Jean Paoli is one of the inventors of

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. Along with

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and C. Michael Sperberg-McQueen, Paoli co-edited the XML 1.0 recommendation for the

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starting in 1997 and until at least 2008. Paoli was born in

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. Before joining Microsoft, Paoli had spent 10 years developing various startup companies at

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, the renowned French institute for research in computer science. He moved from Paris to join

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in 1996, where he worked on the

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for Internet Explorer 4.0, advocated for the original

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, and promoted

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. Along with Adriana Neagu and others he was a co-inventor of InfoPath and is named on its patented way of authoring XML using

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views and

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. Paoli was the president of Microsoft Open Technologies until 2017. He departed Microsoft in late 2017 to create the startup Docugami, Inc. which focuses on productivity, machine learning, semi-structured data and documents.

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2003 InfoWorld article

Paoli on InfoPath 2003

2005 eWeek article

2005 article in The Register
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