Ian Jacobs (original) (raw)

Ian Jacobs at W3C

Work at W3C
Pre W3C
Photo Ops

Work at W3C

Ian headshot

The most reliable way to reach me is ij@w3.org.

Roles

2023 to present: Breakouts Day support with Fran�ois Daoust
2022 to present: Support of W3C Board of Directors
2015 to present: Head of W3C Payments Activity
2011 to present: Leader of Community Groups program with Dominique Haza�l-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'sTechnical 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 H�garet 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 accessibility, 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:
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:
1. RT-0150 The Sophtalk reference manual
2. RT-0149 Sophtalk tutorials
3. RT-0140 A Centaur tutorial
I worked at the INRIA Sophiafrom 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 thePurple Crayon, founded in 1985 by Eric Berg and 14 others of us. The group continues to this day.

Some old geek humor

Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org)
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