Cecilia Magnusson Sjöberg

Cecilia Magnusson Sjöberg, LL.D. is Associate professor at the Faculty of Law, Stockholm University. She has had 15 years´ of practical experience of developing and using IT-based legal information systems, including both the public and the private sector as well as participation in EU-projects. She gained her doctorate in 1992 with a thesis on legal automation in the Swedish public sector. Within the field of SGML/XML her major work – the Corpus Legis project – is described in the book "Critical Factors in Legal Document Management: A study of standardised markup languages" (Stockholm: Jure, 1998, www.juridicum.su.se/iri/corpus) The major research project she is currently involved in investigates the possibilities of cross-fertilisation of advanced methods for security enhancement and applications of XML in the legal domain. She is presently course director for the international Master’s Programme in Law and Information Technology at Stockholm university in which the development and management of information systems are studied in a legal perspective (www.juridicum.su.se/iri/studentinfo/).

Gerald W. Manger

Gerald Manger is Development Engineer at the Research and Engineering Center of the BMW Group in Munich/Germany. He develops methods using SGML/XML-technologies for the technical documentation of control units for motor management systems. Before, he finished his studies of Computer Sciences with the Diploma at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt on the Main/Germany.

Graham Mann

Graham Mann is a computer scientist for the printing technologies group at Adobe Systems Europe Ltd, based in Norwich in the UK. He is a member of the product development team where he is currently working with the Job Definition Format (JDF) and is particularly responsible for aspects concerning the validation and interchange of JDF documents. As such he has been one of the main developers of an XML schema definition for JDF which was recently handed over to CIP4.

David Marshall

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James David Mason, Ph.D.

James D. Mason, originally trained as a physicist, mediaevalist, and linguist, has been a writer, systems developer, and manufacturing engineer at U.S. Department of Energy facilities in Oak Ridge since the late 1970s. In 1981, he joined the ISO's work on standards for document management and interchange. He has chaired ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34, which is responsible for SGML, DSSSL, Topic Maps, and related standards, since 1985. Dr. Mason has been a frequent writer and speaker on standards and their applications. For his work on SGML, Dr. Mason has received the Gutenberg Award from Printing Industries of America and the Tekkie Award from GCA.

Charles A. McCay

Charles McCay is the XML co-ordinator for HL7-UK. He was on the team specifying the "Electronic Transfer of Perscriptions in England" message, and produced an "XML in Healthcare Resource Kit" for the University of Newcastle. He has used XML within messaging solutions for finance, insurance, and healthcare and takes a practical and pragmatic approach to its benefits. He has also spent many years developing clinical systems and their interfaces without those benefits.

John McKeown

John received a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin in 1997. After graduating he became a postgraduate member of the Knowledge and Data Engineering Group (KDEG) within the Computer Science Department at Trinity College. During this time he conducted research in the area of content generation and publishing on the World Wide Web. This work has been submitted for a Masters in Computer Science. In his time as a postgraduate student, John worked on a number of research projects funded by the European Union. He also assisted in the running of a course for undergraduate students and lectured on a course for postgraduate students. He continues to lecture part-time at Trinity College. John maintains an interest in electronic publishing and emerging technologies for the Web including XML. He has presented papers and full-day workshops at a number of conferences. In 2000, John co-founded deepX Ltd., a consulting and training company, specialising in data engineering and electronic publishing using XML technologies.

Ewen McNeill

McNeill, a Technical Consultant with iMatix Corporation, has worked with Internet-related technology for the past decade, and with iMatix Corporation for the past 4 years concentrating on software portability, and code generation. Ewen has worked with SGML and XML, primarily as data representation formats for the past 3 years, using a wide range of tools. He has been extensively involved in the development of the third version of the iMatix GSL (Generator Scripting Language) tool that brings together the benefits of XML and code generation. Together with Pieter Hintjens (also of iMatix Corporation) Ewen is writing a book on using XML and code generation together to build business-to-business Internet-based applications, tentatively titled "XML in Business". Ewen holds Bachelors degrees in Computer Science and Law from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Norbert Mikula

Norbert is involved in strategic product planning and standards technology research. He developed one of the first XML parsers (NXP) and has been engaged in XML-related efforts since the early days of this standard. Currently, Mikula also serves as chair of the Technical Advisory Committee on the board of directors of OASIS, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards. He is the author of numerous white papers and articles and has been a speaker and track-chair at a variety of national and international conferences and industry events. Mikula holds a "Diplom Ingenieur" degree in applied computer science from the University of Klagenfurt in Austria.

Derek A. Millar

Derek is Director of Professional Services at NewBook Production Inc., a management and technical consulting company specializing in the field of electonic publishing systems involving SGML and XML. He has many years of experience providing consulting services and technical expertise to companies implementing solutions for publishing and document management. He has helped develop solutions for issues relating to data creation and maintenance in the aerospace, legal publishing and reference publishing industries.

Dr. Markus Möller

Dr. Markus Möller is a experimental solid state physicist. The subject of his scientific work at the university of Würzburg (Germany) during the late 80th and beginning 90th can be grouped into the semiconductor physics. In the 90th he gained experiences in the object oriented software development (OOA and OOP), the design of software architectures, and the automation of processes around the mechanical industry. He is working with MAN Roland since November 1999 and is one of the authors of the Job Definition Format specification. He is currently working on digital workflow solutions based on the JDF-standard and other XML related projects within MAN Roland.

Graham D. Moore

Graham is responsible for the research and development of new technologies within the empolis group. The technologies developed are applied to solving the knowledge management problems of today’s organisations. Over the past two years this has involved the development of XLink and Topic Map software and many more innovative technology creations are on the way. Graham has been heavily involved in the XTM activity especially in the sub group working on the conceptual model and now as Editor. Graham has worked in the SGML and XML industry for a few years, previously working for STEP and Database Publishing Systems Ltd. Graham is also studying for a PhD at Southampton University in the area of distributed information and knowledge management.

Carolin Müller

Carolin works since 1998 with VIA informationsarchitekturen. She is information architect and independent consultant for XML-based publication environments and semantic nets. Before this she was involved in linguistic research with the main focus on lexicography. Apart from her own studies, she participated in the design of an XML-based lexicological-lexicographical information system, developed by the Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) in Mannheim. Besides she worked for a dictionary project covering the different language stages of Early New High German.

Charles R. Myers

Mr. Myers is responsible for the strategic technology direction for the ePaper Solutions Group, which is responsible for Adobe's Acrobat products and PDF. Mr. Myers has more than 25 years of experience in the computer software and publishing industries at Datalogics, Frame, and Adobe. He was responsible for Datalogics PAGER publishing product and a number of early SGML and database publishing systems.

Farrukh S. Najmi

Farrukh Najmi is a Staff Engineer in the J2EE team at Sun. His focus in recent years has been messaging technologies and eBusiness. He is an active contributor to the ebXML eBusiness standards activity, where he is the Technical Editor for the ebXML Registry specifications. Currently he is the specification lead for Java API for XML Registries (JAXR). Previously, he helped develop Sun's Java Messaging Service Reference Implementation. Prior to joining Sun, Farrukh was at Hewlett Packard where he led the development of a large scale enterprise Java application in the field of Medical Information Systems. He started his career at HP Labs where he worked on the first single chip HPPA RISC processor from HP. Over the years, he has been an ardent evangelist for the Java platform.

Alexander D. Nakhimovsky

Alexander Nakhimovsky received an MA in mathematics from Leningrad University in 1972 and a PhD in Linguistics from Cornell in 1979, with a graduate minor in Computer Science. He has been teaching computer science at Colgate University since 1985. He is the author, jointly with Tom Myers, of two WROX titles: Javascript Objects, 1998, Professional Java XML Programming, 1999; Nakhimovsky and Myers are also contributors of XML chapters to Professional JSP Programming, Professional WAP programming, and Professional Java Server Programming, J2EE Edition, all published in 2000. Nakhimovsky frequently speaks at professional conferences, most recently at the Wrox Wireless Conference, Amsterdam July 2000, Wireless DevCon conference in San Jose CA, December 2000 (where Myers and Nakhimovsky were Technical Program Directors) and XML DevCon conference, New York, April 2001.

Doug Neal

Douglas Neal, based in the United States, is Director of Global Networking for CSC Research Services and leads the research into Innovating through Technology. His interest is in the intersection of strategy, business operations and technology. Foundation research projects undertaken by him include Deploying Systems at the Customer Interface, Rethinking the Desktop and the recent Study Tour to Scandinavia and Japan on 3G telephone systems. Doug’s current research is around issues of privacy, both for consumers and B2B. His point of view on consumer privacy was published in the October issue of the Wilson Quarterly. Doug’s functional specialities include enterprise architecture, computer-supported collaborative work, mobility, customer service and distributed systems management. He has developed state-of-the-art management and other end-user systems for clients in financial services, manufacturing, healthcare and high-technology companies. Prior to joining CSC, Doug worked at two international management consultancies and founded an organization specializing in systems for executive management. Doug received a BA from Haverford College, conducted special studies at the Ruhr University and has an ABD from the University of Michigan.

Steven R. Newcomb

Independent consultant in information management.Co-editor of the ISO HyTime standard. Developer of the GroveMinder technology. Founding Chairman, Conventions for the Application of HyTime (CApH) activity of the Graphic Communications Association Research Institute (now IDEAlliance), the original developer of the Topic Map paradigm, and co-editor of ISO/IEC 13250:2000, the Topic Maps information architecture. Founding Co-chair, TopicMaps.Org. Founding Conference Chair, Extreme Markup Languages Conferences. (The next Extreme Conference will be in August, 2001, in Montreal.)

Duane Nickull

Duane Nickull is a founder and the President of XML Global Technologies, Inc. He is a co-inventor of the first Context-sensitive XML Search Engine (www.goxml.com) and the first web based XML E-Commerce ASP (www.xmlcommercepro.com). He is the Technical Director for XSLT.com and participates in a number of standards bodies. Duane is currently working on the Technical Architecture for EbXML, a joint United Nations (UN/CEFACT) and OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Systems) initiative. Being recognized for his contributions got Duane invited onto the Steering Committee as well as elected as the Chief Editor of the Technical Architecture Team. Duane also regularly contributes technical articles to miscellaneous software publications. He lives in Vancouver, BC and actively snowboards and mountainbikes.

Dr. Guido Noelle, M.D.

Born 1962 in Cologne, 1989 medical degree, 1991 promotion, working since 1993 in medical informatics, since 1998 many articles and lectures on XML in healthcare. since 1995 manager of the med medicine online.

Eamonn Neylon

Eamonn has worked in both the publishing and software development industries. During eight years with the Thomson Corporation he developed several innovative systems for publishing on the Internet. Eamonn then joined software developer RCP Consultants where he oversaw several software maintenance releases and created the Lynkbase system. More recently he was employed by Yankee Rights Management to work on identifiers for rights management.

Tim Nutman

Tim has recently worked on a number of large projects involving the deployment of XML authoring tools to 1000s of non-technical users. Tim has a wealth of real-world experience in the application of XML, CSS, XSL and Scripting Languages to build major end-to-end e-publishing systems. Tim has a BSc Hons in Computer Science.

Patrice Ossona de Mendez

Patrice wrote a PhD thesis in Mathematics and Computer Science ("Orientations Bipolaires", EHESS, 1994). Patrice is a researcher in the "Taxiplanie" team (UMR8557 CNRS), mainly concerned with applied theoretical researches on graph representation (algebraic and topological properties of graphs) and automatic graph drawing for industry. Patrice is co-author of Pigale software (Public Implementation of a Graph Algorithm Library and Editor) and author of more than 10 papers in the field of Topological Graph Theory.