Media Advisory: World Wide Web Consortium to Celebrate Ten Year Anniversary with Special Event in December

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) marks the ten year anniversary of 
its founding with a symposium on 1 December 2004, at Boston's Fairmont 
Copley Plaza. The day-long event features presentations by and 
discussions with luminaries from around the world whose contributions 
have played a key role in creating the Web, ensuring that the Web is 
open and accessible to everyone worldwide, and helping the Web to reach 
its full potential. Although attendance to the event is limited to W3C 
Members and invited guests, plans are being made to make the content of 
the day's lectures and talks available to the public.

For more information, please contact Karen Myers, W3C Media Relations 
Officer, at +1.617.253.5884 or +1.978.502.6218 (karen@w3.org) or 
contact the W3C Communications representative in your region, listed at 
the bottom of this email.

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World Wide Web Consortium to Celebrate Ten Year Anniversary with 
Special Event in December

Web Resources

This media advisory:
      In English: http://www.w3.org/2004/10/w3c10_media_advisory.html.en
      In French: http://www.w3.org/2004/10/w3c10_media_advisory.html.fr

W3C Tenth Anniversary Celebration
      http://www.w3.org/2004/09/W3C10.html

http://www.w3.org/ -- 13 October 2004 -- The World Wide Web Consortium 
(W3C) will mark the ten year anniversary of its founding with a 
symposium on 1 December 2004, at Boston's Fairmont Copley Plaza hotel. 
The day-long event will feature presentations by and discussions with 
luminaries from around the world whose contributions have played a key 
role in creating the Web, ensuring that the Web is open and accessible 
to everyone worldwide, and helping the Web to reach its full potential. 
Although attendance to the event is limited to W3C Members and invited 
guests, plans are being made to make the content of the day's lectures 
and talks available to the public.

WHAT: Ten Year Anniversary Symposium Celebrates Founding of World Wide 
Web Consortium

The event will include talks, debates, and panel sessions focused on 
personal reflections about how the Web got started by the people who 
were there; why the World Wide Web Consortium was founded; its role 
today in leading the Web to its full potential; and presentations and 
projections about the future of the Web.
WHO: Luminaries from the Web Community, W3C Team and Members, and 
Invited Guests

The program will open with a welcome from MIT president Dr. Charles M. 
Vest, who was instrumental in encouraging the W3C to establish its 
residence at MIT, the first host university. Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, 
KBE, inventor of the World Wide Web and founder of the World Wide Web 
Consortium, will reunite with friends, former colleagues, and members 
of the technology community involved in the early stages of the Web to 
share personal reflections and stories about how it all got started. 
Robert Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet, founder of 3Com Corporation, and 
currently General Partner, Polaris Venture Partners, will serve as 
event moderator throughout the day and introduce subsequent panels and 
speakers who will address the impact the Web has had on business, 
science, education, society and culture.

Participants such as Jean-François Abramatic, Chief Product Officer, 
ILOG, and Michael Cosnard, Director of INRIA Sophia-Antipolis and 
Manager of ERCIM, will bring European insights to the impact of the Web 
and the founding of the W3C. Denis Lacroix, Director Product 
Development, Amadeus, Takeshi Natsuno, Head of Multimedia Services 
Department, NTT DoCoMo, Tim O'Reilly, Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media, 
and William (Bill) Ruh, Global Practice Director, Cisco Systems will 
provide perspectives from international business and industry. 
Additional speakers are expected to be confirmed shortly and will 
appear on the W3C10 Web page.

WHEN: 1 December 2004

WHERE: Fairmont Copley Plaza hotel, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Public Greeting Card

Well-wishers may recognize and acknowledge the W3C's ten year 
anniversary by signing the public greeting card.

W3C10 Sponsors

The World Wide Web Consortium is grateful to W3C10 Platinum sponsor MIT 
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), and to 
all of the Member organization, media, and courtesy sponsors who have 
generously agreed to provide financial or in-kind services to help 
ensure the success of the W3C Tenth Anniversary Celebration.

About the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

The W3C was created to lead the Web to its full potential by developing 
common protocols that promote its evolution and ensure its 
interoperability. It is an international industry consortium jointly 
run by the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory 
(MIT CSAIL) in the USA, the European Research Consortium for 
Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) headquartered in France and Keio 
University in Japan. Services provided by the Consortium include: a 
repository of information about the World Wide Web for developers and 
users, and various prototype and sample applications to demonstrate use 
of new technology. To date, nearly 400 organizations are Members of the 
Consortium. For more information see http://www.w3.org/

Contact Americas and Australia --
     Karen Myers, <karen@w3.org>, +1.617.253.5509 or +1.978.502.6218
Contact Europe, Africa and Middle East --
     Marie-Claire Forgue, <mcf@w3.org>, +33.492.38.75.94
Contact Asia --
     Yasuyuki Hirakawa <chibao@w3.org>, +81.466.49.1170

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