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Biography:

Carter Glass is the manager of electronic publishing development at the American Geophysical Union. His mission is to build tools to help scientists collaborate in research and publish their results. Before working at AGU, Carter was the manager of the Internet Publishing and E-commerce unit of The Thomson Labs. He conducted research into all aspects of large–scale electronic publishing and publishing commerce. His areas of research interest were XML, SGML, online payment systems, dynamic database publishing, internet advertising and content protection technologies. He has served as internet strategy consultant to senior publishing executives and hosted numerous workshops on internet publishing. Carter has been building database systems for over fifteen years and was drawn to online publishing because it has the most interesting challenges in the years ahead.