World Wide Web Consortium Delivers Tutorials at CeBIT 2001; Meet Technologists From the Birthplace of XML, XHTML and Critical Web Technologies.Business/Technology Editors http://www.w3.org/--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 14, 2001 The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is delivering its first series of tutorials at the CeBIT 2001 world business fair and exhibition which runs from 22 - 28 March in Hannover, Germany. Members of the W3C Team and the W3C Deutsches Buro are available to meet with CeBIT attendees, show the latest W3C achievements in graphics, presentation, multimedia, privacy, and accessibility, and explain how W3C's over 500 members work together to create the technologies that serve as standards for the World Wide Web. Five W3C Team members will give tutorials: -- Dr. Philipp Hoschka, the W3C Architecture Domain Leader, presents on Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (hypertext, language, multimedia, text, World-Wide Web) Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language - (SMIL) A language based on Extensible Markup Language (XML), that enables people without programming or scripting backgrounds to author multimedia presentations in a simple text (SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language) Pronounced "smile." A format for delivering and synchronizing multimedia content on the Web. Introduced in the summer of 1998 by the W3C, it is a document type (DTD) of XML and provides the timing commands that ) on 23 March 2001 -- Dr. Daniel Dardailler, Technical Lead for the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)'s Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) is an effort to improve the accessibility of the World Wide Web (WWW or Web) for people using a wide range of user agent devices, not just standard web browsers. (WAI) presents on Web Accessibility on 24 March 2001 -- Rigo Wenning, W3C Privacy Activity Lead, presents on the Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) on 25 March 2001 -- Dr. Bert Bos, W3C Style Activity Lead, presents on Cascading Style Sheets A style sheet format for HTML documents endorsed by the World Wide Web Consortium. CSS1 (Version 1.0) provides hundreds of layout settings that can be applied to all the subsequent HTML pages that are downloaded. CSS2 (Version 2. (CSS) on 26 March 2001 --Dr. Ivan Herman, Head of W3C Offices, presents on Scalable Vector Graphics (graphics, World-Wide Web) Scalable Vector Graphics - A W3C standard for vector graphics, based on XML. http://w3.org/Graphics/SVG/. (SVG) on 27 March 2001 W3C is located at the GMD (company) GMD - Full name: "GMD - Forschungszentrum Informationstechnik GmbH" (German National Research Center for Information Technology). Before April 1995, GMD stood for "Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung" - National Research Center for Computer Science, Stand (Halle 16, D59). GMD is the sponsor of the W3C Deutsches Buro. For more information, please contact Marie-Claire Forgue (w3t-comm@w3.org) or Klaus Birkenbihl (w3c@w3c.de). Contact America -- Janet Daly, [less than]janet@w3.org>, +1.617.253.5884 or +1.617.253.2613 Contact Europe -- Marie-Claire Forgue, [less than]mcf@w3.org[greater than], +33.492.38.75.94 Contact Asia -- Kazuhiro Kitagawa [less than]kaz@w3.org[greater than], +81.466.49.1170 About the World Wide Web Consortium [W3C] The W3C was created to lead the Web to its full potential by developing common protocols that promote its evolution and ensure its interoperability. It is an international industry consortium jointly run by the MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Computer Science (MIT LCS) in the USA, the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA INRIA - Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique ) in France and Keio University in Japan. Services provided by the Consortium include: a repository of information about the World Wide Web for developers and users, and various prototype and sample applications to demonstrate use of new technology. To date, over 500 organizations are Members of the Consortium. For more information see http://www.w3.org/ |
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