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Issue 82: October 2004

W3C Celebrates Ten Years Leading the Web

2004-10-07: This year, W3C celebrates its tenth anniversary. During a symposium for Members and invited guests in Boston, USA on 1 December, W3C will reflect on the progress of the Web, W3C's central role in its growth, and risks and opportunities facing the Web during W3C's second decade. Please sign the greeting card and read about the W3C Tenth Anniversary Celebration. We wish to thank MIT CSAIL, Google, ILOG, INRIA, DERI, IONA, Nokia, and Sogei for their early sponsorship support and hope you will take this opportunity to join them.

Call for Participation: W3C "Mobile Web Initiative" Workshop

2004-09-29: Position papers are due 15 October for the W3C "Mobile Web Initiative" Workshop to be held in Barcelona, Spain on 18-19 November. Attendees will discuss how a W3C initiative could help to make Web access from a mobile device as simple, easy and convenient as Web access from a desktop device. Read about workshops and W3C's mobile Web work.

Massimo Marchiori Receives Technology Review TR100 Honor

2004-09-20: Massimo Marchiori, W3C Research Scientist at MIT and research professor in Computer Science at the University of Venice, has been chosen as one of Technology Review's 2004 TR100, a group of one hundred young innovators in technology from around the world. The award recognizes Massimo's innovative contributions in a variety of fields including search engines, networks, Semantic Web, privacy, and modularity. Join us in congratulating Massimo for his achievement. Read about his past and ongoing work on Massimo's home page.

QUATRO: The Online Quality Assurance Project Launched

A new project is being launched on 1st November under the European Union's Safer Internet Programme to help internet users find what they want, trust what they find, and avoid material they choose not to see. The Quality Assurance and Content Description project (Quatro)brings together 9 organisations from across Europe including labelling schemes, user advocacy groups, academics, technologists and publishers.

Press Highlights

Browse W3C in the Press. A selection of articles since the last Newsletter:

"Le W3C fete ses dix ans d'existence" (in French), Journal du Net, 8 October
" W3C Launches Web Services Addressing Working Group," InternetWeek, 8 October
"Internet-Pionier fordert lizenzfreie Standards" (in German), EETimes.de, 1 October
"W3C Issues XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0 as a Proposed Recommendation.," Cover Pages, 30 September
"Separate text-only version? No thanks!," Digital Media Europe, 30 September
"Web Founder Says Cooperation Needed," Associated Press, 29 September
"W3C Publishes InkML and EMMA Working Drafts for the Multimodal Interaction Framework.," Cover Pages, 28 September
" Does W3C Validation Help In Search Rankings?," WebProNews, 23 September
"Introduction to Device Independence," XML.com, 22 September
"Tim Berners-Lee Opens Day Two of SpeechTEK with a Vision for Speech Technology," Speech Technology, 14 September
" Access to all Europe's websites," ISTWeb

W3C Team Talks

Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events.

27-28 October: W3C Workshop on the Semantic Web for Life Sciences, host TBD, Cambridge, MA, USA
8-10 November: Compound Document Formats Working Group Meeting, hosted by ERCIM, Sophia-Antipolis, France
9-11 November: Web Services Description Working Group Meeting, hosted by webMethods, Sunnyvale, CA, USA
9-12 November: XML Query Working Group Meeting, hosted by Oracle, Redwood Shores, CA, USA
18-19 November: Mobile Web Initiative Workshop, Barcelona, Spain
29-30 November: TAG Meeting, hosted by W3C, Cambridge, MA, USA
30 November: Advisory Board Meeting, hosted by W3C, Cambridge, MA, USA
Steven Pemberton presents the tutorials XForms: Improving the Web Forms Experience and Styling the New Web Using CSS at User Experience 2004 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on 4-6 November.
Daniel Weitzner gives the lecture The Transparency Paradox: Privacy-enhancing architectures for open information networks at the Distinguished Lecture Series at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Information Management and Systems in Berkeley, CA, USA on 10 November.
Steve Bratt gives the keynote Weaving a Web for the Next Generation of Science at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in Denver, CO, USA on 11 November.
David Booth presents What Is New in WSDL 2.0 at the Gartner Application Integration and Web Services Summit in Orlando, FL, USA on 17 November.
Steven Bratt presents Developing Core Web Services Standards at the World Wide Web Consortium at the Gartner Application Integration and Web Services Summit in Orlando, FL, USA on 20 November.
Eric Miller gives the tutorial Weaving Meaning: An Overview of the Semantic Web at the Greater Boston Chapter / ACM Professional Development Seminar 2004 in Boston, MA, USA on 20 November.

New W3C Members

Please welcome:

Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC, USA
SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, USA
University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Vida Software S.L., Barcelona, Spain