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Monday, March 8, 2010
World Wide Web Consortium names Jaffe CEO
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Former Novell Inc. chief technology officer Jeffrey Jaffe has been named CEO of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). He will be responsible for directing W3C’s global operations, working with Tim Berners-Lee, director of W3C, the consortium said today.
Jaffe joins W3C from his most recent role at Novell as CTO and executive vice president, products. Prior to Novell, he served as president of Bell Labs Research and Advanced Technologies at Lucent Technologies and vice president of IBM.
In his first blog entry as CEO, Jaffe wrote that his first priority is “to preserve and enhance the W3C culture of having an open consensus-based process.”
With more than 350 member organizations, the World Wide Web Consortium is an international consortium aimed at developing web standards and guidelines for long-term growth of the web. W3C is run by the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the U.S.; the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics in France; and Keio University in Japan.
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