Biographies

Robin Berjon is Research Scientist for Expway, a company specializing in binary XML. He is currently Chair of the W3C XML Binary Characterization Working Group.

Founder and principal engineer of Objective Systems, Inc., a company dedicated to the implementation of data communications messaging standards. Mr. Day has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry as a programmer and consultant in the areas data communications using several standards-based technologies (ASN.1, XML, and CORBA).

Jaakko Kangasharju is currently a PhD student at the University of Helsinki and working as a researcher at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology. His research is on using XML in the mobile wireless environment, with a focus on SOAP messaging. He is a member of the W3C XML Binary Characterization Working Group.

Mr. Keaton is a Lead Research Engineer in the Advanced Communications group at ALPHATECH, Inc. He is currently the project technical lead for ALPHATECH’s Smart Forwarding program with the Air Force, where XML is being utilized in a novel gateway architecture for providing tactical data link interoperability. He has over 11 years of experience researching and developing multicast protocols, active networks, QoS-aware IP mobility solutions, mobile ad-hoc networking protocols, and tactical data link interoperability solutions.

Sanford Klausner (Sandy) has been inventing and implementing profitable, breakthrough technology products and founding companies to support them for thirty years. He founded his first company at 22, Bio-electronics Inc., to develop EEG, EMG, and audiometric products that were successfully licensed and deployed. His second company AIC, which was acquired by Novar Controls, Inc., revolutionized the controls industry where he developed a first principles iconic programming notation to design a distributed building automation system. Over $1B worth of the Logic One systems continue to control facilities around the World. Mr. Klausner spent his next ten years extending these iconic principles to architect a breakthrough systems development technology called Cubicon. Described from a programming language perspective, Cubicon replaces symbolic representations with icons resulting in a human's ability to manage far greater complexity than contemporary languages such as Java or C#.

Currently, Mr. Klausner is CEO and Founder of CoreTalk, a new company that has developed a comprehensive net-centric environment around Cubicon called CoreSystem. CoreSystem will connect billions of people, places and things with services that will be exchanged—anytime, anywhere, and through any device. CoreSystem interoperates seamlessly with all current standards for ease of integration and migration. It represents the next generation of interoperability technology after XML in functionality and performance. CoreSystem integrates the coveted concepts of ontology, interactive repository/registry systems, a community collaboration tool for managing context meta-resources, and extreme automation into a component-based platform. In short, CoreSystem represents a comprehensive system to realize a semantic net and make context computing practical. It enables people and computers to work in better cooperation, thus greatly accelerating discovery, integration, and reuse of knowledge.

Eric Lemoine serves as Chief Architect for Tarari's XML acceleration products. He led the design of Tarari's Random Access XML Content Processor, a silicon-based processing environment which implements high-speed random access to XML content. Dr. Lemoine's main research interest is the creation of very high performance purpose-built devices for machine-to-machine interoperability. He received his PhD from the Université de Montpellier for his work on Reconfigurable Hardware, working closely with pioneers in the field such as Professor Jean Vuillemin.

Michael Leventhal is Director, XML Products for Tarari. He was responsible for the definition of Tarari's Random Access XML Content Processor, a silicon-based processing environment which implements high-speed random access to XML content. He has been active in the XML developer community since its inception, published many articles on XML, and wrote the first book on the use of XML for the Internet. He is a member of the W3C Binary Characterization Working Group.

Dr. Santiago Pericas-Geertsen is a staff engineer in the Java Web Services group at Sun Microsystems. He is a PMC member at the Apache Software Foundation representing the Xalan/XSLTC project (and one of the original developers of XSLTC). He is also one of the developers contributing to the Fast WS project at Sun Microsystems as well as an editor for the W3C XML Binary Characterization working group. Santiago has presented at numerous academic and industry-oriented conferences including XML 2KX, JavaOne, UniForum, POPL (Principles of Programming languages), ESOP (European Symposium on Programming), LICS (Logic in Computer Science). He has also taught both graduate and undergraduate courses in computer science during his doctoral program at Boston University.

The speaker, Bjørn Reese, is a software architect of the IRIS messaging product at Systematic Software Engineering, and has been working with military messaging for over 5 years. He has participated in the development of the XML-MTF and the XML-VMF mapping specifications. Systematic provides machine to machine interoperability solutions to customers throughout the US and NATO including the USAF Theater Battle Management Core System (TBMCS).

Mr. Schneider is Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at AgileDelta, Inc., a company focused on maximizing the value of enterprise information by getting it to the people that need it, when they need it, where they need it. Prior to joining AgileDelta, Mr. Schneider led Engineering and Program Management for Crossgain Corporation (acquired by BEA), a high profile Microsoft spin-off founded to radically simplify building and deploying web services and applications. He was also Principal Systems Engineer at MITRE, where he kick-started and led the first DoD and NATO XML initiatives.

Mr. Schneider invented Knowledge Based Compression (KBC), the first data compression scheme to drastically reduce the size of structured text messages by leveraging shared meta-data (i.e., a schema). He contributed to the design of several key XML standards, is an active member of the W3C XML Binary Characterization Working Group and was a U.S. delegate to NATO on technology initiatives related to XML, messaging, and data interoperability. He founded and led the ECMAScript for XML (E4X) initiative, which created the first mainstream programming language with native support for XML.

Mr. Schneider has over twenty years experience developing technologies, including ten years of research and development related to military information management, data compression, mobile technologies, data interoperability and messaging. He has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science.

Kenneth Stranc is leading the development of the Airborne Network architecture for the US Air Force's Electronic Systems Center (ESC/NI1) at Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford, Massachusetts. He is conducting this work for the USAF's Airborne Network Special Interest Group (AN SIG) that is under the direction of the Airborne Network Senior Steering Group (AN SSG). Mr. Stranc is also leading the specification of networking and network management requirements for the Joint Airborne Network-Tactical Edge (JAN-TE) waveform, a new technology to serve the unique needs of the joint tactical air community within the Airborne Network. In addition, he is the MITRE Project Leader of the Information Transport project that is developing advanced architectures, specifications, and plans for airborne and space networks, as well as providing technical contributions to several key enabling technologies such as the Joint Tactical Radio System and MILSATCOM terminals. Mr. Stranc has over thirty years of government and industry experience in military network systems engineering.

Cédric Thiénot is CSO of Expway, a company specializing in binary XML. He has contributed to numerous standards in the field, notably MPEG-7 BiM, TV-Anytime, and DVB.

Paul Thorpe is Vice President of Research and Development, OSS Nokalva, Inc, and is currently the Editor for ASN.1 standards in both the ISO/IEC and ITU-T committees which jointly publish ASN.1 standards. He is also active in the OASIS UBL (Universal Business Language) Technical Committee, and has been involved in the development of Intelligent Transportation Systems standards published by IEEE. Current interests are use of ASN.1 as an XML schema language, and mapping between XSD and ASN.1 to allow XML documents to be converted to and from the compact binary ASN.1 encoding rules with no loss of data or semantics.

Alessandro Triglia is a member of the technical staff at OSS Nokalva, Inc. He has been actively involved in the development of ASN.1 standards as a member of the joint ISO/IEC/ITU-T committee for ASN.1 since 2001. He has also been actively involved in the standardization of biometrics both as a member of the INCITS M1 technical committee (in representation of OSS Nokalva) and as a member of the US delegation to ISO/IEC SC37 since early 2002. He regularly provides substantive contributions in both fields. In the field of ASN.1, his main interests are the addition to ASN.1 of features related to XML (including the Extended XML Encoding Rules and the mapping from XML Schema to ASN.1), and new applications of ASN.1 such as Fast Web Services and Fast Infoset. In the field of biometrics, his main interests are architectures, software interfaces, and conformance testing. Alessandro is also a member of the XML binary characterization working group of the W3C.

Stephen is Senior Technical Director at High Performance Technologies, Inc. (HPTi, http://www.hpti.com) and also independent researcher for esXML/esDOM. He first realized XML efficiency problems in 1998 and has been working to solve them in a comprehensive way since. Stephen is an "Invited Expert" working on the W3C XML Binary Characterization Working Group. He previously presented on this topic at the W3C Workshop on Binary Interchange of XML Information and at Extreme Markup Languages 2003 in Montreal.

Dr. Wrigley gained his Ph D in Theoretical Physics from Cambridge University in 1984. Since then he has worked on a wide range of topics in the area of military datalinks, including the development of TSR, a demand access algorithm for MIDS/Link 16, the design and production of a network design system for MIDS and the drafting of NATO standards for network design exchange. More recently, Dr. Wrigley has provided technical support to various sensor fusion projects, and has led the development of a product line architectural engineering approach to common datalink processing software. (Dr. Wrigley's interests include: playing golf and pipe organs badly.)

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