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Praveen Alavilli is the Systems Architect for AOL Web Authentication Systems. He works on designing and building Strong Authentication and Single Sign On System for all AOL Web Properties. He has been recently working on building support for new User-Centric Open Protocols within AOL.
Kevin Anderson has been an online journalist since 1996, designing, editing and writing websites for both broadcast and print media. In 1998, he joined the BBC and became their first online journalist based outside of the UK, covering the US for its award winning news website. After coming to the UK in 2005, he developed a blogging strategy for BBC news, helped launch a programme on the BBC’s 5Live covering weblogs and podcasts and was on the team that launched the interactive radio programme World Have Your Say on the BBC World Service.
Kevin is now the Blogs Editor for The Guardian, where he is responsible for management, strategy and ‘leading by doing’ for Guardian Unlimited blogs.
Brian Anderson is Director of Product Strategy for DataDirect, and manages the business development group for DataDirect XML Products. Mr. Anderson has been with DataDirect since 2001, joining through acquisition of Neon Systems, a mainframe integration vendor. Before that he was technical product marketing manaager at Jacada.
Brian regularly speaks on subjects from XML and XQuery to mainframe integration using Web services and XML. He currently lives in Atlanta, GA, and is available via email at brian.anderson@datadirect.com.
Peter has been working in the web for as long as he can remember. Initially as a freelancer and then for the last 8 years as a developer/manager/guru within a technology provider for the academic publishing market. Quakr is his 5-9 project and he’s been working on it since November 2006.
Timo has a history of design in diverse media: from broadcast design to advertising, web and interaction design for mobile services, including work on the first mobile social software platforms in 2000. Timo leads the Touch research project that investigates Near Field Communication (NFC), a technology that enables connections between mobile phones and physical things. Recently Timo has lectured in interaction design, physical computing, storytelling and design methodology at the Oslo School of Architecture & Design (AHO).
Dave is an RDF and semantic web developer working as a software architect for Yahoo! in Sunnyvale, CA, USA since October 2005. He has worked on standarising and developing web metadata standards for Dublin Core, RDF and the early work of RDF query with SPARQL, which he named. Dave created the Redland, Raptor and Rasqal RDF open source libraries to implement it all.
Dave has also helped run several web sites such as Planet RDF for Semantic Web Interest Group support activities for over 6 years.
Gavin architects social software for the Nature Publishing Group. A key product is Nature Network which offers the benefits of social software to the scientific community . Gavin has worked in web product development and in the publishing industry for over a decade. He has also worked in academia; in advertising; for Dorling Kindersley and for the BBC. Large scale web applications covering identity management, on-demand media and social software have been the main focus of his work. Gavin lives in London and writes on nascent for Nature and on take one onion. His personal website is gavinbell.com.
Robin Berjon is a Perl, Web, and open standards hacker. After several years spent being heavily involved in open source XML projects and in the W3C where he chaired three working groups, he now works for Joost where he develops the interface that enables third-parties to enhance the application. When no one is looking, he morphs into a mischievous kitten.
Developer with the Web Applications group at Opera Software ASA, mainly working with specification and design of extended client-side features like widgets.
Matt Biddulph is a creative technologist who works with companies like Nature, Joost and the BBC to bring cutting-edge technologies into the mainstream. He is also the CTO of Dopplr, a social network for frequent travellers.
Mark Birbeck (and company) are behind formsPlayer, an XForms processor, and Sidewinder, a semantic web browser, seamlessly combining XForms with XHTML, SVG, and MathML.
He is an Invited Expert on the W3C’s XForms, XHTML 2 and HTML Working Groups. His most recent work involved proposing and developing RDFa.
His blog focuses on building a new generation of rich internet applications for the semantic web, using Ajax, XHTML, XForms, RDFa, and declarative mark-up.
Alex first became interested in structured markup when analysing literary texts for his doctorate (on early Shakespeare editions) in the late 1980s. Following this he worked as a developer on heavily object-oriented C++ application framework for cross-platform multimedia publishing, at the height of the CD-ROM boom. In 1997 Alex was one of the founding directors of Griffin Brown Digital Publishing Ltd, a UK-based company providing XML-based services and products. He is responsible for leading the company’s XML consulting and implementation, and his work includes advising clients on XML/IT strategy and practice, mentoring clients” staff, writing DTDs and Schemas, and designing and developing XML software systems in C++, Java and other languages. In 2002, Alex was invited to join the British Standards Institute (BSI) Technical Committee IST/41, where he contributes to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 in its formation of the DSDL ISO standard, among other things. Alex writes and speaks regularly on structured markup technologies and their application to information management.
Tom Carden makes interactive visualisations and maps for Stamen Design in San Francisco. Before that, he wrote passenger flow simulation software for a London-based architecture firm, studied Virtual Environments, Imaging and Visualisation and lectured on Adaptive Architecture and Computation at University College London. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Artificial Intelligence with Mathematics from the University of Leeds.
Tom is an active member of the community formed around the Processing development environment and runs the Processing Blogs aggregator and Processing Hacks wiki. He was an early contributor and developer on OpenStreetMap and sister project Mapstraction. Tom’s personal weblog Random Etc has featured sketches, thoughts, interactive maps and graphical experiments since 2003.
Francis Cave is an XML consultant based in the UK. He was a founder member of the International SGML/XML Users Group and is currently Chairman of XML UK, the UK XML user group. He is also Chairman of BSI Technical Committee IST/41, which represents the UK in the work of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34, and is editor of DSDL Part 9 Namespace- and datatype-aware DTDs.
For more than seven years Francis has been working with EDItEUR on the development and maintenance of a wide range of XML-based communication standards for the book and serials industries worldwide, including the ONIX and EDItX format families. As well as supporting the continuing development of the ONIX for Books product metadata standard, significant work is being done to develop XML-based standards for communication of license terms, with current and potential applications across the whole publishing and media sector. Partly as a result of this work, in 2006 Francis was appointed by the World Association of Newspapers to be Technical Project Manager for the ACAP Project.
Francis has operated a successful freelance XML consultancy business since 1999 and lives in the Surrey Hills with his wife Liz and two teenage children.
I’m editor-in-chief at Éditions O’Reilly, the french subsidiary of O’Reilly Media, since 1997. I’m also in charge of supervising our Information System.
Steve Coast is a freelance hacker and consultant living near London in the UK. Steve started openstreetmap (a project to make free wiki maps) two and a half years ago.
Aaron is Canadian by birth, American by descent, North American by experience et Montréalais au fond. Aaron works at Flickr doing mobile and geo related hackin…I mean, engineering. Aaron does not normally speak in the third person and by all accounts “there’s flesh under all that RDF-talk.”
James Cox has been developing and interacting with the web for the last six years, building apps small and big. Having worked on projects as diverse as editorially driven content management through e-commerce, he has a wide range of scenarios to draw from.
Having not only developed small projects, James has experience managing high scalability situations too. Starting with PHP’s website, php.net, he spent many years managing the various services within the infrastructure team, learning the tricks of the trade and experimenting with new techniques.
Since then James has solved the scalability and uptime issues of a major Mid-East online news source, and is currently working with a massively popular webzine serving over 10 million hits a day.
Within the community James has worked on testing new availability scenarios with other leading scalability evangelists and continues to research new ways to attain high performance webapps.
Having worked as an engineer on web technologies for the last 12 years, Thomas is glad to see open standards embraced within the web community. Even though we still have to live with MSIE and Mozilla specific code, there is much less of it in the world. Thomas believes that Flash is a force to be reckoned with as we move through “Web 2.0” (whatever that is) into the future of the ubiquitious web.
Software developer based in Copenhagen. Cofounded Imity in 2006, developing mobile identity and social networking using bluetooth, cellphones and the web.
I am a technical architect, active on the Internet since the early nineties. My primary area of interest is around the Semantic Web, with more emphasis on the Web and its network effects than on semantics. I advocate the use of Web standards including HTTP, URIs and RDF to build scalable distributed applications. I prefer to use agile development practices especially test-first design. In 2000 I was co-author of the RSS 1.0 specification and I have contributed to many RDF-related developments including vocabularies, frameworks, specifications and standards. I have founded three technology startups in the areas of large scale search, syndication and semantic web architectures. I have a strong personal interest in genealogy.
I’m currently serving as the Chief Technology Officer of Talis, a UK-based company with expertise in semantically rich metadata and in delivering software and services for information management. At Talis I’m leading the development of a new web-based platform for building human-centric, information-rich applications that take advantage of the network effects produced when huge numbers of people interact over the Web.
I maintain a personal blog, Internet Alchemy where I write on technology, the semantic web and whatever else catches my eye. I also contribute to the Talis group blog Nodalities. You can contact me by email using me@iandavis.com or ian.davis@talis.com. I am often on irc.freenode.net as iand in #talis, #swig, #foaf or #code4lib. You can also skype me using the name ian_davis although I prefer chat to voice.
Alex is an industrial and interaction designer. She attended the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea where she met the other founders of tinker.it!. She has been involved in projects for clients such as Nokia, Motorola, Droog design, Thinglink, Jaiku, Blast Radius. She is an active speaker on the next generation of technology-aided product design. She now heads Tinker.it’s operations in London.
Fabrice Desré is an web technology and markup language expert at Orange Labs.
Kellan works as a Hackr for Flickr on a wide range of projects dealing with sharing, privacy, and data mining. He co-authored the OAuth 1.0 Core specification as the first step towards organizing a mass data jail break and decentralization. Fluffy computational clouds, and played based metaphors are the future of social software.
Ian Forrester heads up the BBC’s Backstage, a developer/designer network like no other. He is well known for geek social events across the capital including London Geekdinners, BarCampLondon, BBC Backstage London Christmas Bash and recently the BarCampLondon2.
Previously, he worked for the BBC World Service as a New Media Software Engineer. His background is in design and information architecture, which stems from lecturing at Ravensbourne College and working for a design agency during the dot-com era.
Somehow, Ian finds time to blog at cubicgarden.com and think about the next generation of the web at his new blog called flow*
Rocco Georgi is the Lead Developer of PavingWays . He has worked in the area of web development for more than seven years. With PavingWays Rocco specializes on bringing web applications to (mobile) devices.
Background Rocco has a Master of Arts in Software Engineering and English Studies. Before developing web applications as a freelancer, Rocco has worked for companies such as BMW Group, Infineon Technologies, Siemens in Germany as well as in the Silicon Valley. As a teacher in a vocational school he has tought students the arts of coding HTML, JavaScript and CSS.
Since 1999 Rocco has been building web sites and web applications, specializing in back-end solutions and custom as well as open source content management systems for small to medium business. Having switched to implementing semantically correct websites and applications in XHTML/CSS since early 2005 to fulfill web standards and accessibility criteria, he got acquainted to new technologies, such as Ruby on Rails and AJAX to provide clients with state-of-the-art web applications and to contribute in forging the Web 2.0.
Ivo Georgiev graduated in electrical engineering from Stanford University (USA), with concentration in computer software. He received his PhD degree from Bulgarian Academy of Science. He has worked for various software companies developing web applications, Bayesian modeling, and transportation logistics. He has published 8 papers. His interests include Web technologies, artificial intelligence, and complex systems, as well as organizational dynamics, software engineering methodologies, and agile development. He is currently CTO at the travel industry startup Lessno, http://www.lessno.com.
Iliya Georgiev received M.S. degree from the Technical University of Sofia and Ph.D. from the Electrotechnical University “LETI” of St. Petersburg. Since 2000 he has been Professor at Metro State College of Denver, USA. Before that, he had 5 years in the software industry in the USA, 7 years as Full Professor at the Technical University of Sofia, and many years research and development at the Central Institute for Computer Technologies of Sofia. He is author and co-author of 14 technical books and more than 100 publications printed in journals and given at domestic and international conferences. His recent scientific interests include heterogeneous computer systems, web architecture and applications, and enterprise integration.
Henk Gingnagel is active in the use of XML for the Public Sector in the Netherlands since 2000. He is the father of SuwiML, an XML Vocabulary for the Dutch Public sector, widely in use since 2001. His interests include XML Solutions, XML Vocabularies, Data Standardization, Web Services and Enterprise Service Buses. Since 2006 Henk is active in the introduction of XBRL in the Netherlands.
Tony Graham is an independent consultant specialising in XSL, XSLT, and XML. He has been working with markup since 1991, with XML since 1996, and with XSL/XSLT since 1998.
Tony is an invited expert on the W3C XSL FO subgroup and a previous member of the W3C XML Protocol WG. He is the author of Unicode: A Primer and the developer of the xmlroff XSL Formatter. He is a member of the XML Guild.
Tony is interested in applying the tools for ensuring software quality – unit testing, code coverage, profiling, and other tools – to XML and XSL/XSLT processing.
Guido Grassel works as a Research Team Leader for Web Technology and Usability at Nokia Research Center’s Internet Core Competence Center in Helsinki (Finland). He is a member of the W3C Web Application Formats working group, and a former co-chair of the W3C Synchronized Multimedia working group. Guido headed the research teams that initiated the Nokia Open Source Web browser and the 3GPP SMIL player for S60. His current research aims to make Internet truly usable and useful for the masses on their mobile device.
The author of “Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing”, Adam Greenfield is a user experience consultant and critical futurist. Before starting his current practice, Studies and Observations, Adam was lead information architect for the Tokyo office of Razorfish. He’s also been a rock critic for SPIN Magazine, a medic at the Berkeley Free Clinic, and a PSYOP sergeant in the U.S. Army’s Special Operations Command
With more than thirteen years of industry experience, Chris Gruber, Technical Manager for Developer Initiatives, works with IBM Information Management on industry-leading Data Server products. Previously, Chris has worked as a Senior Product Manager for Sybase iAnywhere Solutions. He has worked very closely with engineering and development partners accelerating partners time to the market.
Rafi Haladjian, Ozone founder, Violet co-founder
Having pioneered French telematics (Minitel) as early as 1983, Rafi Haladjian went on to found FranceNet , France ’s very first ISP, in June 1994. His intuition at the time was that the Internet, a highly confidential network in those days, was “history in the making”. FranceNet became Fluxus in 2000, and was sold to British Telecom in 2001. After heading one of the Internet’s major French players for over nine years, Rafi Haladjian founded Ozone and Violet, another step forward in the great connectivity adventure he has been a part of for twenty years.
Ozone, the first Pervasive Network operator, is currently deploying a network, notably in Paris and other cities in Europe that is based on Wi-Fi technology. OzoneParis has undertaken to provide all Parisians, both individuals and corporate entities, with a wireless broadband Internet access.
Violet, the Smart Object Company, was created in June 2003. Its vocation is to develop technologies, products and services enabling still objects to communicate and become intelligent. Violet’s objects are of a new kind, they respond to easy access needs while adapting to each person’s expectations. Violet has created Nabaztag, the world’s first intelligent, interactive Wi-Fi Rabbit.
www.ozone.net; www.ozoneparis.net
www.violet.net; www.nabaztag.com
Paul Hammond is a web developer, product manager and father. He has been building websites for as long as he can remember, and is now part of the Yahoo! Advanced Development Division. Before that he led technical project management at BBC Radio and Music interactive.
Paul regularly speaks on subjects from javascript and APIs to the future of broadcasting, at events including Emerging Technology, d.Construct and Web Directions North. He currently lives in San Francisco, and keeps a technical weblog at paulhammond.org
Hideki Hiura is chief scientist and CTO of JustSystems, Inc. He is a founder and chairperson of OpenI18N.org/Free Standards Group, an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the use of free and open source software by developing and promoting standards. He is also a founding member of W3C I18N WG. As an architect at Sun Microsystems, he was involved with variety of standards and standard organizations including ISO, W3C, OMG, The Open Group, OSF, Unix International, X Consortium and Unicode.
Molly E. Holzschlag is an independent consultant and trainer in standards and best practices for the Web.
Dave is the co-founder and CTO of Nitobi Software, a Vancouver based Ajax component vendor and consulting firm. Dave spends most of his time on architecting and building high performance Ajax components for use in web based applications. A core focus of Nitobi is building Ajax components and user interfaces that deliver real value to customers through increased productivity and higher efficiency. Dave has spoken around the world about Ajax and web development, including AjaxWorld 2006, XTech 2007 and JavaOne 2007. Dave has a BaSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of British Columbia and almost has his PhD from Imperial College London.
An Irish web developer living in Brighton, England:
- working with Clearleft,
- writing at adactio,
- playing with Salter Cane and
- enjoying Irish traditional music and good food.
Jirka Kosek is a freelance XML consultant and teacher at University of Economics in Prague. He has over ten years experience in providing XML consultancy and training. Jirka is an active member in several standardization bodies—OASIS (DocBook TC and RELAX NG TC), W3C (XSL WG and ITS WG) and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 (DSDL, Topic Maps).
Jirka Kosek is an author of several books about Web technologies. He also wrote numerous articles for IT developer magazines. In his free time he is contributing code into DocBook XSL stylesheets open-source project.
Kevin Lawver is a web standards evangelist and developer at AOL, currently working on AIM Pages developing the ModuleT microformat.
Laurent Le Meur, 45, is manager of the Médialab unit at Agence France Presse.
The AFP Médialab unit coordinates AFP New Media projects worldwide, drives the development of innovative online platforms, enhances the integration of content into client-side editorial systems, and develops new products for the print media.
With an expertise on XML, metadata industry standards and their use in the press industry, Laurent chairs the IPTC News Architecture Working Party and leads the XML development efforts inside AFP. He also participates to the W3C Multimedia Semantics Incubator Group and to the ACAP (Automatic Content Access Protocol) project.
Laurent is skilled in object oriented software development and image processing; he earned his French engineer diploma (Ph.D) at the ENS Physique Marseille.
Rob is a Director at Rattle Research, a digital R&D agency based in the north of England.
HÃ¥kon Wium Lie is the CTO of Opera Software. His job is to make sure Opera remains a better, smaller and faster browser than the one you know. Also, he is a director of YesLogic, the company behind the Prince web-to-PDF formatter. Before joining Opera in 1999, HÃ¥kon worked at W3C where he was responsible for the development of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), a concept he first proposed while working with Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1994. HÃ¥kon holds a MS degree in Visual Studies from the MIT Media Lab.
Josh Lucas works for the Los Angeles Times in the Interactive division. He likes to play with data and they have lots and lots of it.
A former long time Microsoft employee, Frank Mantek joined Google in 2005 to work on the Google Data API. His past work include SQLXML, Internet Explorer, and other Microsoft technologies. When he is not working on new data technologies, he enjoyes playing the Djembe really loud.
Dr. Francis T. Marchese is Professor of Computer Science at Pace University where he teaches courses in computer graphics, data visualization, human-computer interaction, and software engineering. He is founder and Director of Pace’s Center for Advanced Media (CAM) and Digital Art Gallery. He has published widely in science, technology, and art; and is editor of the conference proceedings entitled Understanding Images published by Springer-Verlag. Dr. Marchese has been twice awarded Pace’s School of Computer Science and Information Systems Excellence in Research Award, received the Kenan Award for Teaching Excellence, and been nominated for The Carnegie Foundation Teacher of the Year Award. He has a Ph.D. in quantum chemistry from the University of Cincinnati and was a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Research Fellow specializing in the statistical mechanics of liquids.
Chaals is Opera Software’s chief standards officer. Before working at Opera he spent 6-odd years at W3C. He works on Mobile Web, Accessibility, chairs W3C’s WebAPI working group, and spends lots of his time doing presentations or management stuff.
He used to work a lot on the Semantic Web, and is a trained medieval historian who likes cooking and once wrote an XML language to represent music in various common written forms.
Ralph Meijer has been involved with the Jabber/XMPP community since late 2000 and has worked on prototyping new ideas in presenting and communicating information using Jabber. Most of these experiments revolve around publish-subscribe technologies for transporting information like extended presence and news, and have resulted in several XMPP protocol design contributions and services.
He is a member of the XMPP Council that oversees the standards development process at the XMPP Standards Foundation, former developer at Jaiku and currently employed by the Dutch company Mediamatic Lab, working on federating social networks and content management systems.
Ralph keeps a weblog and life stream.
Erik Meijer is an architect in the Microsoft SQL server division where he currently works together with the Microsoft Visual C# and the Microsoft Visual Basic language design teams on data integration in programming languages.
Prior to joining Microsoft he was an associate professor at Utrecht University and adjunct professor at the Oregon Graduate Institute.
Erik is one of the designers of the standard functional programming language Haskell98 and more recently of Cw, C# 3.0 and Visual Basic 9.
Felix is a student at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, where he is completing his Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering these days.
His Master’s Thesis focuses on Representation of XML Schema Components.
Paul Miller, Technology Evangelist, Talis.
Paul joined Talis in September 2005 from the Common Information Environment (CIE), where as Director he was instrumental in scoping policy and attracting new members such as the BBC, National Library of Scotland and English Heritage to this group of UK public sector organisations. Previously, Paul was at UKOLN where he was active in a range of cross-domain standardisation and advocacy activities spanning Government, education, libraries, museums and archives.
At Talis, Paul is active in raising awareness of new trends and possibilities, as well as working to nurture a community of developers around an emerging technology Platform.
Paul has a Doctorate in Archaeology from the University of York.
Massimiliano Mirra is an independent consultant and researcher. He began to program when he was calculating properties for hundreds of harp strings; the means quickly became more interesting than the end, and he’s been mumbling in a variety of programming languages since then.
Richard Mooney is a senior solution architect with Vordel, a leading provider of SOA security and governance infrastructure products. Richard is responsible for architecting and implementing best of breed SOA security infrastructures for leading Fortune 1000 and public sector organizations in Europe and North America. Richard regularly delivers training workshops to partners and customers and also is a frequent presenter at industry conferences. Prior to joining Vordel, Richard worked at Sun, Oracle and LogicaCMG. He has an Engineering qualification from University College Dublin.
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Murray-Rust
Ravi Murthy is a Consulting Member of Technical Staff at Oracle Corporation. He is currently working on a hosted, community driven application development platform that’s highly customizable and extensible. Previously he was the principal technical lead for Oracle XML DB, the native XML database and content repository within the Oracle DBMS. Ravi holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from University of Wisconsin, Madison and Bachelors degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
Petr Nalevka is an IT consultant with over 8 years extensive experience across a variety of IT projects using contemporary enterprise-level web-based and server-side technologies. The highlights include development and architecture of an in-house modular billing system for large ISPs, distributed system for stock indexes calculation and other projects for governmental institutions or international banks.
Moreover, Petr works on development and maintenance of Relaxed and JNVDL, both open source projects. Relaxed is a web document validation service and JNVDL is a Java implementation of the NVDL international standard for compound document validation.
Sam Newman is a developer at ThoughtWorks. Founder and organiser of the London 2.0 meetups, he has written articles for O’Reilly, presented at various conferences, and spends too much time tweaking his blog without ever achieving design adequacy
As Senior Technical Evangelist for Adobe Systems, Duane Nickull is responsible for Adobe’s messaging around enterprise solutions in the SOA and Web Services spaces plus other forward looking aspects such as the Web 2.0. Previously Mr. Nickull co-founded Yellow Dragon Software Corporation, a privately held developer of XML messaging and metadata management software, acquired by Adobe in 2003. He previously served as CTO and President of XML Global Technologies, acquired by Xenos Group in early 2003.
Mr. Nickull has written or participated in most of the larger SOA standards work in the past decade. He currently chairs the OASIS Service Oriented Architecture Reference Model Technical Committee (SOA-RM TC) which has just delivered a Reference Model for Service Oriented Architecture. He served as a Vice Chair of the United Nations Centre for Facilitation of Commerce and Trade (UN/CEFACT) between 2003 and 2006. Within the United Nations, he oversaw the UN’s Electronic Business strategy and Service Oriented Architecture and modeling efforts. He has served as the project team lead of the United Nations (UN/CEFACT) Electronic Business Architecture Group (SOA) and a specially appointed liaison between the W3C, UN and OASIS standards consortiums. Additionally, Duane has served as the chair for the United Nation’s Electronic Business Working Group, a direct sub-group of CEFACT TMG and on the CEFACT TMG Steering Committee. He also has served as the Co-chair of the ebXML Technical Architecture group as well as co-editor of that specification starting in 1999, largely recognized as the first post-internet and post XML SOA. He has participated in writing many of the recent large Service Oriented Architectures that permeate the IT landscape today such as the W3C Web Services Architecture and also co wrote the Mackenzie-Nickull Meta-model for Architectural Patterns. Mr. Nickull has written and contributed many technical articles and books on these subjects
Mr. Nickull has been called Mr. SOA by his peers during introductions to speak on the subject due to his overwhelming experience writing and contributing to the major Service Oriented Architectures (SOA’s). Between 1995 and 2006, he spoke at over 500 venues in various countries around the world
Duane’s entrepreneurial activities also included being a co-founder of XML Global Technologies, Inc in 1997-8 with co-founder Matt Mackenzie. XML Global was noted as a visionary company in the advancement of XML based technologies before it was acquired by Xenos in 2003. Duane has recently renewed his work in the theoretical field of computational intelligence and has recently spoken to the Ontolog Forum on a proposal to build an event-causality aware inference engine coupled to a query-able ontology. Such mechanisms may one day bestow true cognitive and reasoning capabilities upon applications. In the field of semantic reconciliation, Duane was a co-inventor of the first Context-sensitive XML Search Engine (www.goxml.com) and the first web based XML E-Commerce ASP. He is named on pending patents pertaining to XML indexing and retrieval covering 51 unique points. He also served as Technical Director for XSLT.com.
He lives in Vancouver, Canada with his wife and three children, plays in a rock band, actively snowboards, races Porsche 911’s and mountain bikes. Duane first came to Vancouver playing in an original band in 1985 and made his living as a professional musician for several years.
Personal website: http://www.nickull.net Blog: http://technoracle.blogspot.com
Other links:
Google Search (over 160,000 results): http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Duane+Nickull%22&btnG=Google+Search
OASIS SOA RM Technical Committee http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=soa-rm
United Nations Website: http://search.unece.org/cgi-bin/query?keys=nickull&x=0&y=0
W3C Website (co writer of architecture for web services): http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/arch/
Born January 1977 in Cleveland, OH, Chimezie is a first-generation son of Nigerian immigrants. He moved (with his family) to Nigeria in 1980 where he was introduced to computers (and software programming) at a young age. Upon returning to the United States in 1990, his interest in Engineering and Computers eventually led him to attain a degree in Computer Engineering. As a software consultant for Fourthought Inc. from 2000 – 2002, his interest in XML related technologies was established. He currently is working for the Cleveland Clinic Foundation doing XML & RDF related research on Knowledge Management technologies for computerized patient records.
Conrad Parker is currently based at Kyoto University, Japan, investigating video search infrastructure and interface usability. He previously worked as a Senior Research Engineer at CSIRO Australia on free software and open standards related to Annodex, a web-architected, distributed hypermedia system. He has presented Annodex related work at meetings of the IETF, the WWW2005 Developer’s Day, ACM Multimedia and various Free Software conferences, and published articles about Annodex in IEEE Multimedia and ACM Multimedia Systems.
He has developed some other useful free software projects including the Sweep sound editor used by Pixar in the production of animated feature films. Conrad contributes regularly to Free Software multimedia projects such as Ogg Vorbis, Speex, Theora and xine, helping build technology for all people that surpasses the breadth and impact of television.
He holds degrees in Computer Engineering and Mathematics from the University of New South Wales, and is a former board member of the Australian Unix Users Group and a former president of the Sydney Linux Users Group.
Currently Chief Software Architect at AF83.
Formerly IT strategist for aSmallWorld.net an exclusive social networking site, Chief of R&D at Internet Patrol specialized in strategic information retrieval on the Internet for the luxury industry and CTO of Omikron Delta LTD specialized in Technical computing software.
Steven Pemberton is a researcher at the CWI, The Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, a nationally-funded research centre in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, the first non-military Internet site in Europe. Steven’s research is in interaction, and how the underlying software architecture can support the user. At the end of the 80’s he built a style-sheet based hypertext system called Views. Steven has been involved with the World Wide Web since the beginning. He organised two workshops at the first World Wide Web Conference in 1994, chaired the first W3C Style Sheets workshop, and the first W3C Internationalisation workshop. He was a member of the CSS Working Group from its start, and is was long-time member and chair of the HTML Working Group. He is now co-chair of the XHTML2 Working Group and activity lead of the W3C HTML and Forms Activities. He is co-author of (amongst other things) HTML 4, CSS, XHTML and XForms. Steven was also Editor-in-Chief of ACM/interactions.
Rufus Pollock is Director and co-founder of the Open Knowledge Foundation as well as being a member of Creative Commons UK and a country coordinator for the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure. He has worked extensively on issues related to creativity and copyright in the digital age.
Katie is a software engineer specialising in semantic web technologies.
Katie is interested in user contributed metadata, data mining, and real-world applications. At Ingenta, she worked on a triplestore scalability project .
She holds a BA in PPP from Oxford University, and and MSc in Computer Science from Brookes.
Fabien Potencier is a serial entrepreneur. Since he was ten, he always dreamed of creating and running companies. He started his career with an engineering degree from the French business school Ecole des Mines and an MBA in entrepreneurship from HEC Paris. In 1998, right after graduation, Fabien founded his very first company with a fellow student. The company was a web agency focused on simplicity and open source technologies, and was called Sensio. His acute technical knowledge and his endless curiosity won him the confidence of many French big corporate companies. While Sensio kept growing (at the time of writing, it has more than 30 employees), Fabien started other businesses: an indoor go-kart circuit in Lille (France), an auto spare parts e-commerce shop, and an autopilot training business riding on the most famous French racetracks. Fabien is the main developer of the symfony framework and is responsible for 95% of its code. Today, Fabien’s spends most of his time as Sensio’s CEO and as the symfony project leader.
Antoine Quint is an expert in client-side XML technologies, most notably SVG, for desktop and mobile rich applications with experience consulting for companies such as Adobe, Vodafone, Ikivo, and other industry-leading companies. An SVG enthusiast for many years, Antoine has been a member of the W3C SVG Working Group since 2002 and an engaging speaker at many events, such as various MobileMonday chapters and XML conferences across the world. A senior software architect at Joost (formerly The Venice Project) since early 2006, Antoine lives in Paris, France.
Dave Raggett is a W3C Fellow from JustSystems and has been a member of the W3C Team since 1995. He is currently driving W3C’s proposals for work on ubiquitous web applications which seeks to reduce the cost of building distributed applications of network appliances in the home, office and on the move, through web technologies such as markup and event-based scripting. He has been closely involved with the development of standards for HTML, HTTP, MathML, XForms, and VoiceXML. His previous position was as W3C Activity Lead for multimodal interaction. Dr. Raggett is also known for his work on open source software including HTML Tidy for cleaning up HTML and Slidy a web-based solution for slide presentations.
David Sant has been a web devloper and software engineer since 1999. He has spent his commercial career building database driven websites and integrating legacy back-end systems. As a hobby, he is always trying to think of unusual things to do with public APIs.
Yves Savourel has been involved in internationalization and localization for fifteen years; working currently at ENLASO Corporation (formerly RWS Group). His main focus has always been on developing tools and solutions for localization processes, often including SGML and XML aspects. Yves has been involved in the creation of various localization-related standards such as OpenTag, TMX, or XLIFF. He is also the author of “XML Internationalization and Localization”. He is a native of Brittany and lived in France, Africa and in the Indian Ocean before settling in Boulder, Colorado.
Henri Sivonen is a software developer based in Helsinki, Finland. His most notable current professional activity is developing an HTML5 conformance checking service as an independent contractor consulting for the Mozilla Corporation—a project he wrote his master’s thesis on. Henri participates in the HTML Working Group of the W3C as a representative of the Mozilla Foundation. His has previously contributed to the development of the Atom syndication format.
Michael™ Smith works for W3C as part the W3C’s Mobile Web Initiative. Mike has been based in Tokyo since 2001, 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). He’s also a member of the DocBook Project, and a contributor to the DocBook XSL Stylesheets.
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen is a member of the technical staff of the World Wide Web Consortium, an international membership organization responsible for developing Web standards. He co-edited the XML 1.0 specification and the <title>Guidelines</title> of the Text Encoding Initiative. His Erdos number is 6.
Gavin has been engaged in the cross-over between Technology, Science, Media and Business for more than a decade. In 1995 he helped set up Richard Branson’s “Virgin Net” ISP, and the International Webcasting Association in Europe. In 1999 he created the cross-media company, Tornado Productions, and sold it in 2003. Having led projects with clients as diverse as Channel Four, Rolls Royce, Tate Modern, Shell and Christian Aid he has broad and deep knowledge of how worlds collide.
Gavin holds a BSc in Astronomy and a Masters degree in Computer-Music: he worked at the Jodrell Bank Radio Observatory in Radio Astrophysics, and created and lectured new courses in Electronics and Music at Glasgow University.
Gavin is the founder of d::gen network and MD of CI.
Rob Styles is a technologist with over a decade’s experience building large-scale, innovative internet systems. For the past two years he has been a lead on the development of Talis’ Skywalk Platform and is currently Programme Manager for Talis’ Open Data Services team.
Jeni Tennison is an independent consultant specialising in XSLT and XML schema development, currently contracted to TSO. She trained as a knowledge engineer, gaining a PhD in collaborative ontology development, and since becoming a consultant has worked in a wide variety of areas, including journal publishing, medieval manuscripts, legislation and financial services. She is author of several books including “Beginning XSLT 2.0” (Apress, 2005).
Jeni was an invited expert on the W3C’s XSL Working Group during the development of XSLT 2.0 and was one of the founders of the EXSLT initiative to standardise extensions to XSLT and XPath. She is currently working on the XProc pipeline definition language as an invited expert on the W3C’s XML Processing Working Group, on the Layered Markup and aNnotation Language (LMNL), and on the DataType Library Language (DTLL).
Henry S. Thompson divides his time between the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, where he is Reader in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, based in the Language Technology Group of the Human Communication Research Centre, and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), where he works in the XML Activity.
He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1980. His university education was divided between Linguistics and Computer Science, in which he holds an M.Sc. While still at Berkeley he was affiliated with the Natural Language Research Group at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, where he participated in the GUS and KRL projects. His research interests have ranged widely, including natural language parsing, speech recognition, machine translation evaluation, modelling human lexical access mechanisms, the fine structure of human-human dialogue, language resource creation and architectures for linguistic annotation. His current research is focussed on the semantics of markup, XML pipelines and more generally articulating and extending the architectures of XML.
He was a member of the SGML Working Group of the World Wide Web Consortium which designed XML, a major contributor to the core concepts of XSLT and W3C XML Schema and is currently a member of the XML Core, XML Schema and XML Processing Model Working Groups of the W3C. He has been elected twice to the W3C TAG (Technical Architecture Group). He is lead editor of the Structures part of the XML Schema W3C Recommendation, for which he co-wrote the first publicly available implementation, XSV. He has presented many papers and tutorials on SGML, DSSSL, XML, XSLT, XML Schema and XML Pipelines in both industrial and public settings over the last ten years.
Emma Tonkin is an Interoperability Focus Officer at UKOLN, based at the University of Bath, England. Following a postgraduate degree in HCI, she is currently pursuing a Ph.D. with the Mobile and Wearable Computing group at the University of Bristol, England. Her research interests include collaborative classification, automated classification and ubiquitous computing. She has recently taken on the role of moderator (co-chair) of the DCMI Registry Working Group.
Elias Torres is a Senior Software Engineer at IBM’s CIO office (WebAhead). His current research focus areas include the Semantic Web and Social Software. He’s very active in the Open Source community at the Apache Software Foundation and works as a member in two W3C working groups: SPARQL and RDF-in-XHTML Task Force. He earlier developed, deployed and evangelized two key collaborative services inside IBM called Blog Central and Wiki Central. These services provide online journals for all IBM employees as well as collaborative spaces, more commonly known as Wikis. IBM views these as core to their current efforts to transform IBM. These two services have rapidly evolved into thriving, global productivity-enhancing communities with exponential growth in their first year of deployment.
Elias has influenced IBM products and development efforts and is partly responsible for the new blog content on developerWorks and the inclusion of Blog capabilities in IBM Lotus Connections. With Semantic Web technologies, he continues this role as technology evangelist and is working with IBM organizations including the Life Sciences and IBM research organizations.
Elias earned a BA in Business Administration at University of South Florida and an MS in Computer Science from Harvard University.
Priscilla Walmsley is a senior consultant and Managing Director of Datypic. She has over fifteen years experience as a consultant, software architect, developer, and data administrator. She has held positions at RELTECH Group, Platinum technology, XMLSolutions Corporation (as a VP and co-founder), and Vitria Technology.
Walmsley was a member of the W3C XML Schema Working Group from 1999 to 2004. She is the author of several books on XML technologies, including Definitive XML Schema and XQuery.
Freelance analyst writer and occasional software developer
Matt Webb is a principal of the creative design consultancy Schulze & Webb Schulze and Webb where his work has included material prototyping for Nokia, Web strategy for the BBC, and exploration into the future uses of RFID. S&W works in near-term product R&D and, as embodied in the USB puppet Availbot, has a special focus on the social life of stuff. Matt speaks on interaction design and technology, is co-author of Mind Hacks, cognitive psychology for a general audience, and builds polite social software and Web toys. He can be found at Interconnected and in London.
Erik graduated from the Technical University of Berlin as a computer scientist and went on to ETH Zürich to get his Ph.D. in computer networking. He is now working at UC Berkeley’s School of Information, where he is Technical Director of the Information and Service Design Program. His field of interest are Web technologies. He is currently focusing on XML core technologies such as XML Schema and XPath. Another area he is working on is the question of how to integrate geolocation concept into the Web, and how to use these concepts for location-based services and locative media in general.
Simon Willison is a freelance client- and server-side Web developer and the co-creator of the Django Web framework. Simon’s interests include OpenID and decentralised systems, unobtrusive JavaScript, rapid application development and RESTful Web Service APIs. Before going frelance Simon worked on Yahoo!’s Technology Development team, and prior to that at the Lawrence Journal-World, an award winning local newspaper in Kansas. Simon maintains a popular Web development weblog at http://simonwillison.net