Michael Sperberg-McQueen (photo courtesy Liam Quin)

Welcome to cmsmcq.com

cmsmcq.com is the personal Web site of C. M. Sperberg-McQueen. I use it to host various material that doesn't have a better place to live elsewhere.

Opinions expressed are mine (mostly) and should not be confused with the official views, if any, of my employers, clients, patrons, friends, colleagues, or assorted hangers-on.

Who he · Background · Contact Info · Links

Who he?

Principal, Black Mesa Technologies.
Visiting professor, Program in Digital Humanities, Dept. of Linguistics and Literary Studies, Technical University of Darmstadt (Institut für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft, Technische Universität Darmstadt) summer semester (April - July) 2015 (my TU home page).
Co-chair of Balisage: The Markup Conference (every August in Rockville, Maryland [or virtually, during the pandemic]).
Participant in the W3C Invisible XML Community Group, which has developed and published the invisible-XML spec.
I have a blog called Messages in a bottle. It's mostly about markup, with digressions to other things on my mind.

Background

A member of the technical staff at the World Wide Web Consortium from 1998 to 2009. While at W3C, I filled several roles: member and later chair of the W3C XML Coordination Group; Member and staff contact of the W3C XML Schema Working Group and co-editor of the XSD 1.1 specification; Member and staff contact of the XSL Working Group; Member and staff contact of the Service Modeling Language (SML) Working Group; member and alternate staff contact of the XML Processing Model Working Group; member and alternate staff contact of the XML Query Working Group. I served as the leader of the W3C's Architecture Domain from July 2001 to September 2003, before escaping back to technical work. Administratively, I was attached to the MIT host site and was thus an employee of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
Co-editor, Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 spec (1998).
Co-editor, with Lou Burnard, of the Text Encoding Initiative's Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange (1994).
Co-chair from 2000 through 2006 of the annual conference Extreme Markup Languages (before helping to form the new Balisage conference).
Served as Editor in chief of the Text Encoding Initiative, an international cooperative project to develop and disseminate guidelines for the encoding and interchange of electronic text for research (1988-2000).
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Stanford University (1985).

It appears I have Erdős number 6 (via Verner E. Hoggatt Jr., Leonard Carlitz, Jack Levine, Robert R. Korfhage, and David Dubin). (For the benefit of non-mathematicians I should probably point out that an Erdős number of 6 signals quite clearly that the bearer is not a mathematician. Any 'real' mathematician alive today will, if I understand correctly, have an Erdős number of four or lower, if their number is finite at all. Advertising an Erdős number of six is the mark someone who is not really a mathematician but who apparently likes hanging around with them.)

Contact Info

Post: 259 State Road 399, Española, New Mexico 87532-3170.

Links

Some documents I make available on this web site are listed separately. (Links to my XSLT stylesheets for doing slides in TEI Lite are also there.)