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W3C Weekly News 26 November - 2 December 2002 Join W3C: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Prospectus/Joining W3C Members: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List _________________________________________________________________________ W3C to Move European Host to ERCIM W3C is pleased to announce its European host will change on 1 January 2003 from INRIA to the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM). MIT in North America, Keio University in Asia and now ERCIM in Europe are W3C's three global partners and physical headquarters called hosts. The move allows W3C to foster research relationships throughout Europe, while maintaining ties to INRIA, one of the ERCIM founders. Read the press release in eighteen languages and the testimonials. http://www.ercim.org/ http://www.w3.org/2002/11/ercim-pressrelease Speech Synthesis Markup Language Last Call Published The Voice Browser Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of the "Speech Synthesis Markup Language Version 1.0." Comments are welcome through 15 January 2003. With this XML-based language, content authors can generate synthetic speech on the Web, controlling pronunciation, volume, pitch, and rate. Read about the Voice Browser Activity. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-speech-synthesis-20021202/ http://www.w3.org/Voice/ W3C Co-Hosts XML 2002 W3C is pleased to co-host XML 2002 to be held 8-13 December in Baltimore, MD, USA. Chris Lilley participates in a Town Hall panel on the W3C Technical Architecture Group on 10 December. Philippe Le Hegaret presents a W3C Update on 11 December and DOM Level 3 on 12 December. Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, will attend. http://www.xmlconference.org/xmlusa/ Multimodal Interaction Framework Note Published The Multimodal Interaction Working Group released the first publication of the "W3C Multimodal Interaction Framework" as a W3C Note. The framework identifies markup languages required by components and for data flowing among components. It describes input and output modes widely used today and can be extended. Read about the Multimodal Interaction Activity. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/NOTE-mmi-framework-20021202/ http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/ QA Operational Examples & Techniques Note Published The Quality Assurance (QA) Working Group has released "Operational Examples & Techniques" as a W3C Note. Part of the QA Framework and developed in tandem with Operational Guidelines, the latest version is now maintained at the QA Activity until it stabilizes. The document gives examples and techniques of quality practices within W3C Working Groups. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/NOTE-qaframe-ops-extech-20021202/ http://www.w3.org/QA/WG/qaframe-ops-extech http://www.w3.org/QA/ W3C Team Talks in December * Hugo Haas presents at Iliatech Club Day on Web Services at INRIA Rocquencourt, Le Chesnay, France on 3 December. * Charles McCathieNevile presents at LexiPraxi 2002 at the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie in Paris, France on 3 December. * Kazuhiro Kitagawa gives a keynote at Internet World Asia in Tokyo, Japan on 5 December. http://www.w3.org/Promotion/Appearances/ New Generation of the W3C Markup Validator Released W3C is pleased to announce an upgrade to the W3C Markup Validation Service. Changes include improved result pages, accessibility fixes, restructured code and design, and more MathML, XHTML and SVG support. Feedback is welcome. The announcement names contributors and has release notes. http://validator.w3.org/ http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2002Nov/0221 _________________________________________________________________________ The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is 446 Member organizations and 74 Team members leading the Web to its full potential. W3C is an international industry consortium jointly run by the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (MIT LCS) in the USA, the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA) in France, and Keio University in Japan. The W3C Web site hosts specifications, guidelines, software and tools. Public participation is welcome. W3C supports universal access, the semantic Web, trust, interoperability, evolvability, decentralization, and cooler multimedia. For information about W3C please visit http://www.w3.org/ _________________________________________________________________________ To subscribe to W3C Weekly News, please send an email to mailto:w3c-announce-request@w3.org with the word subscribe in the subject line. To unsubscribe, send an email to mailto:w3c-announce-request@w3.org with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Thank you. _________________________________________________________________________
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