Martin Jackson

Martin has 30 years experience in technical publications working in the shipbuilding, military, electronics and aerospace industries. At Bombardier Aerospace he has held management positions in Technical Illustration, as PDM program manager, and is currently the e-Business Manager where he is planning the implementation of intelligent graphics. At Bombardier he architected the integrated use of the ATA CGM, and Graphic Style Guides, as a mandatory supplier delivery. Currently he is managing the Customer Information Centre an interactive support web site he introduced in 1998. He has been a member of the ATA Graphics Working Group since 1995, was the co-founder, and co-chair, of the ATA Graphic Style Working Group. He recently activated the onset of the new ATA colour standard. Martin is a Senior Member of the Society for Technical Communication.

Pradeep Jain

Pradeep Jain oversees the development of client/server, web-based applications and WorX related product offerings developed by HyperVision. He has extensive experience with XML and its applications. He has been a speaker at the XML 2000, Legal XML, MITRE PECO XML Interchange Group, etc. Pradeep is currently involved in development of XML based Portals, Single Source Architectures and end-to-end XML solutions.

Murali Janakiraman

Murali Janakiraman has been with Rogue Wave for six years, and is currently the Software Architect for the XML Products team in Corvallis, Oregon. During his tenure at Rogue Wave, Murali has been a developer, senior developer and tech lead on almost all of Rogue Wave’s database products, including DBTools.h++, JDBTools, DBTools.h++ XA, RW-Metro and now XML Link. Murali has a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Anna University in Chennai, India, and a Masters in Computer Science from Portland State University. He has spoken numerous times for Rogue Wave web seminars on database products such as RW-Metro and XML Link. For the past five years, Murali has focused on databases, distributed transactions and object-relational mapping, making him a key asset to the XML technology team.

Eric Johnson

Has been developing commercial software for over ten years, using C, C++, and most recently Java. Has worked on and led teams for ground breaking products, including "SmartForms" product line for Claris Corporation, "Day-Timer Pen Scheduler" for Slate Corporation (pen-based software company), "Launch Pad" Berkeley Systems, Inc (a security desktop for children), and XML products for TIBCO Extensibility. Prior to Extensibility, founded and ran a software development and consulting firm, Visionscape Technologies, Inc, for three years. Currently the Technical Lead and product architect for TIBCO Extensibility's XML Canon Developer product.

Mark A. Johnson

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Christophe Jolif

Christophe Jolif has been working for ILOG since 1997. Since January 1999, he has been an R&D Software Engineer working on ILOG JViews Component Suite. He is also currently representing ILOG at SVG World Wide Web Consortium Working Group and implementing SVG import and export features in ILOG JViews.

Teresa L. Ju

Dr. Teresa L. Ju is Associate Professor of the Department of Information Management, Su-Te University, Taiwan. Prior to teaching she has worked in the information and insurance industry for over 10 years. She has held management positions such as President of Global Ventures Co. (S.A.), Taiwan and Director of Strategic Systems, Continental Corporation, New York. Her current interest is in applying XML technology to workflow related topics.

Benjamin Jung

Ben has more than 10 years experience in developing Hypertext systems. Prior to the web-age, he built CBT systems for the pharmaceutical industry using Hyperties from Cognetics Corp. In 1995, he developed a web-based project management system for the Systems Realization Laboratory at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. Ben graduated from Technische Universität München (Germany) with a degree (Dipl. Inform. Univ.) in Computer Science and Theoretical Medicine. From 1998 he worked for two years as a Research Assistant and Technical Teamleader at the Centre for Health Informatics, Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Ireland. Ben has published and presented papers at various Computer Science and Medical conferences. He also developed full-day XML tutorials/workshops for conferences in Europe and the U.S. At present, he is a full-time lecturer and Ph.D. student in the Knowledge and Data Engineering Group (TCD), teaching databases, document architectures and XML technologies. Ben co-founded deepX Ltd., an Irish based consulting and training company, focusing on data engineering and electronic publishing using XML technologies.

Kevin Kail

Kevin has more than 10 years of sales and marketing experience in the data warehousing and repository industry and he has generated more than $100 million in revenue. Before co-founding XMLSolutions in 1999, he was Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Business Development Worldwide of Alydaar Software Corporation, Charlotte, North Carolina. Here he created a sales organization of 40 professionals in 10 months. He has also held executive positions at InfoSpan, ADPAC, MSP Corporation, PLATINUM Technology and RELTECH Group. At PLATINUM Technology, he managed all repository and information warehouse product sales in the Western United States. Mr. Kail has a BS in Accounting from the University of Texas A&M.

Dianne Kennedy

Dianne Kennedy has a long history in publishing, beginning with her experience as a editor/writer for the textbook division of Doubleday. Ms.Kennedy began working with information technologies in 1986 where she was one of the pioneers in SGML. In 1997 Ms. Kennedy founded XMLXperts and began work as an independent XML consultant. Currently Ms. Kennedy serves as a Chief Technical Consultant for IDEAlliance, is editor of the XML Files, participates as an invited expert on the ICE authoring group, and was chairperson for the XML 2000 Conference. Ms. Kennedy is a founding partner of InfoLoom, Inc, providing topic-map based knowledge management technology for publishers and content providers.

Michael Klein

Michael Klein, as Managing Director and Partner of Cedion GmbH, is a German specialist for Information Services and Technologies and NextPage Premier Partner. With a background in the banking business, Michael Klein has more than 10 years experience with professional IT projects. Today, he is responsible for sales and consulting services in the publishing and corporate markets for peer-to-peer technology.

Thierry Kormann

Thierry is a software engineer, at the Koala project of ILOG located at INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France. Thierry has developed an SVG engine presented at the SVG BOF session at JavaOne 2000. Since then, he co-founded the Apache Batik project. His work is focused on Graphics and XML related technologies.

Klaus Kreulich

Klaus Kreulich has been working as researcher at the Institute for Print and Media Technology [pm] at Chemnitz Technical University since 1997. Before joining the pm institute he worked as software developer and project manager within the IT-industry. He has been involved in various research projects dealing with XML and Publishing-on-Demand technologies. Currently he is active on the CUSTOMDP project. He is also working on his Ph.D. thesis concerning XML publishing models.

Robin La Fontaine

Robin La Fontaine has a degree in Engineering from the University of Oxford and a Masters degree in Computer Science. Robin is a member of the SGML/STEP Harmonisation Working Group within ISO. He works as a consultant in the use of XML for engineering data. He has been project manager of several European research projects including the STEPWISE project and the XML/EDI European Pilot Project.

Philippe P Le Hégaret

Philippe Le Hégaret is responsible of the DOM Activity for the W3C and Chair of the DOM Working Group.

Markku Leikas

Mr. Markku Leikas M.Sc(Tech), Development Manager of Product Data Systems, Metso Paper, Inc., Roll Finishing Systems, has over decade experience in managing automation area software development projects, mainly for Paper production and Energy distribution areas. He has recently concentrated on SGML/XML-based documentation, its integration to automation systems and on PDM implementation and data exchange.

Chris Lilley

Chris Lilley has been working with the Web since 1993 and has been a member of the W3C technical staff since 1996. He is Graphics Activity lead and also chairs two W3C working groups: CSS and SVG. Chris was co-editor of the CSS2 specification and has also contributed to the HTML 2.0, HTML 4.0, CSS1, PNG, and WebCGM specifications. He is based in the South of France.

Peiya Liu

Peiya Liu is a project manager and senior member of technical staff at Multimedia Documentation Program, Siemens Corporate Research, Inc. Peiya received his PhD in computer science from University of Texas at Austin in 1986. He has spoken at the following industry conferences: XML Europe 2000, Markup Technologies 98 and 99. IEEE Multimedia 94, 96. He has severed as a program committee member in many conferences. He has conducted tutorials on SGML/XML-based multimedia documentation in academic and industrial conferences. He is currently the standards section editor of IEEE Multimedia magazine and on the editorial board of Kluwer Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications.

Chris Loftus

Chris Loftus is Head of Training at JayDee Technology, where he develops and teaches courses on Java (Core and Enterprise) and XML. Prior to joining JDT, he taught courses at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth on Java, Data Structures and Algorithms, and object-oriented analysis and design using UML and Unified Process. He was involved in several European Framework research projects looking at software engineering support for developing telecoms services, in particular, SDL to Java translation.

Nicklas Lundblad

Nicklas Lundblad is the Director of the Stockholm Chamber of e -Commerce and pursues a PhD in informatics. He has a backgroudn in law (L.LM) and philosophy (B.A) with a focus on information and communications technology. Prior to his current work he has been stationed in Silicon Valley as the Swedish governments analyst on e-commerce with the Swedish office of science and technology. He has also hel various positions in the Swedish Research Institute for Information Technology. Mr Lundblad has authored a book on the future of law in view of the new technologies, and writes for several newspapers and magasines in Sweden on these subjects.

Virpi A. Lyytikäinen

Since 1996, Virpi Lyytikäinen has been doing research related to structured SGML/XML documents at the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems in the University of Jyväskylä. At the moment she works in a project called inSGML, which is developing, testing and customizing methods for the SGML/XML standardization process especially for industrial purposes. The work is related to her Doctoral Thesis, whose subject is methods for SGML standardization.During the years 1998-2000 she worked in a project called EULEGIS, which was developing a unified interface for different legal databases in the Internet. Before that she worked in RASKE project, which developed means and methods for deployment of structured SGML documents in major Finnish public sector organisations. RASKE was a joint project, whose participants included Parliament of Finland, and ministries of the Finnish government.