Charles Goldfarb

Charles F. Goldfarb
Charles Goldfarb in 2008
Born (1939-11-26) November 26, 1939
EducationHarvard Law School (JD)
Alma materColumbia College
Occupations
  • Computer scientist
  • Lawyer
  • Independent consultant
  • Speaker
EmployerIBM (1967–unknown)
Known forDesigning GML and SGML
Title
  • Research team lead, IBM Cambridge (1969 – before 1975)
  • Product planner, IBM Almaden (1975 – c. late 1980s)
  • Editor, SGML ISO committee (c. 1980 – 1986)
  • Chair, SGML committee (1986–unknown)
  • Director, Innodata Isogen (2000–2005)
  • Advisor, ObjectBuilders (2006 – before 2017)
Awards
  • Honorary Fellow, STC
  • PIA Gutenberg Award
Websitehttp://www.sgmlsource.com/ (defunct)

Charles F. Goldfarb (born 26 November 1939) is known as the creator of Generalized Markup Language (GML) and Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), and as the grandfather of the technologies built on SGML—namely HTML and the World Wide Web. He coined the term markup language, and co-invented its concept alongside William W. Tunnicliffe, whom he claims brought the idea to his attention.

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