[topicmaps-comment] RE: Let's introduce ! [Re: test of OASIS list]

["Mason, James David (MXM) " <mxm@ornl.gov>]

Jim Mason

Senior Applications Software Engineer for SAIC (Science Applications
International Corporation), working at the Y-12 National Security Complex
(U.S. Department of Energy)

*	Technical publishing specialist (writer, editor, compositor)
*	Long-time standards worker (since November 1981)
*	Chairman of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 (and its predecessors, since 1985)
*	President of ISUG (International SGML/XML Users' Group, since 1990,
also a founder, back in 1984)
*	SGML application implementer since pre-Cambrian times (those of you
who were in Montréal will know what I'm referring to)
*	Topic Map application implementer for about 18 months
*	Specialist in werewolves and zombies, otherwise known as standards
developers and programmers (OK, "zombie" is a modern term, but werewolf is
ancient, [man-wolf in Old English]; the technical terms in Old Norse are
"vargr" [wolf/werewolf] and "aptrgongumaðr" [one who walks afterwards] or
"draugr" [what Tolkien calls a "barrow-wight"])

James David Mason, Ph.D.

Y-12 National Security Complex
Bldg. 9113, M.S. 8208
P.O. Box 2009
Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-8208

+1 865 574 6973

Chairman, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34
http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/sc34/ornlsc34oldhome.htm