Keynote Speakers
The keynote speakers for Hypertext 07 are leaders of their field and at the cutting edge of the Hypertext research. We are pleased and excited to announce that Professor Carole Goble and Professor Wendy Hall will be the Hypertext 2007 Keynote speakers.
Professor Carole Goble
Carole Goble is a full professor in the School of Computer Science in the University of Manchester, where she has co-led the Information Management Group since 1997.
She has worked closely with life scientists for many years and is the Director of the myGrid project, the largest e-Science pilot project, which has produced the widely-used Taverna open source software and is now part of the Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute UK. She is also the co-director of the e-Science North West regional centre.
Carole has an international reputation in the Semantic Web, e-Science and Grid communities and has led the application of Semantic Web technologies to both the Grid and e-Science, a fusion dubbed the Semantic Grid She has produced the first reference architecture for the Semantic Grid (S-OGSA) through the Ontogrid project and chairs the Open Grid Forum Semantic Grid Group, along with David De Roure.
Professor Wendy Hall
Wendy Hall is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK. She was the founding Head of the Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia (IAM) Research Group in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at Southampton and is currently the Head of School.
Wendy's research interests include the development of Web technologies (particularly the Semantic Web), open hypermedia systems and link services, advanced knowledge technologies, digital libraries, multimedia information management, agent-based systems and human computer interaction. Her group developed the open hypermedia system, Microcosm.
Wendy was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list in June 2000, and became a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in the same year. She is a Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS) and a Fellow of the IET (FIET). In 2002 she was made a Fellow of the City & Guilds of London Institute (FCGI) and was awarded an Honorary DSc by Oxford Brookes University. She was made an Honorary Fellow of Cardiff University in 2004, and was awarded with an honorary DSc by the University of Glamorgan in 2005.
Wendy was program co-chair for ACM Multimedia '96 and '98 and conference co-chair of ACM Hypertext '97 which was held in Southampton. Wendy is a member of IW3C2, the committee that organises the annual international WWW conferences. She was executive chair of WWW2006 which was held in Edinburgh.
Ted Nelson
Theodor Holm Nelson is an American sociologist, philosopher, and pioneer of information technology. He coined the term "hypertext" in 1963 and published it in 1965. He also is credited with first use of the words hypermedia, transclusion, virtuality, intertwingularity and teledildonics. The main thrust of his work has been to make computers easily accessible to ordinary people.
Ted founded Project Xanadu in 1960 with the goal of creating a computer network with a simple user interface. The effort is documented in his 1974 book Computer Lib/Dream Machines and the 1981 Literary Machines. Much of his adult life has been devoted to working on Xanadu and advocating it.
In 2001 he was knighted by France as “Officier des Arts et Lettres”. In 2004 he was appointed as a Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, and associated with the Oxford Internet Institute.