James Mason
James D. Mason, originally trained as a mediaevalist and linguist, has been a writer,
systems developer, and manufacturing engineer at U.S. Department of Energy facilities
in
Oak Ridge since the late 1970s. In 1981, he joined the ISO's work on standards for
document management and interchange. He has chaired ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34, which is
responsible for SGML, DSSSL, Topic Maps, and related standards, since 1985. Dr. Mason
has been a frequent writer and speaker on standards and their applications. For his
work
on SGML, Dr. Mason has received the Gutenberg Award from Printing Industries of America
and the Tekkie Award from GCA. Dr. Mason was chairman of the Knowledge Technologies
2002
conference sponsored by IDEAlliance and was a co-chair of Extreme Markup Languages
2003.
He is currently working on information systems to support manufacturing and the
classification community at DOE's Y-12 National Security Complex (Y-12) in Oak Ridge,
Tennessee.
Articles by this author
Extreme Markup 2004
James Mason files a brief recap of this year's Extreme Markup Languages
conference.
A Report From Extreme Markup Languages 2003
Jim Mason, one of the co-chairs of the Extreme Markup Languages conference,
reports on this recent annual gathering of deeply involved XML enthuasiasts and
innovators.