Dr. James
D. Mason
Chair, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34
Y-12 National Security Complex
James D. Mason,
originally trained as a physicist, mediaevalist, and linguist,
has been a writer, systems developer, and manufacturing engineer
at U.S. Department of Energy facilities in Oak Ridge since the
late 1970s. In 1981, he joined the ISO's work on standards for
document management and interchange. He has chaired ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34,
which is responsible for SGML, DSSSL, Topic Maps, and related
standards, since 1985. Dr. Mason has been a frequent writer and
speaker on standards and their applications. For his work on SGML,
Dr. Mason has received the Gutenberg Award from Printing Industries
of America and the Tekkie Award from GCA.