Tim Bray on XML from Northern Voice

We caught up with Tim Bray, co-inventor of XML at Canadian blogging conference Northern Voice. Tim talks about XML, RSS and the future of Atom.

Tim Bray managed the Oxford English Dictionary project at the University of Waterloo in 1987-1989, co-founded Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ: OTEX) in 1998, launched one of the first public web search engines in 1995, co-invented XML 1.0 and co-edited “Namespaces in XML” between 1996 and 1999, founded Antarctica Systems (antarctica.net) in 1999, and served as a Tim Berners-Lee appointee on the W3C Technical Architecture Group in 2002-2004. Currently, he serves as Director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems, publishes a popular weblog (www.tbray.org/ongoing), and co-chairs the IETF AtomPub Working Group (www.ietf.org/html.charters/atompub-charter.html).