Chris Lilley (W3C)
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Chris Lilley was educated at Broxburn Academy in West Lothian
, Scotland
. He obtained a Bachelors degree in Biochemistry
at the University of Stirling
, Scotland and then worked in Haematology and Blood transfusion
at the hospital laboratories of Stirling
and Falkirk
.
He obtained a Masters degree in Computing at the University of York
, England and then worked at the Computer Graphics Unit at the University of Manchester
as a technical author and electronic teaching specialist in the field of Computer Graphics
and Scientific Visualization
.
While at Manchester he was a member of the IETF Working Group on HTML
, developing HTML 2.0, and was also one of the authors of the PNG raster graphics format. In 1994 he was a consulting student on the Biocomputing course run by the GNA's Virtual School of Natural Sciences, where he obtained a postgraduate diploma in Bioinformatics
. In 1993 he presented a paper at the Eurographics Workshop on Graphics and Visualisation Education in Barcelona
on the potential of the World Wide Web for technical education in Computer Graphics. In 1994 he attended the First International World Wide Web conference
, held at CERN
in Switzerland
. He presented a paper on Web Graphics at the Fourth International World Wide Web conference, held at Boston in December 1995.
In April 1996 he moved to Antibes
, France
to join the European branch of W3C with responsibility for Graphics and Fonts, joining a team including Håkon Wium Lie
, Yves Lafon, Philipp Hoschka and Bert Bos
. He chaired a Working group developing Web Fonts, a technical activity which was later merged with CSS
.
Early in 1997, the W3C HTML ERB was split into three Working Groups: the HTML
WG, chaired by Dan Connolly
of W3C, the DOM
WG, chaired by Lauren Wood
of SoftQuad, and the CSS
WG, chaired by Chris Lilley of W3C. He was co-editor of CSS2, published in 1998.
In 1998 he was appointed as chair of the W3C Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG
) Working Group, a position he held for ten years, until January 2008. He also joined the XML
Coordination Group at W3C.
In December 2001 he joined the Technical Architecture Group of the W3C, a position he held for three years until February 2005. He was a co-author of the Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One.
In April 2005 he joined the Compound Document formats (CDF) Working Group, became co-chair of the W3C Hypertext
Coordination Group, and also took on managerial responsibility for HTML
, CSS
, SMIL
, Timed Text
, MathML
, and VoiceXML
.
He currently holds the position of Technical Director, Interaction Domain at W3C.
He was an Associate of the Institute of Medical Laboratory Sciences, a member of the British Computer Society Electronic Publishing Specialist Group. He was on the executive board of Eurographics UK Chapter 1995-1996 and the program committee of the International Unicode conference, 1998-2003.
West Lothian
West Lothian is one of the 32 unitary council areas in Scotland, and a Lieutenancy area. It borders the City of Edinburgh, Falkirk, North Lanarkshire, the Scottish Borders and South Lanarkshire....
, Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
. He obtained a Bachelors degree in Biochemistry
Biochemistry
Biochemistry, sometimes called biological chemistry, is the study of chemical processes in living organisms, including, but not limited to, living matter. Biochemistry governs all living organisms and living processes...
at the University of Stirling
University of Stirling
The University of Stirling is a campus university founded by Royal charter in 1967, on the Airthrey Estate in Stirling, Scotland.-History and campus development:...
, Scotland and then worked in Haematology and Blood transfusion
Blood transfusion
Blood transfusion is the process of receiving blood products into one's circulation intravenously. Transfusions are used in a variety of medical conditions to replace lost components of the blood...
at the hospital laboratories of Stirling
Stirling
Stirling is a city and former ancient burgh in Scotland, and is at the heart of the wider Stirling council area. The city is clustered around a large fortress and medieval old-town beside the River Forth...
and Falkirk
Falkirk
Falkirk is a town in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. It lies in the Forth Valley, almost midway between the two most populous cities of Scotland; north-west of Edinburgh and north-east of Glasgow....
.
He obtained a Masters degree in Computing at the University of York
University of York
The University of York , is an academic institution located in the city of York, England. Established in 1963, the campus university has expanded to more than thirty departments and centres, covering a wide range of subjects...
, England and then worked at the Computer Graphics Unit at the University of Manchester
University of Manchester
The University of Manchester is a public research university located in Manchester, United Kingdom. It is a "red brick" university and a member of the Russell Group of research-intensive British universities and the N8 Group...
as a technical author and electronic teaching specialist in the field of Computer Graphics
Computer graphics
Computer graphics are graphics created using computers and, more generally, the representation and manipulation of image data by a computer with help from specialized software and hardware....
and Scientific Visualization
Scientific visualization
Scientific visualization is an interdisciplinary branch of science according to Friendly "primarily concerned with the visualization of three-dimensional phenomena , where the emphasis is on realistic renderings of volumes, surfaces, illumination sources, and so forth, perhaps...
.
While at Manchester he was a member of the IETF Working Group on HTML
HTML
HyperText Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages....
, developing HTML 2.0, and was also one of the authors of the PNG raster graphics format. In 1994 he was a consulting student on the Biocomputing course run by the GNA's Virtual School of Natural Sciences, where he obtained a postgraduate diploma in Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics is the application of computer science and information technology to the field of biology and medicine. Bioinformatics deals with algorithms, databases and information systems, web technologies, artificial intelligence and soft computing, information and computation theory, software...
. In 1993 he presented a paper at the Eurographics Workshop on Graphics and Visualisation Education in Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
on the potential of the World Wide Web for technical education in Computer Graphics. In 1994 he attended the First International World Wide Web conference
World Wide Web Conference 1
The first World Wide Web Conference which was organized by Robert Cailliau was held at Geneva, Switzerland from May 25 to May 27 in 1994 and was hosted by CERN....
, held at CERN
CERN
The European Organization for Nuclear Research , known as CERN , is an international organization whose purpose is to operate the world's largest particle physics laboratory, which is situated in the northwest suburbs of Geneva on the Franco–Swiss border...
in Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
. He presented a paper on Web Graphics at the Fourth International World Wide Web conference, held at Boston in December 1995.
In April 1996 he moved to Antibes
Antibes
Antibes is a resort town in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France.It lies on the Mediterranean in the Côte d'Azur, located between Cannes and Nice. The town of Juan-les-Pins is within the commune of Antibes...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
to join the European branch of W3C with responsibility for Graphics and Fonts, joining a team including Håkon Wium Lie
Håkon Wium Lie
Håkon Wium Lie is a web pioneer, a standards activist, and, , the Chief Technology Officer of Opera Software.He is best known for proposing the concept of Cascading Style Sheets while working with Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau at CERN in 1994. As an employee at W3C, he developed CSS into a...
, Yves Lafon, Philipp Hoschka and Bert Bos
Bert Bos
Gijsbert Bos is a computer scientist. He studied mathematics at the University of Groningen, and wrote his PhD thesis on Rapid user interface development with the script language Gist....
. He chaired a Working group developing Web Fonts, a technical activity which was later merged with CSS
Cascading Style Sheets
Cascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics of a document written in a markup language...
.
Early in 1997, the W3C HTML ERB was split into three Working Groups: the HTML
HTML
HyperText Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages....
WG, chaired by Dan Connolly
Dan Connolly
Dan Connolly received a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990. His research interests include investigating the value of formal descriptions of chaotic systems like the Web, particularly in the consensus-building process, and the Semantic Web.He became involved...
of W3C, the DOM
Document Object Model
The Document Object Model is a cross-platform and language-independent convention for representing and interacting with objects in HTML, XHTML and XML documents. Aspects of the DOM may be addressed and manipulated within the syntax of the programming language in use...
WG, chaired by Lauren Wood
Lauren Wood
Lauren Wood is an American singer-songwriter, voice-over artist and producer. She is most notable for the 1989 single, "Fallen," which was used in the 1990 movie Pretty Woman, and "Please Don't Leave," a duet with singer Michael McDonald in 1980...
of SoftQuad, and the CSS
Cascading Style Sheets
Cascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics of a document written in a markup language...
WG, chaired by Chris Lilley of W3C. He was co-editor of CSS2, published in 1998.
In 1998 he was appointed as chair of the W3C Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG
Scalable Vector Graphics
Scalable Vector Graphics is a family of specifications of an XML-based file format for describing two-dimensional vector graphics, both static and dynamic . The SVG specification is an open standard that has been under development by the World Wide Web Consortium since 1999.SVG images and their...
) Working Group, a position he held for ten years, until January 2008. He also joined the XML
XML
Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....
Coordination Group at W3C.
In December 2001 he joined the Technical Architecture Group of the W3C, a position he held for three years until February 2005. He was a co-author of the Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One.
In April 2005 he joined the Compound Document formats (CDF) Working Group, became co-chair of the W3C Hypertext
Hypertext
Hypertext is text displayed on a computer or other electronic device with references to other text that the reader can immediately access, usually by a mouse click or keypress sequence. Apart from running text, hypertext may contain tables, images and other presentational devices. Hypertext is the...
Coordination Group, and also took on managerial responsibility for HTML
HTML
HyperText Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages....
, CSS
Cascading Style Sheets
Cascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics of a document written in a markup language...
, SMIL
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
SMIL , the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language, is a W3C recommended XML markup language for describing multimedia presentations. It defines markup for timing, layout, animations, visual transitions, and media embedding, among other things...
, Timed Text
Timed Text
Timed Text refers to the presentation of text media in synchrony with other media, such as audio and video.Typical applications of timed text are the real time subtitling of foreign-language movies on the Web, captioning for people lacking audio devices or having hearing impairments, karaoke,...
, MathML
MathML
Mathematical Markup Language is an application of XML for describing mathematical notations and capturing both its structure and content. It aims at integrating mathematical formulae into World Wide Web pages and other documents...
, and VoiceXML
VoiceXML
VoiceXML is the W3C's standard XML format for specifying interactive voice dialogues between a human and a computer. It allows voice applications to be developed and deployed in an analogous way to HTML for visual applications. Just as HTML documents are interpreted by a visual web browser,...
.
He currently holds the position of Technical Director, Interaction Domain at W3C.
He was an Associate of the Institute of Medical Laboratory Sciences, a member of the British Computer Society Electronic Publishing Specialist Group. He was on the executive board of Eurographics UK Chapter 1995-1996 and the program committee of the International Unicode conference, 1998-2003.
External links
- Biography at W3C
- Paper Not Just Decoration: quality graphics for the Web presented at the 4th International World Wide Web conference in 1994
- Web page at W3C
- W3C press release, formation of Technical Architecture Group, 11 December 2001