Chairs

Vice Chair:Jim Hendler, University of Maryland, College Park
Deputy Vice Chair: Rohit Khare, University of California,  Irvine

SOS: Stay On Saturday!

The organizers of Developer's Day would like to encourage you to "stick around" for the Saturday after the Web Conference to join in some very exciting hot-off-the-presses sessions for developers, by developers. In addition, we are proud to announce that we have scheduled two plenary speakers: Doug Cutting, the leader of the Nutch open-source search engine project, and an interactive luncheon Q&A with Tim Berners-Lee.

The main focus of the day will be four parallel tracks split along several key themes to bring developer and specialist communities together:
  • Semantic Web, a full day chaired by Eric Miller
  • Trust and Reputation Management, chaired by Jennifer Golbeck
  • Photography Markup, chaired by Greg Elin
  • RuleML & DAML-Rules, co-chaired by Benjamin Grosof
  • XForms, chaired by Steven Pemberton
  • And new for this year, "Cool Stuff," a selection of application development techniques, usability assessments, search technology, and other experience reports culled by the DevDay co-chairs, Jim Hendler and Rohit Khare
Stay tuned for more detailed schedules and talk titles in your conference bags when you get to New York - and book that extra hotel night to make the most of the bonus day in your WWW2004 Passport registration, Developer's Day!

PS. Rolling acceptances have already been issued to dozens of talks. If you have an idea for "Cool Stuff" send it in to devday@www2004.org pronto!