Introduction

Hello, I'm David Booth.  (No known relation to Benjamin Booth, though I
guess we'll have to check!)  I'll be representing HP Software in this
WG.

For the past 3 years (prior to returning inside HP Software a few weeks
ago) I was a W3C Fellow from HP, working as alternate W3C Team contact
in the Web Services Architecture WG (editing the Web Services
Architecture[1]) and the Web Services Description WG (editing the WSDL
2.0 Primer[2]).   I also took an interest in Semantic Web technologies,
and have spoken several times about overlapping needs between the Web
services and the Semantic Web[3].  Before joining HP, I was Director of
Training for Bluestone Software, focusing on Web application servers,
XML, Java and C++.  Earlier I was a research scientist for AT&T Bell
labs.  My background is in computer science and my Ph.D. dissertation
was in programming language design.

I am interested in identifying and overcoming barriers to adoption of SW
technologies, and particularly in best practices for ontology design and
the use of multiple ontologies.

I look forward to meeting you all!

References
1. http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-ws-arch-20040211/
2. http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/%7Echeckout%7E/2002/ws/desc/wsdl20/wsdl20-primer.html
3. http://www.w3.org/2005/Talks/0110-dbooth-semweb/

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David Booth, Ph.D.
HP Software / Boston
Hewlett-Packard, Inc.

Received on Thursday, 19 May 2005 04:08:14 UTC