
Semantic Web Activity Lead, World Wide Web Consortium
Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Semantic Web Activity Lead, World Wide Web Consortium
Amsterdam Area, Netherlands
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.
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.
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2006 — Present (3 years 6 months)
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1998 — Present (11 years )
International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee, for managing the WWWXX Conference series
(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
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1988 — Present (21 years )
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2001 — May 2006 (5 years 5 months)
(Non-Profit; Research industry)
January 1985 — December 2001 (17 years )
European Computer Graphics Association
(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
(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
PhD , Computer Science , 1989 — 1989
Mathematics 1980 — 1980
Applied Mathematics 1974 — 1979
semantic web, computer graphics, computer programming, web technologies, photography, classical music, history, literature, politics, traveling, painting, languages
Eurographics Association (http://www.eg.org),
IEEE CS,
International World Wide Web Conference Committee
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