Chris Lilley (W3C)
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Lilley in 2008
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| Born | 31 December 1959 |
| Occupation | Computer scientist |
| Known for | SVG, PNG, HTML2, CSS2 |
| Website | http://www.w3.org/People/chris/ |
Chris Lilley (born 1959 in the UK) was educated at Broxburn Academy in West Lothian, Scotland. He obtained a bachelor's degree in Biochemistry at the University of Stirling, Scotland and then worked in Haematology and Blood transfusion at the hospital laboratories of Stirling and Falkirk.
He obtained a master's degree in Computing at the University of York, England and then worked at the Computer Graphics Unit at the University of Manchester as a technical author and electronic teaching specialist in the field of Computer Graphics and Scientific Visualization.
While at Manchester he was a member of the IETF Working Group on HTML, developing HTML 2.0, and was also one of the authors of the PNG raster graphics format. In 1994 he was a consulting student on the Biocomputing course run by the GNA's Virtual School of Natural Sciences, where he obtained a postgraduate diploma in Bioinformatics. In 1993 he presented a paper at the Eurographics Workshop on Graphics and Visualisation Education in Barcelona on the potential of the World Wide Web for technical education in Computer Graphics. In 1994 he attended the First International World Wide Web conference, held at CERN in Switzerland. He presented a paper on Web Graphics at the Fourth International World Wide Web conference, held at Boston in December 1995.
In April 1996 he moved to Antibes, France to join the European branch of W3C with responsibility for Graphics and Fonts, joining a team including Håkon Wium Lie, Yves Lafon, Philipp Hoschka and Bert Bos. He chaired a Working group developing Web Fonts, a technical activity which was later merged with CSS.
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