Gary Simons - SIL International
Gary Simons is the Associate Vice President for Academic
Affairs at the international headquarters of SIL International
in Dallas, Texas. 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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