Steven Pemberton

Steven Pemberton (born 19 February 1953) is a researcher in the Distributed and Interactive Systems group[1] at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), the national research institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands.[2]

Not to be confused with Steve Pemberton.
Steven Pemberton
Steven Pemberton at XHTML 2 f2f in Venice

Pemberton served as a contributing author of HTML 4.0[3] and HTML 4.01[4] as well as chair of the W3C HTML Working Group[5][6] and contributing author during the specification of XHTML 1.0[7] and XHTML 1.1[8]. These web standards defined the W3C recommended[9] formats of world wide web content for over 15 years starting in 1997[10]. Pemberton also served as chair of the XHTML 2 working group until the conclusion of its charter at the end of 2009[11], after which work on the XML version of HTML was subsumed under the specification of HTML 5[12]

Having chaired the first W3C workshop on stylesheets[13], Pemberton served as a contributing author of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) specifications, Level 1[14], Level 2[15], and Level 3[16]. Since 1998, CSS has been a cornerstone World Wide Web technology, along with HTML and JavaScript.[17]

From 2000-2007, Pemberton served as co-chair of the W3C Forms Working Group.[18][19][20] He was a co-author of the XForms 1.0[21], XML Events[22], and XForms 1.1[23] W3C Recommendations. During this time, he was also a member of the RDFa taskforce. Starting in 2010, he was reappointed as co-chair of the W3C Forms Working Group[24], and he has continued since 2015 as a member of the W3C XForms Users Community Group.[25]

In addition to his substantial contributions to web standards, Pemberton was also one of the developers of the ABC programming language and of the Views System, an open-architecture user interface system[26] and application environment[27]. He also implemented ALGOL 68 for the Manchester MU5 Computer.[28]

Pemberton was editor-in-chief of SIGCHI Bulletin from 1993 to 1999 and of ACM Interactions from 1998 to 2004.

In 2009 Pemberton was awarded the CHI Lifetime Service Award by SIGCHI.[29]

References
  1. About Steven Pemberton at CWI
  2. About Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica.
  3. Acknowledgements in the HTML 4.0 W3C Recommendation
  4. Acknowledgements in the HTML 4.01 W3C Recommendation
  5. HTML working group charter, 2000-2002
  6. HTML working group charter, 2002-2004
  7. Acknowledgements in the XHTML 1.0 W3C Recommendation
  8. XHTML 1.1 Acknowledgements
  9. W3C Process Document, Definition of W3C Recommendation
  10. HTML on Wikipedia
  11. W3C news item including conclusion of XHTML 2 charter
  12. HTML 5 W3C Recommendation
  13. W3C Workshop on Style Sheets
  14. CSS 1 W3C Recommendation
  15. CSS 2 W3C Recommendation
  16. CSS Color Module Level 3 W3C Recommendation
  17. Cascading Style Sheets on Wikipedia
  18. W3C Forms Working Group Charter, 2000-2002
  19. W3C Forms Working Group Charter, 2003-2004
  20. Acknowledgements in XForms 1.1 W3C Recommendation
  21. Acknowledgements in XForms 1.0 W3C Recommendation
  22. XML Events W3C Recommendation
  23. Acknowledgements in XForms 1.1 W3C Recommendation
  24. W3C Forms Working Group Charter
  25. W3C XForms Users Community Group
  26. Views: An open-architecture user-interface system. In proceedings of Interacting with Computers: Preparing for the Nineties, Noordwijkerhout, 1990.
  27. Programming Aspects of Views. CWI Report, 1992.
  28. Steven Pemberton's home page
  29. SIGCHI 2009 Awards – Steven Pemberton.


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