Ian Jacobs
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Pre W3C
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Work at W3C
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Roles
2025 to present: W3C Structural Evolution Initiative lead
2023 to present: Breakouts events support with François Daoust
2022 to present: Support of W3C Board of Directors
2015 to present: Director, Payments
Secure Payment Confirmation
Payment Request API
Payment Handler API
2011 to present: Leader of
Community Groups
program with Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
Early 2004 through January 2015: Head of W3C Marketing and Communications
2001-2004: Involved in design and implementation of
W3C Patent Policy
1997-2004: Technical Editor
Architectural Principles of the
World Wide Web, Volume One
, authored by W3C's
Technical Architecture Group
(TAG)
URIs,
Addressability, and the use of HTTP GET and POST
Authoritative Metadata
User Agent
Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
Recommendation, with Jon Gunderson
and Eric Hansen. Refer also to the
Techniques for UAAG
1.0
, published as a Note at the same time as the
Recommendation.
Common User Agent
Problems
, W3C Note, with Karl Dubost and Hugo Haas.
Authoring Tool
Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
Recommendation, with Jutta
Treviranus, Charles McCathieNevile, and Jan Richardson. Refer also
to the
Techniques for Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
published as a Note at the same time as the Recommendation.
Accessibility Features of
SMIL
, W3C Note, with Marja Koivunen.
Accessibility Features of
CSS
, W3C Note, with Judy Brewer.
Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
Recommendation, with Wendy
Chisholm and Gregg Vanderheiden. Refer also to the
Techniques for
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
, published as a Note
at the same time as the Recommendation.
DOM Level 1
Recommendation
(helping a little with the HTML portion of the
specification).
CSS 2.0 Recommendation
with
Bert Bos
Håkon Lie
, and
Chris Lilley
HTML 4.0 Recommendation
with
Dave Raggett
and
Arnaud Le Hors
W3C Process Document
Older articles for
W3C
In late 1990s,
W3C in Seven Points
In 2000, an article on accessibility improvements in HTML 4.0, entitled
"WAI Resource: HTML 4.0
Accessibility Improvements"
with
Judy
Brewer
and and
Daniel Dardailler
In 1999,
Rohit Khare
and I wrote a summary
version of the paper
Network
Performance Effects of HTTP/1.1, CSS1, and PNG
entitled
W3C Recommendations Reduce
'World Wide Wait'
Articles outside
of W3C
2012:
How the Open Web Platform Is Transforming Industry
with Philippe Le Hégaret and Jeff Jaffe
W3C and the Web Community
for
xml.com
Technical Talks
January 2004:
Architecture
of the World Wide Web
, at
xml.gov
in Washington, D.C.
March 2002:
W3C
Technologies and Accessibility
, for the
Universities of Venezia and Bologna (Forli).
March 2001:
Authoring Accessible Help for the Web
, for
WinWriters Conference
2001
May 2000:
Web
Accessibility and Device Independence
, by Judy Brewer and Ian
Jacobs, presented at the
Ninth
International World Wide Web Conference (WWW9)
, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands.
February 2000:
W3C and
, presented at Palazzo Chigi in Rome, Italy.
15 November 1999:
Making the Web Accessible
, with Charles McCathieNevile at
Microsoft in Seattle Washington (USA).
18 December 1998:
Architecture of the World Wide Web
, at the
University of Bologna Computer
Science Department
in Bologna, Italy (in Italian).
Pre W3C
From 1994 to 1997 I lived in New York City working as a teacher
of English as a second language, a translator, and then a computer
consultant. I put together some documents (Postscript generated
from TeX) while teaching English as a Second Language:
List of frequently mispronounced
English words
English Verb Tenses
English Modal Verbs
From March through August 1994 I lived in Bologna, Italy and
worked at the
University of
Bologna Computer Science Dept.
I believe I designed the Dept.'s
first Web site, although it no longer exists. I also worked on a
paper (though not as a co-author) entitled "
Replicated
File Management in Large-Scale Distributed Systems
". I coined
the name of the system: RELACS. One of the authors of the paper,
Ozalp Babaoglu
, was
responsible for my being able to work at the University, as was my
friend
Dr. Andrea
Asperti
, whom I had met while working at the
INRIA in
Rocquencourt
From early 1990 to 1994 I lived in Paris at 6 rue Saint Sulpice
and worked in the Chloe Project at the
INRIA in
Rocquencourt
(the project no longer exists, sadly). I worked on
a system called
Centaur
, an generator of programming language environments,
that was produced by the
Croap
project
at INRIA Sophia and managed by Gilles Kahn. I was
responsible for all of the documentation and published several
INRIA reports about this work:
RT-0150
The
Sophtalk reference manual
RT-0149
Sophtalk tutorials
RT-0140
Centaur tutorial
I worked at the
INRIA Sophia
from approximately September 1989 until January 1990 in the Croap
project on Centaur. I lived in the back of a small house outside
the village of Opio.
I got a Master's Degree in Software Engineering from the Cerics
in Sophia Antipolis, France from the fall of 1988 until the
summer of 1989. My fellow students included Arnaud Le Hors,
Vincent Prunet, Renaud Marlet, and young colleague
Daniel Dardailler
I arrived in France in the fall of 1987 to work at the
Ecole des Mines de Paris
in
Sophia Antipolis, France. I had a one year "stage" (internship)
that lasted until the fall of 1988.
I graduated from
Yale
in May
1987, where I majored in Electrical Engineering. My primary fun
activity there was in an improvisational comedy group known as the
Purple Crayon
, founded
in 1985 by Eric Berg and 14 others of us. The group continues to
this day.
Some old geek humor
SHAM: The Superior Higher Abstract
Machine
Reducing Hyper-Links between Distributed
Context-Free Polymorphic Analog-to-Digital WYSIWYG (Deep Breath)
Distributed Real-Time Logical Network Data Things
Call for papers: The 1994 Ian Jacobs Conference on Computing Sciences
Ian Jacobs (
ij@w3.org
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Created: Nov
1997