Greetings XML 2005 conference presenter or tutorial instructor. The following links will provide you with up to date information regarding your speaking or teaching engagement at XML 2005.
This page (and the rest of the conference web site) should give you all the information you need to make your presentation at XML 2005 a success.
I will be your event liaison, so please feel free to contact me directly at:
Marion Elledge, Conference Director
melledge@idealliance.org
+1 251 432-3766
The conference takes place November 14-18, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, at the Hilton Atlanta Hotel.
The call for participation is now open at the submission site. All submissions must be made via this web site; we cannot track email or phone submissions, nor pass them on to the reviewers for review and grading. Submissions need to include an abstract (up to 500 words), keywords and an estimate of the level of technical knowledge required of the attendee. We welcome submissions at all levels; many of the conference attendees are experts in their fields, while many are new to some areas of XML.
CONFERENCE SCHEMA & GUIDELINES:
As indicated in the letter of invitation, a presentation paper is REQUIRED. The Conference Schema & Guidelines and authoring tools are available.
PROCEEDINGS PAPER SUBMISSION DETAILS:
Individual Presentation Codes
Each presentation has been assigned a number or presentation code. This code must be used when submitting your Proceedings papers.
Keywords
A list of keywords has been provided to assist you when creating your Proceedings papers.
Authoring Tools to Help Create Proceedings PaperA number of customizations for various XML authoring tools have been provided to assist you when creating your Proceedings papers.
Online Proceedings Paper Submission/Validation Form
We have developed an online Proceedings paper submission/validation form. All presenters need to use this form when submitting their Proceedings papers. Deadline again for the Proceedings papers is September 16, 2005.
IDEAlliance's NONEXCLUSIVE PUBLICATION AGREEMENT & LICENSE:
Please sign and return IDEAlliance's Nonexclusive Publication Agreement & License - Policy 2003-23. The form must be faxed to 703-837-1072 - attention Dave Kunkel - by September 30, 2005. If you have any questions, please contact Marion Elledge at melledge@idealliance.org.
PRESENTATION SLIDES:
All presenters should forward a copy of their presentation slides directly to Dave Kunkel at dkunkel@idealliance.org. All slides will be made available for registered conference attendees online. Please submit your slides in one of the following formats:
Please zip your slides and send to dkunkel@idealliance.org, or email him with a URL from which he can easily pick up the slides. If you have any questions regarding your slides, please contact Dave Kunkel directly. All slides are due no later than November 18.
You may wish to consider creating the slideshow presentation in XML. There are a number of systems that various XML experts have put together, which are freely available, and may meet your needs as well as commercial non-XML-based systems. A (probably partial) list of such tools is to be found at http://www.mulberrytech.com/walkthewalk.html.
PRESENTATION TIPS:
A number of helpful presentation tips have been provided to assist you with your presentation.
REGISTRATION:
One primary presenter per presentation will receive a complimentary conference pass to attend November 15-17. IDEAlliance will be automatically registering those presenters and you will receive a confirmation email. Additional presenters will receive a 50% discount off the appropriate member/non member conference prices. Please note this does not apply to the academic rate or tutorials. Additional presenters must register directly using the online registration form when it becomes available.
HOTEL INFORMATION:
A special conference rate has been arranged at the conference hotel, with a reservation cut-off date of October 21, 2005. Please note that reservations after this date may not be possible and will be offered on a space availability basis. For more details please see the HOTEL/VENUE information page.
AUDIO VISUAL EQUIPMENT:
Each conference track room will include the following standard equipment: one computer projection unit, one screen and microphones. If using the computer projection unit, please remember that you are responsible for supplying the computer. Macintosh and Windows laptops with resolution 800x600, 1024x768, and 1280x768 will automatically be supported. If you wish to use a different operating system or resolution, please let us know so we can make sure the AV company is prepared. Please update your audio visual information in the Submission Site.
PRESENTATION LOGISTICS:
The program is divided up into 6 tracks throughout the three days. Each session on any particular day is then divided up into two 45 minute talks (35 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for Q&A). Both presenters in a given session should be present 10 minutes before the start of that session regardless of who speaks first. (This is to allow for an audiovisual check and an easy transition between presenters.) In addition, we ask that the presenter who speaks first in a session remain present throughout the remainder of the second talk in that session.
All presentations will take place at the conference hotel, the Hilton Atlanta Hotel.
PUBLICITY:
We encourage all presenters to send out notices regarding their presentation to any relevant press or mailing lists. We have found it to be beneficial to both the presenter and the event. In addition, please consider the following:
Link your company's web site to the conference web site. Banner Ads are now available for this purpose.
Forward any related press releases/announcements to the event webmaster - Dave Kunkel - dkunkel@idealliance.org. We will load them on the event site.
Please use the string "XMLConf2005" in any folksonomy applications such as blogging.
We look forward to seeing you in Atlanta, GA!
Marion Elledge, Conference Director
This page (and the rest of the conference web site) should give you all the information you need to make your tutorial at XML 2005 a success.
I will be your event liaison, so please feel free to contact me directly at:
Marion Elledge, Conference Director
melledge@idealliance.org
+1 251 432-3766
The conference takes place November 14-18, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, at the Hilton Atlanta Hotel.
The call for participation is now open at the submission site. All submissions must be made via this web site; we cannot track email or phone submissions, nor pass them on to the reviewers for review and grading. Submissions need to include an abstract (up to 500 words), keywords and an estimate of the level of technical knowledge required of the attendee. We welcome submissions at all levels; many of the conference attendees are experts in their fields, while many are new to some areas of XML.
Tutorial handouts are REQUIRED. All tutorial instructors are asked to provide a FULL tutorial handout for each of their respective tutorials. Please remember NOT to use dark background colors and to allow enough space for binding.
As a format for printing, we prefer PDF, set for letter-size paper, with embedded fonts and graphics. If PDF is not possible, please use one of 1) Power Point, 2) HTML (including all stylesheets), 3) SVG, or 4) StarOffice or OpenOffice Presentation. Please send your handouts in a zip file to Dave Kunkel at dkunkel@idealliance.org, or send him a URL where he can pick up the handouts easily. If you have any questions regarding your handouts, please contact Dave directly.
Note that if your handouts are not received by October 3rd, it will be your responsibility to duplicate, bind, and ship the handouts to the venue. IDEAlliance will not be able to duplicate handouts onsite.
All tutorial instructors will receive a complimentary conference pass to attend the conference November 15-17. IDEAlliance will be automatically registering tutorial instructors. Your official registration confirmation will be sent via email once you have been registered. Please note that this complimentary registration does not apply to tutorials other than your own tutorial. If you would like to attend an additional tutorial, please register for that additional tutorial directly with the online registration form when available.
A special conference rate has been arranged at the conference hotel, with a reservation cut-off date of October 21, 2005. Please note that reservations after this date may not be possible and will be offered on a space availability basis. For more details please see the HOTEL/VENUE information page.
Each conference tutorial room will include the following standard equipment: one computer projection unit, one screen and microphones. If using the computer projection unit, please remember that you are responsible for supplying the computer. Macintosh and Windows laptops with resolution 800x600, 1024x768, and 1280x768 will automatically be supported. If you wish to use a different operating system or resolution, please let us know so we can make sure the AV company is prepared. Please update your audio visual information in the Submission Site.
All tutorials will take place either on Monday, November 14th between the hours of 9:00am - 5:30pm or Friday, November 18th between the hours of 9:00am - 12:30pm. Coffee breaks are scheduled at 10:30am and 3:30pm on Monday and 10:30am on Friday. The tutorial luncheon on Monday is scheduled to run from 12:30pm - 2:00pm. Please take the breaks into account when deciding on your tutorial schedule. Please be in the meeting room at least 15 minutes before the tutorial begins to check the audio visual setup. Please contact Marion if you have any questions - melledge@idealliance.org.
All presentations will take place at the conference hotel, the Hilton Atlanta Hotel.
We encourage all presenters to send out notices regarding their presentation to any relevant press or mailing lists. We have found it to be beneficial to both the presenter and the event. In addition, please consider the following:
Link your company's web site to the conference web site. We will have banner images available for this purpose.
Forward any related press releases/announcements to the event webmaster - Dave Kunkel - dkunkel@idealliance.org. We will load them on the event site.
Please use the string "XMLConf2005" in any folksonomy applications such as blogging.
We look forward to seeing you in Atlanta, GA!
Marion Elledge, Conference DirectorProduct pitches are not acceptable from the podium, except within the "Product Presentation Track". Product Presentations will be specifically highlighted to introduce a product or provide a product demo.
Stay on Track -- Attendees will be coming to see your talk based on the submitted abstract, and perhaps having seen the written paper. Please keep this in mind - and DO NOT change what you were originally scheduled to talk about.
Make sure your slides are readable from the back of the room. There is no limit to the number of slides you can use, so don't try to cram too much onto one.
Don't whisper. Even though you will have a microphone, please continue to speak loudly and clearly. This will help everyone understand what you say during your presentation. Also, remember not to speak too fast. Sometimes speaking just a little more slowly can make all the difference.
Be interested in what you're presenting. If you sound bored, your audience will be bored, no matter how thrilling the subject of the talk may be.
Explain all acronyms (well, maybe not "XML"). Some members of the audience may have never heard them before. You want to make sure everyone is clear about what you are discussing. This will help.
Try to anticipate questions and be prepared with answers. The session chair (except in tutorial rooms) will have questions, even if nobody else does! Don't be defensive with the answers; people are usually just trying to understand what you said and how you got there.
Another web site listing additional presentation tips:
The Conference schema is a subset of DocBook. All proceedings papers must validate against this DocBook subset to be accepted by the proceedings paper submission procedure. The processing that we do to the papers to create the HTML and PDF (and perhaps other versions) depends on the papers all conforming to this schema.
The conference schema is available in three schema languages: DTD, RELAX NG and W3C Schema. Should there be discrepancies between them (which are not expected), the DTD is the normative version. Please let us know of any discrepancies, or any bugs in the files.
There are three zip files which contain relevant files:
Images for inclusion in the proceedings paper must be in one of
the formats JPG, GIF, PNG, SVG, or SVGZ. The rendered size of
the images must be smaller than 7" (17.5cm) wide by 9" (23cm) high,
or 600 pixels wide by 800 pixels high. The imagedata element allows three ways to size your images; please see the DocBook
documentation at imagedata for
details. Images that are larger than allowed may be sent back to the
author for resizing, automatically scaled down in size, or
clipped.
Papers should be at least 2000 words long. Longer papers are welcome; generally at least 2500 words are needed to adequately cover the subject matter. Each presentation will be assigned a number or presentation code. This code must be used when submitting your XML papers. We expect a number of authoring tool vendors to create customized tools and will post these as they become available.
The conference organizers are pleased to present this list of vendors who are making their authoring tools available for speakers to author proceedings according to the conference schema (a subset of DocBook, please see Conference Schema and Guidelines). We hope that you will take this opportunity to try out the tools and let the vendors know you appreciate their support. Please note that the conference organisers are not able to give you technical support for these tools; you will have to contact the tool providers for this.
Altova is pleased to offer our powerful, FREE XML content editor, Authentic® 2005, to XML 2005 conference authors.
You can simply compose your paper using the straightforward word-processor style WYSIWYG Authentic® 2005 interface, and your content is automatically written to a valid XML document behind the scenes. Altova Authentic® 2005 is available free-of-charge, and you may download it at: http://www.altova.com/download_authentic.html.
We have created a special template that will allow you to use Authentic® 2005 Desktop Edition to write your paper in accordance with the XML 2005 Conference ideadb schema. Please email christina.tramontozzi@altova.com, and we will send you the template for no charge.
Authentic® 2005 is supported on Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, and Windows XP.
Arbortext is pleased to provide a copy of its enterprise publishing software to this year's XML 2005 conference presenters. Epic Editor provides an easy-to-use, intuitive interface for creating, editing and revising XML and SGML content for delivery to multiple types of media. Epic Editor supports author collaboration and internal review/approval processes through the ability to track changes to both text and markup.
To request a copy of Epic Editor, conference authors should send an email to bea@arbortext.com. Please be sure to include a complete street mailing address and phone number.
Minimum system requirements are:
If you have any questions about the Epic editor, please contact Beth Ambaruch directly.
XMetaL is pleased to provide a copy of its XMetaL Author software to XML conference 2005 presenters and authors.
Built for maximum ease of use, XMetaL Author allows users to create valid XML content with confidence without knowing any XML. XMetaL Author generates consistently high-quality content for multi-channel use and fulfills strict accuracy and timeliness requirements, and features the most powerful, easiest-to-use capabilities available.
Please visit www.xmetal.com/conference to receive your copy.
If you have any questions, please email Tom Magliery at mag@blastradius.com.
DocSoft is proud to support XML 2005 by supplying a free copy of W2XML to each presenter. W2XML will convert your presentation paper in Word format to the Conference Schema XML provided you use the Word template provided by the conference.
System Requirements:
Please visit http://www.docsoft.com/xml05.htm for full instructions. If you have any problems using the template or the system, please email info@docsoft.com for assistance.
Philip Mansfield created style sheets (XSLT and CSS) for the XML 2004 conference which are used for the preview. These stylesheets are still valid for the 1.3 version of the schema being used this year. The package is unsupported. Please note the conditions of use that are given in the files.
RenderX will be using XEP, our XML to PDF technology, in the production of the conference proceedings this year. We are pleased to offer all XML 2005 conference authors a free personal copy of XEP for their use. Please visit http://www.renderx.com/download/personal.html and request your license key. Be sure to include your correct e-mail address and use "XML 2005" as the organization. You will receive a license key and download instructions for the software via e-mail.
RenderX will also provide direct support for installation and use, including getting additional tools like our hot directory application and the conference schema configured. For any help you need, just e-mail kevin@renderx.com or call Kevin Brown at (650) 327-1000 during our normal business hours 8am-6pm Pacific, M-F.
Syntext is glad to provide Serna for the XML 2005 conference authors.
To request a fully functional copy of Syntext Serna conference authors should fill the trial form: http://cms.syntext.com/trial-request. If the authors need to extend the trial period over the standard 1 month or have a request for support, they should send an e-mail to support@syntext.com with the license number and mention their participation in the conference.
Serna runs on the following platforms: Windows 2000/XP, Linux, Mac OS X 10.3.2 or later.
For details see:
http://www.syntext.com/products/serna/index.htm
Completed XML papers must be submitted via the presenter database by September 16, 2005 for inclusion in the our online proceedings site. A link to the proceedings paper submission/validation form can be found on the index page once you've logged in to the presenter database.
All submissions MUST be in XML in either Unicode or ASCII and validate according to the Conference Schema and Guidelines. The XML paper may not have a UTF-8 BOM (Byte Order Mark). The filename must end in .xml. For cross-platform compatibility, file names for the XML document and supporting images must be less than 31 characters long. They may contain only ASCII letters, digits, the underscore (_), and hyphen (-) characters. One period (.) is permitted as the separation character between the file type and the rest of the file name. In particular, spaces are not permitted in file names.
Images for inclusion in the proceedings paper must be in one of the formats BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG, SVG, or SVGZ. The rendered size of the images must be smaller than 7" (17.5cm) wide by 9" (23cm) high, or 600 pixels wide by 800 pixels high. The imagedata element allows three ways to size your images; please see the DocBook documentation at imagedata for details. Images that are larger than allowed may be sent back to the author for resizing, automatically scaled down in size, or clipped.
Papers should be at least 2000 words long. Longer papers are welcome; generally at least 2500 words are needed to adequately cover the subject matter.
Once the paper has been submitted to the website, you will have the chance to preview an HTML rendering of your paper. If you wish to check the rendering before submitting, you can use the same stylesheets, available in the authoring tools page.
Each XML 2005 presentation has been assigned an individual presentation code. Presenters who are submitting papers for multiple presentations, please do not submit more than one paper under the same presentation code.
See presentation code list (by author last name).
Any questions can be directed to dkunkel@idealliance.org
Here is a list of keywords for you to use when writing your paper. You are, of course, not limited to these keywords, but we would appreciate it if you could use the words from this list that are applicable to your paper. In addition, please send us a list of keywords that you will be including that do not appear on the list.
The proceedings will define the acronyms in the keyword list.
When using product names in the keyword list, please add the company name as well.
List of Keywords:
| AI Application architecture Archive ASN.1 Authoring break-even analysis Browser Business process CALS Case Studies Catalog Certification CGM Change Management CJK Conformance Conformance testing Content conversion Content Management Content Model Conversion Content Repurposing CORBA CSS Custom Publishing DAML Data interchange Data representation Database Datatypes Deployment Design Digital Signatures Distributed Systems DocBook Document Creation Documentation DOM DSDL DTD Dublin Core E-business E-Government ebXML eCommerce EDI EdiFact Editor Education Effectivity Electronic Publishing Encoding Enterprise applications Enterprise Content Management Finance FOSI FpML Fragment Full-text Functional Programming GPRS Graphic Groves GUI Handheld device Hardcopy Healthcare HTML HTTP binding Hypergraphs ICE Identifier IDL IETM Integration Internet Interoperability |
ISO 13250 ISO Reference Model J2EE Connector Architecture Java JavaScript JAXP JDBC JSP JXTA Knowledge Management Legacy Data Conversion Legal publishing Markup Metadata Middleware MIDI Mobile MSXML Multimedia Namespaces OCR OIL Online Help Ontology Patents PKI Portal Printing Publishing Python Query language RDDL RDF Relational database RELAX NG Repository RTF SAX Schema Search Semantic Web SGML SOAP SQL Structure Stylesheet SVG TEI Topic Maps Transaction UBL UDDI UML Unicode Validation W3C XML Schema Web Services WebCGM WSDL WWW XBRL xCBL XCSL XForms XHTML XLink XMI XML XML Publishing XML-RPC XPath XPointer XQuery XSL-FO XSLT XTM |
Presentation code is listed in ( ) after the presenter's company name.
a-b-c-d-e-f-g-h-i-j-k-l-m-n-o-p-q-r-s-t-u-v-w-x-y-z
Alschuler, Liora - alschuler.spinosa (235)
Antonov, Paul G. - Syntext, Inc. (204)
Ariola, Wayne - Parasoft Corporation (234)
Aymond, Patti - IEM, Inc. (119)
Bals, Klaas - Inventive Designers (1)
Beck, Jeff - National Center for Biotechnology Information (159)
Belkhir, Lotfi - Kirtas Technologies Inc. (213)
Benedetto, Chris - RosettaNet (184)
Beuchelt, Gerald - Sun Microsystems, Inc. (178)
Borenstein, Joram - Unicorn Solutions (39)
Bosak, Jon - Sun Microsystems, Inc. (254)
Bourret, Ronald - rpbourret.com (58)
Boyer, John - IBM Corporation (74)
Brase, Jan - Research center L3S (45)
Bray, Tim - Sun Microsystems, Inc. (175)
Brown, Alex - Griffin Brown Digital Publishing Ltd. (104)
Brun, Mikkel - Danish National IT and Telecom Agency (73)
Buehling, Brian - Dakota Systems (122)
Cagle, Kurt A - Author: Metaphorical Web (203)
Campbell, Dave - Microsoft Corporation (15)
Champion, Michael - Microsoft (189 - Efficient XML)
Champion, Michael - Microsoft (181 - The PC's PI Guide...)
Champion, Michael - Microsoft (135 - Integrating Messaging...)
Chaudhuri, Neil - LMI Government Consulting (77)
Coates, Anthony - London Market Systems (6)
Cokus, Michael - The MITRE Corporation (86)
Connolly, Dan - W3C (236)
Cornelius, Gary - CSW Group Ltd (43)
Cummings, David - Hannon Hill Corporation (109)
Damodaran, Suresh - Sterling Commerce (61)
Darugar, Parand - Yahoo Inc. (209)
Derrick, John - Conformative Systems (110)
DuCharme, Bob - LexisNexis (29 - Automated mass production...)
DuCharme, Bob - LexisNexis (30 - Your schema...)
FitzGerald, Adam - BEA Systems (27)
Foster, Howard - Imperial College London (38)
Fox, Joshua - Unicorn Solutions Inc. (39)
Gabriel, Jim - digitalML Ltd. (48)
Germann, Ryan - Exegenix (219)
Glushko, Robert - School of Information Management and Systems (34)
Graham, Tony - Sun Microsystems, Inc. (244)
Gregorio, Joe - BitWorking, Inc (21)
Hadley, Marc J. - Sun Microsystems, Inc. (198)
Hamby, Steve - Software AG (117)
Hammond, Richard - USEPA (157)
Harris, Steve - Oracle Corporation (16)
Hendler, Jim - University of Maryland (13)
Hiura, Hideki - Justsystem Inc (218)
Holland, Lucian - DecisionSoft Ltd (95)
Holman, Ken - Crane Softwrights Ltd. (18)
Horst, Ed - AmberPoint (127)
Hu, Michael - Police Information Technology Organization (155)
Hunter, Jason - Mark Logic Corporation (128)
Jones, Brian - Microsoft Corporation (11)
Kaempfer, Gideon - SilverKite (55)
Kelly, Kevin - IBM (47)
Krug, Kristopher - Bryght (255)
La Fontaine, Robin - DeltaXML Ltd. (102)
Lammel, Ralf - Microsoft (49)
Laskey, Kenneth - The MITRE Corporation (78)
Lee, David - Epocrates Inc. (172)
Lenkov, Dmitry - Oracle (150)
Letz, Stefan - IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH (126)
Leventhal, Michael - Tarari, Inc. (252 - 2005: The Year...)
Little, Mark - Arjuna Technologies Ltd. (54)
Lubell, Joshua - National Institute of Standards and Technology (84)
Makita, Toshihiko - Antenna House, Ina Branch. (62)
Maler, Eve - Sun Microsystems, Inc. (177)
Malloy, Mary Ann - The MITRE Corporation (93)
Marks, Mano - Center for Document Engineering (167)
Mathews, Bob - Design Science, Inc. (17)
Megginson, David - Megginson Technologies Ltd. (12)
Meijer, Erik - Microsoft WebData XML (63)
Melton, Jim - Oracle Corp. (185)
Meyer, Peter W. - Elkera Pty Limited (222)
Millar, Derek - Newbook Production Inc. (106)
Milowski, Alex - Center for Document Engineering, UC Berkeley (148)
Nash, Andrew - Reactivity (210)
Niemann, Brand - US EPA (145)
O'Neill, Mark - Vordel (90)
Orrin, Steve - Sarvega, Inc. (92)
Parikh, Ash - Raining Data Corporation (199)
Parker, Daniel - Economic Technolgy, Inc. (133)
Parsons, Jon - XyEnterprise (105 - Extending the Use of XML...)
Parsons, Jon - XyEnterprise (225 - XML Authoring...)
Patel, Rima - Sun Microsystems, Inc. (107)
Pawloski, David - SOA Software (227)
Perkins, Eric - IBM (136)
Picciano, Robert - IBM Corporation (14)
Piez, Wendell - Mulberry Technologies, Inc. (160)
Prescod, Paul - Blast Radius Inc. (239 - DITA, Documentation...)
Prescod, Paul - Blast Radius Inc. (241- Introduction to DITA)
Rabuchin, Steve - Amazon (10)
Raghavachari, Mukund - IBM Corporation (215)
Richards, Lisa - Propylon USA (176)
Robie, Jonathan W. - DataDirect Technologies (238)
Rollman, Rich - AgileDelta, Inc. (163)
Rose, Kristoffer - IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center (80)
Ruby, Sam - IBM Corporation (223)
Sall, Kenneth - SAIC (71)
Schneider, John - AgileDelta, Inc. (164)
Senellart, Pierre - SYSTRAN S.A / INRIA Futurs (81)
Sengupta, Ph.D., Soumitra - Microsoft Corporation (247)
Severson, Eric - Flatirons Solutions (134)
Silver, Jerry - Blast Radius Inc. (149 - XML For the Masses...)
Silver, Jerry - Blast Radius Inc. (162 - Reaching New Levels...)
Sperberg-McQueen, C. M. - World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (166)
Stayton, Bob - Sagehill Enterprises (7)
Storey, Phil - Datawatch Corporation (202)
Tanglao, Roland - Bryght (152)
Tao, Sandy - National Library of Medicine (196)
Thompson, Henry - University of Edinburgh (82)
Thompson, Henry - University of Edinburgh (243 - Functional XML...)
Tidd, Bryan - City of Canton (228)
Usdin, B. Tommie - Mulberry Technologies, Inc. (229)
Vale, Don - Astoria Software Inc. (248)
Van der Linden, Robbert C - IBM Corporation (123)
Vishik, Claire - Sterling Commerce (25)>
Waldt, Dale - aXtive Minds (59 - XML Initiatives in Pharma)
Waldt,
Dale - aXtive Minds (256 - Extensible Manifesto)
Walsh, Norman - Sun Microsystems, Inc. (2)
Wang, Jinyu - Oracle Corporation (57)
Watt, Stephen - University of Western Ontario (140)
Wilson, Yvonne - Sun Microsystems, Inc. (154)
Winn, Jane - University of Washington School of Law (115)
Wrightson, Ann - CSW Group Ltd (40)
Adlam, Marc - Director, SOA Program Office, Oracle Corporation, USA
Marc Adlam
is a 10-year Oracle veteran focused exclusively on SOA. In addition to his work
on making customers successful in their journey toward SOA, Marc also represents
Oracle as a Voting Member in the OASIS Technical Committee for SOA Adoption
Blueprints. A graduate of Georgetown University, he lives in San Diego with
his wife and two children.
Adler, Sharon - Senior Manager, IBM Corporation, USA
Senior Manager, IBM Research, and Idealliance Board Member.
Ahuja, Ravi - DB2 Strategy Manager, IBM Information
Management Software, IBM Corporation, USA
Bio coming soon.
Alschuler, Liora - Consultant, alschuler.spinosa, USA
Liora Alschuler is a developer of XML-based standards for electronic healthcare
information and a consultant in their application for providers and system vendors.
She is Co-chair, HL7 Structured Documents Technical Committee responsible for
HL7's Clinical Document Architecture (CDA), the first national standard for
healthcare based on XML. As a project manager in 1997, she brought together
and worked with the group that produced the Kona Architecture, adopted by HL7
as the basis for the CDA. Liora also Co-chairs the HL7 Board-appointed Marketing
Committee. She designed and managed the HL7 HIMSS Interoperability Demo 1999-2003
and the healthcare track for the ebXML Proof of Concept in 2001. Liora wrote
ABCD... SGML: A User's Guide to Structured Information, in 1995, and since that
time has written and presented worldwide on SGML, XML and healthcare information
exchange. Together with her consulting partner, John Spinosa, MD, Ph.D., she
has developed product strategies for healthcare vendors and providers based
on an XML document architecture.
Ambur, Owen - Co-Chair, XML Community of Practice (xmlCoP), USA
Owen Ambur co-founded and co-chairs the CIO Council's (CIOC) XML Community of
Practice (xmlCoP), whose activities are documented at http://xml.gov. He also
manages the CIOC's emerging technology life-cycle management process, hosted
at http://et.gov/ He is a former vice chair and currently serves as a friend
of the board of directors of the Federal Information and Records Managers Council
(FIRM), a voluntary association of Federal information and records managers.
Nearly half of his 32-year career in Federal service was spent on Capitol Hill,
culminating as legislative director and chief of staff to Senator James Abdnor
(R-SD). Subsequently, for more than seven years Owen served as Congressional
liaison for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, where he directed the legislative
program of the agency and implemented an electronic document management system
in support of the program. The success and usefulness of that system led to
his current assignment in the Division of Information Technology Management.
Owen's undergraduate majors were psychology and sociology. He has done graduate
work in psychology and holds a masters degree in computer systems management.
He is a widely recognized expert in Extensible Markup Language (XML) and electronic
records management. Many of his academic pursuits are documented on his personal
home page at http://users.erols.com/ambur. He has been awarded recognition for
technology leadership by the U.S. federal CIO Council. His current research
focuses on why people, particularly those in positions of power, may not wish
to have good records. His ongoing series of papers on that topic is available
at http://mysite.verizon.net/ambur/index.html#recordkeeping
Antonov, Paul - CEO, Syntext, Inc., USA
Paul Antonov is a founder and CEO of Syntext Inc., which was established in
1999. Before that he headed the Engineering/Network Operations at Demos Co.,
historically the first and by then the largest Russian ISP. Paul was the first
Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert in the ex-USSR.
Ariola, Wayne - Vice President of Corporate Development,
Parasoft Corporation, USA
Bio coming soon.
Aymond, Patti - Senior Scientist, IEM, Inc., USA
Dr. Patti Iles Aymond is a Senior Scientist for Innovative Emergency Management,
Inc. (IEM). She has guided the design, development, and use of large-scale simulation
systems, such as IEM's revolutionary integrated protective action simulation
system, QEM-World™. The design basis of QEM-World™ is Dr. Aymond's
specialized general search tree that yields unparalleled storage and search
performance. She also designed the Simulation Control object of the QEM-World™
traffic simulation model. Dr. Aymond served as design coordinator for Phase
I of IEM's D-2 Puff-a chemical weapons dispersion model that IEM is extending
with enhanced capability for the Soldier Biological and Chemical Command (SBCCOM).
In addition, Dr. Aymond developed the plan for bringing D2-Puff into DoD High
Level Architecture (HLA) compliance. Dr. Aymond was the Project Leader for a
project for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to develop an automated
tool for updating global population information, in the effort to reduce collateral
effects of military actions. Dr. Aymond was the Senior Design Architect for
an analysis support tool developed as part of IEM's Chemical and Biological
Warfare Defense Study, conducted for DTRA. She designed the architecture, prototype,
functional design specification, and database for IEM's Domestic Anthrax Model.
Dr. Aymond holds both a PhD and BS in Computer Science from Louisiana State
University. She is a member of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured
Information Standards (OASIS) Emergency Management Technical Committee, the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and Society for Industrial
and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
Bals, Klaas - Chief Technology Officer, Inventive
Designers, Belgium
Klaas Bals studied Computer Science at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He
is a member of the W3C XSL Working Group and the W3C XForms Working Group. He
is Chief Technology Officer of Inventive Designers. He is responsible for Scriptura
XBOS, a document design, generation, delivery and forms solution using XSL-FO
and XForms, including the WYSIWYG designer.
Beck, Jeff - Technical Information Specialist, National
Center for Biotechnology Information, NLM, USA
Mr. Beck works on the PubMed Central and NLM BookShelf projects at the National
Library of Medicine managing the flow of journal and textbook content. He has
been working with XML at NLM for 3 years. He has an editorial background, and
his previous (relevant) experience includes print production and online production
for journals and textbooks.
Belkhir, Lotfi - CEO, Kirtas Technologies Inc,
USA
Lotfi Belkhir brings more than two decades of experience in research, development,
and management to his role as CEO of Kirtas Technologies, Inc. In 2001, Lotfi
founded Kirtas with the vision of digitizing information from bound documents,
achieving an unprecedented level of speed, accuracy, and quality. At Kirtas,
Lotfi oversees the management and implementation of the company's revolutionary
automatic bookscanning technology, which is redefining digitization and information
sharing in the marketplace. In his career, Lotfi has held key positions at Xerox
Corporation facilities in New York, Connecticut, and California. While at Xerox
PARC, Lotfi negotiated the exclusive license to key book scanning technology.
Lotfi holds a Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics from the State University of
New York at Stony Brook, and an MBA in Management of Technology from National
Technology University. For more information on Kirtas, please visit www.kirtas-tech.com.
Benedetto, Chris - Senior Director, Industry
Development, RosettaNet, USA
Bio coming soon.
Beuchelt, Gerald - Web Services Architect, Sun
Microsystems, Inc., USA
Gerald Beuchelt is a Web Services Architect in the Chief Technologist's Offices
Business Alliance group. He is focusing on advanced web services and security
technology and their application, with an in-depth focus on standards and Microsoft
interoperability. Before, Gerald was an Infrastructure Services Specialist in
CTO's Competitive Strategy Group. He joined the CSG in 2000. Since then he has
worked on operating systems, middleware software including Java and .NET, and
security, specifically in Microsoft product related areas. In this function,
he worked closely with Sun Legal. Prior to that, he worked for Sun Microsystems
Deutschland (Germany) as a Senior Systems Engineer, most recently taking the
lead in orchestrating technical support for large sales projects.Before joining
Sun, Gerald worked as a lead network architect and system administrator in ITP
and IGM, Cologne, Germany, and as a freelance writer for two major German computer
periodicals.Gerald recently submitted two invention disclosures to the Sun Patent
Office and contributed to numerous field and engineering education summits.
He also authored and co-authored various competitive white papers on Active
Directory.Education: * BS Physics 1994, Ludwig-Maximillian-Universität,
Munich * MS Mathematical Physics 1997, Albertus Magnus Universität zu Köln,
Cologne
Borenstein, Joram - Director of Marketing,
Unicorn Solutions, USA
Joram Borenstein serves as Director of Marketing at Unicorn Solutions (www.unicorn.com).
His previous experience includes managing the rollout of content management
software platforms. He has written and lectured extensively semantics, ontologies,
Web services, and grid technologies.
Bourret, Ronald - Researcher, rpbourret.com, USA
Ronald Bourret is a consultant, writer, and researcher, specializing in how
XML and databases work together. He has worked in the software industry since
1982 and his experience includes five years as a contractor at Microsoft, where
he co-wrote the ODBC and OLE-DB manuals, and two years at the Technical University
of Darmstadt in Germany, where he did research on XML and databases.His XML
work includes XML-DBMS, a set of Java packages for transferring data between
XML documents and relational databases, several widely read papers on XML and
databases, the XML Namespaces FAQ, and an XML schema language (DDML).He has
lectured on XML and databases at both commercial and academic conferences and
has contributed articles to XML.com.
Boyer, John - Senior Product Architect, IBM Corporation,
Canada
John Boyer is a Senior Product Architect and Research Scientist at IBM Corporation.
Since 1993, John has worked to design and implement a platform for secure and
robust web applications based on precise, dynamic, XML-based electronic forms.John
has co-authored or edited numerous W3C Recommendations, including XML Signatures,
XML Canonicalization and Exclusive Canonicalization, XPath Filtering, and XForms
1.0. He is currently a co-editor of XForms 1.0 Second Edition and XForms 1.1.In
2001, John earned his Ph.D. in theoretical computer science University of Victoria,
Canada). He has published numerous journal, conference, and professional papers
on topics ranging from algorithmics and computer security to XML-related technologies.
Brase, Jan - Research coordinator, Research center
L3S, Germany
Jan Brase was a researcher at the Information Systems Department of the university
of Hannover in Germany since 1999 and is now working for the L3S-center for
innovative learning technologies.He graduated in Mathematics at the university
of Hannover in 1999.He research background is metadata, ontologies and digital
libraries.He wrote the first german version of the Metadata standard LOM by
the LTSC/IEEE in 2000 and co-worked on the realization of the RDF-binding of
LOM in 2003.Since his Ph.D. in 2005 Jan is coordinating the research issues
in the field digital libraries for the German National Library for Science and
Technology (TIB), a member of the L3S.In that context he is technical advising
the DOI-registration of scientific content and learning objects at the TIB.
Bray, Tim - Director of Web Technologies, Sun Microsystems,
Inc., Canada
Tim Bray has been in the software profession since 1981. In 1987 he managed
the New Oxford English Dictionary Project. In 1989 he co-founded Open Text Corporation.
In 1995 he built one of the first popular commercial Web Search Engines. In
1996-99, as an Invited Expert at the W3C, he co-invented XML and XML Namespaces.
He is the author of Bonnie, a filesystem benchmark widely used in the Linux
community and Lark, the world's first conformant XML processor. In 1999 he founded
Antarcti.ca Systems Inc. He currently works for Sun Microsystems.
Brown, Alex - Technical Director, Griffin Brown
Digital Publishing Ltd., UK
Alex first became interested in structured markup when analysing literary texts
for his doctorate (on early Shakespeare editions) in the late 1980s. Following
this he worked as a developer on heavily object-oriented C++ application framework
for cross-platform multimedia publishing, at the height of the CD-ROM boom.
In 1997 Alex was one of the founding directors of Griffin Brown Digital Publishing
Ltd, a UK-based company providing XML-based services and products. He is responsible
for leading the company's XML consulting and implementation, and his work includes
advising clients on XML/IT strategy and practice, mentoring clients' staff,
writing DTDs and Schemas, and designing and developing XML software systems
in C++, Java and other languages. In 2002, Alex was invited to join the British
Standards Institute (BSI) Technical Committee IST/41, where he contributes to
ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 in its formation of the DSDL ISO standard, among other things.
Alex writes and speaks regularly on structured markup technologies and their
application to information management.
Brun, Mikkel - Chief consultant, Danish National
IT and Telecom Agency, Denmark
Mr. Mikkel Hippe Brun (M.Cs.) has been an active SGML/XML consultant to Danish
business and government since 1995. Mr. Brun has been the chief technical advisor
and consultant to the Danish XML Committee at the Ministry of Science, Technology
and Innovation between 2001 and 2004. Mr. Brun is currently employed at the
National IT and Telecom Agency at the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation
where he is responsible for the technical e-business standardization. Mr. Brun
was the primary author to the first handbook on XML Schema Naming and Design
Rules published by the Danish XML Committee in 2002. Mr. Brun has been an active
member of the Danish SGML/XML community since 1993 and is also member of the
OASIS UBL TC.
Buehling, Brian - Managing Director, Dakota Systems,
United States, USA
Brian Buehling is currently the Managing Director for Dakota Systems, a consulting
firm specializing in XML-related technologies. Prior to Dakota, he worked in
various capacities on content management systems for several companies including
Facts and Comparisons, John Deere, and SBC Communications. His team's decision
support system at John Deere Health was selected as a Finalist for Business
Intelligence Applications at Comdex/Window World Open 1997 and was nominated
for the 1997 Smithsonian Award for innovation in information technology. He
has earned a M.B.A. with concentrations in Finance and Strategy from the University
of Chicago and a M.S. in Systems Science and Mathematics from Washington University,
St. Louis, Missouri. Previously he was a visiting lecturer at Ohio University
teaching business communication and computational theory.
Bullard, C. Len - Senior Technical Consultant,
Intergraph Corporation, USA
Len Bullard is a veteran markup specialist currently employed by the Intergraph
Public Safety Corporation. He is an author, a working musician and composer,
was the founding director of the <a href="http://www.digitalspaceart.com/irish">IrishSpace</a>
team that created the world's first VRML epic, and is the married father of
two children. He records and publishes his own musical CDs. To contact Len,
write him at clbullar@ingr.com or cbullard@hiwaay.net.
Cagle, Kurt - Author, Metaphorical Web, USA
Kurt Cagle is an author and XML Developer with more than fifteen books and hundreds
of articles on XML based technologies such as XSLT, SVG, XUL, XForms, computer
ethics and more, and writes the blog UnderstandingXML.com. He has most recently
been working with the Firefox browser and Mozilla technologies, as well as XML
based languages such as XBL, trying to push what he sees as the re-emergence
of client-based programming. He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife
and daughters, where he can usually be found staring out the window at the falling
rain while drinking coffee at local coffeehouses.
Campbell, Dave - SQL Server General Manager of
the Data Engine and Access Technologies, Microsoft Corporation, USA
David Campbell is the Microsoft SQL Server General Manager of the Data Engine
and Access Technologies. Dave has been professionally wrestling with data for
close to 20 years after spending the first several years of his career attempting
not to inadvertently break things while developing robotic workcell software.
During his data foray, Dave has developed PLM and Engineering Data Management
software for a division of Lockheed and then, in 1990, he joined Digital Equipment
Corporation and worked on both their CODASYL database product (DEC DBMS) and
their relational database product, Rdb. Since 1994 Dave has been working in
the SQL Server team at Microsoft where he has held the role of Developer, Architect,
and various management roles. Currently, David oversees the product development
of XML, core relational engine, Data Access, and replication technologies. Dave
holds several patents in the data management, schema and software quality realms.
He is a frequent speaker at industry and research conferences on a wide variety
of data management and software development topics.
Champion, Michael - Program Manager, Microsoft
Corporation, United States, USA
Mike Champion has worked as a software developer since 1980, and have specialized
in SGML/XML since 1996, working at Arbortext and Software AG. He is currently
Program Manager for XML Standards at Microsoft. His blog is at blogs.msdn.com/mikechampion.
Chaudhuri, Neil - Software Engineer, LMI Government
Consulting, USA
A Sun Certified Java Programmer, Mr. Chaudhuri is currently a Software Engineer
with LMI Government Consulting in McLean, VA. His work focuses on object-oriented
design principles and best practices, and he leads development teams building
applications utilizing such technologies as Java/J2EE, Microsoft .Net, leading
database technologies like Oracle, and XML and related technologies like XML
Schema, XSLT, ebXML Core Components, and web services. Mr. Chaudhuri's experience
has led him to become a champion of agile methodologies for software development.
He also teaches introductory XML and JavaScript courses for Fairfax County Public
Schools Adult and Community Education Program. Mr. Chaudhuri is the author of
"J2EE or .Net: A Managerial Perspective", published by the International
Workshop on Evolution of Large-scale Industrial Software Applications in 2003,
and "Very Large Software Systems: A Service-Oriented Approach," published
by the 2005 World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics.Mr.
Chaudhuri has a Master of Science degree in Information Systems Technology from
The George Washington University. His undergraduate degrees include a Bachelor
of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Maryland as well
as a Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Sciences and a Bachelor of Arts
degree in Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh. Mr. Chaudhuri
is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He is also a member of the Zeta Chapter of Alpha
Iota Mu, the National Honor Society for Information Systems.
Coates, Anthony - Information & Software Architect,
London Market Systems, UK
Anthony B. Coates (Tony) specialises in information management and integration
solutions for financial and corporate clients. Tony is Information and Software
Architect for London Market Systems, and previously was Leader of XML Architecture
and Design in Reuters Chief Technology Office in London. Tony works on a number
of financial XML initiatives, including ISO 19312 (Securities Data Model), MDDL
(Market Data Definition Language, http://www.mddl.org/) and FpML (Financial
Products Markup Language). Tony is also a member of the OASIS UBL TC. He has
worked with XML since 1998, and Java since 1996.
Cokus, Michael - Senior Software Systems Engineer,
The MITRE Corporation, USA
Mike holds a master's degree in Computer Science from the College of William
and Mary. He has worked in parallel computing (languages and compilers) research
at the NASA Langley Research Center and served on the Computer Science faculty
at Hampton University in Virginia. Mike has been working with XML and related
standards since 1999, and has been involved with the development of XML vocabulary
and Schema specifications. In addition to XML technologies in general, his current
interests also include web services, web ontology, and efficient interchange
of XML infosets (i.e., "Binary XML"). Mike has been with MITRE, a
not-for-profit corporation which manages Federally Funded Research and Development
Centers (FFRDCs), since 1995. While at MITRE, he has focused on the area of
information interoperability. Mike has been a key participant in an international
forum for developing XML capabilities to support military information exchange
in Joint and Coalition environments. In addition, he has been an active member
of the W3C XML Binary Characterization Working Group and has served as a working
note editor.
Connolly, Dan - Technical Staff, W3C, USA
Dan Connolly is on the technical staff at W3C and a researcher in the Decentralized
Information Group (DIG) at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory (CSAIL). He is a member of the W3C Technical Architecture Group,
and he chairs the RDF Data Access Working Group. More information is available
at http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
Connors, Cheryl - Senior Information Systems Engineer,
The MITRE Corporation, USA
Ms. Connors, a Senior Information Systems Engineer with the MITRE Corporation,
has a background in communications, programming, and as her title indicates,
information systems. Her work has ranged from designing communication systems
solutions to completing system engineering projects to database application
development. During the last few years, her work has focused on XML initiatives,
including the in-progress development of XML schemas for an USAF Community of
Interest (COI) experiment. Ms. Connors also continues to make significant contributions
to the ongoing evolution of the internationally adopted XML format for the military
messaging information systems (USMTF & NATO ADatP-3), referred to as "XML-MTF".
With hands-on experience in migrating messaging standards into an XML format,
Ms. Connors has derived a set of practical lessons learned that can be applied
to any effort that is attempting to develop an XML representation of existing
data.
Cornelius, Gary - Technical Consultant, CSW
Group Ltd, UK
Gary Cornelius began working in the publishing industry in 1992, following some
early success as a student managing the production of a youth paper for the
European Parliament. In 1993-1995 he completed an industrial apprenticeship
based around digital imaging, where he experienced a wide range of positive
changes brought about by computerization. In 1996-1999 he worked in Information
Technology (IT) on a number of large scale consumer publishing projects, automating
high quality PDF output from large databases and image repositories for Trader
Media Group and various TV listings publications. In 2000-2003 he worked in
software development as a programmer at Future Publishing Plc in their Internet
Services research department on a project to unify publishing processes using
XML. Since early 2004 he has worked for CSW Group Ltd. as technical consultant
in the research department, specializing in XML, providing hands-on XML training
at a series of XML Summer schools and training events in the UK. He also is
an active member of Oasis and participates in several standards committees.
Cummings, David - Chief Executive Officer - President,
Founder, Hannon Hill Corporation, USA
A business and technologist enthusiast, David has been involved in software
companies for seven years including work as a software engineer for IBM. Through
hard work and determination, David continues to guide Hannon Hill in an effort
to provide powerful content management systems with an emphasis on personal
service.David has published articles on O'Reilly's XML.com and OnJava.com in
addition to popular web development sites like SitePoint.com. He has given presentations
at the Silicon Valley Web Guild, for Silicon Networks, and the I.C.C.A. David
taught entrepreneurship courses at Duke and an Internet technologies course
at the Duke Fuqua School of Business. As for programming languages, he has written
code for commercial applications in Java, PHP, ASP, and Visual C++. He is involved
in the Business Marketing Association and in the Technology Association of Georgia
in the Content Management and Entrepreneurial Special Interest Groups. David
is from Tallahassee, Florida and graduated from Duke University with a B.S.
in Economics.
Damodaran, Suresh - Technology Director, Sterling
Commerce, USA
Dr. Suresh Damodaran is Technology Director with Sterling Commerce (www.sterlingcommerce.com),
a subsidiary of SBC Communications. Between September 2002-September 2004, Suresh
was the Chief Technologist of RosettaNet (www.rosettanet.org), on loan from
Sterling Commerce. His background includes working on distributed tools for
high performance systems with Hewlett Packard Co. and Los Alamos National Laboratory.
In his career spanning two decades, he has held positions as software engineer,
software architect, hardware design engineer, researcher, and lecturer. He has
more than a decade of experience with OO and distributed programming, but his
passion remains B2B integration technologies. He participated in technical committees
within OASIS and W3C on behalf of Sterling Commerce. Suresh co-authored the
recently published book "ebXML: Concepts and Application," published
by Wiley. Suresh holds a B.Tech.(Hons) in Electronics and Electrical Communication
Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur, and a Ph.D.
in Computer Science from the University of Louisiana.
Darugar, Parand - Director of Architecture, Yahoo
Search Marketing, Yahoo Inc., USA
I'm responsible for architecture across Yahoo Search Marketing, yahoo's largest
revenue segement. We use XML, REST, and SOAP extensively both internally and
in our external APIs. Previously, I founded Blue Titan Software, a provider
of software solutions for Web services management. Before that, I founded VelociGen,
a provider of Web site acceleration technologies. I've written several XML related
articles since 1998; an incomplete list can be found here:http://www.parand.com/talks/My
latest is here:http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-abolns.htmlI've
presented at a number of conferences, including including NextWare, Web Services
Reality, XML Edge, XML Devcon, Networld + Interop, O'Reilly Open Source Conference,
Usenix Tcl conference, and others.
Derrick, John - CEO, Conformative Systems, USA
A former IBM Systems and microprocessor architect, Derrick has been issued 19
patents in various fields including data processing, processor architecture,
and systems optimization. Derrick, a seasoned entrepreneur, founded Chicory
Systems, a semiconductor IP startup that was acquired within 18 months and sold
for $50 million in cash and stocks. Derrick is dedicated to driving the adoption
of Web Services using XML and building industry-leading solutions that allow
enterprises to drive down the cost of implementing high-performance XML-based
applications.Conformative Systems is a developer of high performance computer
systems that dramatically increase application performance while reducing cost
and complexity in the enterprise data center. Only Conformative is approaching
the problem of XML processing performance through the application of a parallel
processing architecture. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Conformative Systems
was founded in 2003 and is backed by Austin Ventures and Charles River Ventures.
DuCharme, Bob - consulting software engineer,
LexisNexis, USA
Bob DuCharme (www.snee.com/bob) is the author of Manning Publications' "XSLT
Quickly," Prentice Hall's "XML: The Annotated Specification"
and "SGML CD," and McGraw Hill's "Operating Systems Handbook."
He writes the monthly "Transforming XML" column for XML.com and has
contributed to Dr. Dobb's Journal, XML Magazine, XML Journal, IBM developerWorks,
XML Developer, O'Reilly Books' "XML Hacks," and Prentice Hall's "XML
Handbook." A consulting software engineer at LexisNexis, Bob received his
BA in religion from Columbia University and his masters in computer science
from New York University. Bob's O'Reilly Network weblog at http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1191
is dedicated to linking-related topics.
FitzGerald, Adam - Principal Technologist,
BEA Systems, USA
Adam FitzGerald has been teaching application design, J2EE development and server
administration since joining BEA Systems more than four years ago. He has co-authored
several BEA Education offerings, presented talks at JavaOne and eWorld conferences
and actively promoted the WebLogic server platform in developer communities.
Originally from England, he researched mathematical techniques in computer vision
at the University of North Carolina before joining BEA and currently resides
in New York, NY.
Foster, Howard - Research, Imperial College London,
UK
Howard is a Research Assistant in the Distributed Software Engineering group
at Imperial College London. He obtained his Bachelor and Masters Degree from
University of East Anglia and will be submitting his thesis for Doctor of Philosophy
in Computer Science at Imperial. He also has over 10 years technical consulting
experience in Global Technology and Internet Solutions.
Fox, Joshua - Chief Software Architect,
Unicorn Solutions Inc., Israel
Howard is a Research Assistant in the Distributed Software Engineering group at Imperial College London. He obtained his Bachelor and Masters Degree from University of East Anglia and will be submitting his thesis for Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science at Imperial. He also has over 10 years technical consulting experience in Global Technology and Internet Solutions.
Germann, Ryan - Product Manager, Exegenix, Canada
Ryan is Product Manager and a founding employee of Exegenix Inc., a company
providing content access and conversion technologies. He is involved in market
research and the strategic aspects of developing practical applications of Exegenix
technology. His professional focus is on facilitating broad adoption of XML
content and XML-enabled applications across organizations of all sizes. Since
1995, Ryan has been involved in SGML and XML projects, lending his expertise
to both client-side and server-side components. Ryan was previously employed
at SoftQuad Software where he was involved in Product Management, Marketing,
Web site development and user interface design.
Gettinger, Chip - Vice President Product Marketing,
Astoria Software, Inc., USA
Chip Gettinger has been part of Astoria Software since its inception and has
20 years experience working with content management tools. While at Xerox Corporation's
Chystal Software in the late-1990s, Gettinger provided technical sales consulting
for XML content management support for direct and channel sales efforts. Gettinger
has held management positions in sales, product marketing, training, course
development and technical writing at Document Management Solutions, Harlequin,
XyEnterprise and Agfa Corporation. Gettinger has a bachelor's degree in Graphic
Arts Technology from Northern Illinois University.
Gillispie, Lisa - Senior Applications Engineer,
PTC - Arbortext, USA
Lisa Gillispie provides technical sales support as a Senior Applications Engineer
for Arbortext products at Parametric Technology Corporation. Lisa has spent
her entire 25 year career involved in publishing, first on the customer side
as a graphic book designer for Gallaudet University, where she was responsible
for book design, production and print procurement at the University Press and
then segued into the technical side of the world after being inspired by a course
at George Washington University. For those who can remember it, she worked as
an onsite system installer and trainer for Compugraphic Corporation on Quadex
typesetting products. She worked as a sales support specialist and project manager
at Xyvision for more than 10 years, and moved on to Xerox, where she was involved
in selling and supporting Astoria content management systems. She has been at
Arbortext for five years. She is an amateur watercolorist and enjoys contributing
art to the poster display at XML shows.
Glushko, Robert - Adjunct Professor, School of
Information Management and Systems, USA
Bob Glushko is an Adjunct Professor at the University of California at Berkeley
in the School of Information Management and Systems and is the Director of the
Center for Document Engineering. He has twenty-five years of R&D, consulting,
and entrepreneurial experience in information management, electronic publishing,
Internet commerce, and human factors in computing systems. He founded or co-founded
three companies, the last of which was Veo Systems in 1997, which pioneered
the use of XML for electronic commerce before its 1999 acquisition by Commerce
One. From 1999-2002 he headed Commerce One's XML architecture and technical
standards activities and was named an "Engineering Fellow" in 2000.
He has an undergraduate degree from Stanford, an MS (Software Engineering) from
the Wang Institute, and a PhD (cognitive psychology) from UC San Diego.
Graham, Tony - Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems,
Inc., Ireland
Tony Graham is a current member of the W3C XML Protocol Working Group and the
OASIS Web Services Reliable Messaging TC and a past member of the W3C XSL Working
Group. He is also the principal author of the xmlroff XSL formatter and the
author of "Unicode: A Primer" and numerous articles and conference
presentations on XML, XSL, XSLT, and Unicode.
Gregorio, Joe - President, BitWorking, Inc, USA
Joe Gregorio is President of BitWorking, Inc. He has over 14 years ofsoftware
design and project management experience working on a rangeof applications from
embedded and web-based systems to Windows desktopapplications. He is active
in the syndication community, the authorof the Atom Publishing Protocol, writes
"The RESTful Web" column for the O'Reilly publication "XML.com",
and spends time exploring the limits of XML and HTTP.He holds a Masters of Arts
in Mathematics from Dartmouth College andBachelors Degrees in Mathematics and
Computer Science fromEastern Connecticut State University.Joe Gregorio maintains
a personal weblog at http://bitworking.org.
Hadley, Marc - Senior Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc., United States
Dr. Marc J. Hadley is a Senior Staff Engineer in the Web Technologies and Standards
division of Sun Microsystems. He currently represents Sun on the W3C XML Protocol
Working Group where he is co-editor of the SOAP 1.2 specification. Marc is the
technical lead for Sun's participation at the Web Services Interoperability Organisation
(WS-I) and is co-spec lead of the JAX-RPC 2.0 specification currently under development
in the JCP. Marc has presented at numerous conferences including XML 200X, XML
World, XML One, JavaOne and the O'Reilly Conference on Enterprise Java.Prior to
joining Sun Microsystems, Marc worked for Chrystal Software as a principle consultant
and chief engineer developing content management and Web delivery systems based
on XML.Marc has more than ten years experience in the software industry and holds
a D.Phil in Physics from the University of York.
Hamby, Steve - Architect, Software AG, US
Steve Hamby is an Architect for Software AG, inc. He has 17 years' experience
in the IT industry with the last 6 focused on XML applications. He is a frequent
speaker at various conferences and a published author on XML technologies. He
holds MBA and BS degrees.
Hammond, Richard - Knowledge manager, USEPA, USA
I recieved a bachelors degree in geology in 1982. Over the next 20 plus years,
I worked in several fields, including oil and gas, minerals and have worked
for the USEPA for the last 15 years. That time has been devided between field
work and computer analysis, particularly geographic information systems. Having
struggled with trying to explain technical results to a variety of audiences
over many years, I returned to obtain my masters degree in Organizational Management
in 2005. Combining science, computer visualization and organizational skills
has provided me the opportunity to use the xml family of products to develop
a variety of geo-aware tools, including a document management and text search
tool, an inventory control system and neural network type programs to visualize
stakeholder opinion and conceptual site models.
Harris, Steve - Vice president, Java Platform Group,
Oracle Corporation, USA
Mr. Harris has degrees from George Washington University and UC Berkeley. After
more than 10 years in scientific and engineering computing and consulting areas,
he spent three years working on document management and systems integration.
In 1993, he co-founded a software startup providing an object-oriented database
product to Smalltalk developers (a precursor to Java). He sold the company to
ParcPlace-Digitalk and served as VP of Engineering of that publicly-held company.
He joined Oracle in 1997 to manage development of the Java virtual machine for
the Oracle8i release. Since then, his role has expanded to include the entire
J2EE platform in the Oracle Application Server product. This includes EJB, Servlets,
JSPs, JDBC drivers, SQLJ, TopLink, and web services support in both the application
server and database.
Harvey, Betty - President, Electronic Commerce
Connection, Inc., United States
As President of Electronic Commerce Connection, Inc., Ms. Harvey has participated
with many government and commercial enterprises in planning and executing their
migration to structured information. Prior to starting at ECC, Inc., Ms. Harvey
worked in Scientific and Engineering Computing at David Taylor Model Basic,
NSWC. In her capacity with the Navy she participated in the development of US
DoD CALS standards including IETMs, SGML and Internet protocols.
Hatter, Clyde - VP, Legislative and Regulatory
Solutions, Propylon, Ireland
Clyde began his career as a technical writer, moving to the design and implementation
of document authoring applications in the mid-90s. These included SGML-based,
single-source multi-output solutions. He has worked on a variety of SGML- and
XML-based publication systems in business sectors which include pharmaceutical,
retailing and telecoms. More recently Clyde has managed the design and implementation
of an XML-based system for the drafting, amendment and translation of primary
legislation (bills and acts) in the Irish Parliament and has been heavily involved
in Propylon's US engagements.
Hendler, Jim - Professor, University of Maryland,
USA
Jim Hendler is a Professor at the University of Maryland and the Director of
Semantic Web and Agent Technology at the Maryland Information and Network Dynamics
Laboratory. He has joint appointments in the Department of Computer Science,
the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies and is an affiliate of the Institute
for Systems Research. He has authored about 200 technical papers in the areas
of artificial intelligence, Semantic Web, agent-based computing and high performance
processing. Hendler was the recipient of a 1995 Fulbright Foundation Fellowship,
is a former member of the US Air Force Science Advisory Board, and is a Fellow
of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. He is also the former
Chief Scientist of the Information Systems Office at the US Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA), was awarded a US Air Force Exceptional Civilian
Service Medal in 2002, and is a member of the World Wide Web Consortium's Semantic
Web Coordination Group. He is the Editor in Chief of IEEE Intelligent Systems
and is on the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science.
Henry, Ted - Sales/Marketing Engineer, Altova, Inc.,
USA
Altova's Ted Henry spent the past four years developing XML-based content management
solutions for government, life science, and petroleum industries. Possessing
a strong interest in Human Factors research and structured authoring, Ted has
specialized in marrying XML with innovative Information Architecture and navigation
systems development.Ted brings over 11 years industry experience in various
development, marketing, and project management roles, and holds a BA in English,
a diploma in Software Development, and a MS in Project Management.
Hess, Demian - Technical Information Specialist,
National Center for Biotechnology Information, NLM, USA
Mr. Hess works on the PubMed Central at the National Library of Medicine.
Hiura, Hideki - COO, Chief Scientist, Justsystem
Inc, Japan
Hideki Hiura is chief scientist and COO of Justsystem, Inc. He is a founder
and chairperson of OpenI18N.org/Free Standards Group, an independent, nonprofit
organization dedicated to accelerating the use of free and open source software
by developing and promoting standards. He is also a founding member of W3C I18N
WG. Prior to Justsystem Inc., he was an architect at Sun Microsystems, where
he was involved with variety of standards and standard organizations, including
ISO, W3C, OMG, The Open Group, OSF, Unic International, X Consortium and Unicode.
Holland, Lucian - Client Projects Manager, DecisionSoft
Ltd, United Kingdom
Lucian works for DecisionSoft, well known for their cutting-edge XML expertise.
In his roles first as technical architect and now client projects manager he
has been responsible for the design of a number of XML applications including
the industry leading True North XBRL validator. He is a regular contributor
to XML and XBRL conferences. Currently he spends most of his time talking to
UK government departments about processes to help them develop XML Schemas in
an efficient, consistent and robust manner; sometimes they even listen to him...
Holman, Ken - CTO, Crane Softwrights Ltd., Canada
Mr. G. Ken Holman is the Chief Technology Officer for Crane Softwrights Ltd.,
a Canadian corporation offering XSL, XSLT and XSL-FO language training, Python
and OmniMark programming, and general SGML and XML related computer systems
analysis services regarding text markup technologies to international customers.
Mr. Holman is the current international secretary of the ISO subcommittee responsible
for the SGML family of standards, an invited expert to the W3C and member of
the W3C Working Group that developed XML from SGML, the former Canadian chair
of the ISO subcommittee, the founding chair of the OASIS XML Conformance Technical
Committee, the founding chair of the OASIS XSLT/XPath Conformance Technical
Committee, the current chair of the OASIS UBL Human Interface Subcommittee and
co-chair of the OASIS UBL Small Business Subset subcommittee, the author of
electronically-published and print-published books on XML-related technologies,
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.
Horst, Ed - Vice President of Product Strategy,
AmberPoint, USA
Mr. Horst has more than twenty years of experience in planning, marketing and
developing distributed systems, management frameworks and development tools.
He was the vice president of Marketing at OnKilter, a strategy execution software
vendor, and Provato, an electronic contract management solution provider that
was acquired by I-Many. Previously, he was a founding member of the marketing
team at Forte and held various engineering and product management positions
at Ingres. In addition to his work at leading software companies, Mr. Horst
served for several years an I.T. Director for Atlas Die, a Midwestern manufacturing
firm, where he was an early implementer of several early-stage technologies,
including CAD applications, relational databases and wide area networking systems.Mr.
Horst has participated in several panel discussions and many more speaking opportunities,
both within the United States and abroad, including several joint seminars with
Forrester and Gartner analyst firms; user group meetings for IBM, Oracle, Forte
and Sun; and industry exhibitions. Most recently, he spoke at XML Web Services
One and hosted a live webcast with British Telecommunications on Web services
management.
Hu, Michael - Enterprise Architect; Enterprise Integration
Manager, Police Information Technology Organization, United Kingdom
Michael is the Enterprise Architect in Police Information Technology Organization
(PITO) in the United Kingdom (UK), responsible for the information & technical
architecture and implementation of Information System Strategy for the Police
Service (ISS4PS) Programme in UK. He has a Ph.D on global information systems
from University College London, and has been working in both the public and
private sectors on telecommunication, electronic publishing and digital library
initiatives, electronic document and information indexing, as well as IS/database
management systems.
Hunter, Jason - Lead Applications Engineer, Mark
Logic Corporation, United States
Jason Hunter works as a Lead Applications Engineer at Mark Logic. He's author
of "Java Servlet Programming", published by O'Reilly. He is also an
Apache Member and as Apache's representative to the Java Community Process Executive
Committee he established a landmark agreement for open source Java. He's publisher
of Servlets.com and XQuery.com, an original contributor to Apache Tomcat, a
member of the expert groups responsible for Servlet, JSP, JAXP, and XQJ API
development, and participates on the W3C XQuery Working Group. He co-created
the open source JDOM library to enable optimized Java and XML integration.
Huss, Marshall - Associate Technical Staff, The MITRE
Corporation, United States
Marshall Huss has been an Associate Technical Staff member with the MITRE Corporation
since 2004. He joined MITRE after working two years with BAE SYSTEMS and has
worked in software prototyping, experimentation and requirements testing for
DoD projects over the past three years. While at MITRE, he has worked with applying
XML Firewall and Really Simple Syndication (RSS) technologies to military information
exchange.Marshall is a senior computer engineering and computer science double
major at Christopher Newport University and serves as the President of the IEEE
chapter established there this year.
Jones, Brian - Lead Program Manager, Office, Microsoft
Corporation, USA
Brian Jones is a lead program manager on the Microsoft Office team. He has worked
primarily on extensibility in Microsoft Word, focusing on XML file formats,
support for customer defined schemas, and programmability through the object
model. Most recently Brian has worked on the new XML formats that will be the
default for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in Office ‘12’.
Jones, Christine - Researcher, Center for Document
Engineering, UC Berkeley,
Christine Jones is currently a first year masters student at the School of Information
Management Systems (SIMS) at UC Berkeley. She earned her degree in Political
Science from UC San Diego, and worked in The Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Library while earning her degree. She has worked as a web developer as a contractor
and in the corporate world, and currently works at UC Davis, Shields Library
in the Systems department as a programmer.Christine's research interests are
Document Engineering, Digital Libraries, and Databases. As a programmer at UC
Davis, she has been working on Digital Initiatives for the past two years providing
support on encoding; creating best encoding practices and documenting them;
working with SGML, TEI-Lite, XML, and XSLT to encode and transform collections;
and is the administrator of the Digital Initiatives Website.
Jones, Elysa - Engineering Program Manager, Warning
Systems, Inc.,
Engineering Program Manager, Ms. Elysa Jones has over 25 years experience in
engineering program management, software development and product design and
development. She has been with WSI since 1998 and has been instrumental in the
successful design of new products and installation of major radio warning systems.
She is also on the board of trustees for the Partnership for Public Warning
and is the current Chair of the OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee.
Through those efforts, Ms. Jones has been monitoring the development of the
National Incident Management System (NIMS) to insure that the direction of WSI
product development is in keeping with the strategy of NIMS.
Kaempfer, Gideon - CTO, SilverKite, Israel
Gideon has more than 14 years of R&D experience in networking, software
and hardware.Before founding Silverkite, Gideon was the CTO and co-founder of
Charlotte 's Web Networks, a core IP router vendor. Under his technical leadership,
Charlotte 's Web Networks transformed from a start-up to a well-known and respected
router vendor with over 120 employees. During this period he helped raise $80M
in funding. He led the development of custom designed chipsets based on ASIC's
and FPGA's for network processing, traffic management and switching at speeds
of 10Gbps and 40Gbps per port.Prior to that, Gideon worked for the VLSI department
at the IBM Research Center in Haifa where he developed automatic test generators
for PowerPC processors.Gideon is an officer (reserve) of the Israeli Defense
Forces where he was part of the prestigious "Haman Talpiyot" technological
program. He brings years of experience in Telco grade system development, ASIC
and FPGA design as well as routing protocols and TCP/IP network technologies.He
holds a B.Sc. (Summa Cum Laude) in Computer Engineering and a MSc. in Computer
Science from the Technion - Israeli Institute of Technology.
Kelly, Kevin - Senior Software Engineer, IBM, United
States of America
Kevin E. Kelly is a Senior Softwar Engineer with the IBM Corporation working
on Software Standards. Kevin is a member of the W3C XForms Working Group as
well as the W3C Compound Document Format Working Group. His focus is on evolving
open standards based technologies for faster, more efficient standards adoption
through model-driven approaches. Before joining IBM, Kevin spent 8 year at Rational
Software working on UML modeling and Java technologies.
Khan, Farrukh - Professor, Ohio State University,
USA
Prof. Khan and his team are responsible for the development of OR-*, a suite
of healthcare systems based on Services Oriented Architecture (XML Web Services)
for the Ohio State University Medical Center. Prof. Khan is an associate professor
in the department of Electrical Engineering at the Ohio State University. He
also holds joint positions in the department of Computer and Information Sciences
in the College of Engineering, and department of Anesthesiology in the College
of Medicine. He is currently interested in developing production healthcare
systems based on SOAP Web Services enhanced by using emerging WS-* specifications
(WS-Routing, WS-Security, WS-Policy, WS-Trust etc.). Prof. Khan has lectured
extensively on enterprise distributed computing and security in the USA, Europe
and Asia. His projects have been funded by the National Science Foundation,
Naval Research Laboratory, Office of Naval Research, Air Force, Wright Patterson
Air Force Base, Cray Research., Lucent Technologies, and Microsoft Research.
Krug, Kristopher - President, Bryght, Canada
Kris has been publishing online since 1998 and has spent his professional career
working in marketing and creative departments for technology companies. He
recently moved back to Vancouver after spending the past several years in San
Francisco, California where he helped lead marketing departments for 2 large
companies that went on to be acquired. Kris is an online expert, having built
and operated dozens of websites. He has the unique ability to balance
communication objectives and aesthetic delight. The only time you won't find him
plugged into the interweb is when he out roaming with his camera. Kris is an
aspiring photographer and has carved out a niche doing event blogging at
conferences and special events. Other places to find Kris online are
KrisKrug.com, Daily Vancouver 2010, Urban Vancouver and PhotographyHack.com.
La Fontaine, Robin - CEO, DeltaXML Ltd., United
Kingdom
Robin La Fontaine is CEO of DeltaXML, a company providing change management
for XML including a method for representing changes to XML documents and data
in XML. Robin has contributed to various ISO standards and has been project
manager of several European research projects including the XML/EDI European
Pilot Project. His background is in CAD data exchange and Lisp programming.
Robin has a degree in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford and
a Masters degree in Computer Science.
Lammel, Ralf - Program Manager, Microsoft, U.S.A.,
U.S.A.
Since January 2005 I am Program Manager at Microsoft in Redmond in the WebData/XML
team. In previous years (1999-2004), I worked on the faculty of the Free University
Amsterdam, Computer Science Department, and at the Dutch Centre of Mathematics
and Computer Science: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~ralf/. I obtained a PhD ("dissertation")
in Computer Science from University of Rostock (Germany), in January 1999. In
the years 1990-1999, I worked as a freelancer in major business programming
projects, where I specialized in the design, the implementation, and the deployment
of code manipulation tools.My computer science interests cover programming languages
and automated software engineering. My specific fields of expertise include
grammarware engineering (http://www.cs.vu.nl/grammarware/), software transformation,
generic programming, software design, aspect-oriented programming, and software
re-engineering. I have published some 40 papers on these and other subjects.
I am a regular member of program committees for ACM and IEEE events, and I organize
such events. Check out the upcoming summer school on transformational and generative
techniques: http://www.di.uminho.pt/GTTSE2005.At a technical level, I am fascinated
by declarative programming, grammar-based methods, executable specification,
and automated source-code manipulation. My current pet topic is tool and language
support for enabling the evolution of structural knowledge in software (such
as grammar or schema knowledge), while advanced techniques for "coupled"
software transformation are used to that end. Likewise, I am looking into the
intriguing problem of "generic" software transformations; these transformations
would be reusable among very different languages.
Lanng, Christian - e-business analyst, Danish Ministry
of Science, Technology and Innovation, Denmark
Mr. Christian Lanng has worked with e-business and mobile commerce as a consultant
to Danish and European businesses since 1999. From 2005 he has worked for the
Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation with a focus on entry
barriers for small and medium sized enterprises to e-business. He is also an
active member of the Nordic Government e-business Network where the Scandinavian
countries work on cross border e-business issues and standardization.
Laskey, Kenneth - Lead Engineer, The MITRE Corporation,
USA
Ken Laskey began working on Web-based metadata cataloguing systems through a
DARPA research project during the late 1990s and began examining the use of
XML while the specification was still in draft form. He continued to investigate
the use of the Web as the backbone of a distributed catalog and the particular
challenge of converging and coordinating the diverse vocabularies of distributed
contributors of information. This led to an interest in service-oriented architecture
as a means to access distributed resources and effectively mediate between local
vocabularies. The use of semantics technology to facilitate workable solutions
is of particular interest because the local vocabularies often express specialized
information and the challenge is to both preserve and make effective use of
the subtleties and differences. Dr. Laskey is currently on the W3C Advisory
Board and a member of the SOA Reference Model TC. He is technical lead for the
Information Semantics group at MITRE and a prime contributor to the description
and analysis of mediation services for DoD's Net-Centric Core Enterprise Services
(NCES).
Lee, David - Senior member of the technical staff,
Epocrates Inc., United States
David Lee has over 20 years experience in the software industry responsible
for many major projects in small and large companies including Sun Microsystems,
IBM, Centura Software (formerly Gupta.), Premenos, Epiphany (formerly RightPoint),
WebGain. As senior member of the technical staff of Epocrates, Inc., Mr. Lee
is responsible for managing data integration, storage, retrieval, and processing
of clinical knowledge databases for the leading clinical information provider.
Key career contributions include Real-time AIX OS extensions for optimizing
transmission of real-time streaming video (IBM), secure encrypted EDI over internet
email (Premenos), porting Centura Team Developer, a complex 4GL development
system, from Win32 to Solaris (Gupta, Centura), optimizations of large Enterprise
CRM systems (Epiphany), implementation of ecommerce systems for on-demand digital
printing and CD replication (Nexstra). Resume at http://www.calldei.com/marketing/resume.htm
Lenkov, Dmitry - Consulting Member of Thechnical
Staff, Oracle, USA
Bio coming soon.
Letz, Stefan - Software Developer, IBM Deutschland
Entwicklung GmbH, Germany
Stefan Letz received his diploma degree in Computer Science from the University
of Leipzig, Germany, in June 2005. He has been with the IBM laboratory in Böblingen,
Germany, since 2003, working on database backup/restore solutions. There, he
also wrote his diploma thesis entitled "Cell Processor-Based Workstation
for XML Offload - System Architecture and Design".
Leventhal, Michael - Senior Director, XML Products,
Tarari, Inc., USA
Michael Leventhal is Senior Director, XML Products for Tarari where he has guided
the creation of world's first XML-in-silicon accelerators supporting RAX (random
access XML) processing methodology. Mr. Leventhal has been involved with XML
from its inception, having authored some of the earliest publications on XML
including the first book published on its use for the Internet and was also
involved in Web Services from its earliest days, having led the team at Commerce
One that created DocSOAP, an open-source, high-performance document-centric
SOAP framework. He also worked on DocZilla, an XML-centric mozilla-based browser.
Mr. Leventhal is active on Tarari's behalf in the W3C. He holds an EECS degree
from U.C. Berkeley.
Lubell, Joshua - Computer Scientist, National Institute
of Standards and Technology, United States
Josh Lubell works at US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
where he applies markup technology toward solving data exchange problems between
manufacturing applications. He is a contributor to various standards efforts
and speaks regularly at XML-related conferences. His pre-NIST experience includes
artificial intelligence systems design and prototyping as well as software development
for the building materials industry. He has an M.S. in computer science from
the University of Maryland at College Park and a B.S. in mathematics from Binghamton
University.
Madhwacharyula, Chitra - Researcher, Center for Document Engineering, UC
Berkeley, U.S
Chitra is a second year Masters Student at UC Berkeley's School of Information
Management and Systems. She holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from National
University of Singapore. Chitra is a Researcher at the Center for Document Engineering,
UC Berkeley. For the past four years, she has been actively involved in research
on XML based metadata transformations. She is interested in doing research on
the techniques to design and develop XML based Knowledge Management Systems that
incorporate a Service Oriented Architecture.
Maitra, Amit - Principal Information Systems Engineer, The MITRE Corporation,
USA
Amit has a key leadership role in making Enterprise System Engineering (ESE)
for the USAF real.
Makita, Toshihiko - Developer, Antenna House, Ina Branch.,
Toshihiko Makita is a programmer and analyst of the Antenna House at Japan.
Toshihiko has nearly 6 years of an experience in XSL and XSLT application software.
His primary interest is designing and developing XML to XSL-FO conversion and
tools for authoring XML documents using Microsoft Word. Toshihiko has currently
involved in the designing XML publishing systems that use Microsoft Word as
authoring tool and use XSL-FO as formatting.
Maler, Eve - Technology Director, Sun Microsystems, Inc., United States
Eve Maler is a Technology Director at Sun Microsystems, developing interoperability
strategies, leading standards engagements, and promoting product interoperability
related to identity and distributed computing.Eve has made major leadership,
technical, and marketing contributions to several successful standards, including
OASIS Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), OASIS Universal Business Language
(UBL), WS-I Basic Security Profile, DocBook, and XML itself.
Malloy, Mary Ann - Lead Information Systems Engineer,
The MITRE Corporation, USA
Dr. Mary Ann Malloy is a Lead Information Systems Engineer for the MITRE Corporation.
She presently supports the Interoperability and Site Technologies Department
in the Center for Air Force C2 Systems. Dr. Malloy has over 20 years of hands-on
experience in information standards and processing, interoperability, legacy
system migration, and operational software development for defense applications.
Her interest areas include software reliability, system architecture and XML
technologies. Dr. Malloy has authored or co-authored over 30 technical papers
and she is an adjunct faculty member at Old Dominion University.
Marks, Mano - Researcher, Center for Document Engineering,
USA
Mano Marks is first-year master's student in the School of Information Management
and Systems at the University of California, Berkeley. Before coming to SIMS
he worked at a variety of non-profit jobs, managing all aspects of data collection,
data retrieval, data analysis, data transfer and data reporting. Most recently,
he was the Data Manager at Huckleberry Youth Programs. His research interests
are process modeling, electronic document and data exchange, and information
policy.
Mathews, Bob - Director of Training, Design Science,
Inc., USA
Bob Mathews is the Director of Training for software developer Design Science,
Inc. A former career military officer, he has served as an Instructor Pilot
in T-38 and KC-135 aircraft, as a Flight Commander, and as Deputy Chief of the
Strategic Air Command Instrument Flight Course. Transitioning from the stratosphere
to the lower atmosphere, Bob spent the next several years teaching high school
mathematics and serving as department chair.With an undergraduate degree in
Electrical Engineering and a graduate degree in Management & Human Relations,
Bob enjoys teaching and has taught in such diverse environments as the cockpit
of a supersonic jet, a high school mathematics classroom, a corporate boardroom,
and a Sunday School class. He has led seminars and presented papers at conferences
on three continents, and is often an invited speaker at math teacher conferences
and software user group meetings. His current interests include using a standards-based
approach to technical publishing and designing interactive math applications
for web pages and distance learning environments.
Matsumura, Miko - VP of Marketing, Infravio,
USA
Miko Matsumura is the former Chief Java Evangelist for Sun Microsystems, where
he was a visible spokesperson for Java technologies and the keynote speaker
at over 100 conferences. Since leaving Sun, he has been involved with Java and
Web services companies, including Infravio and Systinet. Matsumura is an advisor
to the Asia Java Fund, a limited partner with Focus Ventures, and an advisor
to start up companies including TogetherSoft (acquired by Borland), Dejima (acquired
by Sybase) and Kendara (acquired by Excite). He also worked as VP of Product
Marketing for Web services vendor Systinet. Prior to working with Sun, Matsumura
worked at Hotwired (Wired Digital) and the Well online community. He holds an
MBA from San Francisco State University and a master's degree in Neuroscience
from Yale University.
Megginson, David - Principal, Megginson Technologies
Ltd., Canada
David Megginson, principal of Megginson Technologies, has been active within
the SGML and, later, XML communities since 1991. He led the original initiative
that created SAX, the Simple API for XML, which is now the most widely used
streaming API for XML.David's work includes many Open Source software packages,
together with the books Structuring XML Documents and Imperfect XML, published
by Prentice-Hall. David formerly chaired the XML Information Set Working Group
at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and served as a member of the W3C's XML
Working Group and XML Co-ordination Group.In Spring 2000, David was proud to
receive the Java Technology Achievement Award For Outstanding Individual Contribution
to the Java Community from Sun Microsystems and JavaPro magazine.
Meijer, Erik - Architect, Microsoft Corporation,
United States
Erik Meijer is an architect in the WebData XML group at Microsoft where he works
with the C# and Visual Basic teams on language and type-systems for data integration
in programming languages. Prior to joining Microsoft he was an associate professor
at Utrecht University and adjunct professor at the Oregon Graduate Institute.
Erik is one of the designers of the Mondrian scripting language, standard functional
programming language Haskell98, and Comega.
Melton, Jim - Consulting Member of Technical Staff,
Oracle Corporation, USA
Jim has been the editor for all parts of the SQL standard for SQL-92, SQL:1999,
and SQL:2003, and has published five books covering various aspects of the SQL
standard. Jim has represented his employer in the ANSI standards community and
the United States in the international standards community for nearly two decades.
A founding member of the SQLX Group, he is active in developing (as well as
editing) a new part of the SQL standard, called SQL/XML, that specifies technology
for effectively using SQL and XML together. In addition, Jim is a co-chair of
the World Wide Web Consortium's XML Query Working Group. He is an editor of
the two parts of the suite of documents being developed by the Query WG: Functions
& Operators and XQueryX. Jim is working on a new book that deals with querying
XML data in various ways.
Meyer, Peter - Managing director, Elkera Pty Limited,
Australia
Peter Meyer is Managing director of Elkera Pty Limited, XML content management
software developers and consultants located in Sydney, Australia. Peter is a
former commercial lawyer who left legal practice 12 years ago with the motivation
of developing a holistic knowledge management system for lawyers based on semantic
web concepts. This led to a path through SGML and XML content creation and publishing
and an ambition to improve the efficiency of complex enterprise document production
and publishing processes. Peter has worked with SGML & XML document markup
applications for over 10 years. During this time he has experienced first hand
the challenges, costs and benefits of implementing XML content management and
single source publishing applications. Peter is a regular presenter at XML conferences
in Australia. He is an active member of the OASIS LegalXML eContracts Technical
Committee.
Millar, Derek - Director, Professional Services,
Newbook Production Inc., Canada
Derek is Director of Professional Services at Newbook Production Inc., an information
management and consulting company that develops Technical Publishing Solutions,
Electronic Regulatory Solutions and Legal Support Solutions for customers in
the public and private sector.At Newbook, Derek is responsible for co-ordinating
the work of the Professional Services Group and is ultimately responsible for
the successful completion of all projects. He also participates in key projects
as a senior architect or business analyst.Derek has over ten years of experience
providing quality solutions to customers with sophisticated information management
and publishing requirements. Industries he has worked with include aerospace,
commercial and legal publishing, energy, pharmaceutical and pesticides. He has
extensive experience in business analysis, gathering and documenting system
requirements and preparing technical specifications. He has participated in
all aspects of software development projects including project management, analysis
and design, implementation, documentation, testing and training.Derek has extensive
knowledge of XML and SGML, Topic Maps, document analysis and DTD/schema design,
as well as a solid understanding of issues relating to the design and implementation
of XML- and SGML-based systems. His current areas of interest include the application
of Topic Maps to negotiation and decision support systems and in education,
and the use of DSDL standards to address the business requirements related to
validating electronic regulatory submissions.Derek is currently the Chair of
the Canadian Advisory Committee to ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC34, the ISO subcommittee
responsible for SGML and related standards.
Milowski, Alex - Consultant, Smallx Consulting,
LLC, USA
Alex Milowski has been involved in the development of XML and SGML technologies
since 1990 - starting with the development of SGML systems for producing EDGAR
filings for the SEC. He was involved with the development of XML from the very
start and participated on the W3C's committees for XSL and XML Schemas as well
as many others. He's the author the of W3C Note on XML Messaging and co-author
of W3C Note on SOX (Schema for Object-oriented XML). In 1995 he founded a company
called Copernican Solutions--which developed SGML and XML technologies for software
systems--and was later acquired, via Veo Systems, by Commerce One. Most recently,
he was CTO for Markup Technology, a developer of XML pipelining technology.
Currently, he is a member of the advisory board for the Center for Document
Engineering at University of California, Berkeley and consults on applications
of XML.
Mott, Anthony - Joseph Smith Papers Project, Brigham
Young University / LDS Church, USA
Anthony ("AJ") Mott was one of the key developers of the DTD and application
solution for the Joseph Smith Papers Project.
Nash, Andrew - Chief Technology Officer, Reactivity,
Inc., USA
Andrew Nash is CTO of Reactivity. Andrew was formerly the Director of Technologies
at RSA Security in the Office of the CTO and led RSA’s efforts within the Liberty
Alliance on the Strong Authentication Expert Group creating a model for industry
wide open strong authentication systems. He is a known leader in PKI and Web-Services
security markets and the co-author of numerous Web Services specifications including
Web Services Security, WS-Trust, WS-Federation, WS-SecureConversation and WS-SecurityPolicy.
Andrew is an author of an RSA Press book on Public Key Infrastructure, a member
of the OASIS Web Services Security TC and was chairman of the PKI Forum Technical
Working Group. Andrew has been a key technology leader at both RSA Security
and Digital Equipment Corporation. Andrew graduated from the University of Adelaide,
Australia and holds a post graduate degree in Software Engineering from the
University of Technology, Sydney.
Nichols, Thomas - CTO, DeltaXML, United Kingdom
Thomas Nichols has been developing commercial software since he caught the OO
bug in 1986, and saw the advent of XML in 1998 as his escape from EDI. His interest
throughout his career has been in practical implementation of rocket-science
technology to solve real-world problems, he is now greatly enjoying putting
his commercial experience into practice steering the technical implementation
of DeltaXML, which he sees as a revolutionary technology. Thomas is a skilled
Java and C++ programmer, working with cross-platform technologies and happiest
in a "heterogeneous environment". XML is one of his very favorite
beasts.
Nielsen, Brian - Enterprise Architect, Danish
National IT and Telecom Agency, Denmark
Working as a Consultant on developing a common danish data definition/model
for the public sector, documented in W3C XML Schema, giving both technical advice
as well as facilitating the development in various domains. Background in Mathematics/Physics,
later focused on computer sciencs. Has worked with meteorological data for many
years.
Niemann, Brand - Computer Scientist, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, USA
See Planning Committee Info at http://www.xmlconference.org/xmlusa/2004/pc.asp
Nutt, Kent - Director, Marketing Programs, Conformative
Systems, U.S.
Kent NuttDirector, Marketing ProgramsKent has over 20 years of experience in
technology marketing with a focus in product marketing, marketing communications,
and marketing research. Prior to joining Conformative Systems, Kent was the
Director of Product Marketing at Chicory Systems and previously Worldwide Channel
Marketing Manager at Tivoli Systems/IBM Corporation. Earlier in his career,
Kent held marketing and marketing research positions at DTM Corporation, Prospect
Software, Aspect Telecommunications, Dataquest, and Data Point Corporation.Kent
holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology from the University of Texas at
San Antonio and has performed Graduate work in Gerontology - Trinity University
O'Neill, Mark - CTO, Vordel, Ireland
As Chief Technical Officer at Vordel, Mark oversees the development of Vordel's
technical strategy and product development in the areas of XML and security.
Mark is a member of the OASIS Security Services Technical Committee and an advisor
to the XML.org industry newsletter. He has developed security solutions for
clients including Sony Europe, Intel, Royal & SunAlliance, AXA Group, the
Irish Government, and Critical Path. He regularly presents at industry seminars
on the security issues effecting Web Services and has been published in several
leading industry publications. Mark is also the author of the book, "Web
Services Security", published by Osborne-McGrawHill.
Orrin, Steve - CTO, Sarvega, Inc., U.S.
Steve Orrin is CTO for Sarvega, Inc. and is responsible for the product strategy
and direction. Steve was formerly Vice President of Security Solutions for Watchfire,
Inc. and was responsible for the product strategy and direction of Watchfire's
web application security and privacy software product lines. Steve was previously
CTO of Sanctum, a pioneer in Web application security testing and firewall software,
and came to Watchfire through an acquisition of Sanctum. Prior to Sanctum, Steve
was CTO and co-founder of LockStar Inc. LockStar provided enterprises with the
means to secure and XML/WebService enable legacy and enterprise applications
for e-business. Steve joined LockStar from SynData Technologies, Inc. where
he was CTO and chief architect of its desktop email and file security product
and also managed the technology and software development team. Steve has spoken
several times at RSA, ISACA conferences, N+I, TEPR, Vanguard and SANS conferences.
Most recently he presented at Best's Review E-Fusion, and NGN. Steve was named
one of InfoWorld's Top 25 CTO's of 2004 and has developed several patent-pending
technologies covering user authentication, secure data access and steganography
and has one issued patent in steganography. Steve is a member of the Network
and Systems Professionals Association (NaSPA), the Computer Security Institute
(CSI) and the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), SEI (Software
Engineering Institute), and is a co-Founder of WASC (Web Application Security
Consortium). He participates in several working groups of the Internet Engineering
Task Force (IETF) and OASIS, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured
Information Standards.
Paoli, Jean - XML Architect, Microsoft Corporation,
United States
Jean Paoli is XML architect at Microsoft, and one of the co-creators of the
XML 1.0 standard with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). He has long been
a strong and passionate advocate of XML and open standards. Jean jump-started
the XML activity in Microsoft. He created and managed the team that delivered
msxml, the software that XML-enabled IE and Windows. He works now in the Microsoft
Office team. Paoli has been a significant player in the worldwide XML community
since 1985, when the technology was then known as SGML. Until 1996, when he
joined Microsoft, Jean was based in Paris, where he worked in collaboration
with European research institutes, including INRIA in France. He designed for
important corporations a lot of systems where SGML, in its approach of structuring
and storing information, ensured the long life and easy exchangeability of the
data across systems. His specialty has been building end-user markup editing
tools.
Parikh, Ash - Director ofDevelopment and Technology,
Raining Data Corporation, USA
Ash Parikh is the director of technology and development of the enterprise application
business at Raining Data Corporation. He is a named expert in the field of distributed
computing and has presented and authored abstracts for Delphi BPX Summit 2004,
Delphi Enterprise On-Demand 2004, JavaOne 2004, JavaOne 2003, BEA e-World 2002,
and JavaOne 2002. He has over 15 years of IT experience and is an active member
on a number of JSRs on the Java Community Process and Technical Committees on
OASIS. He is also the president of the Bay Area Chapter of the Worldwide Institute
of Software Architects. He is the collaborating author of "Oracle9iAS Building
J2EE Applications" (Osborne Press, November 2002), and has also authored
several technical articles in leading journals such as JavaPro, Web Services
Journal, ADT Mag, SoftwareMag, JavaSkyline, etc.
Parikh, Premal - Lead Architect, Raining Data
Corporation, USA
Premal Parikh is a lead architect/team lead with the Enterprise Applications
Group at Raining Data Corporation. He has more than 10 years of experience in
the software industry, which includes design and architecting products, along
with prototyping, analysis, project modeling, and development of portals for
the B2B marketplace. Parikh is also an active member on a number of OASIS Web
services standards technical committees.
Parker, Daniel - Consultant, Economic Technolgy,
Inc., Canada
Daniel Parker was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia in 1955. His academic background
is in Economics. He entered the field of freelance software development in 1985.
Since then he has worked for a wide variety of corporate clients, including
start-ups and large financial institutions. He has worked on the design and
implementation of financial trading, financial risk, telco provisioning, and
enterprise integration software. He currently lives and works as an independent
consultant in Toronto.
Parsons, Jon - Director Product Marketing, XyEnterprise,
USA
Jon Parsons has over 20 years experience automating the creation, management,
and delivery of content in multiple forms. Curr