Faculty Board 2009

 

The XML Sum­mer School Fac­ulty Board includes some of the biggest names in XML, who have designed the high qual­ity cur­riculum and invited a fant­astic array of experts to pre­pare and deliver classes.

The Board oper­ates under the stew­ard­ship of Course Dir­ector, Dr Lauren Wood. The full Board is made up of the fol­low­ing members:

Dr. Lauren Wood

Lauren Wood is an exper­i­enced inter­net pro­ject, pro­gram, and product man­ager. She has a long his­tory in work­ing with XML, and before that SGML, with exper­i­ence in XML pro­jects ran­ging from pub­lish­ing to sig­ni­fic­ant input into SoftQuad’s XMetaL XML editor. She chaired the US XML Con­fer­ence from 2001 to 2005, chaired the W3C DOM Work­ing Group from its incep­tion to the end of Level 2, and played an act­ive role in many other OASIS and W3C tech­nical committees.

Lauren also has exper­i­ence in set­tings where XML is used more under the cov­ers, such as chair­ing the Busi­ness Mar­ket­ing Expert Group for the Liberty Alli­ance, man­aging the loc­al­isa­tion and access­ib­il­ity fea­ture teams for SoftQuad’s HoT­MetaL HTML editor, and most recently, man­aging a pro­ject for Sun Microsys­tems that involved cloud com­put­ing, client-side soft­ware, and hard­ware design.

Lauren has been a Fac­ulty mem­ber of the Sum­mer School since the begin­ning. In her spare time she knits and ren­ov­ates the house.

Lauren chairs the Semantic Tech­no­lo­gies and Trends and Tran­si­ents courses.

Pro­fessor John Chelsom

John Chel­som is a part­ner at Eleven Inform­at­ics, a con­sultancy firm spe­cial­ising in the applic­a­tion of open stand­ards and open source soft­ware, using Agile devel­op­ment tech­niques. He is also a Vis­it­ing Pro­fessor at the Centre for Health Inform­at­ics, City Uni­ver­sity London.

Pre­vi­ously he was founder and Man­aging Dir­ector of CSW Group, which was involved in the design and devel­op­ment of major XML sys­tems for Ford Motor Co, Xerox Corp, the BBC and John­son & John­son. CSW also sup­plied the under­ly­ing soft­ware for prob­ably the world’s largest XML trans­ac­tion pro­cessing data­base deliv­er­ing patient record inform­a­tion for the National Health Ser­vice in Eng­land. John star­ted the XML Sum­mer School in 2000 with col­leagues from CSW.

John chairs the Hands-on Intro­duc­tion to XML course.

Pro­fessor Ron Summers

Ron Sum­mers is Pro­fessor of Inform­a­tion Engin­eer­ing at Lough­bor­ough Uni­ver­sity in the UK, where he is a mem­ber of the Sys­tems Divi­sion in the Depart­ment of Elec­tronic and Elec­trical Engin­eer­ing. As well as gen­eral interests in the pro­cess of know­ledge trans­fer between aca­demia and industry and vice versa, he has research interests in the applic­a­tion of open source soft­ware to the health and phar­ma­ceut­ical domains. Although his work has thus far been lim­ited to work­ing with industry in Europe, he is set to extend both the geo­graphic bound­ary and dis­cip­line bound­ary in which he works as a con­sequence of part­ner­ing with a Gov­ern­ment depart­ment on tech­no­logy roadmaps. Seen as fer­tile ground for a re-appreciation of the use of an open source approach for data col­lec­tion, pro­cessing, visu­al­isa­tion, stor­age and reser­va­tion, the issues gen­er­ated will keep him busy until at least the next XML Sum­mer School!

Ron chairs the Open Source XML Applic­a­tions course.

Bob DuCh­arme

Bob DuCh­arme is a Solu­tions Archi­tect at Innodata Iso­gen. In the XML.com news­let­ter, editor Kend­all Clark once wrote “Does any­one write tech prose as clear as Bob?” 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’s writ­ten over sev­enty pieces for XML.com and has con­trib­uted to Dr. Dobb’s Journal, IBM developer­Works, DevX, perl.com, XML Magazine, XML Journal, XML Developer, O’Reilly Books’ “XML Hacks,” and Pren­tice Hall’s “XML Hand­book.” Bob received his BA in Reli­gion from Columbia Uni­ver­sity and his Mas­ters in Com­puter Sci­ence from New York Uni­ver­sity. He lives in Char­lottes­ville, Virginia.

Bob chairs the XSLT, XSL-FO and XQuery course.

Eve Maler

Eve Maler is a Dis­tin­guished Engin­eer in PayPal’s Iden­tity Ser­vices group, where she drives the devel­op­ment of secur­ity and iden­tity strategies for enabling con­sumer choice in per­mis­sion­ing of per­sonal data sharing.

Eve was one of the invent­ors of XML; she also co-founded the SAML effort and has made major lead­er­ship, tech­nical, and edu­ca­tional con­tri­bu­tions to many other stand­ards and tech­nical com­munit­ies. In recent times she has focused primar­ily on con­sumer trust, pri­vacy, and empower­ment issues in Web iden­tity and per­mis­sioned data-sharing. She launched an open effort called User-Managed Access to explore long-term solu­tions in this area.

Eve is a sought-after pub­lic speaker, and serves as the chair of the Web Ser­vices and Iden­tity track of the annual XML Sum­mer School held at Uni­ver­sity of Oxford.

Eve co-authored Devel­op­ing SGML DTDs: From Text to Model to Markup, a book that provided a unique meth­od­o­logy for inform­a­tion ana­lysis and SGML schema design. Eve’s blog, Push­ing String at xmlgrrl.com, touches on top­ics both tech­nical and whimsical.

Eve chairs the Web Ser­vices and Iden­tity course.

Peter Flynn

Peter Flynn has over 30 years exper­i­ence in IT and inform­a­tion man­age­ment. He cur­rently man­ages the elec­tronic pub­lish­ing unit at Uni­ver­sity Col­lege Cork, and also has his own text man­age­ment con­sultancy, Sil­maril, where he works mainly with indus­trial pro­duc­tion and research systems.

Peter was a mem­ber of the W3C’s XML Spe­cial Interest Group and a mem­ber of the IETF’s Work­ing Group on HTML. He is main­tainer of the XML FAQ and author of The World-Wide Web Hand­book (ITCP, 1995) and Under­stand­ing SGML and XML Tools (Kluwer, 1998). He has recently been research­ing the usab­il­ity of edit­ors for struc­tured documents.

In what’s left of his time he likes to cook, surf, read, and listen to early music.

Peter chairs the Web 2.0 with XML course.