Semantic Web Activity Lead, World Wide Web Consortium
Amsterdam Area, Netherlands
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- Semantic Web Activity Lead at World Wide Web Consortium
- Member at International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2)
- Senior Researcher at Centre for Mathematics and Computer Sciences (CWI)
- Senior Researcher at CWI, Amsterdam
- Past
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- Head of Offices at World Wide Web Consortium
- Executive committee member at Eurographics Association
- Software Developer at Insotec Consult GmbH
- Researcher at Computer and Automation Institute
- Education
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- Universiteit Leiden
- Université Paris 6
- Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem
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Ivan Herman’s Summary
I graduated as mathematician at the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest, Hungary, in 1979. After a brief scholarship at the Université Paris VI I joined the Hungarian research institute in computer science (SZTAKI) where I worked for 6 years. I left Hungary in 1986 and, after a few years in industry, I joined the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Sciences (CWI) in Amsterdam where I've held a tenure position since 1988. I received a PhD degree in Computer Science in 1990 at the Leiden University, in the Netherlands. I joined the W3C team as Head of Offices in January 2001 while maintaining my position at CWI. I served as Head of Offices until June 2006, when I was asked to take the Semantic Web Activity Lead position.
Before joining W3C I worked in quite different areas (distributed and dataflow programming, language design, system programming), but I spent most of my research years in computer graphics and visualization. I also participated in various graphics related ISO standardization activities and software developments. I was member of the Executive Committee of the Eurographics Association for 15 years, and vice-chair of Association between 2000 and 2002. I was the co-chair of the 9th World Wide Web Conference, in Amsterdam, May 2000. I am also member of IW3C2, the committee responsible for the World Wide Web Conference series.
Ivan Herman’s Specialties:
Technical expertise: web standards in general; semantic web; programming in C, C++, Java, Python; computer graphics and visualization. More general expertise: standardization process; training; scientific cooperation and organization; general technical outreach; international organizations; conference organizations.
Ivan Herman’s Experience
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Semantic Web Activity Lead
World Wide Web Consortium
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2006 — Present (3 years 6 months)
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Member
International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2)
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1998 — Present (11 years )
International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee, for managing the WWWXX Conference series
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Senior Researcher
Centre for Mathematics and Computer Sciences (CWI)
(Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Research industry)
October 1988 — Present (21 years 2 months)
In Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Participated in various research activities, primarily in Computer Graphics and Visualization; see http://www.cwi.nl/~ivan/ for details on the research activities -
Senior Researcher
CWI, Amsterdam
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1988 — Present (21 years )
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Head of Offices
World Wide Web Consortium
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2001 — May 2006 (5 years 5 months)
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Executive committee member
Eurographics Association
(Non-Profit; Research industry)
January 1985 — December 2001 (17 years )
European Computer Graphics Association
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Software Developer
Insotec Consult GmbH
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 1986 — September 1988 (2 years 9 months)
Munich, Germany
Software and firmware development in the are of computer graphics -
Researcher
Computer and Automation Institute
(Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Research industry)
October 1980 — December 1985 (5 years 3 months)
Budapest, Hungary
Researcher, software and firmware development in computer graphics. See http://www.cwi.nl/~ivan/ for details
Ivan Herman’s Education
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Universiteit Leiden
PhD , Computer Science , 1989 — 1989
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Université Paris 6
Mathematics 1980 — 1980
- Activities and Societies:
- 6 months scholarship at the University as a mathematician. Courses I took were primarily in mathematical physics.
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Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem
Applied Mathematics 1974 — 1979
Additional Information
Ivan Herman’s Websites:
Ivan Herman’s Interests:
semantic web, computer graphics, computer programming, web technologies, photography, classical music, history, literature, politics, traveling, painting, languages
Ivan Herman’s Groups:
Eurographics Association (http://www.eg.org),
IEEE CS,
International World Wide Web Conference Committee
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Python Community -
Friends of the European Union -
Semantic Web -
Linked Data Web -
W3C Staff -
Semantic Web Research -
Global Medical Research.org -
ELTE Öregdiák Klub -
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica - Employees & Alumni of CWI and Mathematisch Centrum -
Semantic Universe -
Semantic Professional Network (Web 3.0, Semantic Web, Semantic Technologies Professionals)
Ivan Herman’s Honors:
Best paper award of the Eurographics'83 conference, Zagreb, 1983
Second best paper award of the Eurographics'85 conference, Nice, 1985
Elected Fellow of the Eurographics Association
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