W3C development efforts at Keio University will be led by a project team under the direction of deputy director and associate professor Tatsuya Hagino. Tim Berners-Lee is the director of the Consortium and inventor of the World Wide Web. The W3C exists to develop common protocols and reference codes for the evolution of the World Wide Web.
Membership is open to any organization worldwide.
To date, the Consortium comprises more than 150 organizations. About the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science MIT , the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is a major US research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Its Laboratory for Computer Science conducts a broad research program in information science, from the development of Information Infrastructures like the World Wide Web to understanding the theories that underlie computer science. About Keio University Keio University is one of the oldest private universities in Japan, and it has five major campuses around Tokyo. In 1990, it opened Shonan Fujisawa Campus with two new faculties including the Faculty of Environmental Information.