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Short: Keio U. to host Web Consortium

Keio University in Tokyo has become a host for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a standards group for the multimedia portion of the Internet known as the World Wide Web. The Japanese institution, which represents Japanese and Korean interests, joins Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA) as hosts. Keio's Tatsuya Hagino will lead Keio's involvement. Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee is director of the W3C, working from at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science.

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in Tokyo has become a host for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a standards group for the multimedia portion of the Internet known as the World Wide Web. The Japanese institution, which represents Japanese and Korean interests, joins Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA) as hosts. Keio's Tatsuya Hagino will lead Keio's involvement. Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee is director of the W3C, working from at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science.