The International World Wide Web Conference Committee (abbreviated as IW3C2 also written as IW3C2) is a professional non-profit organization registered in Switzerland (Article 60ff of the Swiss Civil Code) that promotes World Wide Web research and development. The IW3C2 organizes and hosts the annual
World Wide Web Conference
The ACM Web Conference (formerly known as International World Wide Web Conference, abbreviated as WWW) is a yearly international academic conference on the topic of the future direction of the World Wide Web. The first conference of many was hel ...
in conjunction with the
W3C
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web. Founded in 1994 and led by Tim Berners-Lee, the consortium is made up of member organizations that maintain full-time staff working t ...
.
The IW3C2 was founded by Joseph Hardin and
Robert Cailliau
Robert Cailliau (, born 26 January 1947) is a Belgian informatics engineer, computer scientist and author who proposed the first (pre-www) hypertext system for CERN in 1987 and collaborated with Tim Berners-Lee on the World Wide Web (jointly wi ...
at a meeting held in
Boston
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,
United States
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, on 14 August 1994 to prepare for the upcoming
Second International World Wide Web Conference
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in
Chicago
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. The IW3C2 formally became an
incorporated
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entity in May 1996 at the fifth conference in
Paris
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,
France
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.
The organization is governed by laws of the
Swiss Confederation
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and the
By-laws
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.
Abbreviation
The abbreviation for the International World Wide Web Conference Committee as ''IW3C2'' is as follow:
*I- The I is represents the leading I in International.
*W3- The W3 represents the three 3 leading W's in World Wide Web.
*C2- The C2 represents the three 2 leading C's in Conference Committee.
Mission
The mission of the IW3C2 is:
* To coordinate the organization and planning of the international WWW conference series and ensure that it remains the foremost conference addressing World Wide Web research and development;
* To promote a collaborative spirit among conference attendees that is essential to the success of the series;
* To ensure the global geographical diversity of conference sites and provide support to local organizers at those sites;
* To make sure that all content arising from these conferences and forums is permanently and openly available on the widest possible scale;
* To preserve the history of the conference series;
* To encourage the global development of the World Wide Web through collaboration with WWW standards organizations;
* To provide a permanent, broad-based international body to achieve these purposes.
Conferences
The conferences are organized by the IW3C2 in collaboration with local organizing committees and technical program committees. The series provides an open forum in which all opinions can be presented, subject to a strict process of peer review. The proceedings of the conference are published in the
ACM Digital Library
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.
Endorsed conferences
The IW3C2 has endorsed regional conferences devoted to a special topic of the
Web
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Web, WEB, or the Web may also refer to:
Computing
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by working with endorsed conferences on cross-promotion, publicity and programs.
MembershipMembers of the IW3C2 are ordinary members, ''ex officio'' members, non-voting members, and officers.
Ordinary members
Ordinary members are elected for a period of 3 years during a general meeting. Members are nominated due to their recognition in the WWW community and represent themselves. Members can be re-elected only after at least one year of absence.
The following are the founding members at the time when IW3C2 was officially incorporated in May 1996:
* ''Jean-François Abramatic''
* ''
Tim Berners-Lee
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''
* ''Robert Cailliau''
* ''Dale Dougherty''
* ''Ira Goldstein''
* ''Joseph Hardin''
* ''Tim Krauskopf''
* ''Detlef Krömker''
* ''Corinne Moore''
* ''R. P. Channing Rodgers''
* ''Albert Vezza''
* ''Stuart Weibel''
* ''Yuri Rubinsky'' (died prior to incorporation)
The following are the current (April 2016) ordinary members:
* ''Robin Chen''
* ''Chin-Wan Chung''
* ''Allan Ellis''
* ''
Wendy Hall
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Early life and education
Wendy Hall was born in west London and educated at Ealing Grammar ...
Yoelle Maarek
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The following are current (April 2016) ''ex officio'' members and the conference with which they are affiliated:
* ''Jacqueline Bourdeau'' - WWW2016
* ''
James Hendler
James Alexander Hendler (born April 2, 1957) is an artificial intelligence researcher at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, United States, and one of the originators of the Semantic Web. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administra ...
The IW3C2 officers consist of a chairperson, a vice-chair (chairperson-elect), a secretary, a treasurer, and other appointees. Officers are elected during a general meeting (usually at the annual WWW conference) and serve for one year. They can be re-elected an indefinite number of times.
The Seoul Test of Time Award
This annual award, presented at the WWW conference, is made possible by a generous contribution from the organizers of WWW2014 (Seoul Korea). Recipients are determined by the IW3C2 and honor the author, or authors, of a paper presented at a previous WWW conference that has "stood the test of time." The first award, announced at WWW2015 (Florence Italy), recognized
Sergey Brin
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and
Larry Page
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Page was the chief executive officer of Google from 1997 u ...
, the founders of
Google
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. The recipients of the WWW2016 award are LinkIn scientist Dr. Badrul Sarwar and University of Minnesota professors George Karypis, Joseph Konstan, and John Riedl (posthumous) for their work in item-item collaborative filtering.
See also
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History of the World Wide Web
The World Wide Web ("WWW", "W3" or, simply, "the Web") is a global information medium which users can access via computers connected to the Internet. The term is often mistakenly used as a synonym for the Internet, but the Web is a service th ...
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World Wide Web Conference
The ACM Web Conference (formerly known as International World Wide Web Conference, abbreviated as WWW) is a yearly international academic conference on the topic of the future direction of the World Wide Web. The first conference of many was hel ...