Dr. Allen L. Brown, Jr. is a Senior Software Architect at Microsoft with a primary focus on the development of international standards related to Web Services. In the years immediately prior to joining Microsoft, he co-founded and developed a venture-backed startup enterprise focused on digital media management. More than half of Dr. Brown's nearly four decades of professional involvement in computing was spent at the Xerox Corporation where he served, among other things, as a Research Fellow in its Corporate Research and Technology Division and as CTO of its XSoft Division. While much the Xerox era was devoted to co-authoring 75+ papers and 24 US patents, Dr. Brown also contributed directly to products, including architecting some of the key facilities of the landmark Xerox 'Star' system. He has also held academic appointments as Professor of Computer and Information Science at Syracuse University and James Welling Clark Professor at the George Washington University. Dr. Brown earned undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and Chemical Engineering, and a doctoral degree in Artificial Intelligence, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.