Michael Howard Kay

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Michael Kay
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Born Michael Howard Kay
(1951-10-11) 11 October 1951 (age 72)
Hannover, West Germany
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Alma mater Trinity College, Cambridge
Thesis Data independence in database management systems (1976)
Doctoral advisor Maurice Wilkes
Known for Saxon XSLT
Spouse Penelope M. Kay[1]
Website
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Michael Howard Kay Ph.D FBCS (born 11 October 1951) is the editor of the W3C specification of the XSLT 2.0 language for performing XML transformations,[2] and the developer of the Saxon XSLT and XQuery[3] processing software.[4][5][6][7]

Education

Kay was educated at Salesian College in Farnborough, and then went to Trinity College, Cambridge to read Natural Sciences. He gained his Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory under the supervision of Maurice Wilkes.[8]

Career

Kay has spent over twenty years (1977-2001) with the British computer manufacturer International Computers Limited (ICL). He was appointed an ICL Fellow in 1990. On leaving ICL, he worked for three years with Software AG[9] before forming his own company, Saxonica.[1][10][11] He has previously been involved in GedML: Genealogical Data in XML.[12]

Publications

Kay is the author of the book XSLT: Programmer's Reference by Wrox Press and several other books and papers[9][13][14][15] on software engineering.[16][17][18] He lives and works in Reading,[1] England and is a member of the XML Guild[19] and a regular speaker at the XML Summer School in Oxford[20] and Balisage Markup conference.[21]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Saxonica Limited Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "saxonica" defined multiple times with different content
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  4. ↑ Michael Howard Kay on TwitterLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  10. ↑ http://www.stylusstudio.com/michael_kay.html An Interview with Michael Kay
  11. ↑ http://stackoverflow.com/users/415448/michael-kay Stackoverflow Profile of Michael Kay
  12. ↑ http://users.breathe.com/mhkay/gedml/ GedML
  13. ↑ Michael Howard Kay's publications indexed by the DBLP Bibliography Server at the University of Trier
  14. ↑ Michael Howard Kay's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
  15. ↑ Michael Howard Kay from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library
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  18. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  19. ↑ http://xmlguild.org/members The XML Guild: where you find established XML experts
  20. ↑ http://xmlsummerschool.com The XML Summer School, Oxford
  21. ↑ http://www.balisage.net Balisage: The Markup Conference

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