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.

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