Tim Bray to speak at JA-SIG Conference
Announcement:
Tim
Bray has replaced Hal Stern as our Tuesday Keynote Speaker at the Vancouver JA-SIG
Conference. Tim is a Canadian native who lives in Vancouver , and holds the title at Sun
Microsystems of Director of Web Technologies. His technology journey
includes co-founding the Open Text Corporation, co-inventing XML 1.0 and
serving on the W3C Technical Architecture Group. Get a preview of Tim’s personality, and some
of his wonderful photographs, at tbray.org
Bio:
Tim Bray managed the Oxford English Dictionary project at the University of Waterloo in 1987-1989, co-founded Open Text Corporation in 1989, launched one of the first public web search engines in 1995, co-invented XML 1.0 and co-edited "Namespaces in XML" between 1996 and 1999, and served as a Tim Berners-Lee appointee on the W3C Technical Architecture Group (http://www.w3.org/2001/tag) in 2002-2004. Currently, he serves as Director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems, publishes a popular weblog at tbray.org, and co-chairs the IETF AtomPub Working Group.
Abstract:
Title: Re-Engineering Communications
The Web is going through a period of remarkably rapid ferment, at all levels. In the back rooms the server farms are moving toward horizontal integration, a new generation of dynamic-language Web frameworks are grabbing market share, and AJAX is changing the user experience. Simultaneously, a flurry of applications are arriving centered around the notion that it's appropriate for the populace to inject their writing and linking and sounds and pictures and video into the Net, not just consume what they find there. Perhaps the most obvious symptom is the explosive rise of blogging and syndication, which is changing our perceptions of how to use information on the web, and what a "portal" ought to be. This talk will attempt to spot some cultural and technological patterns and make some predictions about which directions are apt to prove fruitful.
Tim's keynote address is scheduled for Tuesday, June 6, at 8:30am.
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