An information management scientist, entrepreneur, consultant, author, and educator, Bob Glushko has been a pioneer in the commercialization of XML. He spent 25 years in research and industry, and now balances his role at Rearden Commerce with work at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Information Management & Systems and the Director of the Center for Document Engineering.
An Engineering Fellow, XML Architect and Evangelist at CommerceOne, Robert joined the B2B e-commerce company when it acquired Veo Systems, where he was a Co-Founder, Director of Engineering, and co-inventor of three patents in document processing and Web Services. He was previously Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Passage Systems, Founder and Principal of Hypertext Engineering, Principal Scientist at Search Technology, Manager of Technology Transition Methods at Carnegie-Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute, and a Technical Staff member at AT&T Bell Laboratories.
Robert earned a BA from Stanford University, MS in Software Engineering from the Wang Institute, and PhD in Cognitive Psychology from the University of California at San Diego. He is the author of scores of scientific papers, presenter of more than a hundred papers on document engineering and XML, and a participant in numerous international technology standards committees. Robert's book “Document Engineering: Document Analysis and Design for Business Informatics and Web Services” was published by MIT Press in early 2005.