Sir Tim Berners-Lee Founder of the World Wide Web

Dan Connolly received a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990. His research interests include investigating the value of formal descriptions of chaotic systems like the Web, particularly in the consensus-building process, and the Semantic Web. He became involved with distributed hypertext systems and SGML in 1992. With Tim Berners-Lee he was co-editor of the initial Internet Engineering Task Force's draft specification for HTML.

Jeffrey Zeldman is among the web's best-known web designers, authors, and teachers. His personal site, zeldman.com , has welcomed over 16 million visitors and is a daily industry read. Jeffrey is the founder of Happy Cog Studios, the publisher of A List Apart Magazine, and the author of Designing With Web Standards (New Riders, 2003) and Taking Your Talent to the Web (New Riders, 2001).

Ora Lassila is a Finnish computer scientist who lives and works as a Research Fellow at the Nokia Research Center, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He has been conducting research into the Semantic Web since 1996, and was co-author, with Tim Berners-Lee and James Hendler of the article "The Semantic Web" which appeared in Scientific American in 2001, now the most cited paper in the Semantic Web area.

Norman Walsh is a Staff Engineer in the XML Technology Center at Sun Microsystems Inc. Norm is an active participant in a number of standards efforts, including the XML Schema and XSL Working Groups of the W3C, and the OASIS DocBook Te

Aaron Swartz is a writer, web developer, and entrepreneur. At age 14 he was a co-author of the RSS 1.0 specification. Since then he has become a member of the W3C’s RDF Core Working Group, co-designed the formatting language Markdown with John Gruber, and has been involved in many other projects. Aaron was the founder of Infogami, a startup that was part of Y Combinator’s first Summer Founders Program. Previously, he attended Stanford University for a year, …

Ian Horrocks is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Manchester in the UK. His research focuses on knowledge representation, particularly ontology languages, description logics, and optimised reasoning algorithms. His work on tableau reasoning for very expressive description logics has formed the basis of most description logic reasoning systems in use today, including Racer, FaCT++, and Pellet. Prof.

Jim Gettys is a computer programmer. Currently, he is at the One Laptop Per Child project working to create the $100 laptop. He is Vice President of Software, responsible for the laptops' system software. He is one of the original developers of the X Window System at MIT and worked on it again with X.Org, where he served on the board of directors. He previously served on the GNOME foundation board of directors.

David Megginson (born 1964) is a Canadian computer software consultant and developer, specializing in open source software development and application. He was the lead developer and original maintainer of the Simple API for XML, or SAX, a leading streaming API for XML. Megginson has been part of the SGML and then XML communities since 1991.

Tantek Çelik, of San Francisco, is a computer scientist of Turkish-American descent and was the Chief Technologist at Technorati. He is mostly known for his time at Microsoft (1997-2004), where he worked on the Macintosh version of Internet Explorer.

Massimo Marchiori is without doubt the Italian scientist who most contributed to the development of the World Wide Web. In July, 2004, he was given the prize TR100 by the Technology Review (the best 100 researchers in the world). He works nowadays in the University of Venice, Italy and in the World Wide Web Consortium. He is also famous for HyperSearch, a search engine where the results were based not only on single pages ranks, …

is a Japanese computer scientist. He participated in the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) XML Working Group. The Working Group designed XML1.0, a markup language specification. Murata and James Clark designed RELAX NG, an XML schema language. In 1982, Murata received his bachelor's degree from the Faculty of Science, Kyoto University. In 1985, he joined Fuji Xerox. From 1993 to 1995, he researched structured document at Xerox Webster Research Center.

Alan Kotok was an American computer scientist. He was known for his contributions to the Internet and World Wide Web through his work at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), to computer engineering through his work at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), and to gaming for his work on computer game and computer chess programs built at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Kotok recorded a video oral history at the Computer History Museum in 2004.

Michael L Dertouzos (November 5, 1936 - August 27, 2001) was a Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Director of the M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) from 1974 to 2001. During Dertouzos's term, LCS innovated in a variety of areas, including RSA encryption, the spreadsheet, the NuBus, the X Window System, and the Internet. Dertouzos was instrumental in defining the World Wide Web Consortium and bringing it to MIT.

Carole Goble is a full professor in the the School of Computer Science in the University of Manchester , UK , where she has co-led the Information Management Group since 1997. She has worked closely with life scientists for many years and is the Director of the my Grid project, the largest UK e-Science pilot project, which has produced the widely-used Taverna open source software and is now part of the Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute UK .

Mario Jeckle was a German computer scientist. From 1997 to 2003, Jeckle attended the University of Applied Science in Augsburg.

Jonathan Alan Borden, born 1962-10-31 in Rochester, New York, raised in Hartford, Connecticut. Borden graduated from Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts with a Bachelor of Arts in Neuroscience and Yale University School of Medicine. He completed his internship and residency in Neurosurgery at Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts. His scientific work has involved the application of computer science to neurobiology.

Alan Rector is Professor of Medical Informatics in the School of Computer Science at University of Manchester. He received his BA in Philosophy and Mathematics from Pomona College , his medical training at the universities of Chicago and Minnesota where he obtained his MD, and his PhD in Medical Informatics from the University of Manchester.

Frank Jonen (born October 1, 1979 in Wiesbaden, Germany) is a German web designer and graphic designer / typographer. He grew up in Idstein, Germany where he runs a small design studio for mostly film related type services and interface design. His first break came in 2002 when he was contracted by the Linotype Library GmbH in Bad Homburg, Germany to create a new version of their highly successful typeface Zapfino designed by Hermann Zapf, …

Robert David Stevens (born 1965) is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester. He gained his Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry from the University of Bristol in 1986, a Master of Science degree in bioinformatics in 1991 and a PhD in Computer Science in 1996, both from the University of York.

Dan Connolly is a research scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ( CSAIL ) in the Decentralized Information Group ( DIG ) and a member of the technical staff of the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ). His research interest is investigating the value of formal descriptions of complex systems like the Web, especially in the consensus-building process. Dan received bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990.

Alan Ruttenberg , software engineer

Danny Weitzner Daniel Weitzner is Director of the World Wide Web Consortium's Technology and Society activities . As such, he is responsible for development of technology standards that enable the web to address social, legal, and public policy concerns such as privacy, free speech, protection of minors, authentication, intellectual property and identification.

Jon Bosak, Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems and Chair of the original XML working group

Tim Berners-Lee was just an average Joe, turned accidental revolutionary, turned super hero for geeks everywhere. Berners-Lee might not fit everyone's idea of a hero, and some might not even know who he is, but he has impacted our daily lives more than you know. Tim Berners-Lee is the founding father of the World Wide Web, and he is essentially responsible for making this whole website possible.

Henrik Frystyk Nielsen is Group Program Manager in the Microsoft Robotics Group. The group is developing Microsoft Robotics Studio which is a Web-based programming environment for building highly concurrent robotics applications in distributed environments. Although the group is a Microsoft Product group, it has the pleasure to be part of the Microsoft Research community.