Curriculum Vitae of Steven J. DeRose: Professional Activities, Awards, and Patents

Last updated 2008-02-21



See also my work on various standards.

Professional Memberships

1988-
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
1985-1994
Association for Computational Linguistics
1986-1998
Computing in the Humanities Users' Group, Brown University (co-founder)
1980-
Association for Computing Machinery. Senior member. Sometime vice-chair of SigWeb (nee SigHyper)

Industry and Academic Awards

1998
Society of American Archivists, the C.F.W. Coker prize, (illustration) as part of the team that developed the Encoded Archival Description DTD (see under my work on standards)
1997
Seybold Editors "Achievement of the Year" Award for the W3C XML Working Group
1996
Seybold Editors' "Technology Trailblazer" Award for EBT (later Inso) DynaWeb product (picture)
1995
Bentley Historical Library Fellow (Berkeley Finding Aids Project). Made an "honorary archivist" by the real archivists in attendence (see the certificate)
1982-84
University Fellowship, Brown University
1982
Phi Beta Kappa; Magna Cum Laude; A.B. Cum Honorum
1976
National Merit Finalist

Grants

2001
As Principal Investigator: National Endowment for the Humanities, $131,963 to the Text Encoding Initiative to update the 1200-page encoding guidelines and schemas from SGML to XML.
1988
SIL Scholarly Advancement Grant for dissertation research

Invited or Keynote Addresses

Professional Activities

Patents

These patents primarily involve methods for dealing with arbitrarily large SGML/HTML/XML documents, and formatting or subsetting them effectively without serial processing. This is a key enabler for dealing with large documents, regardless of medium.

#Patent #Title
1 5,557,722 Data processing system and method for representing, generating a representation of and random access rendering of electronic documents
2 5,644,776 Data processing system and method for random access formatting of a portion of a large hierarchical electronically published document with descriptive markup
3 5,708,806 Data processing system and method for generating a representation for and for representing electronically published structured documents
4 5,893,109 Generation of chunks of a long document for an electronic book system
5 5,983,248 Data processing system and method for generating a representation for and random access rendering of electronic documents
6 6,055,544 Generation of chunks of a long document for an electronic book system
7 6,101,511 Data processing system and method for generating a representation for and random access rendering of electronic documents
8 6,101,512 Data processing system and method for generating a representation for and random access rendering of electronic documents
9 6,105,044 Data processing system and method for generating a representation for and random access rendering of electronic documents
10 6,167,409 Computer system and method for customizing context information sent with document fragments across a computer network
11 6,546,406 Client-server computer system for large document retrieval on networked computer system


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