Dan Connolly received a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990. His research interests include investigating the value of formal descriptions of chaotic systems like the Web, particularly in the consensus-building process, and the Semantic Web.

He became involved with distributed hypertext systems and SGML in 1992. He co-created one of the early HTML validators. He was the editor of the HTML 2.0 specification, crearted by the IETF HTML Working Group. He joined W3C in 1994 and chaired the W3C Working Group that produced HTML 3.2 and HTML 4.0. Together with Jon Bosak he formed the W3C XML Working Group that created the W3C XML 1.0 Recommendation.

Dan chairs the RDF Data Access Working Group, and serves on the W3C Technical Architecture Group and the Web Ontology Working Group. He is involved in the application of RDF to calendaring software.

External links

• Dan Connolly's home page at W3C