C. M. Sperberg-McQueen

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C. M. Sperberg-McQueen - C.M. Sperberg-McQueen is a member of the technical staff at the World Wide Web Consortium; with Dave Hollander he co-chairs both the XML Schema Working Group and the XML Coordination Group. Before that he worked for twelve years in the Academic Computer Center of the University of Illinois at Chicago, and for two years at Princeton University, where he served as a consultant for humanities computing questions. He is also a co-coordinator (with David R. Chesnutt), of the Model Editions Partnership, and holds an adjunct position at the University of Bergen (Norway).

He has a Ph.D. in comparative literature but strayed into computing as a graduate student and never came back out. He has served as co-editor of the Text Encoding Initiative's Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange (1994), and of the W3C Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 specification.

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• W3C Standards Update