Brian Suda (born 29 May 1979, St. Louis, Missouri) is an American

informatician Informatics is the study of computational systems, especially those for data storage and retrieval. According to ACM ''Europe and'' ''Informatics Europe'', informatics is synonymous with computer science and computing as a profession, in which t ...

living in Reykjavík, Iceland. Suda received a bachelor's degree in computer science from

St. Louis University Saint Louis University (SLU) is a private Jesuit research university with campuses in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, and Madrid, Spain. Founded in 1818 by Louis William Valentine DuBourg, it is the oldest university west of the Mississip ...

in 2001 and a master's degree in informatics from the University of Edinburgh in 2003. Much of his adult life has been spent abroad, first in Scotland and then in Iceland, where in 2008 he was one of three founders of Skólapúlsinn, a company that helps Icelandic schools measure the engagement, academic ability, and well-being of students. Suda was an invited expert in the

W3C The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web. Founded in 1994 and led by Tim Berners-Lee, the consortium is made up of member organizations that maintain full-time staff working to ...

GRDDL GRDDL (pronounced "''griddle''") is a markup format for Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages. It is a W3C Recommendation, and enables users to obtain RDF triples out of XML documents, including XHTML. The GRDDL specification s ...

working group in 2008, co-author of the hCard microformat specification, and in 2010 wrote a book, ''A Practical Guide to Designing with Data'', published by Five Simple Steps. He has written for many online and print publications including '' A List Apart'', '' Linux Format'', ''

Viðskiptablaðið ''Viðskiptablaðið'' (English: ''The Business Paper'') is an Icelandic newspaper focusing on business, economy, and national affairs. History The paper was founded in 1994 as a weekly paper on business and economy affairs. Its first editor was ...

'', and '' SitePoint''.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Suda, Brian People from St. Louis 1979 births Living people Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Saint Louis University alumni