Yuri Ivan Rubinsky was a Lebanese-born writer, software executive, and promoter of the Standard Generalized Markup Language, which was the basis for the now-ubiquitous XML.
11 Facts About Yuri Rubinsky
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Yuri Rubinsky is a graduate of Brock University and studied architecture at the University of Toronto.
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Yuri Rubinsky was so impressed with this course that he persuaded the Banff Centre for the Arts to sponsor the Banff Publishing Workshop two years later.
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In 1984, Yuri married Holley Rubinsky, a writer who he had met at a Banff Publishing Workshop.
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In 1984, along with partners David Slocombe, Stan Bevington, and Patrick Dempster, Yuri Rubinsky founded a small Toronto-based technology company called SoftQuad, of which he was President.
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Yuri Rubinsky was one of the founders of the SGML Open consortium, and very active as an organizer and speaker at industry and standards events.
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In 1995 Yuri Rubinsky sponsored the SoftQuad Web Award presented to Doug Engelbart at the Fourth Annual WWW Conference in Boston, publishing the keepsake booklet Boosting Our Collective IQ as a special tribute to Doug to be given to attendees of the award ceremony.
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Yuri Rubinsky was technical chair of the International Committee for Accessible Document Design, and worked towards making HTML more accessible.
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Yuri Rubinsky was an author of both fiction and scholarly material, a publisher, and most importantly a visionary.
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Yuri Rubinsky's books include A History of The End of The World, The Wankers' Guide to Canada and the novel Christopher Columbus Answers All Charges.
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Yuri Rubinsky was editor of Charles Goldfarb's The SGML Handbook and SoftQuad's The SGML Primer.