I Working Group Membership and Acknowledgments (Non-Normative)

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I Working Group Membership and Acknowledgments (Non-normative)
I.1 The Math Working Group Memberships
I.2 Acknowledgments

I.1 The Math Working Group Memberships

The W3C Math Working Group has been co-chaired by Patrick Ion of the AMS, and Angel Diaz of IBM from July 1998 to December 2000. Contact the co-chairs if you are interested in joining the group. For the present membership see the W3C Math home page.

Members of the Working Group responsible for MathML 2.0 are:

• Ron Ausbrooks, Mackichan Software, Las Cruces NM, USA
• Laurent Bernardin, Waterloo Maple, Inc., Waterloo ON, CAN
• Stephen Buswell, Stilo Technologies, Cardiff, UK
• David Carlisle, NAG Ltd., Oxford, UK
• Stéphane Dalmas, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, FR
• Stan Devitt, Stratum Technical Services Ltd., Waterloo ON, CAN (earlier with Waterloo Maple, Inc., Waterloo ON, CAN)
• Angel Diaz, IBM Research Division, Yorktown Heights NY, USA
• Ben Hinkle, Waterloo Maple, Inc., Waterloo ON, CAN
• Stephen Hunt, MATH.EDU Inc., Champaign IL, USA
• Douglas Lovell, IBM Hawthorn Research, Yorktown Heights NY, USA
• Patrick Ion, Mathematical Reviews (American Mathematical Society), Ann Arbor MI, USA
• Robert Miner, Design Science Inc., Long Beach CA, USA (earlier with Geometry Technologies Inc., Minneapolis MN, USA)
• Ivor Philips, Boeing, Seattle WA, USA
• Nico Poppelier, Penta Scope, Amersfoort, NL (earlier with Salience and Elsevier Science, NL)
• Dave Raggett, W3C (Openwave), Bristol, UK (earlier with Hewlett-Packard)
• T.V. Raman, IBM Almaden, Palo Alto CA, USA (earlier with Adobe Inc., Mountain View CA, USA)
• Murray Sargent III, Microsoft, Redmond WA, USA
• Neil Soiffer, Wolfram Research Inc., Champaign IL, USA
• Irene Schena, Universitá di Bologna, Bologna, IT
• Paul Topping, Design Science Inc., Long Beach CA, USA
• Stephen Watt, University of Western Ontario, London ON, CAN

Earlier active members of this second W3C Math Working Group have included:

• Sam Dooley, IBM Research, Yorktown Heights NY, USA
• Robert Sutor, IBM Research, Yorktown Heights NY, USA
• Barry MacKichan, MacKichan Software, Las Cruces NM, USA

At the time of release of MathML 1.0 the Math Working Group was co-chaired by Patrick Ion and Robert Miner, then of the Geometry Center. Since that time several changes in membership have taken place. In the course of the update to MathML 1.01, in addition to people listed in the original membership below, corrections were offered by David Carlisle, Don Gignac, Kostya Serebriany, Ben Hinkle, Sebastian Rahtz, Sam Dooley and others.

Members of the Math Working Group responsible for the finished MathML 1.0 specification were:

• Stephen Buswell, Stilo Technologies, Cardiff, UK
• Stéphane Dalmas, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, FR
• Stan Devitt, Maplesoft Inc., Waterloo ON, CAN
• Angel Diaz, IBM Research Division, Yorktown Heights NY, USA
• Brenda Hunt, Wolfram Research Inc., Champaign IL, USA
• Stephen Hunt, Wolfram Research Inc., Champaign IL, USA
• Patrick Ion, Mathematical Reviews (American Mathematical Society), Ann Arbor MI, USA
• Robert Miner, Geometry Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN, USA
• Nico Poppelier, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, NL
• Dave Raggett, W3C (Hewlett Packard), Bristol, UK
• T.V. Raman, Adobe Inc., Mountain View CA, USA
• Bruce Smith, Wolfram Research Inc., Champaign IL, USA
• Neil Soiffer, Wolfram Research Inc., Champaign IL, USA
• Robert Sutor, IBM Research, Yorktown Heights NY, USA
• Paul Topping, Design Science Inc., Long Beach CA, USA
• Stephen Watt, University of Western Ontario, London ON, CAN
• Ralph Youngen, American Mathematical Society, Providence RI, USA

Others who had been members of the W3C Math WG for periods at earlier stages were:

• Stephen Glim, Mathsoft Inc., Cambridge MA, USA
• Arnaud Le Hors, W3C, Cambridge MA, USA
• Ron Whitney, Texterity Inc., Boston MA, USA
• Lauren Wood, SoftQuad, Surrey BC, CAN
• Ka-Ping Yee, University of Waterloo, Waterloo ON, CAN

I.2 Acknowledgments

The Working Group benefited from the help of many other people in developing the specification for MathML 1.0. We would like to particularly name Barbara Beeton, Chris Hamlin, John Jenkins, Ira Polans, Arthur Smith, Robby Villegas and Joe Yurvati for help and information in assembling the character tables in Chapter 6 [Characters, Entities and Fonts], as well as Peter Flynn, Russell S.S. O'Connor, Andreas Strotmann, and other contributors to the www-math mailing list for their careful proofreading and constructive criticisms.

As the Math Working Group went on to MathML 2.0, it again was helped by many from the W3C family of Working Groups with whom we necessarily had a great deal of interaction. Outside the W3C, a particularly active relevant front was the interface with the Unicode Technical Committee (UTC) and the NTSC WG2 dealing with ISO 10646. There the STIX project put together a proposal for the addition of characters for mathematical notation to Unicode, and this work was again spear-headed by Barbara Beeton of the AMS. The whole problem ended split into three proposals, two of which were advanced by Murray Sargent of Microsoft, a Math WG member and member of the UTC. But the mathematical community should be grateful for essential help and guidance over a couple of years of refinement of the proposals to help mathematics provided by Kenneth Whistler of Sybase, and a UTC and WG2 member, and by Asmus Freytag, also involved in the UTC and WG2 deliberations, and always a stalwart and knowledgeable supporter of the needs of scientific notation.

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