Brief description: One of the prime movers of XML, now with Sun
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Described recently as "a perennial figure of the Web," Tim Bray's typical bio is almost frighteningly full of accomplishment: He was manager of the New Oxford English Dictionary Project at the University of Waterloo, a co-editor of the XML spec, co-founder of Open Text Corporation, and is the founder and CTO of Antarctica Systems. He is a member of the W3C Consortium's Technical Architecture Group, which serves an architectural oversight function for the Web. As James Horner has observed: "To put it simply, his efforts change the way we work with, and perceive, information."
Bray blogs enthusiastically, and recently joined Sun as Director of Web Technologies.
While most people regard .NET as the chief threat to Java's status as the de-facto standard basis for large-scale software development, Bray - ever the contrarian -prophetically argued that rather it is the family of dynamic or "scripting" languages such as JavaScript, Python and Groovy that would inevitably occupy a larger and larger piece of the software-development universe. He believed that this trend is "impossible to resist, and...is potentially a good thing for Java."
The explosion of AJAX in the past two years have proven him right on the first point; and probably right on the second, though that may only emerge over time.
Closely involved in the world's most successful XML vocabulary, "RSS", which is used for news syndication, Bray is co-chair of the IETF "Atom" project which is designed to be its future.
About Jeremy Geelan Jeremy Geelan is Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events. He is Conference Chair of the AJAXWorld Conference & Expo series, of the 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo and founder of Web 2.0 Journal, AJAXWorld Magazine and other major SYS-CON titles. From 2000-6, as first editorial director and then group publisher of SYS-CON Media, he was responsible for the development of all new titles and i-Technology portals for the firm, and regularly represents SYS-CON at conferences and trade shows, speaking to technology audiences both in North America and overseas. He is executive producer and presenter of "Power Panels with Jeremy Geelan" on SYS-CON.TV.
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