Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants (Recent and Upcoming)

June 2008

13 June

Michael Wilson participates at a panel entitled "Rita 2.0 - Effective Methods and Messages in Online Safety Education.' " at the "'Beyond Byron - Towards a New Culture of Responsibility," on Friday, 13 June 2008, in Oxford, United Kingdom. (see abstract)

Abstract:

Asked by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to investigate the new dangers to children being brought up in the digital age, Dr. Tanya Byron, under the auspices of the Department for Children, Schools and Families, produced a 224-page report. Using ideas and questions from the Thursday Evening Lecture, an invited panel will delve deeper into the meaningful delivery of online safety education at the roundtable on June 13th.

16 June

Henry Thompson gives a talk entitled "Gambling 2.0 Harnessing evolving technologies " at the "World Online Gambling Law Report Summer Retreat 2008" on Monday, 16 June 2008, in Hampshire, United Kingdom. (see abstract)

Abstract:

Taking gambling online transformed the industry. Social networking sites, user generated content and high speed access are now transforming the online landscape. The standards under development at the World Wide Web Consortium will shape the Web of tomorrow. This Session provides a survey of both technical (the browser as application platform, peer-to-peer, video on the web, the mobile web, the semantic web) and social (privacy and security, internationalization, accessibility) initiatives currently underway at W3C and elsewhere, and their likely impact on the future of the Web.

16 June

Daniel Dardailler gives a talk entitled "W3C - Web Open Standards, ICT skills" at the "OECD Internet Future forum" on Monday, 16 June 2008, in Seoul, Korea.

17 June

Tim Berners-Lee gives a keynote entitled "Web of Data" at the "LinkedData Planet" on Tuesday, 17 June 2008, in New York, NYC, USA.

17 June

Tim Berners-Lee gives a talk entitled "Web of Data" at the "LinkedData Planet Conference: exploring the new web of linked data" on Tuesday, 17 June 2008, in New York, NY, USA.

18 June

Kangchan Lee gives a talk entitled "Korean Member Report & Taking Action as AC Representative" at the "2008 W3C 대한민국 회원사 워크샵 (2008 W3C Korean member's Workshop)" on Wednesday, 18 June 2008, in Seoul, Korea.

19 June

Ivan Herman gives a keynote entitled "États des lieux du Web sémantique" at the "19èmes Journées Francophones d'Ingénierie des Connaissances (IC2008) (19th Francophone Knowledge Engineering Days)" on Thursday, 19 June 2008, in Nancy, France.

19 June

Shawn Henry gives a talk entitled "How New Web Accessibility Standards Impact User Experience Design" at the "Usability Professionals' Association International Conference 2008" on Thursday, 19 June 2008, in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. (see abstract)

Abstract:

This presentation provides the latest on new international standards expected in 2008, including the updated U.S. Section 508 Standards, WCAG 2.0, and WAI-ARIA for accessibility of Ajax applications. It compares the different documents, and demos how the new requirements impact user experience design, such as new accessibility requirements for forms.

19 June

Judy Brewer gives an invited talk entitled "Update on W3C/WAI Guidelines including WCAG 2.0" at the "Open Seminar of Information Accessibility" on Thursday, 19 June 2008, in Tokyo, Japan.

20 June

Daniel Dardailler gives a talk entitled "W3C - Web Open Standards" at the "EGENI" on Friday, 20 June 2008, in Paris, France.

26 June

Steve Bratt participates at a panel entitled "Challenges in the Air – Mobile Internet" at the "2nd NGMN Industry Conference 2008" on Thursday, 26 June 2008, in Frankfurt, Germany.

26 June

Michael Wilson runs a booth at the "New Frontiers for Engineering and Science" on Thursday, 26 June 2008, in Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, United Kingdom.

July 2008

1 July

Kangchan Lee gives an invited talk entitled "차세대 웹 기술 동향 (The Trends of Next Generation Web)" at the "Korea Computer Congress 2008" on Tuesday, 1 July 2008, in Bokwang , Korea.

7 July

Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a talk entitled "Senioren, Mobile Surfer und andere Trends (Seniors, Mobile Surfers and other Trends)" at the "IKT Forum 2008 (ICT Forum 2008)" on Monday, 7 July 2008, in Linz, Austria.

10, 11 July

Andrew Arch gives a talk entitled "Web Accessibility for Older Users" on Thursday, 10 July 2008; Michael Cooper gives a keynote entitled "Bringing Accessibility to Today's Web" on Friday, 11 July 2008; Shadi Abou-Zahra participates at a panel entitled "Web Accessibility 2.0 - Mainstreaming Accessibility at a Global Level" on Friday, 11 July 2008 at the "ICCHP 2008" , Linz, Austria.

11 July

Michael Cooper gives a keynote entitled "Bringing Accessibility to Today's Web" at the " ICCHP 2008 11th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs" on Friday, 11 July 2008, in Linz, Austria.

13 July

Ori Idan gives a talk entitled "Web site standards why, what and how" at the "Open Source Developers Club biweekly meeting " on Sunday, 13 July 2008, in Tel-Aviv, Israel. (see abstract)

Abstract:

• Introduction to W3C organization
• Role of W3C members
• Overview of W3C recommendations
• Process of W3C recommendation
• Main active working groups
• Future of the web according to W3C
• Activity of a W3C office
• Activity of W3C Israel office

August 2008

16 August

Molly E Holzschlag gives a tutorial entitled "Hot and Spicy Style with CSS" at the "Hot and Spicy Style with CSS" between Saturday, 16 August, and Sunday, 17 August 2008, in Honolulu, HI, USA. (see abstract)

Abstract:

From image replacement to effective navigation and background graphic design, integration with Flash in standards-based design, to anecdotes, and wit and wisdom from the entertaining Molly E. Holzschlag, this two day CSS hands-on methods helps any modern Web designer advance his or her work with CSS, no matter which tool or level of CSS knowledge.

20 August

Deborah Dahl , Ingmar Kliche, and Raj Tumuluri give a talk entitled "Multimodal Standards and Applications" at the "SpeechTEK" on Wednesday, 20 August 2008, in New York, USA. (see abstract)

Abstract:

This presentation will showcase standards-based multimodal applications developed by member companies of the W3C Multimodal Interaction Working Group. It will also demonstrate some laboratory applications that illustrate the principles of the W3C Multimodal Architecture and a deployed healthcare application that enables users to type, speak, and scribble on their mobile devices to record vital readings, highlight regions of interest on images, and submit them wirelessly.

22 August

Ivan Herman gives a tutorial entitled "Detailed introduction into RDF and the Semantic Web" at the "4th Search & Find Workshop" on Friday, 22 August 2008, in Ghent, Belgium.

September 2008

1 September

Andrew Arch gives a talk entitled "Web Accessibility and the Older Population" at the "HCI and the Older Population 2008" on Monday, 1 September 2008, in Liverpool, United Kingdom. (see abstract)

Abstract:

This paper introduces the “Web Accessibility Initiative: Ageing Education and Harmonisation” (WAI-AGE) project, a W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) project funded by the European Commission under its 6th Framework Programme (FP6) of the Information Society Technologies (IST). It briefly discusses some of the initial findings from the first stage of the project – a comprehensive review of the literature relating to this topic. It concludes with a discussion of some of the ways we intend to promote the needs of the older user to the Web development community.

23 September

Andrew Arch and Shadi Abou-Zahra give a talk entitled "How web accessibility guidelines apply to design for the ageing population" at the "Accessible Design in the Digital World" on Tuesday, 23 September 2008, in York, United Kingdom. (see abstract)

Abstract:

There has been extensive development of guidelines for accessibility of the Web for people with disabilities. While these guidelines address many requirements needed by the ageing population, the relevance of these guidelines to the needs of the ageing population is not well understood by many organizations representing and/or serving the needs of the ageing community nor by technology developers. There is a need to better understand the relationship and overlap of the requirements, and to develop educational resources to help developers provide Web sites that work better for people who experience changes in abilities due to ageing.

One of the key aspects of ageing is a development of functional limitations such as declines in vision, dexterity, and hearing. Additionally, we find various declines in cognitive ability, and these may be as likely, or more likely, to affect the use of ICT and the Web than physical and sensory limitations in older adults. In addition to the diversity in functional ability of older adults, we need be aware of the diversity of attitude and aptitude, when we are discussing the use of ICT and the Web.

This paper introduces the “Web Accessibility Initiative: Ageing Education and Harmonisation” (WAI-AGE) project, a W3C Web Accessibility Initiative project that is funded by the European Commission under its 6th Framework Programme of the Information Society Technologies. A significant part of this work includes researching existing literature with regard to information technology access, and comparing the findings with solutions provided by the Web Accessibility Initiative.

This reflective paper will report on the findings from the literature review and the synergies with the existing WAI guidelines.

24 September

Ivan Herman gives a tutorial entitled "Introduction to the Semantic Web" at the "2nd European Semantic Technology Conference" on Wednesday, 24 September 2008, in Vienna, Austria.

October 2008

17 October

Renato Iannella gives a keynote entitled "The Policy-Aware Web meets Virtual Goods" at the "6th International Workshop for Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects of Business Models for Virtual Goods" on Friday, 17 October 2008, in Poznan, Poland. (see abstract)

Abstract:

The Policy-Aware Web is the promise for supporting policy management at the Web infrastructure level. A policy is any set of rules or statements that capture and express the requirements of individuals and organsaitions from a corporate, legal, best practices, and/or social perspective. Currently, policy languages exisit that cover and broadly address the privacy, access control, and obligation management areas. However, what is missing is an overall framework and architecture for these policy languages to interoperate and provide an accountable, enforceable, flexible and trusted experience for the web community. This talk will review the technology challanges that face the Policy-Aware Web, the current policy specifications and the supporting standards and the road forward towards an enhanced web architecture. The goal is to provide a balance between creators, distributors, and consumers of digital goods by providing an open and transparent framework to transact and exchange digital items over the policy-savvy web.