Spouse Penelope M. Kay Doctoral advisor Maurice Wilkes Known for Saxon XSLT | Role Software developer Name Michael Kay | |
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Born Michael Howard Kay
11 October 1951 (age 72)
Hannover, West Germany ( 1951-10-11 ) Institutions Saxonica Ltd.
Software AG
International Computers Limited
University of Cambridge Alma mater Trinity College, Cambridge Thesis Data independence in database management systems (1976) Education University of Cambridge, Trinity College, Cambridge Books XSLT programmer's reference, XPath 20 programmer's reference, XSLT 20 Programmer's Reference, Change on the run, XSLT 20 and XPath 20 Progr | ||
Michael Howard Kay Ph.D FBCS (born 11 October 1951) is the editor of the W3C XSLT 2.0 and 3.0 language specifications for performing XML transformations, and the developer of the Saxon XSLT and XQuery processing software.
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Education
Kay was educated at Salesian College in Farnborough, and then went to Trinity College, Cambridge to read Natural Sciences. He gained his Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory under the supervision of Maurice Wilkes.
Career
Kay spent over twenty years (1977-2001) with the British computer manufacturer International Computers Limited (ICL). He was appointed an ICL Fellow in 1990. On leaving ICL, he worked for three years with Software AG before forming his own company, Saxonica. He has previously been involved in GedML: Genealogical Data in XML.
Publications
Kay is the author of the book XSLT: Programmer's Reference by Wrox Press and several other books and papers on software engineering. He lives and works in Reading, England and is a member of the XML Guild and a regular speaker at the XML Summer School in Oxford and Balisage Markup conference.