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Håkon Wium Lie

Acid2 Task Force Member

Håkon Wium Lie

Håkon Wium Lie is the CTO of Opera Software. His job is to make sure Opera remains a better, smaller and faster browser than the one you know. Before joining Opera in 1999, Hakon worked at W3C where he was responsible for the development of Cascading Style Sheets, a concept he proposed while working with Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1994. Hakon holds a MS degree in Visual Studies from the MIT Media Lab. Håkon keeps a home page at http://people.opera.com/howcome/.

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