<div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div><strong style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">Introducing <a href="http://www2016.ca/keynote-speakers.html#keynoteTim" style="color:rgb(0,51,102)">Tim Berners-Lee</a></strong><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"> </span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><a href="http://www2016.ca/" style="color:rgb(0,51,102);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">WWW2016</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"> Keynote Speaker</span></div><div><span style="text-align:center"><a href="http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/1175-.html">http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/1175-.html</a></span></div><div><br></div><div><strong style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">I.</strong><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"> </span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">Jim Hendler,</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">has strictly allotted me exactly three sentences</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">to introduce Tim Berners-Lee,</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">and now I’ve gone and used up one of them </span><em style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">telling</em><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"> you that,</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">but fortunately,</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">because of the nature of language</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><strong style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">Comma </strong><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">I can still add that each of us is, in a sense, unique,</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">but the uniqueness of some of us</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">approaches the cosmic;</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><strong style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">Pause </strong><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">and Tim Berners-Lee has changed the world</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">for all future generations,</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">forever</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><strong style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">Period.</strong><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><div style="text-align:center"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><strong style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">II.</strong><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"> </span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">Nor can we remind ourselves enough</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><strong style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">Comma </strong><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">that although,</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">because of today’s absurd intellectual property and patent laws,</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">Tim’s uniqueness </span><em style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">might</em><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"> have been that he became the world’s richest man</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><strong style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">Pause </strong><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">he has instead opened his contribution to every one of us, and to all future generations</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><strong style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">Comma</strong><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">opening access to the web, world-wide,</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">opening the door to open science, open data, open knowledge,</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">on a scale for which the only analogy in human history</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">is the advent of language itself</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><strong style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">Period.</strong><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><div style="text-align:center"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><strong style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">III.</strong><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"> </span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">Thanks to Dame Wendy Hall,</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">we can call Sir Tim Berners-Lee our colleague</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">at the University of Southampton, Hants</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><strong style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">Open Parenthesis</strong><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">(although his physical body spends rather more real-time in Cambridge, Mass),</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><strong style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">Close Parenthesis</strong><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">but if Southampton has made some contributions of its own to Open Access</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">those contributions,</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">like so much of what is being done by just about everyone on the planet today</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">would not have been possible</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">without the gift</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">and the gifts</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">of Sir Tim Berners-Lee</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><strong style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center">Period.</strong><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center"><br></span></div></div>