Re: Pre-Telecon Introductions

Hi,

My name is Yuk Hui, from the centre of cultural studies and department of
computing, goldsmiths, university of london.as an engineer, i have been
working on a tagging system for timebased multimedia for the metadata
project supported by Leverhulme trust, as a philosopher, I have been working
on contemplary german and french philosophy, I am very interested to see how
the "social" of the social web is defined and developed.

best,
yuk hui

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Benjamin Nguyen <benjie.nguyen@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I am Benjamin Nguyen, associate professor in databases at University
> of Versailles St-Quentin, France, and associate director of the CS
> department. I specialise in (distributed) XML databases and their web
> applications and have been working for several years now with
> sociologists (from universities in Paris and Aix-en-Provence) on
> "formal" mailing lists and web standardization. Our project is called
> WebStand [1].
>
> My other current focus is that of data privacy in large scale applications.
>
> I am convinced that many interesting database issues will arise within
> the social web, and social web applications, and I would like to have
> a close look at them.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> BN
>
> [1] WebStand reference page :
> http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/~beng/wiki/index.php/WebStand<http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/%7Ebeng/wiki/index.php/WebStand>
>
>