Eve Maler, Industry Fellow

Eve Maler is an XML Standards Architect at Sun Microsystems. She currently coordinates Sun's work on XML/web services security standards and promotes adoption of these standards in the industry at large and in Sun products and programs.

Eve co-founded, formerly chaired, and is the coordinating editor for the OASIS SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) committee, and she is vice-chair of the WS-I Security Work Plan group. She also co-founded and contributed actively to the OASIS Universal Business Language effort.

Eve was a charter member of the original W3C XML working group. She co-edited the second edition of the XML 1.0 Recommendation and several other specifications published by W3C and OASIS.

Eve co-authored Developing SGML DTDs: From Text to Model to Markup, a book that remains unique in providing a targeted methodology for DTD design. She also served for several years as maintainer of the popular DocBook DTD for software documentation.

Eve holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Linguistics from Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.