W3C Weekly News - 27 April 2004

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                          15 April - 27 April 2004

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Web Services Choreography Description Language 1.0 Working Draft Published

   The Web Services Choreography Working Group has released the First
   Public Working Draft of the "Web Services Choreography Description
   Language Version 1.0" (WS-CDL). Comments are invited on the group's
   public mailing list. WS-CDL defines peer-to-peer collaboration between
   Web service participants. Read the press release and visit the Web
   services home page.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-ws-cdl-10-20040427/
    http://www.w3.org/2004/04/wschor-pressrelease
    http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

Tim Berners-Lee Receives Millennium Technology Prize

   W3C is pleased to announce that the Finnish Technology Award Foundation
   board has unanimously presented its first Millennium Technology Prize
   to W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee. The award is given in one of four
   disciplines for "outstanding technological achievements that directly
   promote people's quality of life, are based on humane values, and
   encourage sustainable economic development." Read the press release.

    http://www.technologyawards.org/index.php?article_id=3932

W3C Math Activity Launched

   W3C is pleased to announce the relaunch of the Math Activity. The W3C
   Membership approved the Math Interest Group and its charter. The group
   will maintain the MathML W3C Recommendation and continue its task of
   facilitating the use of mathematics on the Web, for use in science,
   technology and education. Participation is open to W3C Members. Visit
   the Math home page.

   http://www.w3.org/Math/

Amaya 8.4 Released

   Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. Version 8.4 includes a
   Mac OS X package and bug fixes for CSS, (X)HTML, annotation and the
   Amaya user interface. Download Amaya binaries for Linux and Windows
   NT/2000/XP and Debian and RPM packages. Source code is available. Visit
   the Amaya home page and the Annotea home page.

    http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
    http://www.w3.org/2001/Annotea/

Position Papers Due 30 April: Workshop on Web Applications and Compound
Documents

   The W3C Workshop on Web Applications and Compound Documents will be
   held in San Jose CA, USA on 1-2 June. Attendees will discuss
   application development using the Web as a platform-independent
   environment and standardization of documents created in multiple markup
   languages. Position papers are due 30 April. Read about Workshops and
   Interaction at W3C.

    http://www.w3.org/2004/04/webapps-cdf-ws/index.html
    http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
    http://www.w3.org/Interaction/

SVG Open 2004 Deadline Extension

   SVG Open 2004, the 3rd annual conference on Scalable Vector Graphics,
   will be held 7-10 September 2004 at Keio University, Japan, on the Mita
   Campus in Tokyo. The submission deadline for paper abstracts has been
   extended to 7 May. Proposals for courses or exhibitions may be
   submitted online. SVG Open is your chance to discuss SVG development
   experience, products, workflows and strategies. The conference language
   is English; translation facilities will be available to encourage
   English-Japanese communication. Read about SVG.

    http://www.svgopen.org/
    http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/Overview.htm8

Upcoming W3C Talks

    * Ivan Herman presents an SVG tutorial at the ACM Boston Chapter
      Professional Developers' Seminars Series in Cambridge, MA, US on
      1 May.

    * Daniel Weitzner participates in a panel on Internet standards at
      INET 2004 in Barcelona, Spain on 12 May. INET is sponsored by the
      Internet Society (ISOC).

     Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events, also available as
     an RSS channel.

      http://www.w3.org/Promotion/Appearances/

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