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Opening Remarks

 Scharpf, Norman 
 
 Norman  Scharpf
 President
  Alexandria 
 Graphic Communications Association 
 USA 
 Virginia 
Graphic Communications Association,  Alexandria  Virginia USA
 Biography
 Norman W. Scharpf - Norman Scharpf, President of Graphic Communications Association, earned his Bachelor's degree in Business Administration at the University of Pittsburgh. After gaining experience in the public accounting field, he joined IBM where his sales territory included printing firms. His work with one of these firms led to his appointment in 1967 as the first Staff Director of Graphic Communications Association (GCA), then known as the Computer Section of PIA.
 The group's efforts in computer composition led rapidly to an interest in generic markup of text databases. Under Mr. Scharpf's leadership, this interest expanded to recommend and support national and international work in development of standard markup approaches that ultimately led to the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). Mr. Scharpf is a PIA Gutenberg Award recipient for his efforts in SGML. Mr. Scharpf now leads an organization of some 300 member firms worldwide covering technological advances in both print media and information technologies.
 Goldfarb, Charles F. 
 
 Charles F.  Goldfarb
 Principal
  California 
 Information Management Consulting 
 Saratoga 
 USA 
Information Management Consulting,  13075 Paramount Court
Saratoga  California USA  95070
Phone: +1 (408) 867-5553 email: Charles@SGMLsource.com
 Biography
 Dr. Charles F. Goldfarb - Dr. Goldfarb invented the SGML language in 1974 and later led the team that developed it into the International Standard on which both HTML and XML are based. He serves as Editor of the Standard (ISO 8879) and as a consultant to developers of SGML and XML applications and products.
 While at IBM Dr. Goldfarb led the project that invented SGML's precursor, GML, in 1969. He designed and coded the first and -- with its derivatives, notably SGMLS -- the most widely-used SGML parser, "ARCSGML". He also helped develop IBM's multi-site multi-national GML (now SGML) publishing system, producing 11 million master pages, and served as a market planner for information systems products.
 He has been profiled in Forbes Magazine and others, and the Seybold Report cited his "SGML Handbook" as the definitive reference on SGML. He edits Prentice-Hall's "Charles F. Goldfarb Series on Open Information Management" and co-authored the "SGML Buyer's Guide" and the forthcoming "XML Handbook".
 Dr. Goldfarb holds the first GCA International SGML Award and the PIA Gutenberg Award. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Columbia College.
 Norman Scharpf, Pamela Gennusa and Charles Goldfarb make their introductory remarks.
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