What: Browser Wars: Episode II Attack of the DOMs
When: Feb 28, 2007 Wed 6:00pm
Where: Yahoo Building C, 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale , California 94089
Who: Douglas Crockford, Architect at Yahoo & Founder of JSON (Moderator & Host)
Chris Wilson, Group Program Manager of the Internet Explorer Platform at Microsoft
Mike Shaver, Director of Ecosystem Development at Mozilla Corporation
Håkon Wium Lie, CTO at Opera & Founder of CSS

Lou Gervais, Founder of Silicon Valley Webguild & Technical Development SIG (MC)

Required Registration: http://browserwarii.eventbrite.com

6:00pm Registration/Networking/Exhibits/Complimentary Refreshments
6:30pm Session I - Technical Presentations
Chris Wilson - IE
Mike Shaver - FireFox
Håkon Wium Lie - Opera
7:30pm Announcements
7:40pm Session II - Browser Wars Discussion
9:30pm Giveaways/Networking

Gourmet dinner is available at Yahoo café URLs from 4:30pm-8:30pm (Avg $5)
Complimentary coffee, espresso, mochas, ice drinks are available at Coffebar Benatrees until 8pm
Soda fountains will be available at all times

Host - Yahoo, Inc.
Complimentary Refreshments - Sponsored by Yahoo, Inc.
Promotional Gifts - Sponsored by Yahoo, Inc.
Giveaways: Sponsored by Microsoft IE

Exhibits: Microsoft Internet Explorer Developer Center
Opera Community

Douglas Crockford Architect at Yahoo! & Founder of JSON Douglas Crock is a product of our public school system. A registered voter, he owns his own car. He has developed office automation systems. He did research in games and music at Atari. He was Director of Technology at Lucasfilm. He was Director of New Media at Paramount. He was the founder and CEO of Electric Communities/Communities.com. He was founder and CTO of State Software, where he discovered JSON. He is now an architect at Yahoo!.

Håkon Wium Lie CTO of Opera & Founder of CSS Håkon Wium Lie is the CTO of Opera Software. His job is to make sure Opera remains a better, smaller and faster browser than the one you know. Before joining Opera in 1999, Håkon worked at W3C where he was responsible for the development of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), a concept he first proposed while working with Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1994. Håkon holds a MS degree in Visual Studies from the MIT Media Lab. Also, he is a director of YesLogic, the company behind PrinceXML, a CSS-based web-to-PDF formatter.

Chris Wilson Group Program Manager of IE Platform at Microsoft Chris Wilson is the group program manager of the Internet Explorer Platform at Microsoft. He’s worked on web browsers since 1993, when he co-authored the first version of NCSA Mosaic for Windows. Since 1995, he’s worked on Microsoft’s web platform. In this 13-year-running saga, he’s inflicted good (first implementation of Cascading Style Sheets in IE) and bad (overlapping <B> and <I> tags) on the world, and figures his karma will be even by 2012 the way he’s going. In his free time, he enjoys photography and hiking with his wife and one-year-old daughter, and scuba diving in the chilly waters of Puget Sound as a PADI Assistant Instructor. With any free money, he replaces the cameras he's destroyed by taking them underwater for dive photography. Occasionally he remembers to share his thoughts on his blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/cwilso.

Lou Gervais Founder of Silicon Valley Webguild & Technical Development SIG Mr. Gervais is one of the founding members of the Silicon Valley WebGuild and founder of the Silicon Valley WebGuild Technical Development SIG. Mr. Gervais was president from 1999 to 2003 of the Silicon Valley WebGuild that was one of the largest and most active chapters of the Association of Internet Professionals (AIP). Mr. Gervais held a seat on the AIP board of directors during 2002. The AIP was dissolved in 2003 and the Silicon Valley Webguild continued on its own. Mr. Gervais chaired the Silicon Valley WebGuild Technical Development SIG from 1998 to 2002. He designed several web based HTML and XML foundation courses, and worked on the National Board to develop the Webmaster certification exams. Mr. Gervais has very rich and diverse experiences with many areas of technology. He successfully implemented Web infrastructures for Internet, Extranets, and Intranets at both Cypress Semiconductor Corp. and Amdahl Corp. Mr. Gervais was responsible for development and management of Web teams, e-Commerce vendor relationships, development, production, and maintenance of all Web activities. Mr. Gervais also directed and managed development, manufacturing and distribution processes at LinuxSolve Inc., a small startup. Prior to LinuxSolve and Cypress, Mr. Gervais spent 22 years at Amdahl and held several national technical support positions and was responsible for the successful design, development and implementation of the Web architecture and a key member of the Web Council. Mr. Gervais managed several large development projects and was responsible for their introduction into the market place. In terms of technological environments, Mr. Gervais has been directly involved in managing engineering projects for legacy 370 computer systems, MVS, VM, and UNIX on the mainframe, TCP/IP, Ethernet, Token-Ring, TCAM, VTAM, VSAM, compliance and certification for FCC, CSA, and VDE, and system ESD robustness. Mr. Gervais has a degree in Statistical Quality Control Management and Engineering from the University of Rhode Island. For fun, Mr. Gervais like to design and build wood products and he also designed and built his own car in 1981-1982, a replica of a 1929 Mercedes SSK, which he has been driving since. Currently, Mr. Gervais is retired and likes to help people by being a good neighbor. You may find him in and around Paradise California where he may be doing one or more of the following: fixing most anything, designing and building custom items of wood, or teaching people how to use a PC or other items they have. Mr. Gervais also continues to consult on web design and support issue. Mr. Gervais' motto is: "Make It Happen."

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