Charles Goldfarb

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Charles F. Goldfarb
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Charles Goldfarb
Born (1939-11-26) November 26, 1939 (age 84)
Education Harvard Law School
Known forDeveloping 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]

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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

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References

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