[ug-bosug] ACM : Talk on "Relevance of Open Standards in Application Development and Contribution to Open Standards"

[Vinayak Hegde]

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About The Talk
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Topic: Relevance of Open Standards in Application Development and
Contribution to Open Standards.

Speaker : Arnaud Le Hors

On Thursday, 08th March, 2007

Time: 18:30 - 20:00 hours. (High Tea included).

Venue: E Class, Ground Floor,
Department of Computer Science and Automation,
IISc Campus, Malleshwaram, Bangalore - 560012.

About the Speaker:
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Profile of Arnaud Le Hors, is responsible for overseeing the management of IBM
standards activities and leading IBM open source and standards program in the
emerging markets. He has been working on open standards for over 10 years,
both as a staff member of standards development organizations (SDO) such as
W3C and as a representative for IBM. Arnaud has been involved in every aspect
of the standards development process. This includes the technical, strategic,
political, and legal aspects, both internal and external to an SDO and to a
company like IBM. Arnaud was involved in the development of standards such
as HTML and XML. He has also been involved in open source projects, such as
Xerces, the XML parser developed by the Apache Software Foundation for which
he was one of the lead architects. Arnaud's specialties includes Open
standards,
Open source, XML and Web services technology and software engineering.

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