Curriculum Vitae of Steven J. DeRose: Professional Activities, Awards, and Patents

Last updated 2008-02-21

See also my work on various standards.

Professional Memberships

1988-

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

1985-1994

Association for Computational Linguistics

1986-1998

Computing in the Humanities Users' Group, Brown University (co-founder)

1980-

Association for Computing Machinery. Senior member. Sometime vice-chair of SigWeb (nee SigHyper)

Industry and Academic Awards

1998

Society of American Archivists, the C.F.W. Coker prize, (illustration) as part of the team that developed the Encoded Archival Description DTD (see under my work on standards)

1997

Seybold Editors "Achievement of the Year" Award for the W3C XML Working Group

1996

Seybold Editors' "Technology Trailblazer" Award for EBT (later Inso) DynaWeb product (picture)

1995

Bentley Historical Library Fellow (Berkeley Finding Aids Project). Made an "honorary archivist" by the real archivists in attendence (see the certificate)

1982-84

University Fellowship, Brown University

1982

Phi Beta Kappa; Magna Cum Laude; A.B. Cum Honorum

1976

National Merit Finalist

Grants

2001

As Principal Investigator: National Endowment for the Humanities, $131,963 to the Text Encoding Initiative to update the 1200-page encoding guidelines and schemas from SGML to XML.

1988

SIL Scholarly Advancement Grant for dissertation research

Invited or Keynote Addresses

• 1999: Keynote address, ACM Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), Edinburgh, September 7-10.
• 1999: Invited speaker, "Andyfest", Brown University, Providence, May 28.
• 1997: Invited speaker, Text Encoding Initiative Tenth Anniversary Conference, Providence.
• 1996: Keynote address, African Hypermedia Conference, University of Pretoria.
• 1995: Invited speaker, "Structured Information: Navigation, Access, and Control" at the Berkeley Finding Aid Conference, Commission on Preservation and Access, Berkeley, CA, April 4-6.

Professional Activities

• Standards editor for SIGWeb News, published by the ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext and Hypermedia, 1994 to 1999.
• Member of editorial board for Markup Languages, MIT Press
• Referee for:
  • National Endowment for the Humanities
  • Association for Computing in the Humanities
  • Harvard University Press
  • Prentice-Hall
  • Kluwer Academic Publishers
  • Electronic Publishing: Origination, Dissemination, and Design
  • The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia
• Program committee for:
  • 1996 and 1998 ACM Hypertext Conferences
  • Text Encoding Initiative 10th Anniversary Conference, 1997.
  • Various markup conferences, including Extreme Markup Conference, SGML 'nn, XML 'nn, Markup Technologies 'nn, and Balisage.

Patents

These patents primarily involve methods for dealing with arbitrarily large SGML/HTML/XML documents, and formatting or subsetting them effectively without serial processing. This is a key enabler for dealing with large documents, regardless of medium.

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