Dr. Michael Sperberg-McQueen

Dr. C. Michael Sperberg-McQueen is the founder of Black Mesa Tech­no­lo­gies LLC, a con­sultancy spe­cial­iz­ing in inform­a­tion man­age­ment using descript­ive markup, He was a found­ing mem­ber of the XML Work­ing Group at the World Wide Web Con­sor­tium (W3C), co-edited the XML 1.0 spe­cific­a­tion, and serves as an invited expert on the W3C XML Schema and XSL Work­ing Groups. From 1999 through 2009 he was a mem­ber of the tech­nical staff at W3C. Before that he worked for twelve years in the Aca­demic Com­puter Cen­ter of the Uni­ver­sity of Illinois at Chicago, and for two years at Prin­ceton Uni­ver­sity, where he served as a con­sult­ant for human­it­ies com­put­ing ques­tions. He also served from 1995 through 2004 as a co-coordinator (with David R. Ches­nutt and Susan M. Hockey) of the Model Edi­tions Part­ner­ship, and from 1998 to 2003 held a pos­i­tion as vis­it­ing researcher at the Uni­ver­sity of Ber­gen (Norway).

He has served as co-editor of the Text Encod­ing Initiative’s Guidelines for Elec­tronic Text Encod­ing and Inter­change (1994), of the W3C Extens­ible Markup Lan­guage (XML) 1.0 spe­cific­a­tion, and cur­rently serves as a co-editor of the XML Schema 1.1 specification.

He has a Ph.D. in com­par­at­ive lit­er­at­ure but strayed into com­put­ing as a gradu­ate stu­dent and never came back out.

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