Tantek Çelik

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Tantek Çelik
Photo taken March 7, 2009 by Matt Nuzzaco
Photo taken March 7, 2009 by Matt Nuzzaco
Born U.S.
Residence U.S.
Nationality American
Fields Computer science
Institutions GMPG, microformats.org
Alma mater Stanford University
Academic advisors Terry Winograd (masters advisor)
Known for Internet Explorer for Mac, Tasman (layout engine)
Box Model Hack
W3C CSS Specifications
GMPG, XFN, XMDP
microformats, hCard, hCalendar, hReview, rel-license, rel-tag
Influences Tim Berners Lee, Lawrence Lessig, Jeffrey Zeldman
Influenced Chris Messina, Matthew Mullenweg, Tara Hunt

Tantek Çelik, of San Francisco, is a computer scientist of Turkish-American descent[citation needed] and was the Chief Technologist at Technorati.[1]. He is one of the principal editors of several CSS Specifications.[2][3]

He gained a following during his time at Microsoft (1997-2004), where he worked on the Macintosh version of Internet Explorer.[4] Between 1998 and 2003 he managed a team of software developers that designed and implemented the Tasman rendering engine for Internet Explorer for Mac version 5.[4] During his time at Microsoft he also served as their alternate representative (1998-2000) and later their representative (2001-2004) to a number of working groups at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C),[4] due to this work he is credited on a number of recommendations relating to XHTML[5] and Cascading Style Sheets.[6] While working for Microsoft he also developed the "box model hack" that is used by web designers to work around the Internet Explorer box model bug.[7]

Before working at Microsoft he worked in a variety of software engineer roles at Sun Microsystems, Oracle Corporation and Apple Computer[citation needed]. During his four years at Apple Computer (1992-1996), he spent most of his time on the OpenDoc project, first as a senior software developer and then as a technical lead.[4] In 1996 he left Apple to form a software development and consulting company specialising in OpenDoc development, 6prime, with another OpenDoc technical lead Eric Soldan, however in 1997 Aladdin Systems purchased 6prime's main product REV releasing it as Flashback.[8]

At Technorati, he led the adoption of better standards support (including microformats) throughout the company, including their website's front page[citation needed]. He was also involved with the special Election 2004 section of the website, including writing the initial version.[9] He serves as a founder at the Global Multimedia Protocols Group and has Bachelor's and Masters degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University[10][11] [12] [13].

He is the older brother of the actress Aysan Çelik[citation needed].

[edit] References

  1. ^ Tantek Çelik (July 4, 2007). "Technorati Transitions". Tantek's Thoughts. http://www.tantek.com/log/2007/07.html. Retrieved on 2007-10-29. 
  2. ^ Bos, Bert; Tantek Çelik, Ian Hickson, Håkon Wium Lie (19 July 2007). "Cascading Style Sheets Level 2 Revision 1 (CSS 2.1) Specification". W3C Technical Reports and Publications. World Wide Web Consortium. http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/. Retrieved on 2008-12-28. 
  3. ^ "W3C Technical Reports and Publications - view by editor". W3C Technical Reports and Publications. World Wide Web Consortium. 13 July 2009. http://www.w3.org/TR/tr-editor#CelikTantek. Retrieved on 2009-07-13. 
  4. ^ a b c d Tantek Çelik (2004). "Tantek Çelik resumé". Tantek's Thoughts. http://tantek.com/projects/resume.html. Retrieved on 2007-02-06. 
  5. ^ HTML Working Group. "XHTML 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)". W3C. http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/. Retrieved on 2007-02-06. 
  6. ^ Hakon Wium Lie; Bert Bos. "Cascading Style Sheets, level 1". W3C. http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS1. Retrieved on 2007-02-06. 
  7. ^ Tantek Çelik (2002). "Box Model Hack". Tantek's Thoughts. http://tantek.com/CSS/Examples/boxmodelhack.html. Retrieved on 2007-02-06. 
  8. ^ Tantak Çelik (March 9, 2004). "Flashback". Tantek's Thoughts. http://tantek.com/log/2004/03.html#d09. Retrieved on 2007-02-06. 
  9. ^ Tantek Çelik (July 26, 2004). "Two weeks at Technorati". Tantek's Thoughts. http://tantek.com/log/2004/07.html#d26t0621. Retrieved on 2007-02-06. 
  10. ^ "Stanford Computer Science Masters Alumni". http://cs.stanford.edu/People/masters_alumni. Retrieved on 2009-07-13. 
  11. ^ "Tantek Çelik, WaSP Emeritus". Web Standards Project. http://www.webstandards.org/about/members/tantek/. Retrieved on 2009-07-13. 
  12. ^ "Tantek Celik - Chief Technologist, Technorati". http://www.netsquared.org/2006/conference/confirmed-presenters/tantek-celik-chief-technologist-technorati. Retrieved on 2009-07-13. 
  13. ^ "Tantek Çelik, A List Apart Speaker". http://shadow.aneventapart.com/speakers/tantekcelik/. Retrieved on 2009-07-13. 

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