Steven Pemberton

Steven Pemberton is a researcher affiliated with the Distributed and Interactive Systems group[1] at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), the national research institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands.

Not to be confused with Steve Pemberton.
Steven Pemberton

He was one of the designers of ABC, 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)'s Interactions from 1998-2004. In 2009 SIGCHI awarded him their CHI Lifetime Service Award.[2]

Contributions to web standards

Pemberton was a contributing author of HyperText Markup Language (HTML) 4.0[3] and HTML 4.01,[4] and chair of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) HTML Working Group.[5][6] He was a contributing author of the Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) specifications 1.0 in 2000[7] and 1.1 in 2001,[8] and chair of the XHTML 2 Working Group from 2006-9.[9]

He chaired the first W3C workshop on style sheets in 1995,[10] and was a contributing author of the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Level 1 specification in 1996,[11] Level 2 in 1998,[12] and CSS Color Module Level 3 in 2002.[13]

Pemberton was co-chair of the W3C XForms Working Group from 2000-2007,[14][15] and in 2003 co-authored the XForms 1.0 specification.[16] In 2009 he co-authored the XForms 1.1[15] and XML Events[17] specifications. He was co-chair of the W3C Forms Working Group from 2010-2012.[18]

References
  1. Distributed and Interactive Systems — CWI Amsterdam, Members
  2. SIGCHI 2009 Awards – Steven Pemberton
  3. HTML 4.0 W3C Recommendation, Acknowledgements
  4. HTML 4.01 W3C Recommendation, Acknowledgements
  5. HTML Working Group Charter (2000)
  6. HTML Working Group Charter (2002)
  7. XHTML 1.0 W3C Recommendation, Acknowledgements
  8. XHTML 1.1 W3C Recommendation, Acknowledgements
  9. XHTML 2 Working Group Charter (2006)
  10. W3C Workshop on Style Sheets, November 6-7, 1995
  11. CSS 1 W3C Recommendation, Acknowledgements
  12. CSS 2 W3C Recommendation, Acknowledgements
  13. CSS Color Module Level 3 W3C Recommendation
  14. XForms Working Group Charter (2003)
  15. XForms 1.1 Recommendation, Acknowledgements
  16. XForms 1.0 Recommendation, Acknowledgements
  17. XML Events W3C Recommendation
  18. Forms Working Group Charter (2010)
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