Tim Bray

Tim Bray，全名Timothy William Bray，“XML之父”，XML和Atom标准的创建者，全球第一个搜索引擎的发明人

素有“XML之父”之称的XML发明人，全球第一个搜索引擎的发明人，全球第一部可在线检索的牛津英文字典的发明人，入选北美“100名人”，与麦克·戴尔、比尔·盖茨齐名的IT业界技术领袖，久负盛名的软件艺术大师──Tim Bray先生，携夫人Lauren Wood女士——另一位XML业界的技术领袖，·于2002年11月来华访问。

Tim Bray先生，作为从事软件行业20多年的业界精英，拥有一系列惊人的成功经历。

Tim Bray1987年，研究开发在线检索技术，成功完成全球第一部可检索和内容搜索的在线牛津英文字典。

1989年，合作创立纳斯达克上市公司Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ:OTEX)，开发成功高性能的文本检索与处理软件，并于1994年完成全球第一个商业化的WEB搜索引擎。

1998年，合作发明可扩展标记语言XML，并作为XML规范的编写人，领导着W3C的XML核心工作组，为XML的发展壮大发挥着领袖作用。

1999年，创立Antarcti公司，研究开发图形化WEB的解决方案，继续其艺术化软件开发的人生追求。

2001年，被Tim Berners-Lee（Inventor of the World Wide Web and Director of the Web Consortium）提名作为Web联盟技术咨询组的成员，领导全球Web技术规划工作。

2002年，与Dell的麦克·戴尔、Microsoft的比尔·盖茨、SUN的斯哥特.麦克尼利等人一起，入选北美“100名人”。

Tim Bray先生年富力强，技术精湛，卓有建树，为业界人士所推崇。致力于追求艺术化的软件开发境界，对信息技术有着独特的视角和爱好，堪称一代软件艺术大师。相信Tim Bray先生的此次中国之行，必将对正在迅速发展的中国IT行业带来一股新的气息，也给中国众多的IT从业人士和软件开发人士提供一次与名家交流的机会。

Tim Bray先生的夫人Lauren Wood女士，也是一位出色的XML技术专家。曾在Softquad公司主持开发Xmetal系统。现任W3C Document Object Model工作组的主席，CSS工作组、XML工作组、XSL工作组的成员。先后多次作为W3C国际XML会议的主席，为业界所推崇。

Tim Bray先生的另一位随行人士——Richard Wu先生，是Tim Bray先生和夫人多年的老朋友。Richard Wu先生先后在Microsoft，Sun，IBM，Softquad从事高层的技术开发与管理工作。目前任英国Marlborough-Stirling加拿大公司技术主管。Richard Wu先生开发了北美第一个人寿保险管理系统，并以银行系统安全技术见长，在北美及欧洲软件安全技术领域享有盛名。

Timothy William Bray is a Canadian software developer and entrepreneur. He co-founded Open Text Corporation and Antarctica Systems. Currently, Tim is the Director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems.

Tim BrayEarly life
Tim was born on June 21, 1955 in Alberta, Canada. He grew up in Beirut, Lebanon and graduated in 1981 with a Bachelor of Science (double major in Mathematics and Computer Science) from the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario. Tim described his switch of focus from Math to Computer Science this way: "In math I’d worked like a dog for my Cs, but in CS I worked much less for As — and learned that you got paid well for doing it."

In June of 2009, he received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Guelph.

Fresh out of university, Tim joined Digital Equipment Corporation in Toronto as a software specialist. In 1983, Tim left DEC for Microtel Pacific Research. He joined the New Oxford English Dictionary project at the University of Waterloo in 1987 as its manager. It was during this time Tim worked with SGML, a technology that would later become central to both Open Text Corporation and his XML and Atom standardization work.

Entrepreneurship

Waterloo Maple
Tim Bray served as the part-time CEO of Waterloo Maple Inc. during 1989-1990. Waterloo Maple is the developer of the popular Maple mathematical software.

Open Text Corporation
Bray left the new OED project in 1989 to co-found Open Text Corporation with two colleagues. Open Text was the commercialization vehicle for the high-performance search engine employed in the new OED project.

Tim BrayTim recalled that “in 1994 I heard a conference speaker say that search engines would be big on the Internet, and in five seconds all the pieces just fell into place in my head. I realized that we could build such a thing with our technology.”[3] Thus in 1995, Open Text released the Open Text Index, one of the first popular commercial web search engines. Open Text Corporation is now publicly traded on the Nasdaq under the symbol OTEX. From 1991 until 1996, Tim held the position of Senior Vice President - Technology.

Textuality
Tim Bray, along with Lauren Wood, ran Textuality, a successful consulting practice in the field of web and publishing technology. He was contracted by Netscape in 1999 in part to create a new version, with Ramanathan V. Guha, of Meta Content Framework called Resource Description Framework (RDF), that used the XML language.

Antarctica Systems
In 1999 he founded Antarctica Systems, a Vancouver, Canada-based company that specializes in visualization-based business analytics.

Standardization efforts

XML
As an Invited Expert at the World Wide Web Consortium between 1996 and 1999, Bray co-edited the XML and XML namespace specifications. Halfway through the project Bray accepted a consulting engagement with Netscape, provoking vociferous protests from Netscape competitor Microsoft (who had supported the initial moves to bring SGML to the web.) Bray was temporarily asked to resign the editorship. This led to intense dispute in the Working Group, eventually solved by the appointment of Microsoft's Jean Paoli as third co-editor.

Tim BrayIn 2001, Tim Bray wrote an article called Taxi to the Future for Xml.com which proposed a means to improve web client user experience and web server system performance via a Transform-Aggregate-send XML-Interact architecture -- this proposed system is very similar to recently popularized Ajax paradigm.

W3C TAG
Between 2001 and 2004 he served as a Tim Berners-Lee appointee on the W3C Technical Architecture Group.

Atom
Until October 2007, Tim was co-chairing, with Paul Hoffman, the Atom-focused Atompub Working Group of the Internet Engineering Task Force. Atom is a web syndication format developed to address perceived deficiencies with the RSS 2.0 format.

Software tools
Bray has written many software applications, including Bonnie, a Unix file system benchmarking tool, Lark, the first XML Processor, and APE the Atom Protocol Exerciser.

个人博客：http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/