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Tim Berners-Lee, Marc Andreessen, Vinton Cerf, Robert Kahn, and Louis Pouzin Awarded 2013 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering

18 March 2013 | Archive

The Royal Academy of Engineering announced today that Tim Berners-Lee, Marc Andreessen, Vinton Cerf, Robert Kahn, and Louis Pouzin are the recipients of the new Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, which recognizes "outstanding advances in engineering that have changed the world and benefited humanity." The award is shared by Berners-Lee for his invention of the Web, Andreessen for his work on the Mosaic browser, and Pouzin, Cerf, and Kahn for their pioneering work on fundamental Internet protocols.

"The prize recognises what has been a roller-coaster ride of wonderful international collaboration," said Berners-Lee. "Bob and Vint’s work on building the internet was re-enforced by Louis’ work on datagrams and that enabled me to invent the Web. Marc’s determined and perceptive work built on these platforms a product which became widely deployed across nations and computing platforms. I am honoured to receive this accolade and humbled to share it with them. I want the Web to inspire and empower new generations of engineers --boys and, especially, girls-- who will build, in turn, their own platforms, to improve our global society. I hope the message behind this award, along with the work we are doing with the World Wide Web Foundation and W3C, will assist in achieving the vision of a web that is open, accessible and of value to all."

Learn more about how the Web is expanding into a full-fledged programming environment for rich applications, documents, and data: the Open Web Platform.

Eleven SPARQL 1.1 Specifications are W3C Recommendations

21 March 2013 | Archive

The SPARQL Working Group has completed development of its full-featured system for querying and managing data using the flexible RDF data model. It has now published eleven Recommendations for SPARQL 1.1, detailed in SPARQL 1.1 Overview. SPARQL 1.1 extends the 2008 Recommendation for SPARQL 1.0 by adding features to the query language such as aggregates, subqueries, negation, property paths, and an expanded set of functions and operators. Beyond the query language, SPARQL 1.1 adds other features that were widely requested, including update, service description, a JSON results format, and support for entailment reasoning. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.

Runtime and Security Model for Web Applications Draft Published

21 March 2013 | Archive

The System Applications Working Group has published a Working Draft of Runtime and Security Model for Web Applications. This document specifies a runtime and security model for Web Applications. It describes how an application is defined through an application manifest, and how it can be installed, updated and packaged. It also specifies how such an application can put into the background, put back in the foreground or woken up. Finally, the document describes the security model for such applications. This includes the permission model and the different security rules that would apply. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.

Talks and Appearances

• 2013-03-27 (27 MAR)

  The Open Web Platform and Automotive

  by Dave Raggett

  Making In-Vehicle Apps More Attractive to Third Party Developers

  n/a, n/a

• 2013-04-02 (2 APR)

  HTML5/Css3 - Uma introdução

  by Yasodara Córdova

  SENAC Road Show 2013

  Sorocaba, Brazil

• 2013-05-16 (16 MAY)

  CSS3

  by Bert Bos

  WWW2013

  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

• 2013-06-14 (14 JUN)

  Selectors

  by Bert Bos

  /* CSS Day */

  Amsterdam, The Netherlands

• 2013-06-19 (19 JUN)

  HTML5 and The Open Web Platform for Automotive

  by Philipp Hoschka

  Content & Apps for Automotive Europe 2013

  Munich, Germany

Events

• 2013-03-18 (18 MAR) – 2013-04-28 (28 APR)

  HTML5 course

  Online Training

• 2013-03-18 (18 MAR) – 2013-04-28 (28 APR)

  Mobile Web 2: Programming Web Applications

  Online training

• 2013-03-26 (26 MAR) – 2013-03-27 (27 MAR)

  Audio WG meeting

  San Francisco, CA

  Hosted by Google

• 2013-04-09 ( 9 APR) – 2013-04-11 (11 APR)

  System Applications Working Group Meeting

  Madrid, Spain

  Telefonica

• 2013-04-10 (10 APR) – 2013-04-13 (13 APR)

  Libre Graphics Meeting

  Madrid, Spain

• 2013-04-23 (23 APR) – 2013-04-24 (24 APR)

  HTML Working Group

  San Jose, CA

  Hosted by eBay

• 2013-04-23 (23 APR) – 2013-04-24 (24 APR)

  Open Data on the Web

  London, England

  Hosted by Google