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Harvard Law School.
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Charles Goldfarb
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He co-invented the concept of markup languages. In 1969 Charles Goldfarb, leading a small team at International Business Machines Corporation, developed the first markup language, called Generalized Markup Language, or GML. Goldfarb coined the term GML, an initialism for the three researchers, Charles Goldfarb, Editor Mosher and Ray Lorie who worked on the project In 1974, he designed SGML and subsequently wrote the first SGML parser, ARCSGML. Goldfarb went on working to turn SGML into the International Organization for Standardization 8879 standard, and served as its editor in the standardization committee.
Goldfarb holds a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.
He worked at International Business Machines Corporation"s Almaden Research Center for many years and is now an independent consultant based in Belmont, California.
