W3C Weekly News - 17 July 2004 (fwd)
Alan Sondheim
sondheim at panix.com
Sat Jul 17 18:55:43 CEST 2004
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14 July - 17 July 2004
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W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
Queen Elizabeth II has dubbed Sir Timothy Berners-Lee a Knight
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) during an
Investiture at Buckingham Palace in London on 16 July. UK Honours are
available to all who give service to the United Kingdom. Sir Timothy, a
British citizen who lives in the United States and is Director of W3C,
was knighted in recognition of his services to the global development
of the Internet through his invention of the World Wide Web. Please
read the congratulations and press release.
http://www.w3.org/2004/07/timbl_congratulations
http://www.w3.org/2004/07/timbl_knighted
Speech Synthesis Markup Language Is a W3C Proposed Recommendation
W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the "Speech Synthesis
Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.0" to Proposed Recommendation.
Comments are welcome through 27 August 2004. With the XML-based SSML
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/2004/PR-speech-synthesis-20040715/
http://www.w3.org/Voice/
XML Schema: Component Designators Working Draft Published
The XML Schema Working Group has released a revised Working Draft of
"XML Schema: Component Designators." The document defines a scheme for
identifying the XML Schema components specified by the XML Schema
Recommendation Part 1 and Part 2. Read about the XML Activity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-xmlschema-ref-20040716/
http://www.w3.org/XML/
W3C Advisory Committee Elects New Advisory Board
The W3C Advisory Committee has filled five open seats on the W3C
Advisory Board. Created in 1998, the Advisory Board provides guidance
to the Team on issues of strategy, management, legal matters, process
and conflict resolution. Beginning 1 July, the nine Advisory Board
participants are Jean-François Abramatic (ILOG), Ann Bassetti (Boeing),
Jim Bell (Hewlett-Packard), Klaus Birkenbihl (Fraunhofer Gesellschaft),
Eduardo Gutentag (Sun Microsystems), Steve Holbrook (IBM), Ken Laskey
(MITRE), Ora Lassila (Nokia), and Lauren Wood (Unaffiliated). Steve
Zilles is the interim Advisory Board Chair.
http://www.w3.org/2004/02/Process-20040205/organization.html#AB
W3C Talks in July (continued)
* John Wilbanks presented at the PharmaGRID 2004 Retreat in
Diessenhofen, Switzerland on 7 July.
* Max Froumentin presents at the 4th Workshop on NLP and XML
(NLPXML-2004) in Barcelona, Spain on 25 July.
Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events, also available as
an RSS channel.
http://www.w3.org/Promotion/Appearances/
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Team members leading the Web to its full potential. W3C 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. 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/
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