Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web and W3C Director, tells us what part of the W3C’s work he’s the most proud of

Web Foundation / W3C

30th anniversary of the Webt

world-wide

In March 1989, while at CERN, Sir Tim Berners-Lee wrote “Information Management: A Proposal” outlining the World Wide Web. 30 years ago today, Tim’s memo was about to revolutionize communication around the globe. As we celebrate the30th anniversary, we asked Tim what part of the W3C’s work he’s the most proud of.

Catchpoint's Robert Castley leads WebAssembly trailblazers Brad Nelson (Google), Luke Wagner (Mozilla), and Eric Prud'hommeaux (W3C) in a live video panel on WebAssembly (WASM)

Brad Nelson (Google), Luke Wagner (Mozilla), and Eric Prud'hommeaux (W3C)

Live AMA: WebAssembly

Listen in as Catchpoint's Robert Castley leads WebAssembly trailblazers Brad Nelson (Google - Chair of the W3C WASM Working Group), Luke Wagner (Mozilla - Created asm.js and spearheaded work on the WebAssembly specification), and Eric Prud'hommeaux (W3C - Working Group staff contact) in a live video panel on WebAssembly (WASM). In a entertaining and educational hour of discussion, the panelists answer wasm community questions spanning wasm's current status, the most exciting use cases, and what's coming next.

Ian Jacobs, Web Payments Activity lead, discussed the goals of a payments standard, transaction flow, and status of the Payment Request API.

Glenbrook Payments On Fire

Episode 63 – Payments Come to the Browser – W3C’s Ian Jacobs

Join the W3C project leader Ian Jacobs and Glenbrook’s George Peabody as they discuss the goalds of a Payments standard, transaction flow, and status. It’s coming very soon.
Payments standards typically operate deep within a payment system, invisible to most of us. But before long a new standard for web browsers will touch us all. Known as the Payment Request API, it is one of the newer projects of the Word Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Supported by browser builders Mozilla, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and more, this new API should simplify web payments for consumers and merchants alike.

Bert Bos, co-author of CSS, speaks about CSS Grid

Channel 9, Microsoft Developer Network

Creating CSS Grid

A look at how CSS Grid Layout went from an idea to a reality shipping in all major browsers in 2017.

Karen Myers, W3C Business Development Americas and Australia, gave a introduction of W3C, the importance of Web standards, and focused on recent work on Web security, Web Payments, Web of Things and Publishing.

Karen Myers

The Web Meetup, Melbourne

Melbourne, Australia

Karen Myers, W3C Business Development Americas and Australia, gave a introduction of W3C, the importance of Web standards, and focused on recent work on Web security, Web Payments, Web of Things and Publishing.

Ivan Herman, W3C Digital Publishing Technical Lead, gave a keynote, "(Packaged) Web Publications", at Semantic Web in Libraries (ISWB16)

Ivan Herman

Semantic Web in Libraries (ISWB16)

The publication of EPUB3 has been a major step forward digital publishing. Relying on Web Technologies like HTML, CSS, SVG, and others, EPUB3 offers a solid basis to publish not only digital books, but all sorts of digital publications in a portable, adaptable and accessible manner. However, it is possible to bring the publishing and the Web world even closer together, making the current format- and workflow-level separation between offline/portable and online (Web) document publishing eventually disappear. These should be merely two dynamic manifestations of the same publication: content authored with online use as the primary mode can easily be saved by the user for offline reading in portable document form. Content authored primarily for use as a portable document can be put online, without any need for refactoring the content. Essential features flow seamlessly between online and offline modes; examples include cross-references, user annotations, access to online databases, as well as licensing and rights management.
W3C and IDPF have recently started to work towards this vision, exploring the technical challenges to make it a reality; this talk will give an overview on where we are.

Dominique Hazaël-Massieux, who works on the next generation of Web technologies (incl JS APIs and WebRTC), with specific mobile focus, gave a talk on "Web, meet Virtual Reality"

Dominique Hazaël-Massieux

Mozilla View Source conference

A combination of improvements in hardware and software capabilities has resulted in a lot of excitement around virtual reality experiences. In this session, we will explore how many of these improved capabilities are supported in modern browsers, and why the Web provides a promising pre-existing ecosystem for creating, distributing and experiencing virtual reality content, applications, and services.

Chris Lilley gave a talk on "Webfonts: Level up!".

Chris Lilley

BrazilJS Conf 2016

Porto Alegre, Brazil

Sure, everyone uses WebFonts now. But are you using the full capabilities of modern OpenType fonts, with your CSS? Did you know how to get tabular or lining numerals, how to avoid fake smallcaps? Are you up to speed on chromatic fonts? What about controlling font loading through a JavaScript API, to optimize performance on desktop and mobile? And what is coming in the future? Are you ready to *level up* on webfonts?

Ralph Swick, W3C's COO, interviewed for ABC News' short segment illustrating World Wide Web celebrating 25 years

Ralph Swick, W3C COO

ABC News

Saturday August 5 2016 marks an important anniversary, the 25th birthday of the World Wide Web. In France, there was Minitel. For lawyers, Lexis-Nexis. That all changed when Tim Berners-Lee drew up a flow chart and brought it to his boss who scribbled, vague, but exciting. The idea was for all those different systems to talk to each other. And he had a name for it. "It was a very ambitious name at the time, for this tiny little experiment from a lab in Switzerland to call itself the World Wide Web," said Marc Weber, curatorial director of Internet History. Watch the video for Jonathan Bloom's full report.

Nick Telford-Reed's podcast on W3C work on Web Payments

Nick Telford-Reed, co-chair of the Web Payments Working Group

Tomorrow’s Transactions podcast no. 271, edited 30th July 2016

David Birch of Consult Hyperion, a payments world influencer, attended the Web Payments Working Group face-to-face meeting in July and interviewed Working Group co-chair Nick Telford-Reed of WorldPay, on early implementations of Payments methods and processes over the Web or HTTP, payment applications, authentication and security.

Chris Lilley gave a talk on "The Evolution of CSS 4 Color"

Chris Lilley

You Gotta Love Frontend 2016

Tel Aviv, Israel

After viewing this talk you will know that color is a measurable, reproducible sensation; standardized since 1931! You will get white point adaptation. You will understand Lab color space, be comfortable with gamut volume plots, and be able to laugh at snake-oil claims about color gamut coverage in advertising. Plus you will understand the CSS 4 Color module :)

Chris Lilley gave a talk on CSS4 Color

Chris Lilley

CSS Day 2016

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Chris Lilley gave a talk on CSS4 Color at DSS Day 2016. New in CSS4 Color: ICC profiles! CIE Lab! Rendering Intents! –the stuff that used to be in SVG2. Which used to be in SVG Print. Which used to be in (well you get the idea). Why has color management taken so long to get going on the Web? Isn't it kind of esoteric and specialized - what does it do for you, in practical terms? What, in fact, is color anyway - isn't it kind of subjective?

Chris Lilley gave a keynote called "Webfonts: Level up!".

Chris Lilley

Scotland CSS conference

Edinburgh, Scotland

Chris is a Technical Director at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Considered “the father of SVG”, he also co-authored PNG, was co-editor of CSS2, chaired the group that developed @font-face, and co-developed WOFF. Ex Technical Architecture Group. Chris is still trying to get Color Management on the Web, sigh. Currently working on CSS levels 3/4/5 (no, really), Web Audio, and WOFF2.

Jeff Jaffe's interview at Industry of Things Wolrd USA 2016

Jeff Jaffe, W3C CEO

Industry of Things World USA 2016

After giving a keynote at Industry of Things World USA in San Diego, entitled "From a world-wide web of pages to a world-wide web of things – interoperability for connected devices", Jeff gave a short interview on camera and answered questions such as What is characteristic of the Industrial Internet of Things? Where is the IoT and its technologies creating the most impact? How will the IoT market evolve in the coming years?

W3C honored with a 2016 Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award for Standards Work on Accessible Video Captioning and Subtitles

Philippe Le Hégaret, Karen Myers, Thierry Michel, Yosuke Funahashi; and Members of the W3C Timed Text Working Group Glenn Adams and Mike Dolan

2016 Technology & Engineering Emmy® Awards

W3C was a recipient of a Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) for W3C Timed Text Mark-up Language (TTML) in category "Standardization and Pioneering Development of Non-Live Broadband Captioning". (Read the Press release.) Representatives from W3C staff Karen Myers, Philippe Le Hégaret, Thierry Michel, Yosuke Funahashi; and Members of the W3C Timed Text Working Group Glenn Adams and Mike Dolan attended the awards ceremony on 8 January at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). See also the video and photo Gallery.

NipCoin #21 W3C Web & Payment (Ian Jacobs)

Ian Jacobs

NipCoin #21

Ian Jacobs, Web Payments Activity lead, talks about payments standardization.

Tim Berners-Lee: Where I went right

Where I went right - interactive (The Guardian Labs)

Anyone can change everything, but to be successful you need to make the most of the time you have. From the battle for the open web to comet landings, via polar expeditions and a giant diplodocus, celebrated innovators Tim Berners-Lee, Maggie Aderin-Pocock, Ranulph Fiennes and Alice Roberts provide unique insights into the formative moments that have shaped their remarkable careers.

Bert Bos on ‘A handful of typographic challenges’

Bert Bos

dotCSS 2014

Paris

Bert Bos presents a few examples of typographical rules & traditions in different languages that are a challenge for CSS.

Tim Berners-Lee on Web at 25

Tim Berners-Lee, introduced by Charlie Rose

Webby Awards 2014

New York City

Tim Berners-Lee talks about the Web at 25, and how we must protect it moving forward.

Plenary Panel: WWW: The next 25 years

Tim Berners-Lee, Ramanathan Guha, Jim Hendler, Unna Huh, Ong Hak Kim, Mary Ellen Zurko. Moderated by Dame Wendy Hall

WWW 2014

Seoul, Korea

In 2014 we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the birth of the Web. Its evolution over that time has been remarkable in many respects. It has changed our lives in so many ways, which prompts an important question as to how it will evolve over the next 25 years. What are the additional roles it can play and the opportunities and threats for them? What are the directions for necessary technical advances? Will it be able to withstand the pressures and challenges that we see ahead in areas such as privacy, security, trust and governance? What should we be doing to ensure that the Web remains a force for the good of humanity? This panel brings together leaders in the field who will share with us their vision of what the next 25 years might hold in store for the system that is now an essential part of all our lives.

Chris Lilley gave a talk on "Coloured glyphs in OpenType".

Chris Lilley

Libre Graphics Meeting 2014

Leipzig, Germany

Describes the three ways to achieve chromatic fonts which were added to OpenType v.3 in 2014: PNG images, stacked hinted TrueType glyphs, and SVG glyphs in OpenType.

Rountable: open discussions around web gaming

Dominique Hazaël-Massieux

Next Game Frontier 2014

Issy-les-moulineaux, France

Rountable open discussions around web gaming moderated by Stephen Shankland (Journalist) with Nicolas Silva (Mozilla), Satheesh Sudarsan (Samsung), Dom Hazaël-Massieux (W3C), Christian Nasr (Ubisoft) and David Rousset (Microsoft)

W3C 25th Anniversary Celebration and What the Next 25 Looks Like

Jeff Jaffe

CES 2014

Las Vegas, Nevada

W3C CEO Jeff Jaffe interviewed by Jeffrey Powers of Geekazine and Chris Montera of Health Tech Weekly. W3C is now looking at the future. What’s the next 25 years? How will it transform music, healthcare, digital publishing, and more. They have been looking at transformation of society, industry and consumer behavior. They are seeing many changes. For instance, web publishing is high quality. Add mass distribution and the game has officially changed.

Linguini a la translation: An Introduction to ITS 2.0

Volker Agüeras Gäng

This video provides a brief introduction to ITS 2.0 and the advantages it can offer businesses involved in multilingual communication.

20 Years Working For Your Rights

Tim Berners-Lee

UN Panel Discussion on Building a World Wide Human Rights Web

Geneva, Switzerland

As part of Human Rights Day 2013, Tim Berners-Lee delivered opening remarks at a UN Panel Discussion on Building a World Wide Human Rights Web.

Web inventor: U.S. abused internet

Tim Berners-Lee

CNN Interview

World Wide Web inventor, Tim Berners-Lee weighs in on the tide of censorship and surveillance on the internet.

Interview on Globo.TV

Tim Berners-Lee

WWW 2013

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Interview with Tim Berners-Lee during WWW 2013 on Web history and other topics.

Bert Bos, $bio, gave a talk on CSS selectors

Bert Bos

CSS Day 2013

Bert Bos gave a talk on CSS selectors.

The First Web Page, Amazingly, Is Lost

Tim Berners-Lee

NPR interview

Tim Berners-Lee talks about the invention of the Web and the first Web page

Video from W3Conf 2013

Various speakers

W3Conf 2013

San Francisco, CA

Presentations by Léonie Watson, Eric Meyer, Nicolas Gallagher, Lea Verou, Ariya Hidayat, Doug Schepers, Janet Swisher, Kit Cambridge, Alexis Deverla, Jacobs Rossi CJ Gammon, Tomomi Imura, Luz Caballero, Joshua Davis, Vicky Murley, Parashuram Narasimhan, and Alexandru Chiculita.

The Seismic Shift in Digital Publishing...and How You Can Shape the Future

Jeff Jaffe

O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing

New York, NY

Jeff Jaffe talks about how the Web = Publishing vision, and what W3C is doing to make that a reality.

The Semantic Link – February 2013

Karen Coyle, Ivan Herman, Andraz Tori, Eric Hoffer

This episode of The Semantic Link includes a discussion about libraries, an area that has seen a great deal of activity in the Linked Data space recently.

An Insight, An Idea with Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee

Davos, Switzerland

A conversation at the World Economic Forum with Berners-Lee on what is wrong with social networking.

Inventor Sir Tim Berners Lee predicts dynamic web future

Tim Berners-Lee

Davos, Switzerland

Tim spoke to the BBC's Jon Sopel from Davos, Switzerland during the World Economic Forum.

The Semantic Link – Episode 11, December 2012

Christine Connors, Eric Franzon, Ivan Herman, Eric Hoffer, Nigel Shadbold

A group of Semantic thought leaders from around the globe met with their host and colleague, Paul Miller, for the latest installment of the Semantic Link, a monthly podcast covering the world of Semantic Technologies. This episode includes a discussion about schema.org.

Interview of Tim Berners-Lee on CNN

Tim Berners-Lee

London, UK

Interview by Kristie Lu Stout, CNN International on being part of Olympics 2012, and Web openness, and inclusion of of more people from around the planet. Discussion of Internet openness, which does not imply everything is free (in the sense of payment). Other topics discussed: censorship, semantic web and open government data.

Greeting to Korean Developers

Tim Berners-Lee

30th Anniversary of Korea’s Internet Introduction

Seoul, Korea

On May 30, Korea Communications Commission (KCC) and Korea Internet Security Agency (KISA) jointly held a ceremony at Sejong Hall of Sejong Center for the Performing Arts to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Korea’s adoption of the Internet, which dates back to May of 1982. Tim Berners-Lee delivered a greeting by video.

W3C Interview: Lee Rainie on Networked Individualism

Ian Jacobs

Ian Jacobs interviewed Lee Rainie of the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project. Lee is co-author with Barry Wellman of a recent book titled "Networked: The New Social Operating System." Read the blog post with links to the podcast.

Device/Network APIs Panel

Dominique Hazaël-Massieux

Mobilism 2012

Amsterdam, Netherlands

A Panel discussing the development and deployment of device and network APIs on the Web

Keynote

Tim Berners-Lee

WWW 2012

Lyon, France

Tim Berners-Lee keynote

HTML5 i18n: A report from the front line

Richard Ishida

Luxembourg

In the talk, Richard briefs attendees on developments related to some key markup changes in HTML5. In addition to new markup to support bidirectional text (eg. in scripts such as Arabic, Hebrew and Thaana), the Internationalization Working Group at the W3C has been proposing changes to the current HTML5 ruby markup model. Ruby are annotations used in Japanese and Chinese to help readers recognize and understand ideographic characters. It is commonly used in educational material, manga, and can help with accessibility. The Working Group has also proposed the addition of a flag to indicate when text in a page should not be translated.

Jeff Jaffe on W3C

Jeff Jaffe

CeBIT 2012

Hanover, Germany

Jeff Jaffe discusses how the Web is transforming industry.

ICC Color Management in SVG2

Chris Lilley

OpenIcc @ FOSDEM

Brussels, Belgium

On next generation color management in SVG2. See also the slide presentation.

SVG, CSS3 & WOFF downloadable fonts

Chris Lilley

Web Directions SVG Social

Surry Hills, NSW, Australia

SVG has had downloadable fonts since it's inception. But the combination of WOFF and CSS3 Fonts adds many exciting new capabilities.

W3Conf

Various speakers: Giorgio Sardo, Mike Bostock, Becky Gibson, Brad Hill, Scott Stender, Grant Goodale, Grant Skinner, Faruk Ates, Art Barstow, Paul Cotton, Tantek Çelik, Charles McCathieNevile, Chris Wilson, Peter Vosshall, Ian Jacobs

W3Conf

Redmond, Washington

Day 2 of W3C's first Developer Conference.

W3C Standards and Usability

Daniel Dardailler

L’Ergonomie au service de la Communication

Sophia Antipolis, France

Daniel Dardailler on "Effet des standards sur l’utilisabilité des applications web et méthodes de collaboration pour la conception des standards"

W3Conf

Various speakers: Philippe Le Hégaret, Manu Sporny, Doug Schepers, Divya Manian, Vincent Hardy, Arvind Jain, John Allsopp, Rajesh Lal, Rey Bango, Christopher Slye, Paul Irish, Ian Jacobs

W3Conf

Redmond, Washington

Day 1 of W3C's first Developer Conference.

The Semantic Link – Episode 11, October 2011

Christine Connors, Eric Franzon, Ivan Herman, Eric Hoffer, Bernadette Hyland, Andraz Tori

A group of Semantic thought leaders from around the globe met with their host and colleague, Paul Miller, for the latest installment of the Semantic Link, a monthly podcast covering the world of Semantic Technologies. This episode includes a discussion about schema.org.

Keynote

Tim Berners-Lee

future.talk 2011

Vienna, Austria

Tim Berners Lee delivers a keynote speech at Telekom Austria Group’s future.talk 2011 which had the theme World Wild Web – Who Rules the Internet Society? Tim Berners-Lee’s segment begins at 15:30. Panel starts at 41:00.

Accessibility Post Web 2.0

Michael Cooper

a11yMTL

Montréal Canada

Michael Cooper discusses how W3C develops technology standards and helps make the Web accessible to people with disabilities. In his talk he summarizes current work and plans to meet new challenges, and discusses the role Web designers can play.

Keynote

Tim Berners-Lee

INET New York: Whyat kind of Internet do you want?

New York, USA

Tim Berners-Lee on what kind of Internet he wants.

W3C and the Open Web Platform

Jeff Jaffe

Avoin tieto ja World Wide Web tietoyhteiskunnan palveluksessa

Helsinki, Finland

Jeff Jaffe discusses how the Open Web Platform is transforming multiple industries.

HTML5 proposed markup changes related to internationalization

Richard Ishida

W3C Workshop on Multilingual Web

Pisa, Italy

Richard Ishida discusses upcoming changes in HTML5 related to internationalization. They include character encoding declarations, language declarations, ruby, and the new elements and attributes for bidi support. HTML5 is still very much work in progress, and these topics are still under discussion.

The Semantic Link – Episode 4, March 2011

Andraz Tori, Bernadette Hyland, Christine Connors, Eric Franzon, Eric Hoffer, Ivan Hermann, Paul Miller, Peter Brown

A group of Semantic thought leaders from around the globe met with their host and colleague, Paul Miller, for the fourth installment of the Semantic Link, a monthly podcast covering the world of Semantic Technologies.

IGF Interview of MAG members

Daniel Dardailler

Informal talk about W3C role

Geneva, Switzerland

Daniel Dardailler on W3C, Web standards and IGF.

The Semantic Link – Episode 2, January 2011

Ivan Herman, Paul Miller, Eric Franzon, Andraz Tori, Bernadette Hyland, Christine Connors, Eric Hoffer, Peter Brown

A group of Semantic thought leaders from around the globe met with their host and colleague, Paul Miller, for the second installment of the Semantic Link, a monthly podcast covering the world of Semantic Technologies.

The Semantic Link – Episode 1, December 2010

Andraz Tori, Bernadette Hyland, Christine Connors, Eric Franzon, Eric Hoffer, Ivan Herman, Paul Miller, Peter Brown

A group of Semantic thought leaders from around the world meet with their host and colleague, Paul Miller, for the first installment of the Semantic Link, an ongoing monthly podcast on semanticweb.com.

Interview with Jeff Jaffe in El País

Jeff Jaffe

Bilbao, Spain

Jeff Jaffe talks about about role of W3C in developing an Open Web Platform. Text of the interview is available in Spanish; the video interview is in English.

HTML5 et le Web de Demain ("HTML and the Web of Tomorrow")

Dominique Hazaël-Massieux and Robin Berjon

ParisWeb 2010

Bois-Colombes, France

A review of how the technologies currently in development in W3C will shape the future of the Web as a development platform, with a specific focus on mobile. (In French).

Tim Berners-Lee on PhiloWeb and Philosophical engineering

Tim Berners-Lee

TPAC 2010

Lyon, France

Harry Halpin et Alexandre Monnin interview Tim Berners-Lee about the Web and philosophy.

HTML5 についての最新情報 (HTML5 Update)

Mike Smith

Google Developer Day 2010 (Japan)

Tokyo, Japan

Mike Smith provides an update about the HTML5 specification and the activities of the HTML Working Group. In English

HTML5 Redux

Philippe Le Hégaret

Boston PHP

Boston, Massaschusetts

Philippe Le Hégaret presents the technologies that make up the W3C Open Web Platform, including HTML5, CSS, SVG, WOFF, various APIs, and more. The presentation is rich in examples of what designers will appreciate. Slides are available.

כלים ושיטות להנגשת אתרי אינטרנט
(Tools and practices for web accessibility)

Eyal Sela

וורדקמפ 2010
(Wordcamp 2010)

Jerusalem, Israel

An accessible website lets people with disabilities access your contact more easily. It can help increase traffic and be more useful for users without disabilities. In the lecture you will learn how to develop more accessible websites according to WCAG 2.0, the guidelines for creating accessible online content. You will get tools to implement accessibility practices in the design and development process, and to learn more by yourself. The lecturer is Eyal Sela from the Israeli Internet Association (ISOC-IL) and W3C Israel Office. The talk is in Hebrew.

From Relational Databases to the Semantic Web: New W3C Standards and Directions (2 parts)

Ivan Herman

2010 Semantic Technology Conference

San Francisco, CA

A new W3C standard for mapping relational data to RDF is being created by the RDB2RDF Working Group based on the best practices of current approaches. This exciting work should allow current data in relational databases to be transformed to RDF with a minimum of effort, creating a standardized mapping language that will allow the market to concentrate optimization and custom features rather than re-inventing the wheel. There are two videos: part 1 and part 2.

Web inventor discusses importance of open data

Tim Berners-Lee

(US) Federal News Radio Program "Dorobek Insider"

Tim Berners-Lee radio interview on open data in a government context.

An Introduction to Linked Data

Sandro Hawke

Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Sandro Hawke makes linked data easy! See also his slides.

Open, Linked Data for a Global Community

Tim Berners-Lee

Gov 2.0 Expo

Washington, D.C.

Tim Berners-Lee uses a bag of chips to illustrate some principles of linked data. See also a video interview exploring open linked data, how governments' open data efforts should be judged, and more.

Data Sharing Standards in Government

Sandro Hawke

Gov 2.0 Expo

Washington, D.C.

Sandro Hawke discusses eGovernment data efforts, moving towards the use of linked data standards, and how the Semantic Web is turning the corner.

Reflecting on the last 20 years and looking forward to the next 20

Tim Berners-Lee

WWW 2009

Tim Berners-Lee delivers a keynote at WWW 2009 reflecting on the 20th anniversary of the invention of the Web, and on what the future holds.

The World Wide Web: Where Do We Go from Here?

Tim Berners-Lee

Paradigm Shifts

Radio show

Tim Berners-Lee in a WMBR (MIT campus radio) interview answers questions from Rohit Sakhuja including Where did the initial idea for the world wide web come from? What have we accomplished so far with the web and where do we go next from here? If networks are built to be completely open, can we restrict access to information? And how can we modify our models of how we pay for information to continue to support good quality journalism?

Interview with Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee

MIT+150 Infinite History Project

Cambridge, MA, USA

Tim Berners-Lee talks with Toby A. Smith about Tim's background, the creation of the Web, and much more.

The Next Open Web Platform

Philippe Le Hégaret

YUI Theater

Sunnyvale, California

Philippe gave a take in early 2010 at Yahoo! about the new Web platform, centered around HTML 5 but including other technologies. These range from HTML video to SVG to CSS animations or Web sockets. Philippe’s talk gives an overview of what’s ahead, using concrete demonstrations in latest generation Web browsers.

The year open data went worldwide

Tim Berners-Lee

TED University 2010

Long Beach, California

At TED2009, Tim Berners-Lee called for "raw data now" -- for governments, scientists and institutions to make their data openly available on the web. At TED University in 2010, he illustrated a few interesting examples of real world linked data.

IdeasLab with MIT: the nature of intelligence

Tim Berners-Lee

World Economic Forum ("Davos" 2010)

Geneva, Switzerland

Tim Berners-Lee talks about linked data, and the connection, at Web scale, between people and their data.

Panel Discussion: The Power of Apps

Tim Berners-Lee, et al.

Filmed during launch of data.gov.uk

London, England

Filmed live at the launch of data.gov.u k, Tim Berners-Lee, Nigel Shadbolt, Richard Allan and Chris Taggart join the Guard ian's technology director Mike Bracken to discuss the issues and opportunities sur rounding the release of government data.

Making Data Public

Tim Berners-Lee, Nigel Shadbolt.

Filmed during launch of data.gov.uk

London, England

Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt present the reasons and their vision for opening government data on the Web at the launch of data.gov.uk.

Tim Berners-Lee on the UK national data website launch

Tim Berners-Lee

Filmed during launch of data.gov.uk

London, England

Tim Berners-Lee talks about how he persuaded Gordon Brown to open UK government data to the public.

Podcast: Interview with Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee

Recorded during Web 2.0 Summit 2009

San Fransisco, California

Tim Berners-Lee talks about the past and future Web. A transcript is available as well.

Interview: Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee

Interview with BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT

Tim Berners-Lee speaks about the Semantic Web, barriers to enabling the information society for all, Mobile Web, and more. A transcript is available as well.

TEDxKampala: Tim Berners-Lee Q&A Session

Tim Berners-Lee, Stéphane Boyera

TedxKampala 2009

Kampala, Uganda

Tim Berners-Lee, Stephane Boyera, and others spoke about extending the Web to more users in talks with the Uganda Linux Users Group.

Smarter Government

Tim Berners-Lee

London, England

UK Prime Minister's Office announces 2000 data sets will be opened up, pursuant to recommendations by Tim Berners-Lee.

Interview with Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee

Washington, D.C.

Tim Berners-Lee talks about Internet privacy, net neutrality, and the World Wide Web Foundation.

Round Table: Mobile Web (in French)

François Daoust, Robin Berjon, Charles McCathieNevile

Paris Web 2009

Paris, France

The round table discussed mobile web (in French)

Web 2.0 Summit 09: Tim Berners-Lee and Tim O'Reilly, "A Conversation with Tim Berners-Lee"

Tim Berners-Lee

Web 2.0 Summit 2009

San Francisco, CA, USA

Tim O'Reilly asks Tim Berners-Lee about the early Web, why it was intended to be open and free, how it was always meant to be a read/write medium, his concerns about points of control, Web 2.0, Semantic Web, and more.

Device Independent or Accessible

Dominique Hazael-Massieux

European Accessibility Forum 2009

Frankfurt, Germany

Tour of beta.w3.org (screencast)

Ian Jacobs

Beta of W3C Redesign

Online

A 10-minute tour of W3C's redesigned Web site. Learn more about the redesign.

WWW @ 20

Tim Berners-Lee

CERN celebrates 20 years of the Web

Geneva, Switzerland

Tim Berners-Lee participated in an event at CERN celebrating twenty years since he first proposed the system called the World Wide Web. photos are also available. See also Tim on the invention of the Web from Silicon.fr

The next Web of open, linked data

Tim Berners-Lee

TED 2009

Long Beach, California, USA

Tim Berners-Lee gave a talk (slides) at TED 2009 on the Semantic Web and the future of "linked data."

Accessibility: It's for Everyone and Everything”

Shawn Henry

WebProfessionals.org interview at Web Design World

Boston, Massachusetts

Interview with Shawn Henry

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines V2.0 - An Interview with Shawn Henry

Shawn Henry

Interview with User Experience Podcast

Turin, Italy

Audio Interview with Shawn Henry; a text transcript is available.

W3C's Mobile Web Initiative: Towards the Web of Things

Philipp Hoschka

Internet of Things; Internet of the Future

Nice, France

Philipp Hoschka talks about what W3C is doing to promote the spread of mobile Web applications.

Making the Web Accessible to People with Disabilities

Shawn Henry

Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (SKMM), Universal Service Provision (USP) Technology Seminar

Malaysia

This is a presentation for a technology seminar on communications projects for underserved areas and underserved groups, including people with disabilities, in Malaysia.

Radio New Zealand Interview

Shawn Henry

Bryan Crump interview during Webstock 08

Wellington, New Zealand

Shawn Henry talked with Bryan Crump for Radio New Zealand National while in New Zealand for Webstock 08. They talked about the potential for the Internet to enable people with disabilities to participate more actively in everyday life and business; the work of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI); and including accessibility from the beginning when developing technology. A text transcript is available.

Interview with Shawn Henry

Shawn Henry

Roger Hudson interview during Webstock 08

Wellington, New Zealand

Shawn Henry, from the W3C, was a presenter at Webstock 2008. During a break in the conference, she talked with Roger Hudson about how she first got involved in website accessibility, the need to continue breaking down some of misconceptions associated with accessibility and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Versions 1 and 2. A text transcript is available.

Mobile Web Good Practices (in French, Les Bonnes Pratiques du Web Mobile)

Dominique Hazael-Massieux

Paris Web 2007

Paris, France

Web standards open the door to a Web accessible to all, including those using mobile devices. Learn more about Mobile Web Good Practices.

Future of the Internet (part 1 and part 2)

Tim Berners-Lee

4th Ministerial eGovernment Conference 2007

Lisbon, Portugal

This remote video presentation in two parts looks at the future of a Web of data, the benefits of using Semantic Web standards, and how open data can help governments serve the people.

A Video Interview with Shawn Henry, From California to Japan

Shawn Henry

Mitsue-Links "Meet the Professionals" video series

California

As part of the Mitsue-Links "Meet the Professionals" video series, Shawn Henry of W3C WAI talks with Kazuhito Kidachi about shared responsibilities between web site developers, browsers, and assistive technologies; the importance of different types of authoring tools supporting accessibility; how WCAG 2.0 and WAI-ARIA address the more difficult aspects of Web accessibility; WAI's outreach resources; and what led Shawn to accessibility years ago.

On the Semantic Web

Tim Berners-Lee

Interview

Tim Berners-Lee talks about the exponential growth pattern of the Semantic Web, how it resembles the growth of the Web of Documents, and about building a Web of data.

WCAG 2.0 Presentation for YUI Theater

YUI Theater

Sunnyvale, California

Learn how the WCAG 2.0 Working Draft differs from WCAG 1.0, get shortcuts for using WCAG 2.0, and hear answers to common questions on W3C WAI's work in Shawn Henry's presentation to the Yahoo! User Interface Developer Network. Shawn also addresses the role of browsers and authoring tools in Web accessibility, and combining standards and usability techniques to optimize accessibility. A text transcript is available.

Bert Bos explains ‘The Web according to W3C’

Bert Bos

22nd Chaos Communication Congress (22C3), Berlin

How to go from an idea to a world-wide standard? Managing short and long term goals, balancing the interests of many people and finding the necessary expertise isn't always easy. In the 10 years of its existence, W3C has gained some experience and developed a process.

Bert Bos on ‘W3C on Mobile, CSS, Multimodal and more’

Bert Bos

22nd Chaos Communication Congress (22C3), Berlin

W3C has always had as goal that its standards should be device-independent. But ten years ago there weren't actually that many devices that could connect to the Web and the work was largely theoretical. Now the mobile web is here and several new specifications are making the goal a reality.