The Math Working Group Membership
The present W3C Math Working Group (2012–2013) is co-chaired by
David Carlisle of NAG and Patrick Ion of the AMS; Patrick Ion and and Robert
Miner of Design Science were co-chairs 2006-2011.
Contact the co-chairs about membership in
the Working Group. For the current membership see the
W3C Math home page.
Robert Miner, whose leadership and contributions were essential
to the development of the Math Working Group and MathML from their
beginnings, died tragically young in December 2011.
Participants in the Working Group responsible for MathML 3.0 have been:
- Ron Ausbrooks
- Mackichan Software, Las Cruces NM, USA
- Laurent Bernardin
- Waterloo Maple, Inc., Waterloo ON, CAN
- Pierre-Yves Bertholet
- MITRE Corporation, McLean VA, USA
- Bert Bos
- W3C, Sophia-Antipolis, FRA
- Mike Brenner
- MITRE Corporation, Bedford MA, USA
- Olga Caprotti
- University of Helsinki, Helsinki, FI
- David Carlisle
- NAG Ltd., Oxford, UK
- Giorgi Chavchanidze
- Opera Software, Oslo, NO
- Ananth Coorg
- The Boeing Company, Seattle WA, USA
- Stéphane Dalmas
- INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, FRA
- Stan Devitt
- Agfa-Gevaert N. V., Trier, GER
- Sam Dooley
- Integre Technical Publishing Co., Inc., Albuquerque NM, USA
- Margaret Hinchcliffe
- Waterloo Maple, Inc., Waterloo ON, CAN
- Patrick Ion
- W3C Invited Experts:Mathematical Reviews (American Mathematical
Society), Ann Arbor MI, USA
- Michael Kohlhase
- German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) Gmbh, GER
- Azzeddine Lazrek
- W3C Invited Experts: University of Marrakesh, Morocco
- Dennis Leas
- DAISY Consortium
- Paul Libbrecht
- German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) Gmbh, GER
- Manolis Mavrikis
- University of Edinburgh, Edinburg, UK
- Bruce Miller
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg MD, USA
- Robert Miner
- Design Science Inc., Long Beach CA, USA
- Chris Rowley
- The Open University, UK
- Murray Sargent III
- Microsoft, Redmond WA, USA
- Kyle Siegrist
- Mathematical Association of America, Washington DC, USA
- Andrew Smith
- Maplesoft Inc., Canada
- Neil Soiffer
- Design Science Inc., Long Beach CA, USA
- Stephen Watt
- University of Western Ontario, London ON, CAN
- Mohamed Zergaoui
- Innovimax, Paris, FRA
All the above persons have been members of the currently chartered Math Working Group,
but some not for the whole life of the Working Group. The 22 authors listed for MathML3
at the start of this specification are those who contributed
reworkings and reformulations used in the actual text of the specification.
Thus the list includes the principal authors of MathML2 much of whose text was repurposed
here. They were, of course, supported and encouraged by the activity and discussions
of the whole Math Working Group, and by helpful commentary from outside it, both within
the W3C and further afield.
For 2003 to 2006 W3C Math Activity comprised a Math Interest Group,
chaired by David Carlisle of NAG and Robert Miner of Design Science.
The W3C Math Working Group (2001–2003)
was co-chaired by Patrick Ion of the
AMS, and Angel Diaz of IBM from June 2001 to May 2002; afterwards
Patrick Ion continued as chair until the end of the WG's extended charter.
Participants in the Working Group responsible for MathML 2.0, second
edition were:
- Ron Ausbrooks
- Mackichan Software, Las Cruces NM, USA
- Laurent Bernardin
- Waterloo Maple, Inc., Waterloo ON, CAN
- Stephen Buswell
- Stilo Technology Ltd., Bristol, UK
- David Carlisle
- NAG Ltd., Oxford, UK
- Stéphane Dalmas
- INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, FR
- Stan Devitt
- Stratum Technical Services Ltd., Waterloo ON, CAN (earlier with Waterloo Maple, Inc.,
Waterloo ON, CAN)
- Max Froumentin
- W3C, Sophia-Antipolis, FRA
- Patrick Ion
- Mathematical Reviews (American Mathematical
Society), Ann Arbor MI, USA
- Michael Kohlhase
- DFKI, GER
- Robert Miner
- Design Science Inc., Long Beach CA, USA
- Luca Padovani
- University of Bologna, IT
- Ivor Philips
- Boeing, Seattle WA, USA
- Murray Sargent III
- Microsoft, Redmond WA, USA
- Neil Soiffer
- Wolfram Research Inc., Champaign IL, USA
- Paul Topping
- Design Science Inc., Long Beach CA, USA
- Stephen Watt
- University of Western Ontario, London ON, CAN
Earlier active participants of the W3C Math Working Group (2001 – 2003) have
included:
- Angel Diaz
- IBM Research Division, Yorktown Heights NY, USA
- Sam Dooley
- IBM Research, Yorktown Heights NY, USA
- Barry MacKichan
- MacKichan Software, Las Cruces NM, USA
The W3C Math Working Group was co-chaired by Patrick Ion
of the AMS, and Angel Diaz of IBM from July 1998 to December 2000.
Participants in the Working Group responsible for MathML 2.0 were:
- Ron Ausbrooks
- Mackichan Software, Las Cruces NM, USA
- Laurent Bernardin
- Maplesoft, Waterloo ON, CAN
- Stephen Buswell
- Stilo Technology Ltd., Cardiff, UK
- David Carlisle
- NAG Ltd., Oxford, UK
- Stéphane Dalmas
- INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, FR
- Stan Devitt
- Stratum Technical Services Ltd., Waterloo ON, CAN (earlier with Waterloo Maple, Inc.,
Waterloo ON, CAN)
- Angel Diaz
- IBM Research Division, Yorktown Heights NY, USA
- Ben Hinkle
- Waterloo Maple, Inc., Waterloo ON, CAN
- Stephen Hunt
- MATH.EDU Inc., Champaign IL, USA
- Douglas Lovell
- IBM Hawthorne Research, Yorktown Heights NY, USA
- Patrick Ion
- Mathematical Reviews (American Mathematical
Society), Ann Arbor MI, USA
- Robert Miner
- Design Science Inc., Long Beach CA, USA (earlier with Geometry Technologies Inc.,
Minneapolis MN, USA)
- Ivor Philips
- Boeing, Seattle WA, USA
- Nico Poppelier
- Penta Scope, Amersfoort, NL (earlier with Salience and Elsevier Science, NL)
- Dave Raggett
- W3C (Openwave), Bristol, UK (earlier with Hewlett-Packard)
- T.V. Raman
- IBM Almaden, Palo Alto CA, USA (earlier with Adobe Inc., Mountain View CA, USA)
- Murray Sargent III
- Microsoft, Redmond WA, USA
- Neil Soiffer
- Wolfram Research Inc., Champaign IL, USA
- Irene Schena
- Universitá di Bologna, Bologna, IT
- Paul Topping
- Design Science Inc., Long Beach CA, USA
- Stephen Watt
- University of Western Ontario, London ON, CAN
Earlier active participants of this second W3C Math Working Group have
included:
- Sam Dooley
- IBM Research, Yorktown Heights NY, USA
- Robert Sutor
- IBM Research, Yorktown Heights NY, USA
- Barry MacKichan
- MacKichan Software, Las Cruces NM, USA
At the time of release of MathML 1.0 [[MathML1]] the
Math Working Group was co-chaired by Patrick Ion and Robert Miner, then of the
Geometry Center. Since that time several changes in membership have taken
place. In the course of the update to MathML 1.01, in addition to people listed in
the original membership below, corrections were offered by David Carlisle, Don
Gignac, Kostya Serebriany, Ben Hinkle, Sebastian Rahtz, Sam Dooley and others.
Participants in the Math Working Group responsible for the finished
MathML 1.0 specification were:
- Stephen Buswell
- Stilo Technology Ltd., Cardiff, UK
- Stéphane Dalmas
- INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, FR
- Stan Devitt
- Maplesoft Inc., Waterloo ON, CAN
- Angel Diaz
- IBM Research Division, Yorktown Heights NY, USA
- Brenda Hunt
- Wolfram Research Inc., Champaign IL, USA
- Stephen Hunt
- Wolfram Research Inc., Champaign IL, USA
- Patrick Ion
- Mathematical Reviews (American Mathematical
Society), Ann Arbor MI, USA
- Robert Miner
- Geometry Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
MN, USA
- Nico Poppelier
- Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, NL
- Dave Raggett
- W3C (Hewlett Packard), Bristol, UK
- T.V. Raman
- Adobe Inc., Mountain View CA, USA
- Bruce Smith
- Wolfram Research Inc., Champaign IL, USA
- Neil Soiffer
- Wolfram Research Inc., Champaign IL, USA
- Robert Sutor
- IBM Research, Yorktown Heights NY, USA
- Paul Topping
- Design Science Inc., Long Beach CA, USA
- Stephen Watt
- University of Western Ontario, London ON, CAN
- Ralph Youngen
- American Mathematical Society, Providence RI, USA
Others who had been members of the W3C Math WG for periods at
earlier stages were:
- Stephen Glim
- Mathsoft Inc., Cambridge MA, USA
- Arnaud Le Hors
- W3C, Cambridge MA, USA
- Ron Whitney
- Texterity Inc., Boston MA, USA
- Lauren Wood
- SoftQuad, Surrey BC, CAN
- Ka-Ping Yee
- University of Waterloo, Waterloo ON, CAN
Acknowledgments
The Working Group benefited from the help of many other
people in developing the specification for MathML 1.0. We
would like to particularly name Barbara Beeton, Chris Hamlin,
John Jenkins, Ira Polans, Arthur Smith, Robby Villegas and Joe
Yurvati for help and information in assembling the character
tables in , as well as Peter Flynn,
Russell S.S. O'Connor, Andreas Strotmann, and other
contributors to the www-math
mailing list for their careful
proofreading and constructive criticisms.
As the Math Working Group went on to MathML 2.0, it again was
helped by many from the W3C family of Working Groups with whom
we necessarily had a great deal of interaction. Outside the
W3C, a particularly active relevant front was the interface
with the Unicode Technical Committee (UTC) and the NTSC WG2
dealing with ISO 10646. There the STIX project put together a
proposal for the addition of characters for mathematical
notation to Unicode, and this work was again spearheaded
by
Barbara Beeton of the AMS. The whole problem ended split into
three proposals, two of which were advanced by Murray Sargent
of Microsoft, a Math WG member and member of the UTC. But the
mathematical community should be grateful for essential help
and guidance over a couple of years of refinement of the
proposals to help mathematics provided by Kenneth Whistler of
Sybase, and a UTC and WG2 member, and by Asmus Freytag, also
involved in the UTC and WG2 deliberations, and always a stalwart
and knowledgeable supporter of the needs of scientific notation.