The CHW is housed in the [1] Information Technology Department of the [2] College of Computing and Information Sciences at the [3] Rochester Institute of Technology. We focus on helping Web content creators and Webmasters to extend the reach of their sites onto handheld devices.
Prof. Jeff Sonstein teaches in the IT Department at RIT, and is the Director of the Center for the Handheld Web ([2] http://chw.ariadne.mobi/). His career has included very early work on the World Wide Web, development of cross-platform multi-user online virtual reality systems, and a stint at NASA-Ames Research Center. His interests in studying the emerging "Mobile Web" include both the practical level (developing handheld design and implementation best practices) and the abstract (social, political, and economic effects of further integrating the developing world into the WWW).
Prof. Sonstein's most recent presentation on this topic was at the University of Oxford Future Technologies Conference, held in April of 2007. You can view either the short version of his talk, or the full-length version. Please note that these were auto-generated by Keynote, so they are ordinary XHTML files and some mobile browsers will have trouble displaying them.
Prof. Daniel Bogaard also teaches in the IT Department at RIT. His general R&D focus includes Web-based communications and Web applications development, with particular emphasis on emerging software technologies such as SVG and AJAX. Dan enjoys working with and teaching about using compound-technology documents to produce new models for interactivity-rich Web-based applications & development.