All star cast of: Introduction to XML Video

• Tim Bray (Co-editor, XML v. 1.0 Specification)
• Jon Bosak (Chairman, W3C XML Coordination Group)
• Charles Goldfarb (Father of all markup languages)
• C.M. Sperberg-McQueen (Co-editor, XML v. 1.0 Specification)
• Jean Paoli (Co-editor, XML v. 1.0 Specification)

Tim Bray
(Co-editor, XML v. 1.0 Specification)

Tim Bray is an independent writer, consultant, and programmer based out of Vancouver, Canada.

Bray established his own company, Textuality.com, in 1996. Previous to that time, Bray was the Senior Vice President of Technology for Open Text Corporation, where he invented and built the Open Text Index of the World Wide Web (now BusinessWeb). Other positions included serving as CEO of Waterloo Maple Software, Manager for the University of Waterloo's New Oxford Dictionary Project, and part-time lecturer on Operating Systems at Vancouver's Simon Fraser University.

Tim is a Seybold Fellow, and has taught and lectured extensively for the last twelve years at conferences all over the world. In 1996, he received an "Award for meritorious research and lively presentation" at the WWW5 conference in Paris, France, for his presentation entitled Measuring the Web. Other presentations available online include Perl and XML.

Jon Bosak
(Chairman, W3C XML Coordination Group)

Jon Bosak is currently a Distinguished Engineer for Sun Microsystems based out of Palo Alto, California.

Bosak was the Chair of the W3C XML Working Group that produced the 1.0 Specification. Jon is a former chair of the W3C's XML Coordination Group, and a former member of the W3C's XSL Working Group. Currently, he is a member of the ebXML Advisory Board.

Bosaks's other past standards activity includes serving as a member of the ISO/IEC JTCI/WG4 working group (responsible for SGML, HyTime, and DSSSL).

Charles Goldfarb
(Father of all markup languages)

Charles Goldfarb is known as "the Father of all markup languages" and the inventor of SGML (Standardized General Markup Language).

Goldfarb is also co-author of The XML Handbook, which is part of Prentice Hall's Charles F. Goldfarb Series on XML.

Goldfarb has his own consulting practice, Information Management Consulting, based out of Saratoga, California, and recently launched XML Times, an online XML news magazine.

C.M. Sperberg-McQueen
(Co-editor, XML v. 1.0 Specification)

CM Sperberg-McQueen is a full-time member of the W3C's staff, based out of Espa­ola, New Mexico.

Sperberg-McQueen is currently a co-chair of both the W3C's XML Schema Working Group and the W3C's XML Coordination Group.

Previously, he was the Senior Research Programmer for the University of Illinois at Chicago's Academic Computer Center, Editor-in-chief of the Text Encoding Initiative, and Humanities Computing Specialist, for the Research Services Group at Princeton University's Computing Center.

Jean Paoli
(Co-editor, XML v. 1.0 Specification)

Jean Paoli is the Product Unit Manager for XML Technologies for Microsoft Corporation based in Redmond, Washington.

Paoli joined Microsoft in 1996 and is often given the credit for turning Bill Gates on to XML in 1996. Paoli was a speaker with Gates at the Seybold '97 conference in San Francisco, where Microsoft made its original "big announcement" regarding its decision to throw XML into its entire product line.