XML Query Implementation Panel

Paul Cotton joined Microsoft in May, 2000 and is currently Program Manager of XML Standards. Paul has 28 years of experience in the Information Technology industry. Prior to joining Microsoft Paul was a Senior Technical Staff Member with IBM Canada (1995-2000) and Director of Research with Fulcrum Technologies (1987-1995). Paul has been involved in computer standards work since 1988 when he began representing Fulcrum Technologies in the SQL Access Group where he was heavily involved in the development of the SQL Call-Level Interface (CLI) which is the de jure standard based on ODBC. Paul has represented his employer and Canada on the ISO SQL and SQL/Multi-Media committees since 1992 and was the Editor of the SQL/MM Full-Text and Still Image documents from 1995 until joining Microsoft. Paul was a founding member in the consortium efforts to standardize JDBC and SQLJ which provide interfaces to SQL for the Java language. More recently Paul has been an active member of the SQLX consortium which is defining XML interfaces for the SQL standard. Paul has been participating in the W3C XML Activity since early-1998 when he became IBM's prime representative on the XML Linking and Infoset Working Groups. Paul has been chairperson of the XML Query Working Group and a member of the XML Coordination Group since September 1999. Paul was elected to the W3C Advisory Board in June 2000 soon after joining Microsoft. Paul is also Microsoft's alternate on the XML Protocol Working Group.

Jonathan Robie is an editor of the W3C XQuery language and several other W3C XML Query documents, co-inventor of the Quilt query language, and co-inventor of XQL query language. He has been on the architectural team for three different XML databases or repositories, an editor of the W3C DOM Level 1 and Level 2 specifications, an editor of the W3C XML Schema Formal Description, and an editor of the W3C XML Query Requirements and Use Cases documents. Jonathan works as a Research Fellow at Software AG, and advises their development teams on issues related to query languages, W3C standards and software architectures.

Peter Fankhauser is head of the department OASYS (Open Adaptive Information Systems) and director of the XML Competence Center at the GMDInstitute for Integrated Publication and Information Systems (IPSI). His main research and development interests lie in information brokering and transaction brokering. He has been the technical leader in the developmentof tools for unified access to information retrieval systems, documentstructure recognition, and the integration of heterogeneous databases. He is member of the W3C XML Query working group, and co-editor of the W3C XML-Query Requirements, XML-Query Use Cases, and XML-Query FormalSemantics working drafts.