User:Misha Wolf

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Between 1969 and 1972, I studied Chemical Physics at the University of Sussex. My only exposure to computers was writing a program, using a Teletype equipped with a paper tape punch, to output the words "Hello world".

For the next few years, I worked in a vegetarian cafe, in two British secondary schools (teaching maths and science) and in two housing associations (looking after tenants).

Then, between 1976 and 1978, I studied Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London. My favourite computer language was Algol-68.

From 1978 to 2019, I worked in information technology. Between 1997 and 2019, my main focus was on taxonomies and classification schemes and on their use in metadata.

During my years of employment, I had various public roles related to technical standards, including:

• Chair of the Dublin Core Data Model working group
• Co-Chair of the Unicode Conference organising committee
• Chair of the World Wide Web Consortium's Internationalization working group
• Chair of the International Press Telecommunications Council's News Metadata Framework working group
• Member of the Unicode Technical Committee
• Member of the World Wide Web Consortium's Advisory Committee
• Member of the World Wide Web Consortium's Resource Description Framework Model and Syntax working group

During that time, I co-authored a number of specifications, including:

• Standard Compression Scheme for Unicode
• Dublin Core Metadata for Resource Discovery
• Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0: Fundamentals

I also co-chaired the following Unicode Conferences:

• Ninth International Unicode Conference, Sep 1996, San Jose, California
• Tenth International Unicode Conference, Mar 1997, Mainz, Germany
• Eleventh International Unicode Conference, Sep 1997, San Jose, California
• Twelfth International Unicode Conference , Apr 1998, Tokyo, Japan
• Thirteenth International Unicode Conference, Sep 1998, San Jose, California
• Fourteenth International Unicode Conference, Mar 1999, Boston, Massachusetts
• Fifteenth International Unicode Conference, Aug-Sep 1999, San Jose, California
• Sixteenth International Unicode Conference, Mar 2000, Amsterdam, Holland
• Seventeenth International Unicode Conference, Sep 2000, San Jose, California
• Eighteenth International Unicode Conference, Apr 2001, Hong Kong
• Nineteenth International Unicode Conference, Sep 2001, San Jose, California
• Twentieth International Unicode Conference, Jan 2002, Washington DC
• Twenty-first International Unicode Conference, May 2002, Dublin, Ireland
• Twenty-second International Unicode Conference, Sep 2002, San Jose, California