The Euroweb 2002 Conference will be held at St Anne's College, Oxford, UK on the 17th and 18th December 2002. EuroWeb 2002 will be a major international forum at which research on the World Wide Web, GRIDs and Web Services is presented. EuroWeb 2002 follows on from the success of the EuroWeb 2001, which was held in Pisa in December, 2001 on the topic of the web in public administration.
W3C is pleased to announce the opening of the W3C Finnish Office in Tampere, Finland, hosted by the Digital Media Institute of the Tampere University of Technology. Tarja Systä is Office Manager, and Ossi Nykänen is coordinator. The opening ceremony takes place 11 October in Tampere. Read about W3C Offices.
In collaboration with W3C, NIST is holding a workshop on Web usability in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA (near Washington, DC) on 4-5 November. Participants will discuss the usability of W3C specifications, how they affect usability of software based on them, and how to improve the overall usability of the Web. Position papers are due 13 September.
Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. New features in version 6.3 include control over whether images are loaded; new preference options; more SVG, MathML, and Unicode support; and support for annotations described with Dublin Core 1.1. Download Amaya binaries for Solaris, Linux, and Windows. Source code is available. If you are interested in annotations, visit the Annotea home page
Ivan Herman spoke at HKUST and the Web Services Conference 2002 in Hong Kong on 2 and 3 September. On 10 September, Steven Pemberton speaks at BayCHI in Palo Alto, CA, USA. On 24 September, Péter Inzelt, László Kovács, Daniel Dardailler, Marie-Claire Forgue, Éva Megyaszai, Ivan Herman, Vincent Quint, and Max Froumentin speak at the W3C Hungarian Office Opening Event in Budapest. On 25 September, Chris Lilley speaks at the Applied Visualization Laboratory in Knoxville, TN, USA. Philipp Hoschka gives a keynote at Informatik 2002 in Dortmund, Germany. Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events.
W3C Team members will attend the Twenty-second International Unicode Conference on 9-13 September in San Jose, CA, USA. Chris Lilley gives the keynote address, SVG: Vector Graphics meets Unicode. Richard Ishida moderates a panel on Web Internationalization featuring Martin Dürst, Chris Lilley, and Michel Suignard. Martin Dürst and Richard Ishida present Web Internationalization - An Update from the W3C, and Richard Ishida presents the paper, Introduction to Indic Scripts.
W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee gives a talk on the Semantic Web: A Certain Progress, Many Challenges at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science in Cambridge, MA, USA on 19 September. Admission is open to the public. Please refer to the seminar page for the abstract and details.
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