INSTRUCTOR BIOGRAPHIES

Brian Nolan, OmniMark Specialist, OmniMark Technologies Corporation

Brian Nolan is an OmniMark Specialist with a degree in engineering and a background in project management. Brian works in the Professional Services Department at OmniMark Technologies Corporation. He brings with him his experience with conversion projects, primarily converting SGML/XML to HTML and other formats. Brian has years of experience in education as an OmniMark course developer and instructor. Brian is also a web developer and OmniMark technical support representative.

Pierpaolo Fumagalli, Apache

Pier is a member of the Java Apache Project since 1997 and contributor to the Apache JServ servlet engine. He's also a PMC Member of the Jakarta Apache Project. In june 1999 he joined the IBM Center for Java Technologies in june 1999 working in the XML Technologies Group, focusing on XML publishing and related technologies. In january 2000 he joined Exoffice Technologies, where he continues his effort in writing open-source XML publication software under the Apache Software Foundation umbrella. When not behind a monitor, he enjoys feeding squirrels from his neighborhood, feeding himself and his friends with whatever he cooks and feeding his hears night clubbing in San Francisco.

Prof. Peter Murray-Rust Virtual School of Molecular Sciences, University of Nottingham, UK

PM-R has been involved with XML from the beginning, writing the first XML browser (JUMBO) and creating the XML developers list XML-DEV. He has created the Chemical Markup Language (CML) DTD and specification, and is promoting XML: in the pharmaceutical, pharmacy and chemical domains.

Paul Prescod, Consulting Engineer, ISOGEN/DataChannel

Paul Prescod is a leading researcher and implementor of document processing technologies. His formal education was in mathematics and computer science from the University of Waterloo. His research interests include formalisms for document modelling, 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 can integrate 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.

Simon St.Laurent, Book Author

Simon St. Laurent is a web developer, network administrator, computer book author, and XML troublemaker living in Ithaca, NY. His books include XML:A Primer, XML Elements of Style, Building XML Applications, and Inside XML DTDs: Scientific and Technical.

Tommie Usdin, President, Mulberry Technologies, Inc.

Ms. Usdin has been working with SGML since 1985 and with XML since 1997. She was a participant in the AAP project, which developed the first industry SGML application, and has been developing SGML and XML applications for industry and government since then. She chairs GCA's Markup Technologies conferences and co-chaired and then chaired the international SGML'XX conference (the SGML technical conference) from 1991 through 1997. Ms Usdin is co-editor of Markup Languages: Theory & Practice, a peer reviewed quarterly publication published by the MIT Press. Ms. Usdin has been an active participant in OASIS (and its predecessor SGML Open) committee work since the consortium was founded in 1994. She has spoken and taught at meetings of the Society for Technical Documentation, American Records Management Association, the SGML Forum of New York, the Mid-Atlantic SGML User Group, and the Northern California SGML Users Group, as well as at Markup Technologies, International Markup conferences, TechDoc conferences, SGML 'XX conferences, SGML Europe conferences, and SGML Asia/Pacific conferences, Association for Computing in the Humanities conferences, Association for Computing Machines conferences, Seybold conferences, SIGS XMLONE conferences, and American Society for Information Science conferences.

Debbie Lapeyre, Vice President, Mulberry Technologies, Inc.

Ms. Lapeyre has been working with SGML since 1986 and with XML since 1997. She was on the GenCode Committee (the committee whose work spawned SGML) in the 1980s. She was one of the two co-chairs of the international SGML 'XX conference (the SGML technical conference) and now Markup Technologies every year since 1991. As a senior consultant at Mulberry Technologies, Inc., Ms. Lapeyre leads document and information analysis sessions and writes and documents DTDs for publishers, industry, and government agencies. She has spoken at the SGML 'XX conferences, SGML Europe conferences, TechDoc and International Markup conferences, American Associations of University Publishers conference, Association for Computers in the Humanities conferences, and the SGML Forum of New York. She has taught seminars and let workshops at Seybold conferences, SIGS XMLONE conferences, SSP Conferences, GCA Conferences, and SGML user's group meetings. She has been active on the Tables, Fragments, and SGML Catalog technical committees of OASIS.

G. Ken Holman, Chief Technology Officer, Crane Softwrights Ltd.

Mr. G. Ken Holman is the Chief Technology Officer for Crane Softwrights Ltd., a Canadian corporation offering OmniMark programming, DSSSL and XSL/XSLT language training, and general SGML and XML related computer systems analysis services to international customers. Mr. Holman is the current Canadian chair of the ISO subcommittee responsible for the SGML family of standards, an invited expert to the W3C, the author of "Practical Transformation Using XSLT and XPath (XSL Transformations and the XML Path Language)" (ISBN 1-894049-03-9), and has often been a speaker at related conferences. Prior to establishing Crane, Mr. Holman spent over 13 years in a software development and consulting services company working in the NAPLPS and the SGML industries.

Eve Maler, Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems

As a staff engineer in Sun's new XML Technology Center, Eve Maler specializes in the development of XML-oriented standards and schemas. Previously, at Arbortext, Eve founded and led a DTD development team and helped to guide product specifications to meet open standards. Eve was a founding member of the World Wide Web Consortium's XML Working Group. She is a co-editor of the XML Linking specifications and also participates in the W3C XML Schema Working Group. Eve is co-author of Developing SGML DTDs: From Text to Model to Markup, the only book published to date on a methodology for designing DTDs. She was a long-time technical contributor to the Davenport Group, and served for several years as a maintainer of its popular DocBook DTD for software documentation. Eve holds a bachelor's of arts degree in Linguistics from Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.

Stefano Mazzochi, Student, Universita di Pavia

Stefano Mazzochi: Stefano currently studies opto-electronical engineering at the Università di Pavia, town where he also lives. He's also a member of the Apache Software Foundation and has been involved in the past two years in various Apache activities related mostly to Java and XML technologies. When he's not on a computer keyboard, he tries hard to finish up his studies (he's been "almost done" for the last two years!), he enjoys spending time with his girlfriend and playing basketball and musical instruments.

James Tauber, Director XML Technology, Bowstreet

James Tauber, Director XML Technology at Bowstreet, has been an invited expert to the W3C's XML Activity since the beginning and presently serves on the XML Core WG and XSL WG. A popular speaker and regular contributor to XML mailing lists, James also developed some of the longest-running and most highly regarded websites on XML. He is the principal developer of FOP, an open source implementation of XSL for print that is now part of the Apache XML Project.

Ricardo Rocha, Chief Architect, Exoffice

Ricardo Rocha, Chief Architect at Exoffice, is a contributor to the Cocoon Apache project, where he focuses on dynamic XML content generation. As a long-time independent software developer, Ricardo has authored dozens of tools for web publishing, scripting, code generation and database development. Also a teacher and technical writer by vocation, he has trained thousands of IT professionals in the Spanish-speaking world. He always works from home, where he divides his time among his family, his professional duties and his interest in history, linguistics and mathematics.

Henry S. Thompson, University of Edinburgh

Henry S. Thompson is a Reader in the Division of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, based in the Language Technology Group of the Human Communication Research Centre. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1980. His university education was divided between Linguistics and Computer Science, in which he holds an M.Sc. While still at Berkeley he was affiliated with the Natural Language Research Group at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, where he participated in the GUS and KRL projects. His current research is focussed on two topics: developing XML-based tools and architectures for computational linguistic and other research purposes. He was a member of the SGML Working Group of the World Wide Web Consortium which designed XML, is the author of the XED editor and co-author of the LT XML toolkit and is currently a member of the XSL and XML Schema Working Groups of the W3C and co-editor of draft XML Schema recommendation.

Michel Biezunski, Independent Consultant, Infoloom

Michel Biezunski, Ph.D., is working as an independent consultant. He is actively involved in the creation of an information industry based on XML-related technologies. He is co-editor of the ISO/IEC 13250 Topic Maps standard and is now working on topic map implementations, including software tools to create and maintain topic maps. Michel has published several proceedings of GCA conferences showing topic map navigation.

Steven R. Newcomb, President, TechnoTeacher, Inc.

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 Map paradigm, and co-editor of ISO/IEC 13250:1999, the Topic Maps information architecture. Chief Technology Director, XML Mortgage Partners, 1999-.

Lauren Wood, Softquad Software Inc.

Lauren Wood is the 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. Lauren holds a PhD in theoretical nuclear physics from the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Doug Tidwell, Senior Programmer, IBM Corporation

Doug Tidwell is a Senior Programmer at IBM. He has more than a decade of experience as a programmer and technical writer. His job as a Cyber Evangelist is to help customers and IBMers evaluate and implement XML and other new technologies. He as a Bachelor?s Degree in English from the University of Georgia, and a Master?s Degree in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University.

Neel Sundaresan, Manager, eMerging Internet Technologies, IBM Research

Neel Sundaresan is the manager of the eMerging Internet Technologies at IBM Almaden Research Center. He has been working with XML right from its inception and has led several research projects in XML tools and using XML fro Web applications. He is one of the chief architects of the Grand Central Station Project at IBM research, which has a revolutionary model for building vertical search engines and portals. He has over 25 research publications. His areas of interest include programming languages and compilers, internet technologies and applications.

Clark Cooper, Technical Director, Logic Technologies, Inc.

Clark has been in the software business for over 20 years and has used and evangelized Perl since 1991, when he used it as part of a system to parse and cross reference email for GE Aircraft Engines. In August of 1998, he took over maintenance of perl's XML::Parser module from Larry Wall, the original creator of the module. He has implemented production applications for GE and Lexis Legal Publishing using this module.

Sharon Adler, Senior Manager of the Extensible Technologies Group, IBM Research

Sharon Adler is Senior Manager of the Extensible Technologies Group at IBM Research, Hawthorne, NY. She is Co-chair of the XSL Working Group from the W3C and has worked in the area of markup standards and related style sheet standards from the ISO and W3C for more than 20 years.

Anders Berglund, Research Staff Member in Interactive Transaction Systems, IBM Research

Anders Berglund is Research Staff Member in Interactive Transaction Systems at IBM Research in Hawthorne, NY. He has been an active member in the XSL WG since its inception and is one of the major authors of the XSL FO specification. He has participated in markup and style sheet standards for more than a decade.

Mark Baker, Senior Technical Communicator, OmniMark Technologies Corporation

Mark Baker is Senior Technical Communicator for OmniMark Technologies Corporation, the makers of the OmniMark programming language. He was formerly Manager of Information Engineering Methods at Nortel. Mark has written and spoken extensively on XML, including providing the section on XML for the second edition of HTML 4 Unleashed. He is also the author of the forthcoming Internet Programming with OmniMark, which explains the use of OmniMark and XML in network programming, Web development, and e-commerce applications.

Don Box, co-founder, DevelopMentor

Don Box is a co-founder of DevelopMentor, a component software think tank that educates the software industry in COM, Java, and XML development practices. Don wrote the Addison-Wesley book Essential COM, and co-authored the follow-up title, Effective COM, also from Addison-Wesley. Don is currently working on Essential XML for publication in early 2000. Don writes the COM column for MSJ and is a contributing editor for MSJ and MicrosoftInternet Developer.