Gary Simons - SIL International
Gary Simons is the Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs SIL
International. Before that he was Director of SIL's Academic Computing
Department (1984-1999). In that capacity he led a number of projects to develop
software for field linguists. He has been active in the area of text markup,
including helping to develop the Text Encoding Initiative's guidelines for text
analysis and interpretation (1989-1994), serving on the TEI's Technical Review
Committee (1996-1998), and serving on the editorial board of Markup Languages:
Theory and Practice (1998-present). He received a Ph.D. in general linguistics
(with minor emphases in computer science and classics) from Cornell University
in 1979.
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