Dr. Charles F. Goldfarb

Board of Advisors

Dr. Charles F. Goldfarb is the Father of XML Technology and the inventor of “Markup Languages” – the data technology of the World Wide Web. He has been a consultant to ObjectBuilders since 2006 and currently serves on the company's Board of Advisors.

In 1969, while a researcher at IBM, Dr. Goldfarb led the project that invented Generalized Markup Language (GML), as a means of integrating components of a law office information system. He coined the term “Markup Language” to describe GML’s unique hybrid of document tagging, data modeling, and metalanguage. He is also the inventor of SGML, the Standard Generalized markup Language on which the Web’s HTML and XML are based.

In 1999, the Society for Technical Communication recognized the impact of markup languages on society in general and the World Wide Web in particular. It conferred dual Honorary Fellowships to Dr. Goldfarb for markup languages and to Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web, for making such innovative use of the technology.

Dr. Goldfarb edits Prentice-Hall’s Definitive XML Series and his XML Handbook™ is now in its Fifth Edition, with over 100,000 copies in print in six languages. He has been profiled in Forbes and other publications.

Dr. Goldfarb is an independent consultant and speaker and from 2000 - 2005 was also a Director of Innodata Isogen, Inc (INOD:NASDAQ). He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Columbia College.

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