2008-10-07 19:00:52 - Thompson to Chair Factonomy's Technical Advisory Committee

Factonomy, a leading enabler of web-based business solutions, announced today the appointment of Henry
Thompson as Chairman of Factonomy's Technical Advisory Committee, effective immediately.

'Factonomy has developed some very powerful extensible XML based technology and I am looking forward to contributing to their progress, by providing input on strategic issues, such as the development of the Web,' said Thompson.

Thompson divides

his time between the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, where he is Reader in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), where he works in the XML Activity.

'Henry is a renowned expert in the Internet community, who contributed to the development of XML itself and played a significant role in the creation of XSLT and XML Schema. We believe his extensive industry and technological experience will be an invaluable asset to Factonomy,' said Geoff Kell, CEO of Factonomy. 'We are looking forward to working with him and benefiting from his experience and insights.'

Thompson was a member of the SGML Working Group of the World Wide Web Consortium which designed XML and is currently a member of the XML Core, XML Schema and XML Processing Model Working Groups of the W3C. He was lead editor of the first Structures XML Schema W3C Recommendation, for which he co-wrote the first publicly available implementation.

Factonomy was founded in 2003 by Graeme Bryce and licenses its technology framework to companies to help them reduce the time and cost it takes to develop applications. Factonomy has a broad portfolio of clients, including national and international public companies.



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Notes to Editors:



1. Factonomy licenses its strategic application framework to enable the agile and flexible development of web-enabled business solutions. Unlike any other development platform, the Factonomy Framework allows developers to work independently on functionality, content and style, so they can deliver solutions which are agile, flexible and cost effective.


2. Henry Thompson received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1980. His university education was divided between Linguistics and Computer Science, in which he holds an M.Sc. While still at Berkeley he was affiliated with the Natural Language Research Group at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, where he participated in the GUS and KRL projects. He is also interested in the philosophical foundations of computer science and AI, and is actively involved in promoting awareness of the moral and social implications of AI research.


3. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where Member organisations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards. W3C's mission is to lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing protocols and guidelines that ensure long-term growth for the Web. W3C primarily pursues its mission through the creation of Web standards and guidelines. Since 1994, W3C has published more than 110 such standards, called W3C Recommendations. W3C also engages in education and outreach, develops software, and serves as an open forum for discussion about the Web.


4. The Factonomy Framework provides a coherent end-to-end environment for the development of business solutions. Factonomy's agile software environment for the rapid development of web-enabled business applications enables their development using declarative XML only.