of complex systems like the Web, especially in the consensus-building process.
Dan received bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990. He moved to the Dallas area to join Convex Computer Corporation as a software engineer in 1991. From there, he began collaborating across the Internet with Tim Berners-Lee on the World Wide Web project. He moved back to Austin to work at Atrium, a start-up software company, in 1993. He joined HAL Computer Systems in 1994.
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.
Since 1997, Dan has worked for MIT from his home, first in Austin, Texas and later in the Kansas City area.
connolly@w3.org
Thierry joined W3C at INRIA in August 1998 as leader of the ECommerce/Micropayment Activity.
Then he has lead the XForms Activity.
Currently he leads the Synchronized Multimedia Activity (SYMM WG and Timed Text WG).
Thierry holds a Diplome d'Etudes Approfondies (D.E.A) in Genetics - Statistics and Information Technology (University Paris VII).
tmichel@w3.org
At the end of the 80's, Steven with a group of colleagues built a browser with extensible markup, a DOM, stylesheets, client-side scripting, etc. Following from this work, he organised two workshops at the first WWW conference in 1994 on client-side computation and electronic publishing.
He chaired the first-ever W3C event, the workshop on style sheets, the first W3C internationalisation workshop, and was a long-time member of the CSS and HTML working groups. He now chairs the HTML and Forms working groups.
He is editor-in-chief of ACM/interactions.
He is based at the CWI, Amsterdam. For more information: www.cwi.nl/~steven.
steven@w3.org
schepers@w3.org
Michael(tm) Smith joined the W3C in January 2007 and worked within the W3C's Mobile Web Initiative until November 2007, when he became the W3C team contact for the HTML working group chartered to produce HTML5. Mike has been based in Tokyo for more than six years, and prior to joining the W3C, worked for Opera Software and Openwave Systems (and was for most of that time involved with design, development, testing, and deployment of software for mobile operators in Japan).
mike@w3.org
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