W3C Standards Update

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.

Henry S. Thompson - Henry S. Thompson was a member of the SGML Working Group of the World Wide Web Consortium which designed XML, is the author of the XED, the first free XML instance 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. He currently holds a World Wide Web Consortium Fellowship, and is editor of the Structures part of the XML Schema draft W3C recommendation. He 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.