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Berners-Lee will participate at 'Fundamentos Web 2007' to take place October 3-5 in Gijón, Asturias, Spain
Together with the inventor of the Web, international experts on Web design such as Jeffrey Veen, from Google, and Tantek Çelik, from Technorati will also attend the event. The Conference will celebrate the tenth anniversary of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
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GIJÓN, 27 June 2007
The Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Tim Berners-Lee, who has been the recipient of the Prince of Asturias Foundation prize for Scientific and Technical Research, will participate via videoconference in the international conference ‘Fundamentos Web 2007’, which will take place at the Conference Centre of Gijón, 3-5 October.
This is the first time Berners-Lee will take part in this event, which has been celebrated since 2005 in Asturias. It is organized by Fundación CTIC and the W3C Spain Office, and supported by the e-Asturias Strategy for the development of the Information Society. His participation at ‘Fundamentos Web’ will take place via videoconference in an interview-debate panel which will analyze Internet’s future challenges.
Berners-Lee began work on combining the features of Hypertext systems on top of the infrastructure and standards of the Internet. The first successful test of the Web was on 25 December 1990, and the rest, as they say, is history. The Web now provides people from all over the world to easily access information.
Since its first edition, the main goal of this conference has been to give participants the possibility of listening to international experts’ opinions about forefront Web design from a technical and social perspective.
Among other experts, Jeffrey Veen, current User Experience Manager for Google and Founding Partner of Adaptive Path -the world's premier user experience consulting company-, will attend the event. Veen is the author of reference books such as "The Art & Science of Web Design" and "HotWired Style".
Experts on Web design with standards will also take part in this conference, such us the current Chief Technologist at Technorati and internationally renowned software architect, designer & engineer, Tantek Çelik, who helped develop and deploy CSS at W3C.
10 years of CSS
In this third edition, Fundamentos Web will celebrate the tenth anniversary of the creation of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) with the participation of Bert Bos, CSS co-author and W3C Style Activity Lead.
Besides, a CSS design contest for the Web site of this year’s conference was proposed by the organizers with the following motto: `Fundamentos Web wears your style´. The aim of this contest was to promote the use of Cascading Style Sheets among Web designers.
Finally, three designs were selected out of the fifty proposals submitted to the contest. The winner was the CSS entitled ‘Nouvelle web’, by Adriana Pertierra. The other two finalist projects were ‘Cantábrico’, by Mónica Antón Suárez, and ‘Css City’, by Juan del Río & José Seoane.
About W3C Spain Office
Established in October 2003, the Spain Office is hosted by Fundación CTIC. Located at the Science and Technology Park of Gijón, Asturias, Fundación CTIC is a non-profit organization which carries out and disseminates applied research on information technologies. W3C Offices assist with promotion efforts in local languages, broaden W3C's geographical base, and encourage international participation in W3C Activities. W3C currently has seventeen Offices located in Australia, Benelux, China, Finland, Germany and Austria, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Korea, Morocco, Southern Africa, Spain, Sweden, and United Kingdom and Ireland.
About the World Wide Web Consortium [W3C]
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards. W3C primarily pursues its mission through the creation of Web standards and guidelines designed to ensure long-term growth for the Web. Over 400 organizations are Members of the Consortium. W3C is 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, and has additional Offices worldwide. For more information see http://www.w3.org.
