EditorialSpecial Section on Semantic 3D Media and Content
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Bianca Falcidieno is a Research Director of the National Research Council (CNR) of Italy, responsible for the Genova Branch of the CNR National Institute for Applied Mathematics and Information Technologies and the President of the CNR Genoa Research Area.
She has been leading and coordinating research at international level in advanced and interdisciplinary fields (such as computational mathematics, computer graphics, multidimensional media and knowledge technologies), strongly interacting with
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Bianca Falcidieno is a Research Director of the National Research Council (CNR) of Italy, responsible for the Genova Branch of the CNR National Institute for Applied Mathematics and Information Technologies and the President of the CNR Genoa Research Area.
She has been leading and coordinating research at international level in advanced and interdisciplinary fields (such as computational mathematics, computer graphics, multidimensional media and knowledge technologies), strongly interacting with outstanding industrial and social application fields: from industrial design and manufacturing to geographic information systems, from semantic web to serious games.
Author of more than 200 scientific refereed papers and books, she has been the coordinator of both the FP6 Network of Excellence AIM@SHAPE and the FP7 Coordination Action FOCUS K3D, whose main aim is to promote the adoption of best practices for the use of semantics in 3D content modelling and processing.
For more details, see http://www.ge.imati.cnr.it/ima/smg/people.html.
Ivan Herman graduated as mathematician at the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest, Hungary, in 1979. After a brief scholarship at the Université Paris VI I joined the Hungarian research institute in computer science (SZTAKI) where he worked for 6 years. He left Hungary in 1986 and, after a few years in industry in Munich, Germany, joined the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Sciences (CWI) in Amsterdam where he has a tenure position since 1988. He received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 1990 at the University of Leiden, in the Netherlands. He joined the World Web Consortium permanent staff in January 2001 while maintaining his position at CWI. Since 2006 he has taken up the position Semantic Web Activity Lead at the Consortium.
Before joining W3C he worked in quite different areas (distributed and dataflow programming, language design, system programming), but he spent most of his research years in computer graphics and information visualization. He also participated in various graphics related ISO standardization activities and software developments. He was member of the Executive Committee of the Eurographics Association for 15 years, and vice-chair of the Association between 2000 and 2002.
For more details, see http://www.ivan-herman.net/professional.