Technical Advisors

Marty Abbott is a technology and business executive with experience in Fortune 500 and internet startup companies. Marty was formerly the COO of Quigo, an advertising technology startup. Prior to that, he spent nearly six years at eBay as VP of Operations, VP of Operations and IT, and finally CTO and SVP of Technology. Prior to eBay, Marty held domestic and international executive and management positions at Gateway, managing both the IT software development and IT Operations groups in the US and Asia Pacific regions. Marty also held several manufacturing and engineering management roles in Motorola’s Land Mobile Product Sector. He served in the US Army for 12 years.

Marty has an MS in Computer Engineering from the University of Florida, a BS in Computer Science from the United States Military Academy (West Point) and is a graduate of the Harvard Business School’s Executive Education Program. He is a member of the University of Florida’s Technology Commercialization Board and serves on the Board of Directors for Onforce and the advisory boards of Rearden Commerce and LiveOps.

Jon Bosak, who organized and led the group that created XML, is now serving as the chair of the XML Coordination Group of the World Wide Web Consortium. He is also a founding member of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards Process (OASIS) and chaired the committee that developed the OASIS process for the definition of industry-specific XML markup standards.

Jon has also served on the advisory board of the Electronic Business XML initiative (ebXML); on the solution provider board of RosettaNet, the leading XML-based supply-chain organization for the electronics industry; and on the board of governors of the Electronics Industry Data Exchange Association (EIDX). He currently chairs the OASIS Universal Business Language Technical Committee. Jon's articles can be found on his web page: www.ibiblio.org/bosak/

John Seely Brown is the Independent Co-Chairman of the Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation. Prior to that he was the Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and the director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) a position he held for nearly two decades. At PARC, Brown expanded the role of corporate research to include such topics as organizational learning, knowledge management, complex adaptive systems, and nano/mems technologies.

John serves on numerous boards (Amazon, Corning, and Varian Medical Systems)and has published over 100 papers in scientific journals. He was awarded the Harvard Business Review's 1991 McKinsey Award for his article “Research that Reinvents the Corporation” and again in 2002 for “Your Next IT Strategy.” With Paul Duguid he co-authored the acclaimed book The Social Life of Information (HBS Press, 2000), and with John Hagel he co-authored the book The Only Sustainable Edge about new forms of collaborative innovation.

JSB received a BA from Brown University in 1962 in mathematics and physics and a PhD from University of Michigan in 1970 in computer and communication sciences.

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.

Michael I. Jordan, a leading researcher in machine learning and artificial intelligence, is the Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley — in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Statistics. He was a professor at MIT from 1988 to 1998. Prof. Jordan’s research in recent years has focused on Bayesian nonparametric analysis, probabilistic graphical models, spectral methods, variational methods, kernel machines and applications to problems in statistical genetics, signal processing, computational biology, information retrieval and natural language processing.

Prof. Jordan is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has been named a Neyman Lecturer and a Medallion Lecturer by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He is a Fellow of the ACM, the IMS, the IEEE, the AAAI and the ASA. He received his Masters in Mathematics from Arizona State University, and earned his PhD in Cognitive Science from the University of California, San Diego.