C. Michael Sperberg-McQueen

C. M. Sperberg-McQueen is the founder of Black Mesa Technologies LLC and a consultant specializing in the use of descriptive markup to help scholars, memory institutions, and governments make scientific, public, and cultural heritage information more useful in the short run and preserve it for the long haul. He has served as co-editor of the XML 1.0 specification, the Guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative, and the XML Schema Definition Language (XSDL) 1.1 specification.

He has a Ph.D. in comparative literature but strayed into computing and digital humanities as a graduate student and never came back out.