Charles Goldfarb Explained

Charles F. Goldfarb
Education:Harvard Law School
Known For:Developing Generalized Markup Language

Charles F. Goldfarb, (born November 26, 1939) is known as the father of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)[1] and grandfather of HTML[2] and the World Wide Web, also referred to as WWW, W3, or the Web.[3] He co-invented the concept of markup languages.[4]

In 1969 Charles Goldfarb, leading a small team at IBM,[5] developed the first markup language, called Generalized Markup Language,[6] or GML. Goldfarb coined the term GML,[7] an initialism for the three researchers, Charles Goldfarb, Ed Mosher and Ray Lorie, who worked on the project.[8]

In 1974, Goldfarb designed SGML[9] and subsequently wrote the first SGML parser, ARC-SGML.[10] SGML facilitates the sharing of machine readable documents for large projects. SGML was used by the military and aerospace,[11] and industrial publishing.[12] Goldfarb continued working to turn SGML into the ISO 8879 standard,[13] and served as its editor in the standardization committee.

Goldfarb held a J.D. from Harvard Law School.[14] After working at IBM's Almaden Research Center,[15] he was an independent consultant based in Belmont, California.[16]

Selected publications

References

  1. Web site: Web Techniques: A Conversation with Charles F. Goldfarb . 2023-04-26 . people.apache.org.
  2. Web site: Mayor . Dana . 2021-01-04 . Charles Goldfarb . 2023-04-25 . History-Computer . en-US.
  3. Web site: World Wide Web - MDN Web Docs Glossary: Definitions of Web-related terms MDN . 2023-04-25 . developer.mozilla.org . en-US.
  4. Web site: Mayor . Dana . 2021-01-04 . Charles Goldfarb . 2023-04-25 . History-Computer . en-US.
  5. Web site: Mayor . Dana . 2021-01-04 . Charles Goldfarb . 2023-04-26 . History-Computer . en-US.
  6. Web site: Mayor . Dana . 2021-01-04 . Charles Goldfarb . 2023-04-26 . History-Computer . en-US.
  7. Web site: Mayor . Dana . 2021-01-04 . Charles Goldfarb . 2023-04-26 . History-Computer . en-US.
  8. Web site: Web Techniques: A Conversation with Charles F. Goldfarb . 2009-06-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090815103836/http://www.beyond-html.com/columns/1198/1198.html . 2009-08-15 . dead .
  9. Web site: Web Techniques: A Conversation with Charles F. Goldfarb . 2023-04-26 . people.apache.org.
  10. Web site: Cover . Robin . Public SGML/XML Software . 2023-04-25 . xml.coverpages.org.
  11. Web site: 6.1. SGML's Legacy - XML in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition [Book] ]. 2023-04-26 . www.oreilly.com . en.
  12. Web site: SGML/XML Asia Pacific '97 - Title . 2023-04-26 . xml.coverpages.org.
  13. Web site: 2018-02-21 . Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). ISO 8879:1986 . 2023-04-25 . www.loc.gov.
  14. Web site: Famous Harvard Law School Alumni . 2023-04-25 . Ranker . en.
  15. Web site: Goldfarb, Handbook TOC . 2023-04-26 . xml.coverpages.org.
  16. Web site: 2015-12-21 . Dr. Charles F. Goldfarb . 2023-04-26 . IT History Society . en.

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