Steven Pemberton
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Steven Pemberton is a researcher affiliated with 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.
He was one of the designers of ABC, a programming language released in 1987, and editor-in-chief of the Special Interest Group on Computer–Human Interaction (SIGCHI)'s Bulletin from 1993-1999 and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)'s Interactions from 1998-2004.
Contributions to web standards
Pemberton was a contributing author of HyperText Markup Language (HTML) 4.0[2] and HTML 4.01,[3] and chair of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) HTML Working Group.[4][5] He was a contributing author of the Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) specifications 1.0 in 2000[6] and 1.1 in 2001,[7] and chair of the XHTML 2 Working Group from 2006-9.[8]
He chaired the first W3C workshop on style sheets in 1995,[9] and was a contributing author of the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Level 1 specification in 1996,[10] Level 2 in 1998,[11] and CSS Color Module Level 3 in 2002.[12]
Pemberton was co-chair of the W3C XForms Working Group from 2000-2007,[13][14] and in 2003 co-authored the XForms 1.0 specification.[15] In 2009 he co-authored the XForms 1.1[14] and XML Events[16] specifications. He was co-chair of the W3C Forms Working Group from 2010-2012.[17]
Awards
- 2009: SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award.[18]
- 2022: SIGCHI Lifetime Practice Award.[19]
References
- ^ Distributed and Interactive Systems — CWI Amsterdam, Members
- ^ HTML 4.0 W3C Recommendation, Acknowledgements
- ^ HTML 4.01 W3C Recommendation, Acknowledgements
- ^ HTML Working Group Charter (2000)
- ^ HTML Working Group Charter (2002)
- ^ XHTML 1.0 W3C Recommendation, Acknowledgements
- ^ XHTML 1.1 W3C Recommendation, Acknowledgements
- ^ XHTML 2 Working Group Charter (2006)
- ^ W3C Workshop on Style Sheets, November 6-7, 1995
- ^ CSS 1 W3C Recommendation, Acknowledgements
- ^ CSS 2 W3C Recommendation, Acknowledgements
- ^ CSS Color Module Level 3 W3C Recommendation
- ^ XForms Working Group Charter (2003)
- ^ a b XForms 1.1 Recommendation, Acknowledgements
- ^ XForms 1.0 Recommendation, Acknowledgements
- ^ XML Events W3C Recommendation
- ^ Forms Working Group Charter (2010)
- ^ SIGCHI 2009 Awards – Steven Pemberton
- ^ SIGCHI – Award Recipients
External links
- Personal website