After finishing his Ph.D. at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich in the area of database systems, Michael went to Stanford University for postdoctoral work, where he worked on semi-structured databases and distributed heterogeneous information integration. In late 1998, he joined Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, where he is now a Program Manager for SQL Server's XML Technologies. Michael is a member of the ACM and IEEE. He is an editor of the working drafts of XQuery 1.0 Formal Semantics [XQ-FS] , XML Syntax for XQuery 1.0 (XQueryX ) [XQ-X] , XML Query Requirements [XQ-REQ], and XML Query and XPath Full-Text Requirements [XQ-FULL-REQ]. |