Curriculum Vitae for Ralph R. Swick

Professional Preparation

• Carnegie-Mellon University, B.S. Physics, 1977

Appointments

• Research Associate
  1997 - present, MIT/CSAIL Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
• Technical Director, X Window System Group
  1994 - 1996, X Consortium, Inc.
• Principal Engineer
  1991 - 1994, Digital Equipment Corporation, Office Systems Advanced Development
• Research Engineer
  1986 - 1991, Digital Equipment Corporation, Corporate Research
• Technical Support Manager
  1984 - 1986, Digital Equipment Corporation, Education Computer Systems Group
• Senior Technical Support Specialist
  1980 - 1984, Digital Equipment Corporation, Education Computer Systems Group
• Technical Analyst and Database Administrator
  1977 - 1980, Carnegie-Mellon University, Administrative Systems Department
• Programmer/Analyst
  1974 - 1977, Carnegie-Mellon University, Office of Planning

Selected Publications

• Berners-Lee, Connolly, Swick, Web Architecture: Describing and Exchanging Data (World Wide Web Consortium Note, 1999) http://www.w3.org/1999/04/WebData
• Lassila, Swick [eds], Resource Description Framework (RDF) Model and Syntax Specification (World Wide Web Consortium Recommendation, 1999) http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-rdf-syntax-19990222
• Kahan, Koivunen, Prud'Hommeaux, Swick, Annotea: An Open RDF Infrastructure for Shared Web Annotations, in Proc. of the WWW10 International Conference, Hong Kong, May 2001
  http://www.w3.org/2001/Annotea/Papers/www10/annotea-www10.html
• Koivunen, Swick, Metadata Based Annotation Infrastructure offers Flexibility and Extensibility for Collaborative Applications and Beyond, in Proc. of the KCAP 2001 Workshop on Knowledge Markup & Semantic Annotation
  http://www.w3.org/2001/Annotea/Papers/KCAP01/annotea.html
• Koivunen, Swick, Collaboration through Annotations in the Semantic Web. Annotation for the Semantic Web, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications series, S. Handschuh, S. Stabb, eds. , IOS Press, 2003.

Synergistic Activities

• Technical Director, Technology and Society Domain, World Wide Web Consortium

Collaborators and Other Affiliations

• Ackerman, Mark (University of Michigan)
• Hardin, Joseph (University of Michigan)
• Lassila, Ora (Nokia)
• Kahan, Jose (INRIA)
• Stein, Lynn (Olin College)

Students

• Lee, Ryan, MIT Masters of Engineering Thesis, 2002