Michael Sperberg-McQueen

High school (ages 12+)
Science & Technology

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https://smallwhale.org/articles/michael-sperberg-mcqueen

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1. When was Michael Sperberg-McQueen born?May 18, 1954
2. When did Michael Sperberg-McQueen die?August 16, 2024
3. What is Michael Sperberg-McQueen known for?Co-editor of the Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 specification (1998)
4. What is the academic background?Medieval German philologist

Philology: The study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics.
Markup Language: A system for annotating a document in a way that is syntactically distinguishable from the text.
Extensible Markup Language (XML): A markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable.
Interoperability: The ability of different computer systems or applications to exchange and use information.