DrIvan Herman…

Short CV

I graduated as mathematician at the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest, Hungary, in 1979. After a brief scholarship at the Université Paris VI I joined the Hungarian research institute in computer science (SZTAKI) where I worked for 6 years (and turned into a computer scientist…). I left Hungary in 1986 and, after a few years in industry in Munich, Germany, I joined the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Sciences (CWI) in Amsterdam where I have a tenure position since 1988. I received a PhD degree in Computer Science in 1990 at the University of Leiden, in the Netherlands. I joined the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Team as Head of W3C Offices in January 2001 while maintaining my position at CWI. I served as Head of Offices until June 2006, when I was asked to take the Semantic Web Activity Lead position, which is now my principal work at W3C.

Before joining W3C I worked in quite different areas (distributed and dataflow programming, language design, system programming), but I spend most of my research years in computer graphics and information visualization. I also participated in various graphics related ISO standardization activities and software developments. My “professional” home page contains a list of my publications, my public presentations, and details of the various projects I participated in the past. There is also a dblp entry for my publications generated automatically (although I am not sure it is complete…). (B.t.w., based on my publications, my Erdős number is ≤4…)

In my previous life (i.e., before joining W3C…) I was member of the Executive Committee of the Eurographics Association for 15 years, and I was vice-chair of the Association between 2000 and 2002. I was the co-chair of the 9^th World Wide Web Conference, in Amsterdam, May 2000; since then, I have also been member of IW3C2 (International World Wide Web Conference Committee), responsible for the World Wide Web Conference series. Since autumn 2007 I am also member of SWSA (Semantic Web Science Association), the committee responsible for the International Semantic Web Conferences series.

A more detailed CV is also available online. See my personal page if you are curious about more private things, including some of my photos that I put on the Web… (Actually, my home page is my personal blog, too; you can subscribe to its RSS feed if you are interested…) . (I also maintain a separate blog in Hungarian.)

Some personal data

The Hungarian spelling of my full name is Herman Iván. Ie, my name is Ivan (well, spelled properly: Iván) and my surname is Herman (many in the Netherlands and Germany mix it up, and use “Herman” as my name…).
Gender: male
Family: I am married and have an adult son, David.
Date of birth: 24th February, 1955, Budapest, Hungary
Email addresses: ‘ivan’ on my own ivan-herman.net domain, ‘ivan’ on the w3.org domain, or ‘ivan.herman’ on the cwi.nl domain
Phone: +31-641044153
I live in Amstelveen (which also has a geonames’ entry), the Netherlands ( lat: 52.302063, long: 4.87397) This is a suburb of Amsterdam. The closest airport is Amsterdam Schiphol
Some of my upcoming trips are on my home page at CWI
I am (of course…) present on a number of online accounts and services, like: facebook (acc. number 555188827), LinkedIn (acc. number 2352277), Dopplr (acc. name IvanHerman), Flickr (acc. ivan_herman), Linked Open Data community (acc. ivan), and IWIW (acc. number 8700217). I am often on freenode, (acc. name IvanHerman; primarily on the #swig channel). I am also the administrator of the Semantic Web Activity Blog at W3C which can either be accessed directly or via its RSS feed.
Interests: Semantic Web (of course…), but also Scalable Vector Graphics, Internationalization; on a less techie level Classical Music, Literature, History, Politics in general, Photography, …

I can also be identified through the non-information resource URI: http://www.ivan-herman.net/me (when dereferenced, the URI redirects to this page for (X)HTML, or to the generated foaf file otherwise).

This file is in XHTML+RDFa. Running the file through an RDFa processor yields the corresponding foaf file in RDF.