BIOGRAPHIES N-Z

Alexander Nakhimovsky

Nakhimovsky has just published, jointly with Tom Myers, "Professional Java XML Programming", WROX 1999, following their "Javascript Objects", WROX 1998. Nakhimovsky is the author of many papers on general and computational linguistics and AI, He has spoken at many conferences, most recently at Practical Java Applications, London April 1999.

John Nestor

John Nestor has authored a number of programming languages and authored the object-oriented database system, IDL. He is the principal architect for the XMLforall scripting language that has been applied on a number of commercial and non-commercial web sites.

Steven R. Newcomb

Principal in TechnoTeacher Inc., a software developer specializing in ISO-standards-based tools for information management systems integrators and software applications developers, with licensees in telecommunications, computers, defense, education, energy, publishing, government, and aerospace. Co-editor of ISO/IEC 10743:1996 Standard Music Description Language (SMDL). Co-editor of ISO/IEC 10744:1992 (and 10744:1997) Hypermedia Time-based Structuring Language (HyTime). Design Team Member, US Navy Metafile for Interactive Documents. Founding Conference Chair, International HyTime Conference, 1994-1997. Conference Co-chair (with Carla Corkern) of the successor Metastructures conference, 1998-. Founding Chairman, Conventions for the Application of HyTime (CApH) activity of the Graphic Communications Association Research Institute, the original developer of the Topic Maps paradigm, and co-editor of ISO/IEC 13250:1999, the Topic Maps information architecture. Chief Technology Director, XML Mortgage Partners, 1999-.

Simon Nicholson

Simon Nicholson serves on the OASIS Board of Directors, is a member of the XML.org Steering Committee, and also the Marketing Awareness Group at ebXML. Simon works for Sun Microsystems where he is the XML Market Development Manager. At Sun, Nicholson is a member of the XML Technology Centre which is responsible for the development of strategy, promotion, and application of XML within the Sun platforms. Prior to joining Sun, Simon was the European Business Development Manager for Chrystal Software. He is an active participant and spokesperson in industry events and conferences, where he represents both his company and OASIS.

Stig Nordqvist

Stig is the Chief Information Officer at the Göteborgs-Posten Group, the second largest Swedish morning newspaper focused on daily morning newspapers and www-publishing. Stig has a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Media Technology from Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. The main area of interest and research has been focused on novel production management and control methods for digital networked production processes, primarily in newspaper production. During the years at KTH he also gave lectures, where responsible for courses and M.Sc thesis. He has also worked with projects related to commercial prepress and printing industries. Stig has also worked as an industry consultant and analyst and published over 60 articles in different large Scandinavian and European industry trade magazines. He holds the chair for the IFRAtrack WG 2 and 3 (XML) at IFRA and liaison with the CIP3 group as well as the GCA IAC. Stig also work with different national and international WG:s and associations.

Anguel Novoselsky

A Novoselsky has been working in the area of compiler and language design for more than 15 years with companies in USA, Canada and Bulgaria. Currently, he is a member of Oracle team developing Oracle XML/XSL components and he is also a principal representative to the XML WG for Oracle Corporation. He holds M.S. of Computer Science from Technical Institute of Sofia. A Novoselsky hasn't spoken at XML related conferences.

Dave Nurse

Dave holds a Fellowship in Clinical Biochemistry from Portsmouth Polytechnic and an MSc in Medical Informatics from the University of Wales College of Medicine. His thesis was on the application of Hypertext systems for clinical support information. Dave is a specialist in clinical laboratory computing and has gained wide experience across all areas of medical informatics. His role as Head of Research at CSW involves the investigation and application of new technologies for CSW's solutions in the Healthcare, Engineering, Financial and Publishing sectors. Dave is a frequent speaker at informatics events and conferences, and has published many papers on medical informatics topics in journals that include the Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers and Healthcare Computing.

Simon Pearson

I attended Sunderland University, studying Medical Biology, graduating in the summer of 1994. As with most Graduates my first employment was with a fast food franchise, which I left after two years to join the N.H.S. as a Phlebotomist. After nearly three years in this role I was seconded to work on the Path.Finder project. Prior to this my interest in computing had been a hobby, and my knowledge though not totally lacking was not great. Two years later with a much more practical experience and intensive private study I am working confidently with HTML and XML, both of which have been used to support a comprehensive ‘one stop’ health information system. In addition as webmaster I maintain the website and provide technical support and advice to the 14 UK Trusts which make up The National Path.Finder Consortium.

Mikaël Peltier

Mikaël Peltier is a PhD student of computer science at the University of Nantes.

Steve Pepper

Steve Pepper is the Senior Information Architect at STEP Infotek, a company in the STEP group (based in Germany, Hungary, Norway, Poland and the UK) specialising in standards-based information reengineering. He represents Norway on JTC 1/SC 34, the ISO committee responsible for the development of SGML and related standards, and is convenor of WG 3 (Information association), whose responsibilities include the HyTime and Topic Map standards. A frequent speaker at SGML and XML events around the world, he is the author and maintainer of the "Whirlwind Guide to SGML and XML tools" and co-author (with Charles Goldfarb and Chet Ensign) of the "SGML Buyer's Guide" (Prentice-Hall, 1998).

Anastasios Politis

Anastasios Politis born on October 15tth 1955, is a graduated Dipl. Eng. in Graphic Arts Technology (BA- Athens TEI) and holds a Msc degree in Interactive Multimedia (University of Wesminster, UK). He holds the position of Assistant Professor at the Dept of Graphic Arts Technology, Athens Technological Educational Institute, where he works since 1981. Since September 1999, he is working on his doctoral dissertation as a Research scientist at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Stockholm Sweden. He has more than 25 years of experience in education,training,project and research within the Greek and European Graphic Arts and Media sector. He is author of 4 books and over 100 articles and studies. He speaks English and German.

Paul Prescod

Paul Prescod is a leading researcher and implementor of document processing technologies. His formal education was in mathematics and computer science at the University of Waterloo. His research interests include formalisms for document modeling, queries and schemata. As a consulting engineer at ISOGEN, he helps organizations apply ISO and W3C standards to large-scale documentation problems. Among his accomplishments, Paul has been very involved in the development and promotion of new standards. He worked within the XML Working Group of the World Wide Web consortium to develop the XML family of standards and co-wrote the most popular book on that family of standards: The XML Handbook. Paul wrote the first and most popular tutorials on the DSSSL style language and the grove paradigm. He writes widely on other topics both abstract and concrete. On the implementation side, Paul integrates a wide variety of tools and techniques. He has experience with programming languages such as C++, Python, Java and Omnimark; authoring systems such as FrameMaker+SGML and AdeptEditor and SGML toolkits such as James Clark's SP and Jade.

Matthew Price

Matthew Price brings over 10 years experience to his role as Director of Market Strategy for Art Technology Group where he is responsible for UK business development, partner programs, and market strategy. Prior to his work with Art Technology Group, Matthew has consulted with a number of technology companies, and has worked to establish their presence in the UK market. Matthew held positions at Borland International, most recently as Director of Sales and Marketing. Previously, as Senior Product Marketing Manager he was instrumental in the development of the C++ product line, and was a team member that brought Delphi to market. Additionally he was responsible for UK technical support and consulting for Borland. Matthew received a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Reading University. Recent and upcoming speaking engagements include: eBusiness UK, UK Java Show; UK Internet Show; New Media Age Congress and music.net.

Anupama Ramanujan

Anupama Ramanujan is a Computer Consultant at AT&T where she is working on building leading-edge business-to-business e-commerce applications using XML and Java. She has a BS in Computer Engineering. Her current interests include using XML, Java and other internet technologies to build e-commerce applications. Anupama Ramanujan has published several scholarly articles in various IEEE publications.

Anca Rarau

Anca Rarau was born on September 30, 1971 in Romania. She received her BS and MS in computer science from Technical University of Cluj-Napoca in 1995 and 1996. She is a Ph.D. student in computer science at Technical University of Cluj-Napoca. Her interests: distributed systems, mobile agents and Web-based distance learning. She is partaking of a TEMPUS project that concerns development of a distance learning center to Technical University of Cluj-Napoca. In October 1999 Anca Rarau was at Politecnico di Torino, Italy, for studying "Distance Learning Using the Internet", in the ambit of the TEMPUS project mobility.

Hans Holger Rath

Hans Holger Rath is director of STEP's Consulting department since April 1998. He started at STEP in April 1996 as senior consultant/project manager. Before he joined STEP he was head of the Document Computing department at ZGDV (Computer Graphics Center, Darmstadt, Germany). Hans Holger studied computer science and graduated with the doctoral thesis "Literate Specifying of Hypermedia Documents" in 1996. He cooperates very closely with publishing houses, aircraft industry and telecommunication industry. All in all he has more than ten years experience in information architectures and related topics. Since May 1998 he represents Germany in ISO/JTC1/SC34 â ¬" the ISO committee standardizing SGML, HyTime, DSSSL, Topic Maps etc. Hans Holger Rath is a frequent speaker at conferences; recent talks were given at: SGML/XML Europe 98 (Paris), Online Information 98 (London), XML 98 (Chicago), XML Europe 99 (Granada), MetaStructures 99 (Montreal), XML 99 (Philadelphia). He is also a speaker/trainer of numerous tutorials, trainings, and workshops related to information process re-engineering on both technical as well as management level.

Daniel Riggs

Daniel Riggs is a Consultant with OpenMIND Consulting, and has been involved since 1998 in developing XML solutions for several major automotive clients.

Adrian Rivers

Adrian Rivers is Managing Director or RivCom, a consultancy and services company specializing in helping businesses adopt XML technologies to meet their information management and distribution needs. RivCom has been actively involved in the development of the XML family of standards as active members of W3C (including the XSL Working Group), OASIS; as joint project leader of the STEP/SGML harmonisation initiative under ISO, and as software development lead in the recently completed European XML/EDI Pilot Project. Adrian was joint-facilitator of the full-day workshop for invited experts and practitioners at the 9th Annual World Wide Web Conference (WWW9 - 15 May 2000 - Amsterdam) entitled "Making the Best Use of XML within the Enterprise". The aim of this day was to address the issue of how best to make use of XML within the enterprise. Participants included leading figures from the XML world, representing 'user' organisations, software vendors, consultancies and standards bodies. Adrian has contributed to many XML conferences and training courses. Recent speaking engagements include presentations on XML at SGML UK, the XML Forum in Paris and the British Computer Society's Object Oriented Programming Specialist Interest Group. Prior to joining RivCom, Adrian was a professional trainer and management consultant.

Daniel Rivers-Moore

Daniel Rivers-Moore is Director of New Technologies at RivCom, a consultancy and services company specializing in helping businesses adopt XML technologies to meet their information management and distribution needs. He has been actively involved in the development of the XML family of standards, having been a member of the original XML Special Interest Group, joint project leader of the STEP/SGML harmonisation initiative under ISO, and software development lead in the recently completed European XML/EDI Pilot Project. In April 1997, at the WWW6 conference in Santa Clara, he gave the world's first public demonstration of XML content being displayed within an industry-standard browser (using a browser plugin developed by RivCom). In addition to giving numerous XML seminars and tutorials for corporate customers such as Shell, Unilever, BNFL and Foster Wheeler Energy, his teaching experience includes several years as a professional trainer giving voice and theatre workshops. Recent tutorials include a one-day introduction to XML for the British Computer Society's Object Oriented Programming Specialist Interest Group, and the introductory Keynote/Tutorial at a strategy planning meeting on XML adoption at the NATO Consultation, Command and Control Agency in The Hague.

Andrew Roberts

Andrew Roberts is a Children's Orthopaedic Surgeon practising at the Orthopaedic Hospital in Oswestry, UK. He has had an active interest in the use of SGML for patient records since 1993 and has been involved in the piloting of the hospital's XML Electronic Patient Record program. He is also active in promoting the use of XML for Electronic Health Records and Evidence Based Medicine.

Jonathan Robie

Jonathan Robie is a Research and Development Fellow at Software AG. He has been working with XML databases and query languages since 1995, and invented an XML query language called XQL which was a precursor of XQL '98, a query language developed jointly by Robie, Joe Lapp of webMethods, and David Schach of Microsoft. Mr. Robie is currently the editor of XQL '99, which has been developed by participants of the XQL mailing list (http://metalab.unc.edu/xql/xql-proposal.html), and serves as Software AG's representative to the W3C XML Query Language Working Group. In addition, Robie represents Software AG on the W3C XML Schema Working Group and the W3C Document Object Model Working Group, where he has been an editor for both Level 1 and Level 2. Prior to joining Software AG, Robie worked with XML and SGML repository architectures at Texcel and POET Software, where he was a lead architect for POET's XML repository. Before his involvement with XML and SGML repositories, he implemented transactions in the POET object database, designed and taught object database programming workshops, provided consulting services for key accounts, wrote the manuals, and lectured on object databases at conferences.

Dan Rosen

Dan Rosen graduated with honors from Brown University's Computer Science Department in May of 2000. During his studies at Brown, he worked for Cambridge Information Network, creating an XML-based web application system in JavaScript to interoperate with the legacy systems in place; and then for Exemplary Technologies, as an architect for their XML-based OEB (Open eBook) systems. Dan's thesis work focused on XML technology as the driver for real-time document processing and other computer systems. He implemented a platform for real-time XML data manipulation, driven by any XML implementation with an API conformant to the Infoset. He also built an incremental XSLT transformation processor on this platform as a proof of concept.

Jaideep Roy

Jaideep Roy is Vice President at Bear Stearns & Co., a leading investment banking, securities trading, and brokerage firm on Wall Street. He has an MS in Computer Science, a BS in Engineering and is currently pursuing an MBA in Finance (part-time). He is currently managing the implementation of several financial applications using XML, Java and other internet related technologies. Jaideep Roy is actively involved in the ebXML initiative. He has published several articles in various IEEE publications. He is also a reviewer of several IEEE publications.

Kimmo Rytkönen

K Rytkönen is a consultant at TietoEnator Services/Wireless Solution unit carrying out development projects in the fields such as XML technology, information security, mobile and Internet techniques. For the past ten years Rytkönen has worked in various SGML/XML projects at VTT (Technical Research Center of Finland) with the main focus on making the SGML/XML technology available to various industries, e.g. forest, metal, energy, process, telecommunications, publishing, aviation and pharmaceutical industries. Before joining TietoEnator Rytkönen worked at Nokia Networks where he participated in customer documentation development projects as an SGML specialist and a project manager. K Rytkönen has spoken at the following SGML/XML conferences: SGML Europe'96; SGML Europe'97; SGML Finland'96; SGML Finland'97.

Norman Scharpf

Norman Scharpf, President of Graphic Communications Association, earned his Bachelor's degree in Business Administration at the University of Pittsburgh. After gaining experience in the public accounting field, he joined IBM where his sales territory included printing firms. His work with one of these firms led to his appointment in 1967 as the first Staff Director of Graphic Communications Association (GCA), then known as the Computer Section of PIA. The group's efforts in computer composition led rapidly to an interest in generic markup of text databases. Under Mr. Scharpf's leadership, this interest expanded to recommend and support national and international work in development of standard markup approaches that ultimately led to the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). Mr. Scharpf is a PIA Gutenberg Award recipient for his efforts in SGML. Mr. Scharpf now leads an organization of some 300 member firms worldwide covering technological advances in both print media and information technologies.

Ingrid Schmidt

In January 2000 Ingrid Schmidt and Carolin Müller founded VIA. By providing consultancy as a main focus, VIA accompanies firms (especially publishing houses) that want their content resources to outlive rapidly outdated media and thus be prepared for the constantly shifting requirements of the media landscape. Within this context VIA emphasises on the design and realisation of forward-looking SGML/XML-based information architectures. Ingrid Schmidt worked since 1993 as independant consultant, information architect, and trainer in the field of SGML/XML-based (and related standards) Publishing, for both, industry and research. Moreover, she is regularly teaching classes on SGML/XML at the German Linguistic and the Computational Linguistic department of Heidelberg University. From 1993 to 1998 she worked as free-lancer on different projects with the Institute for Integrated Publication and Information Systems of GMD in Darmstadt. Research focuses were knowledge-based information access for hypermedia reference works and the evaluation of machine-aided, automized semantic encoding possibilities based on an object-oriented database system. From 1991 to 1993 she worked with Texcel as application developer and consultant. From 1988 to 1991 she worked, also in the field of application development and consulting, with Manfred Krüger, later MID/Information Logistics Group in Heidelberg.

Thomas Schmidt

From 1993 to 1999: Studies at Vienna University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology. November 1999: Graduation in Computer Technology at Vienna University of Technology (Diploma Thesis: Internet Electronic Data Interchange for flexible logistics at a motors-factory). Since December 1999: Research Assistant at the Institute of Flexible Automation, Vienna University of Technology. Currently working on: Virtual/Extended Enterprise, Java, XML. Thomas Schmidt has spoken at the following industry conference: CPI '99.

Ralf Schweiger

Ralf Schweiger joined the Department of Medical Informatics at the University of Giessen in 1996 where he works in a working group which deals with the integration of clinical information sources. His main research interests are middleware architectures, telemedicine methods and the Internet, mainly XML.

Antony Scott

Antony Scott has been developing XML applications at RivCom for the past three years, and has ten years experience in writing and publishing structured documentation. During 1999, he was a co-developer on the European XML/EDI Pilot Project to develop good practice guidelines and prototype applications to show how the XML family of standards can be used to develop the next generation of EDI applications. He has spoken at the following industry conferences: Document 98 (Birmingham, UK); SGML UK October 1999; European XML/EDI Pilot Project Dissemination Event December 1999. Antony Scott has also conducted extensive application-specific training for users and managers.

Bruce Sharpe

Bruce Sharpe holds a Ph.D. in the area of mathematical physics. He has held a series of leadership roles in software development for the last 16 years. His areas of interest have included text processing, database programming, algorithms for digital image processing, music applications, the Internet and document authoring. He is Chief Technology Officer at SoftQuad Software Inc., where he has led the teams that created the most recent versions of XMetaL, HoTMetaL, and the HoTMetaL Application Server. Dr. Sharpe is a frequent participant at Web and XML conferences, and has recently presented at XML '99, ICM Vancouver '99, Internet World, and XML Europe '99.

Alexander Sigel

Alexander Sigel, an information science researcher, investigates methods and develops tools for improved conceptual knowledge organization and summarization of intellectual assets. He is interested in how to leverage next generation information systems by information agents with indexing heuristics that can adapt their ontology-based subject analysis to the interests of user communities. His working experience includes two national scientific information centers and the National Research Center for Information Technology, Germany. He is an active member of several societies in his specialty, most notably the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO). Alexander Sigel is also co-chair of the German Perl Workshop and develops his information services in Perl. His published talks include academic conferences within information science, knowledge organization and user modeling (see homepage http://index.bonn.iz-soz.de/~sigel/).

Jeremy Sindall

Jeremy Sindall was appointed European Vice President in 1999. He is responsible for driving the dramatic growth of the company's XML product suite, which is the market leading XML based web content management suite. Jeremy has led the European organisation into the new market of e-Content for e-Business which started with a successful turnaround of the Interleaf business in Europe. Jeremy joined as Northern European sales Director in October 1997 with responsibility for the UK, Nordic Region and Benelux. Jeremy has over 13 year's experience in the publishing, document management and Workflow market with companies like Rank Xerox, Xsoft (Chrystal) and FileNet.

Cecilia Magnusson Sjöberg

Cecilia Magnusson Sjöberg, LL.D. is professor at the Faculty of Law, Stockholm University. She has had 15 years´ of practical experience of developing and using IT-based legal information systems, including both the public and the private sector as well as participation in EU-projects. She gained her doctorate in 1992 with a thesis on legal automation in the Swedish public sector. Within the field of SGML/XML her major work - the Corpus Legis project - is described in the book "Critical Factors in Legal Document Management: A study of standardised markup languages" (Stockholm: Jure, 1998, www.juridicum.su.se/iri/corpus) A new project has recently been initiated in which the possibilities of cross-fertilisation of advanced methods for security enhancement and applications of XML in the legal domain will be investigated. She is presently course director for the international Master's Programme in Law and Information Technology at Stockholm university in which the development and management of information systems are studied in a legal perspective (www.juridicum.su.se/iri/studentinfo/).

Robert Skinstad

Co-founder of Itec, a comany focusing on B2B solutions with new technology such as EJB and XML. Responsible for e-commerce solutions within Enator (now Tietoenator)the 6:th largers solution provider in Europe. Helped companies to take new technology into a business value. Developed training for managers and worked as a mentor for managers.

Bill Smith

Bill Smith is the Acting Chair and President of the OASIS Board of Directors. He manages the XML Technology Center at Sun Microsystems and actively participates in the development and adoption of standards. In addition to serving on the OASIS Board, Smith is a member of the XML.ORG Steering Committee, co-chairs the XML Linking Working Group at the World Wide Web Consortium, and is a member of the Document Object Model Working Group at W3C.

El Smith

El Smith has focused his technical career on the intersection of structured data (XML and databases) and Internet protocol networking. He has developed XML and database IETM systems using C++, Java, SQL -- and of course, XML. Among his development experiences are metadata-driven IETM's for MCC DaimlerChrysler and Saturn, setting up a multiuser Internet gateway for an online database, and building the groundwork for a global virtual IT organization. His experience includes managed all computer operations for an Internet database web site, and he has ten years experience in administering UNIX and TCP/IP networks. One of the rare extroverted IT professionals, he has enjoyed consulting and analysis on XML systems for Ford, Fiat, Opel, Saturn. He has had a lifelong fascination with linguistics and received his B.A. in Russian Language, until he realized that computer languages are easier, and you can even get paid for knowing them. For the past 3 years he has been based in Munich, Germany. He enjoys being based in Europe because he has gotten a chance to use his German, French and Italian. In his spare time, he plays piano and guitar, studying all aspecs of the encapsulation of meaning through language, and developing DTDs, databases and programs to support writing science fiction novels as a way of avoiding actually having to write them. He is working on an international standards for spelling words like metadata and e-commerce He is religious on the subject of standards, and this presentation was developed using structured information. El gave a presentation on automotive metadata at XML '98. He still knows pretty much nothing about cars.

Joan Smith

For many years Joan Smith led United Kingdom input to the ISO standardization of SGML and related standards and was the founding President of the International SGML Users' Group. She devoted much time to the promotion of SGML and later CALS, giving many tutorials and presentations at international conferences not only in Europe and the United States, but also in Australia. Author of numerous papers and articles on standards, she wrote books on SGML and CALS. She is now a Director of SGML Technologies, based in London. A Fellow of the British Computer Society, she is also a Fellow of the Institute of Directors and a Freeman of the City of London.

Dorotea Slimani

My research goals are to translate the abstract ideas and theories into management tools as well as to create new managerial approaches. I focus my research on strategic tools, which can be implemented for better improvement of organisational changes, and which are based on the specific aspects of graphic arts companies and companies in related fields. I'm an active researcher and project manager working recently in the area of work environment and its role as a managerial tool. One of the interesting questions, which is in focus of my interest is: How to account, maintain and develop the human capital, customer capital and structural capital in order to achieve the competitive advantages in graphic arts and media industry? I achieved at January 2000 the degree of Doctor of Technology at Division of Media Technology and Graphic Arts, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.

Alan Sockett

Alan Sockett is manager of the CIG department which produces Owner documentation and Technical information for the Dealer Service and Parts departments.

Adam Souzis

As Co-Founder and Chief Strategist, Mr. Souzis guides Kinecta's long-term direction and strategy. Mr. Souzis is a recognized expert on emerging internet standards such XML, XSL, RDF and ICE. He helped to define the ICE standard for web-based content syndication, representing Kinecta as a member of the ICE Authoring Group. Prior to co-founding Kinecta, Mr. Souzis was Engineering Lead at NetObjects, where he shipped three versions of the company’s flagship product, Fusion, and developed the cross-platform framework, SOLO. As CEO and President of Graphite Designs, Inc., Mr. Souzis created WinClassic, the Windows 95 utility and training tool. Mr. Souzis previously worked for General Magic, where he ported the MagicCap operating system to Windows 95. Mr. Souzis earned a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in New York.

Nathan Sowatskey

Nathan is currently working with a variety of organisations developing e-commerce solutions for application hosting and EJB development. He is also running JSIG, working with JOFF and is deputy chairman of the BCS Financial Services Special Interest group. Nathan is a regular speaker at conferences and other events on Java and OO technology. Nathan has been involved in software development for over 10 years. His commercial background is divided between finance and telecommunications and his technical background is strongly based on OO practices using C++ and Java. Nathan's financial experience includes stints at Salomon Bros., Merrill Lynch, IBJ, Nomura and JP Morgan where he has worked on both front and back office systems as well as corporate infrastructure and strategic architecture. In the telecommunications field Nathan has worked for BT in the UK on Concert, for Telkom in South Africa on telematics systems and in a leading role for SAIX, the main provider for Internet connectivity in SA and for AUCS in Amsterdam on content management and hosting solutions.

Johan Stenberg

Johan Stenberg, Ph.D., Managing Director MWM Media Workflow Management AB. After a M.Sc.-degree (1991) in Graphic Arts Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), he joined a Ph.D.-programme at KTH. The focus of the research group Stenberg joined was production management methods and tools for a digital newspaper production environment. In 1994, he received a Licentiate of Technology and in 1997 a Ph.D. In February 1997 he became a project manager at the regional newspaper Ostgota Correspondenten in Linkoping, Sweden. Mr Stenberg was responsible for the implementation of a prototype of a IFRAtrack-based production management system, developed at KTH. In 1998, Johan Stenberg became Managing Director for MWM Media Workflow Management AB (MWM). MWM:s business is focused on developing, marketing and customizing management systems to the newspaper industry. Mr. Stenberg is 35 years old, married and the father of three children.

Jim Stock

Jim has worked with SGML and XML for 5 years, implementing large-scale publishing and web solutions for blue-chip companies such as Shell, BMW, The Stationery Office and Routledge.

Dr. Robert S. Sutor

Dr. Robert S. Sutor is IBM's Program Director for XML Technology. He is the Chief Strategy Officer of OASIS, a member of the XML.org Steering Committee, and Vice-Chair of the OASIS - UN/CEFACT Electronic Business XML (ebXML) Initiative. Before joining the IBM Software Group in 1999, Dr. Sutor was a member of IBM's Research staff and led advanced technology projects related to Internet publishing. He has been a member of several W3C working groups and was a co-author of the Document Object Model Level 1. Dr. Sutor received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University and an undergraduate degree from Harvard College.

Ali Gerhard Tafazzoli

Ali Tafazzoli joined the Department of Medical Informatics at the University of Giessen in 1994 where he works in a working group which has a nationwide coordinating role for various issues related to the tasks of clinical tumor registries, such as data analysis, training of registrars and the definition of documentation standards. His main research interests are the integration of organspecific documentation, concepts and standards for data exchange and arden-syntax-based decision support.

Robert Thibadeau

Robert Thibadeau is director of the Universal Library Project and has overseen a number of XML projects including the current project by the Academic Image Cooperative to provide all Art and Art History images for class room instruction in the United States. He is author of several programming languages, arbitor of the namespace for digital television globally, and one of the founding directors of the Robotics Institute in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.

Henry S. Thompson

Henry S. Thompson is Reader in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science at the University, where he currently holds a World Wide Web Consortium Fellowship. He was a member of the W3C SGML Working Group, and is a member of the W3C XSL and XML Schema Working Groups. He is the author of DSC, the only publicly available implementation of the DSSSL transformation language, and of XED, the first free XML instance editor. He is editor of the Structures part of the XML Schema draft W3C recommendation. Henry S. Thompson has presented many papers and tutorials on SGML, DSSSL, XML, XSL and XML Schemas in both industrial and public settings over the last five years.

Sam Thompson

Sam joined IBM in 1980 and held various technical and management positions in VM product development. In 1992, Sam moved to the systems management development lab in Raleigh, North Carolina and helped bring several SystemView products to market. When SystemView merged with Tivoli Systems, Sam traveled the world as a technical evangelist explaining the merger, the new Tivoli strategy and products, and the convergence strategy for the IBM and Tivoli workgroup products. In March, 1997 he assumed his present position in IBM's Emerging Technologies Marketing and works with organizations in the education, government, and utilities industries to help them build solutions that utilize IBM's XML, Java, and other pervasive computing technologies.

Doug Tidwell

Doug Tidwell is a Senior Programmer at IBM. He has more than a sixth of a century of programming experience, and has been working with XML-like applications for several years. His job as a Cyber Evangelist is to help customers evaluate and implement XML technology. He holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University and a Bachelors Degree in English from the University of Georgia. Doug was a speaker at the first XML conference in 1997, and has spoken on XML topics at many conferences since that time. Recent conferences include the Java Business Conference, XML '99, and XML/SGML Asia Pacific '99. He has written and taught basic and advanced XML education courses on four continents.

Emmanuel Tissandier

Emmanuel Tissandier has been working for 10 years as a software engineer in object oriented environments. He started with the development of CASE tools at Rank Xerox and joined the visualization R&D team of ILOG in 1995. Since 1997, he has been the R&D Project Manager for ILOG JViews Component Suite, a product for delivering two-dimensional structured graphics, cartography, diagrams, and Gantt charts in Java.

Robin Tomlin

Robin Tomlin is a Principal Consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers. She focuses on ebusiness applications and has 15 years of experience in publishing and information management technology. Prior to PwC, she was the Executive Director of OASIS, the leading vendor neutral consortium responsible for the evangelism and education of XML. Ms. Tomlin has also held management positions at Intergraph Corporation, Datalogics and the Department of the Navy.

Paul Tyson

Paul Tyson has worked in general aviation technical publications since 1981. He developed Cessna's CD-ROM Technical Library, one of general aviation's first CD-ROM version of technical publications. He was a founding member of the Electronic Publications Subcommittee of the Technical Policy Committee of GAMA (General Aviation Manufacturers Association). Currently he oversees the continuing transition of Cessna Technical Publications to full SGML authoring and publishing.

B. Tommie Usdin

B. Tommie Usdin is President of Mulberry Technologies, Inc., a consultancy specializing in SGML and XML. Ms. Usdin has been working with SGML since 1985 and has been a supporter of XML since 1996. She chaired Markup Technologies '98 and chaired SGML/XML'97. She was a co-chair of the international SGML'XX conference, the SGML technical conference, from 1991 to 1996. Ms. Usdin has developed DTDs and XML or SGML application frameworks for applications in government and industry. Projects include reference materials in medicine, science, engineering, and law; semiconductor documentation; historical and archival materials. Distribution formats have included print books and journals, and both web-based and media based electronic publications.

Gert van der Steen

Gert van der Steen is an independent consultant in Document Management and Language Engineering, with a focus on the introduction of SGML/XML in industry and the automatic translation of controlled natural languages. Gert studied Mathematics and Computer Sciences and wrote a dissertation on the design of a program generator for syntactic pattern recognition and transduction. He has been a researcher and lecturer at the Universities of Leiden (Medicine), Rotterdam (Economics) and Amsterdam (Arts). He shifted in 1988 to the industry where he has been involved in many SGML projects as a consultant, trainer, developer and project manager. For Cap Gemini he developed a system for the treatment of controlled natural languages. Currently he is self employed by his company Palstar bv for which he also develops tools for SGML/XML and Natural Language Processing, like syntactic analysis of documents for subsequent up-conversion, revision tracking (his company sells the program SGDIFF), transformation and querying of SGML documents and groves. He is part-time Professor in Computer Science at the University of Utrecht and has been a frequent speaker at national and European conferences.

Laurent Vinesse

As an engineer and project leader in IT services, Laurent Vinesse has been involved in SGML/XML-based documentation, stand-alone and WEB, applications for eight years in the fields of Patents, Defense, Libraries, Automotive, Aeronautics. He is in charge of new technology choices and development within the Technical Management department of EURODOC-SOFILOG. EURODOC-SOFILOG is a global documentation service provider, mainly involved in the following industrial fields : energy, aeronautics, defense, railway transport. EURODOC-SOFILOG has been investing in SGML, XML and associated W3C recommendations to produce, store and distribute interactive technical documentation for industrial accounts.

David vun Kannon

Mr vun Kannon is a member of the Solutions Integration team in the Financial Services Consulting area of KPMG LLP, a global accounting and consulting company. The emphasis of his practice is the design of XML vocabularies for industry consortia, such as the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the Global Straight-Through Processing Association (GSTPA), a securities industry group. He also advises global financial services companies on the design of XML vocabularies for internal application integration. Mr vun Kannon is the Co-Chair of the Technical Working Group for XFRML, and in that capacity is the lead designer of the vocabulary. Mr vun Kannon has spoken at XML '99 Developers Days on the subject of using XML representations of UML in business requirements gathering. He has also delivered classes and tutorial sessions on vocabulary design for KPMG professionals and clients.

Philip Wadler

Philip Wadler is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Functional Programming.

Dale Waldt

Dale Waldt is currently VP of Product Technology for RIAG's Tax Information Product Group, where he leads a team of developers creating SGML & XML based applications and research tools. Dale has written, spoken and taught around the world on structured text application development and is a co-author of The SGML Implementation Guide (Springer, 1995).

Laura Walker

Laura Walker serves as the executive director of OASIS, where she directs the Consortium's day-to-day operations from its Boston headquarters. Walker has been involved with the electronic and internet publishing industries for over 15 years, including assignments with Honeywell, American Management Association, GTE, Intergraph, Xerox, Chrystal Software and Proxima, where she led the development of an eCommerce-based accessories business unit. From 1995-1997, Walker served as Chief Marketing Officer of OASIS. In 1998, she was named "Mobile Maven" in recognition of her contributions to mobile computing.

Norman Walsh

Norman Walsh is a member of the Engineering Group and works on both the next generation of Arbortext products and with Arbortext's consultants and customers to develop and implement the standards-based solutions that best meet their unique needs. Mr. Walsh is an active participant in several standard efforts, including the W3C Schema and XSL Working Groups, the DocBook Technical Committee of OASIS, where he is a member of the Editorial Board, and the Tables Technical Committee of OASIS, which he chairs. Prior to joining Arbortext, Norm developed online books and Web technologies for a publishing company and developed a number of large Web resources.

Simon Watts

Simon Watts is a Managing Consultant with OpenMIND Consulting (http://www.open-mind.co.uk), a provider of corporate information solutions, online publishing, web mining and risk management services. Simon is the Practice Group Leader for the Information Delivery Practice Group at OpenMIND. He acts as Project Manager on a range of development and integration projects and as Technical Architect for structured information solutions. His recent research includes extensible metadata for B2B architectures, commercial applications of digital paper and personalised product manuals. Before working at OpenMIND, Simon spent ten years as a consultant in Finance, Software and Manufacturing designing and implementing object oriented solutions and implementing structured publishing and localisation technologies.

Leszek Wawrzyniak

Leszek Wawrzyniak has been involved with industrial applications of SGML since the beginning of CALS (1980s). Recently he has managed the implementation of a number of industrial Database-Driven, SGML Authoring Systems, including Ford-Motor-Company, Rolls-Royce and Bentley Motor Cars

Dieter Weidenbrück

Dieter Weidenbrück is the founder and President of ITEDO Software, the manufacturer of the Technical Illustration package IsoDraw. He is the primary architect of the IsoDraw software program. Dieter Weidenbrück has developed a considerable experience in the field of documentation standards and is actively participating in standardization efforts concerning technical illustration. He serves as the current Secretary of the CGM Open Consortium.

Heinz Wittenbrink

Heinz Wittenbrink studied Literature, Linguistics and Philosophy in Münster, Cologne and Paris. As editor and executive editor, he was responsible for several encyclopedic works of the Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, published in print as well as on CD-ROM. He is now in charge of the encyclopedic website www.wissen.de.

Ann Wrightson

Ann Wrightson graduated in Philosophy from Cambridge, UK, in 1978, then spent the next twelve years working mainly in electronic publishing, gaining wide experience of different kinds of publications and content. From 1990 to 1998, Ann moved into academic work, and her central interest shifted from electronic publishing to Formal Methods and high-integrity systems development, especially requirements engineering. In 1998, these areas of work came together in the context of research on safety-related documentation, and since then, Ann has been once more an active member of the electronic publishing community, with her current research focusing on XML-driven Web portals and document/data integration. Ann Wrightson is married with three children, and lives in West Yorkshire, UK.

Lauren Wood

Lauren Wood is Director of Product Technology at SoftQuad Software Inc. She is a co-designer of SoftQuad Software's HTML and XML authoring tools, as well as taking part in various technical committees. She chairs the W3C Document Object Model Working Group and is on the Steering Committee for XML.org.

François Ziserman

François Ziserman is engineer at CNET (R&D laboratory of France Telecom).