DESIGN CONVERSATIONS

Rick Frankel and Fred Krughoff discusses the Semantic Web and Standards — why should you care?

Monday, Sept. 29th at 6:30 in the Visual Arts Crit room

The Semantic Web is about structuring the content of web pages — extending xhtml to make web pages accessible to users and other computers. From a designer’s standpoint the most important part is separating the look of a website from the content. Rick’s presentation will discuss the how and why this is important for the future of the web.

“The Semantic Web is an evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which the semantics of information and services on the web is defined, making it possible for the web to understand and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the web content”. Wikipedia said that.

Rick Frankel is a brilliant programmer, who has over 30 years experience in information technologies planning, data systems design and development, his expertise includes XML/XSLT, SOAP, /RPC, HTML, Java, C/C++, Perl and Ruby. Rick began his career earning an M.F.A. in Electronic Visualization from the University of Illinois, Chicago, then at Bally Corp. where he designed and worked on many coin-op video games including Professor Pac-Man and GORF (Galactic Orbiting Robot Force).
He is a former Senior Principal Consultant for such giants in the industry as Sun Microsystems, and the Oracle Corporation. Rick is currently President of cyberCode consulting.

Fred Krughoff is a Visiting lecturer at Fordham University Lincoln Center on the Design and the Web.