Charles F. Goldfarb | |
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 Charles Goldfarb | |
| Born | November 26, 1939 |
| 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. He co-invented the concept of markup languages. [3]
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In 1969 Charles Goldfarb, leading a small team at IBM, [4] developed the first markup language, called Generalized Markup Language, [5] or GML. Goldfarb coined the term GML, [6] an initialism for the three researchers, Charles Goldfarb, Ed Mosher and Ray Lorie, who worked on the project. [7]
In 1974, Goldfarb designed SGML [8] and subsequently wrote the first SGML parser, ARC-SGML. [9] SGML facilitates the sharing of machine readable documents for large projects. SGML was used by the military and aerospace, [10] and industrial publishing. [11] Goldfarb continued working to turn SGML into the ISO 8879 standard, [12] and served as its editor in the standardization committee.
Goldfarb held a J.D. from Harvard Law School. [13] After working at IBM's Almaden Research Center, [14] he was an independent consultant based in Belmont, California. [15]
