James Tauber

James Tauber is Chief Scientist at mValent and was recently named by Network World as one of the 75 most influential people in the network industry. A participant in the W3C's XML activity from the beginning, he continues to be involved in the development of web services standards and is co-chair of the OASIS Directory Services Markup Language (DSML) Technical Committee.

James is also a well-known open source developer, responsible for early implementations of numerous specifications including XSL-FO, TREX, UDDI and RDF. He maintains a number of XML-related sites, including xmlsoftware.com and frequently runs seminars, workshops and tutorials on XML and web services topics.