Curriculum vitae : Philip TAYLOR

Personal information :

Name	Philip TAYLOR
Age	61
Date of birth	4th March 1947
Nationality	British
Marital status	Married
Occupation	Retired

Education & Professional Career

Colfe's Grammar School	1958--1963	GCE O-level in Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, English Language, Physics and Chemistry.
North London Day College	1963--1964	City & Guilds Intermediate Certificate in Telecommunications
South-East London Technical College	1964--1966	City & Guilds Final Certificate in Telecommunications
Polytechnic of the South Bank	1966--1967	City & Guilds Full Technological Certificate in Digital Computers and Digital Elements & Switching Principles
External Telecommunications Executive, General Post Office	1963--1966	Youth-in-Training ("Trainee Technician, Apprentice")
External Telecommunications Executive, General Post Office	1966--1968	Technician IIA
External Telecommunications Executive, General Post Office	1968--1970	Technical Officer
Molins Tobacco Machinery Ltd	1970--1972	Design Engineer, Electronics
Westfield College, University of London	1972--1975	Technician, Grade 6
Bedford College, University of London	1975--1978	Systems Programmer
Bedford College, University of London	1978--1985	Senior Systems Programmer
Royal Holloway and Bedford New College	1985--1997	Senior Systems Programmer
University of Waterloo, Canada	1985	Visitor in the Department of Earth Sciences
University of Waterloo, Canada	1986	Visitor in the Department of Earth Sciences
University of Waikato, New Zealand	1987	Visitor in the Department of Computer Science
CSIRO, Melbourne, Australia	1987	Visitor in the Division of Information Technology
University of Waterloo, Canada	1988	Visitor in the Department of Earth Sciences
University of Waterloo, Canada	1989	Visitor in the Department of Earth Sciences
Royal Holloway, University of London	1997--2008	Webmaster

Teaching & Training

Westfield College, University of London	1973--1975	Supervision of 3rd-year projects in Computer Science
Bedford College, University of London	1974--1976	Tutor in Algol-68
Bedford College, University of London	1976--1980	Assistant to Visiting Professor P A Samet, teaching Pascal and Computer Science
Royal Holloway and Bedford New College	1985--1997	Many short courses including Pascal, Exploiting the Internet, Advanced MS/DOS, Document Design and TeX
Velehrad, Czech Republic	199?	One-week intensive course in Conversational English
Royal Holloway, University of London	1997--2008	Many short courses including Document Design, TeX, HTML, Portable Document Format, Cascading Style Sheets, HoTMetaL PRO and Macromedia Dreamweaver
Various locations worldwide	1991--	A number of short courses on Advanced TeX, TeX Macro Programming, and Book Design

Participation in Conferences

Exeter, UK	1998	3rd European TeX conference
Stanford University, N. America	1989	Ten Years of TeX and Metafont
University College Cork, Éire	1990	TeX '90
Paris, France	1991	EuroTeX '91
Charles University, Praha, Czech Republic	1992	EuroTeX '92
Hamburg, Germany	1992	Deutschsprachige Anwendervereinigung TeX e.V 1992
Chemnitz, Germany	1993	Deutschsprachige Anwendervereinigung TeX e.V 1993
Bachotek, Poland	1993	Polska Grupa Użytkowników Systemu TeX 1993
Kaiserslautern, Germany	1993	Deutschsprachige Anwendervereinigung TeX e.V 1993
Royal Holloway, UK	1993	UK TeX Users' Group Meeting
Aston University, UK	1993	TUG '93 : A World-Wide Window on TeX
Hrdonov, Sumava, Czech Republic	1993	SofSem '93
Bachotek, Poland	1994	Polska Grupa Użytkowników Systemu TeX 1994
University of Warwick	1994	UK TeX Users' Group Meeting
Münster, Germany	1994	Deutschsprachige Anwendervereinigung TeX e.V 1994
Sobieszewo, Poland	1994	EuroTeX '94
Gießen, Germany	1995	Deutschsprachige Anwendervereinigung TeX e.V 1995
Bachotek, Poland	1995	Polska Grupa Użytkowników Systemu TeX 1995
Papendaal, Arnhem, Netherlands	1995	EuroTeX '95
Toruń, Poland	1995	Polish Mathematical Society and EmNet Project (Euromath Trust)
Bachotek, Poland	1996	Polska Grupa Użytkowników Systemu TeX 1996
Augsburg, Germany	1996	Deutschsprachige Anwendervereinigung TeX e.V 1996
Bachotek, Poland	1997	Polska Grupa Użytkowników Systemu TeX 1997
München, Germany	1997	Deutschsprachige Anwendervereinigung TeX e.V 1997
Strasbourg, France	1997	Journées Gutenberg 1997
Toruń, Poland	1998	TUG '98 : Integrating TeX with the Surrounding World
St Anne's College, Oxford, UK	1999	10th Anniversary UK TeX Users' Group Meeting
Bachotek, Poland	1999	Polska Grupa Użytkowników Systemu TeX 1999
University of Heidelberg, Germany	1999	EuroTeX '99
Toulouse, France	2000	Congrès GUTenberg 2000
Wadham College Oxford, UK	2000	TUG 2000
Bachotek, Poland	2002	EuroTeX 2002
Wu Han, China	2005	TUG 2005

Offices held

Director, TeX Users Group
Invited Expert, W3C HTML Working Group
Fellow, Zoological Society of London
Former Chairman, UK TeX Users' Group
Former Technical Director, NTS Project
Former Chairman, National Typesetter Users' Forum
Former Chairman, University of London Microprocessor Development Co-Ordination Group
Former Chairman, University of London ALGOL Working Party
Sometime Chairman of a number of programme committees and bursary committees
Former Editor, Typesetting (The Journal of the National Typesetter Users' Forum)
Former Editor, Baskerville (The Annals of the UK TeX Users' Group)
Former President, Royal Holloway Senior Common Room
Former Secretary, Bedford College Senior Common Room
Former Membership Secretary, Royal Holloway AUT
Former AUT Representative on the Royal Holloway Health and Safety Committee
Honorary Life Member, Grupa Użytkowników Systemu TeX

Publications and papers (representative sample, some records have been lost) .

"Improving the æsthetics of mixed-font documents", TUGboat, March 1991.
"Advanced TeX", presented at the GUTenberg meeting in Paris, 1991
"The Future of TeX", in Jiří Zlatuška (ed) Proceedings of the 7th European TeX Conference, Brno, Ceskoslovenské sdruzni uzivatelu TeXu. 1992: 235--254
"The Future of TeX", Minutes and Appendices of Nederlandstalige TeX Gegruikersgroep 10, 1992: 77--85
"TeX : the next generation", Communications of the TeX Users Group, 13(2), 1992: 138.
"The Future of TeX", Communications of the TeX Users Group, 13(4), 1992: 433--442.
Review of Victor Eijkhout, TeX by Topic (Addison Wesley, Reading Massachusetts, 1992), Communications of the TeX Users Group 13(2) 1992: 185--188.
" Die Zukunft von TeX" , Dir TeXnische Komödie 1993/2: 19--37.
"The Future of TeX", GUST, Biuletyn Polskiej Grupy Uzytkowników Systemu TeX 1(2) 1993: 5--7.
"Różnice między TeX-em <3.0 a TeX-em >=3.0'', presented at BachoTeX (Annual meeting of Polish TeX Users Group), May 1993
"Advanced TeX '', presented at BachoTeX (Annual meeting of Polish TeX Users Group), May 1993
"The Future of TeX", Nederlandstalige TeX Gebruikersgroep Verslag 10e NTG bijeenkomst (Minutes and Appendices #10) 1993: 77--85.
"TeX Output Routines", presented at the 14th Annual TeX Users Group meeting, Aston, 1993
"NTS : The Future of TeX ?", in Sebastian Rahtz and Mimi Burbank (eds) Proceedings of the 14th Annual TeX Users Group meeting, University of Aston (Birmingham) for the TeX Users Group, 1993: 177--182.
Review of A Borde, Mathematical TeX by Example (Academic Press, San Diego, California, 1993) Communications of the TeX Users Group 14(1) 1993: 20--23.
"A Pragmatic Approach to Paragraphs", Communications of the TeX Users Group 14(2), 1993: 138--140.
"Letterspacing in TeX", Communications of the TeX Users Group 14(2) 1993: 141--145.
"NTS Update", Communications of the TeX Users Group 14(4) 1993: 381--382.
"Book Design for TeX Users; part 1: theory", in Miroslav Bartosek (ed) Conference Proceedings of SOFSEM '93, Czech Society for Computer Science, 1993: 293--305.
"Book Design for TeX Users; part 2: practice", in Miroslav Bartosek (ed) Conference Proceedings of SOFSEM '93, Czech Society for Computer Science, 1993: 307--322.
"Book Design for TeX Users (Part 1)", GUST: Biuletyn Polskiej Grupy Użytkowników Systemu TeX, 4 1994: 3--13.
"Book Design for TeX Users (Part 2)", GUST: Biuletyn Polskiej Grupy Użytkowników Systemu TeX, 5 1995: 6--18.
"Defensive Programming in TeX : towards a better class of TeX macro", in W Bzyl and T Plata-Przechlewski (eds) Proceedings of the Eighth European TeX Conference, Gdańsk, Poland, 1994: 68--79.
"e-TeX and NTS : a status report", in W Bzyl and T Plata-Przechlewski (eds) Proceedings of the Eighth European TeX Conference, Gdańsk, Poland, 1994: 182--187.
"e-TeX & NTS : a status report", TUGboat: the Communications of the TeX Users Group, 15(3) 1994: 353--358.
"Hyphenating British English", Baskerville: the annals of the UK TeX Users' Group 4(4) 1994: 10--11.
"Minutes of the NTS meeting held in Lindau on October 11/12th 1994", TUGboat: the Communications of the TeX Users Group, 15(4) 1994: 434--437.
"An open letter to the TUG Board", TUGboat: the Communications of the TeX Users Group 15(4) 1994: 464--465.
"Pragmatický prístup k odstavcom", TeX Bulletin CSTUG, 3 1994: 110--116.
"Report of the 2nd meeting of the NTS group, February 1994", TUGboat: the Communications of the TeX Users Group, 15(2) 1994: 96--97.
"TeX : an unsuitable language for document markup ?'', presented at BachoTeX (Annual meeting of Polish TeX Users Group), May 1995
"\csname u n d e f i n e d \endcsname = \relax: feature or flaw ? ", presented at BachoTeX (Annual meeting of Polish TeX Users Group), May 1995
"e-TeX : following humbly in the footsteps of the Grand Wizard'', presented at BachoTeX (Annual meeting of Polish TeX Users Group), May 1995
"TeX : an unsuitable language for document markup ?" presented at the EuroTeX meeting, Papendaal (Holland), September 1995.
"e-TeX : A 100%-compatible successor to TeX"; presented at the EuroTeX meeting, Papendaal (Holland), September 1995.
"\csname u n d e f i n e d \endcsname = \relax: feature or flaw ?" presented at the EuroTeX meeting, Papendaal (Holland), September 1995.
"Computer Typesetting or Electronic Publishing ? New trends in scientific publication", invited paper at a combined meeting of the Polish Mathematical Society and EmNet Project (Euromath Trust), Toruń, Poland; September 1995.
"TeX to HTML : using TeX to rectify the omissions in HTML", presented at Bachotek (Annual meeting of Polish TeX Users Group), May 1996.
"TeX macro writing", presented at Bachotek (Annual meeting of Polish TeX Users Group), May 1996.
"NTS & e-TeX : a status report". in TUGboat, 18(1):6–12, March 1997.
"TeX and PDF", presented at BachoTeX (Annual meeting of Polish TeX Users Group), May 1997
"TeX and e-TeX : a status report", presented at BachoTeX (Annual meeting of Polish TeX Users Group), May 1997
"Tworzenie makr TeX-owych dla średniozaawansowanych i zawanasowanych użytkowników", presented at BachoTeX (Annual meeting of Polish TeX Users Group), May 1997
"Présentation du projet e-TeX", in Cahier GUTenberg 26, Actes de GUTenberg, Mai 1997
"e-TeX V2 : a peek into the future", in TUGboat, 18(4):239–242, December 1997.
"The Implementation of NTS", with Karel Skoupý, in Gunter Partosch & Gerhard Wilhelms (eds) EuroTeX '99 Proceedings, Giessen, Augsburg, 1999
"The NTS project : from conception to birth", with Jiří Zlatuška, in TUGboat, Volume 21 (2000), No. 3--Proceedings of the 2000 Annual TeX User Group Meeting
"The Iterator", presented in absentia at BachoTeX (Annual meeting of Polish TeX Users Group), May 2005
"Typesetting the Byzantine Capelli", presented at the 2005 TeX Users Group meeting, Wu Han, Hu Bei Province, China
"Grid typesetting in LaTeX", presented at the 2005 TeX Users Group meeting, Wu Han, Hu Bei Province, China

Please note that much of this information has been compiled retrospectively, and there may be occasional errors in dates. To the best of the author's knowledge, the facts presented herein are as accurate as memory will permit.