Robert J. Glushko is an adjunct professor at the University of California Berkeley School of Information. He has written a number of books including Document Engineering (2005) and The Discipline of Organizing (2013). In 1997, he co-founded Veo Systems and helped pioneer the use of XML for electronic business. Veo's innovations included the Common Business Library (CBL), the first native XML vocabulary for business-to-business transactions, the primary starting point for what is now the Universal Business Language (UBL), and the Schema for Object-Oriented XML (SOX), the first object-oriented XML schema language. From 1999 to 2002 he headed Commerce One's XML architecture and technical standards activities, after Commerce One acquired Veo in 1998. He is the husband of Pamela Samuelson. In 2001, they founded the David E. Rumelhart Prize for Contributions to the Theoretical Foundations of Human Cognition. Rumelhart was Glushko's thesis advisor at the University of California, San Diego, where he received his PhD in 1979. Glushko and Samuelson have also helped create several law school clinics working on public interest technology issues. These include: Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic of the Washington College of Law at American University Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic at University of California, Berkeley Samuelson-Glushko Intellectual Property and Information Law Clinic at Fordham University Samuelson-Glushko Technology Law & Policy Clinic at University of Colorado, Boulder Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest Clinic, at the University of Ottawa. Source: Wikipedia (en)