Steven Pemberton is a researcher affiliated with the Distributed and Interactive Systems group at the
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), the national research institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands.
He was one of the designers of
ABC
ABC are the first three letters of the Latin script.
ABC or abc may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment and media Broadcasting
* Aliw Broadcasting Corporation, Philippine broadcast company
* American Broadcasting Company, a commercial American ...
, a programming language released in 1987, and editor-in-chief of the
Special Interest Group on Computer–Human Interaction (SIGCHI)'s
''Bulletin'' from 1993-1999 and the
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest scientific and educational computing society. The ACM is a non-profit professional membe ...
's
''Interactions'' from 1998-2004.
Contributions to web standards
Pemberton was a contributing author of
HyperText Markup Language (HTML) 4.0 and HTML 4.01, and chair of the
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) HTML Working Group. He was a contributing author of the
Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) specifications 1.0 in 2000 and 1.1 in 2001, and chair of the
XHTML 2 Working Group from 2006-9.
He chaired the first W3C workshop on
style sheets in 1995, and was a contributing author of the
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Level 1 specification in 1996, Level 2 in 1998, and CSS Color Module Level 3 in 2002.
Pemberton was co-chair of the W3C
XForms
XForms is an XML format used for collecting inputs from web forms. XForms was designed to be the next generation of HTML / XHTML forms, but is generic enough that it can also be used in a standalone manner or with presentation languages other tha ...
Working Group from 2000-2007,
[XForms 1.1 Recommendation, Acknowledgements]
/ref> and in 2003 co-authored the XForms 1.0 specification. In 2009 he co-authored the XForms 1.1
Awards
* 2009: SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award.
* 2022: SIGCHI Lifetime Practice Award.SIGCHI – Award Recipients
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References
External links
Personal website
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)