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Steven Pemberton

b. 1953

British-Dutch computer scientist

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About Steven Pemberton

Born 1953. Steven Pemberton is an engineer, programmer, researcher and computer scientist.

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

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.

Contributions to web standards

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

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

Pemberton was co-chair of the W3C XForms Working Group from 2000-2007, and in 2003 co-authored the XForms 1.0 specification. In 2009 he co-authored the XForms 1.1 specifications. He was co-chair of the W3C Forms Working Group from 2010-2012.

Awards 2009: SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award. 2022: SIGCHI Lifetime Practice Award.

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Education
St Albans School, University of Sussex

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Steven Pemberton?

British-Dutch computer scientist

When was Steven Pemberton born?

Steven Pemberton was born on 19 February 1953 in Ash.

What is Steven Pemberton's occupation?

Steven Pemberton is an engineer, programmer, researcher and computer scientist.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Steven Pemberton

· Wikidata: Q7615136

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