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CWI contributes to XForms 2.0 Working Draft
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has recently released a new draft of the international XForms standard, the XForms 2.0 Working Draft. Chair of the Xforms Working Group is Steven Pemberton from …
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CWI research improves shared multimedia experiences
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New book published from Pablo Cesar: The Evolution of TV Systems, Content, and Users Toward Interactivity
TV viewing has undergone a tremendous change during the past twenty years. Originally, TV viewing was a social activity, fostering social interaction with communities of viewers. A host of technical developments has …
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New Google service 'Rich Snippets' based CWI-technology
Google introduced a new enhancement called Rich Snippets in May 2009, giving searchers new ways to filter results and adding new types of data to the search results themselves. The feature is …
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ACM CHI Lifetime Service Award for Steven Pemberton
Steven Pemberton (CWI and W3C) has been awarded the prestigious international ACM CHI Lifetime Service Award.
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CWI Researchers Improve Multimedia Language SMIL
On 1 December 2008 the multimedia language SMIL3.0 was announced as W3C Recommendation by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
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Best Paper Award for SMIL State research
At the ACM DocEngineering Symposium in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Jack Jansen and Dick Bulterman received the Best Paper Award.
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Best Paper Award for Interactive Television Research
The award was granted to CWI researchers.
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