Seminar 1 – The View from a New Office: Opportunities and Issues ….

Bruce Rosenblum, CEO of Inera, has twenty-five years of experience in design and development of electronic publishing solutions. He leads development of eXtyles, Inera’s suite of editorial and XML tools for Microsoft Word used in the production of more than 600 journals worldwide.

Mr. Rosenblum is a member of the NLM DTD Advisory Board and CrossRef Metadata Quality Committee. Prior to joining Inera, Mr. Rosenblum was VP of Software Development at Turning Point Software, where he led the development of products for companies including Microsoft, Word Perfect, and Houghton Mifflin. Mr. Rosenblum speaks frequently at scholarly publishing conferences and he serves on the NISO Board of Directors

Tim has been instrumental in the development of Scitation, the hosting service for physical science and engineering publishers. He is project leader of the multi-publisher project to develop a comprehensive set of Unicode-based fonts, the STIX Fonts. He was active in the founding of CrossRef and is Treasurer of ASIDIC.

Pablo Fernicola is a Group Manager at Microsoft, focused on the creation, workflow, and dissemination of scholarly articles and communication. Previously, Pablo played a leading role in the creation of the new development platform for Windows, Windows Presentation Foundation, and key roles in the development of several versions of Internet Explorer and Windows. With an early focus on web content, 3D graphics, and multimedia, Pablo’s industry experience spans Microsoft, Apple, and Intergraph corporations. Pablo received a Master’s degree from the University of Florida and a bachelor’s degree from Texas Tech University.

Murray is a Partner Software Design Engineer at Microsoft, working mostly on the RichEdit editing engine and math editing and display. He completed BS, MS, and PhD degrees in theoretical physics at Yale University and worked for 22 years in the theory & application of lasers, first at Bell Labs and then as a Professor at the University of Arizona.

He also worked on technical word processing, writing the first math display program SCROLL (1969) and later (1980s) the PS technical word processor. More info is given in his blog on Math in Office http://blogs.msdn.com/murrays.

Paul co-founded Design Science in 1986 and has since held the position of President & CEO. He is also the principal architect and original programmer of the company’s MathType product, and continues to provide technical leadership at the company. Prior to founding Design Science, Paul held technical and management positions within a number of computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) companies.

He specialized in user interaction and programming language design. Paul received a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California. Paul also did graduate work in Computer Science at USC and the University of California at Irvine.

Alex Wade is Senior Research Program Manager for Scholarly Communications within Microsoft’s Technical Computing initiative (a part of Microsoft Research), where he manages a variety of research programs related to open access to research data, interoperability of archives and repositories, and the preservation of digital information. Alex holds an Masters of Librarianship degree from the University of Washington.