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.
Sessions
14:00 Tuesday, 6 May 2008
XForms 1.1
Tutorial Swift 1 & 2
Steven Pemberton (CWI/W3C)
XForms is a new technology being widely adopted by industry: even though it was designed for forms, as the name suggests, it is capable of, and is being used for, much more. This tutorial introduces XForms, with an emphasis on the improvements in the new version 1.1. Read more.
16:00 Thursday, 8 May 2008
Why you should have a Website
Open data Goldsmiths 2
Steven Pemberton (CWI/W3C)
Why Web 2.0 is harming the Web, and how we can fix it. Read more.