Steven Pemberton

Steven Pemberton is a researcher affiliated with the Distributed and Interactive Systems group¹ at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), the national research institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands.

He was one of the designers of ABC, a programming language released in 1987, and editor-in-chief of the Special Interest Group on Computer–Human Interaction (SIGCHI)'s Bulletin from 1993-1999 and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)'s Interactions from 1998-2004.

Pemberton was a contributing author of HyperText Markup Language (HTML) 4.0² and HTML 4.01,³ and chair of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) HTML Working Group.⁴⁵ He was a contributing author of the Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) specifications 1.0 in 2000⁶ and 1.1 in 2001,⁷ and chair of the XHTML 2 Working Group from 2006-9.⁸

He chaired the first W3C workshop on style sheets in 1995,⁹ and was a contributing author of the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Level 1 specification in 1996,¹⁰ Level 2 in 1998,¹¹ and CSS Color Module Level 3 in 2002.¹²

Pemberton was co-chair of the W3C XForms Working Group from 2000-2007,¹³¹⁴ and in 2003 co-authored the XForms 1.0 specification.¹⁵ In 2009 he co-authored the XForms 1.1¹⁴ and XML Events¹⁶ specifications. He was co-chair of the W3C Forms Working Group from 2010-2012.¹⁷

• 2009: SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award.¹⁸
• 2022: SIGCHI Lifetime Practice Award.¹⁹