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W3Consortium
— International
« Only 1,7% of the world
population is connected to the Internet »
Jean-François Abramatic,
W3C president
The W3C consortium is the international regulatory
authority, particularly in charge of the establishment of Web
operation norms. Besides technical aspects, its president, Jean-Franois
Abramatic, wanted to enlarge the initial consortium mission by
working on more fundamental subjects such as democratization of
network access.
Grouplab,
University of Calgary — Canada
« We try to understand
how individuals and groups of individuals understand and use their
information space »
Saul Greenberg,
Professor, GroupLab
The GroupLab researches cover two specialties:
the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and the interfaces
of collaborative work (CSCW, Computer Supported Cooperative
Work). The online archives, spanning over eighteen years, are
the most important in the field.
Exmo
— France
« We invent the tools
of the semantic Web »
Jérôme Euzenat,
in charge of research with Inria
Project managed by the research department of INRIA
Rhone-Alpes (France) concerning the exchanges of structured
knowledge made public by the media. The semantic Web, an
expression attributed to Tim Berners-Lee, co-inventor of the Web,
is at the heart of Exmo concerns; Exmo develops tools that use
the available structured languages (XML, RDF et OWL).
Palo Alto
Research Center (Parc) — United States
« . . . »
[coming soon]
Sardes
— France
« We develop architectures
and infrastructures that are distributed and adaptable »
Project managed by the research department of INRIA
Rhone-Alpes (France) that succeeds the Sirac project. Research
addresses the architectures of reflexive systems within distributed
environment. One of the project teams contributes to the development
of an open source code for the consortium ObjectWeb.
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