Dr. Dave Raggett is a member of the W3C’s European staff attached to ERCIM (the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics), and a visiting professor at the University of the West of England. He was closely involved with early work on web standards especially HTML and HTTP. He has been involved in many European projects, and currently focuses on Human-like AI and the Web of Things. He was educated at the University of Oxford, followed by assignments at the University of Edinburgh, Imperial College and MIT, along with industry experience at HP, Canon, Openwave, Volantis and JustSystems.

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