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一键免费快速申请文章正文综述详细专业照片新闻校友录已获Offer学生资料Dr Dave Raggett, one of the pioneering creators and developers of the World Wide Web, is to join the University of the West of England as a visiting professor. He will be a keynote speaker at a student-led conference on web development at the Watershed on 26 September.Dr Dave Raggett, one of the pioneering creators and developers of the World Wide Web, is to join the University of the West of England as a visiting professor. He will be a keynote speaker at a student-led conference on web development at the Watershed on 26 September.Dave Raggett, who lives at Bradford on Avon, currently focuses his research on the potential for using web technologies to reduce the cost of developing distributed applications of ubiquitous networked devices. He says, "My aim is to show how declarative approaches based upon markup, scripting and the Semantic Web can be used for applications that reach out into the physical world.", He adds, "This would be applicable to areas such as safety, security, environmental monitoring and control, entertainment, distributed work groups, and anticipatory maintenance."
He was working at Hewlett Packard Research Laboratories in the early 1990s when he joined a small group led by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the Web, based at CERN in Geneva. This group worked on the creation of HTML, one of two key standards that made the Web possible.
Dave has been a fellow of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) since then and was instrumental in bringing together representatives of the various browser companies - Netscape, Microsoft, Spyglass, Sun Microsystems and Pathfinder – to make early decisions about standardising HTML.
He has worked for several major companies including Hewlett Packard, Openwave, Canon and Volantis. Between 1995 and 1997, he was assigned to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Computer Science. He currently leads the W3C activity on ubiquitous web applications, having previously covered areas such as markup for mathematical expressions, forms, voice and multimodal interaction.
He has co-authored four books about the web, written tutorials on key web technology and created several pieces of widely used software.
Morris Williams of UWE's School of Information Systems said, “We are delighted that Dr Raggett is joining us as a visiting professor. Last year UWE welcomed the first intake of students on the BSc Web Design course, and we are developing post graduate degrees. The contribution of Dr Raggett to the future development of the programmes will offer a great enhancement to the teaching and learning experience of the students.”
UWE's Web Developers Conference is an all-day event at the start of the academic year to introduce students to the web design course. Other speakers include Pete Fearn from HP Labs, Andy Budd of Clearleft, and Matt Jones of Dopplr.
Organiser Dan Dixon said, “It will give students a chance to meet a wide range of people from the web industry. They'll hear the latest news, get lots of ideas and maybe meet a future employer.”
