Correspondent Profile
Tim Bray
Sun Microsystems
- Specialties -
- XMl, Java, Technology
- Projects -
- Ongoing
- Location -
- Toronto, Canada
Tim Bray managed the Oxford English Dictionary project at the University of Waterloo in 1987-1989, co-founded Open Text Corporation (Nasdaq:OTEX) in 1989, launched one of the first public web search engines in 1995, co-invented XML 1.0 and co-edited "Namespaces in XML" between 1996 and 1999, served as a Tim Berners-Lee appointee on the W3C Technical Architecture Group in 2002-2004. Currently, he is a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems where he serves as Director of Web Technologies. He publishes a popular weblog recently shut down the IETF Atompub Working Group after three years of co-chairing it through the production of RFCs 4287 and 5023. Recently, he has been working on issues around modern programming frameworks like Django and Rails, and problems of many-core computing.