W3C Comes to RIT (9/21/10)
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 09/16/2010 - 13:26
Philippe Le Hégaret heads the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Interaction Domain, which produces frontend Web technologies including HTML5, CSS3, SVG, WOFF, or Web APIs. Until July 2008, Philippe lead the W3C Architecture Domain, which produced the W3C Core technologies in the area of XML, Web Services, and Internationalization. He is a former Chair of the Document Object Model (DOM) Working Group.
Prior to joining W3C, Philippe promoted the use of XML inside Bull in 1998, also focusing on the interaction between XML and object structures. He wrote the first version of the CSS validator in 1997.Philippe holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Nice (France).