The Service Life Cycle

Bob Glushko is an Adjunct Professor at the University of California at Berkeley in the School of Information,  the Director of the Center for Document Engineering, and one of the founding faculty members of the Services Science, Management and Engineering program.

He has more than twenty-five years of R&D, consulting, and entrepreneurial experience in information management, electronic publishing, Internet commerce, and human factors in computing systems. He founded or co-founded three companies, the last of which was Veo Systems in 1997, which pioneered the use of XML for electronic commerce before its 1999 acquisition by Commerce One. Veo's innovations included the Common Business Library (CBL), the first native XML vocabulary for business-to-business transactions, and the Schema for Object-Oriented XML (SOX), the first object-oriented XML schema language. From 1999-2002 he headed Commerce One's XML architecture and technical standards activities and was named an "Engineering Fellow" in 2000.

He is a member of the Board of Directors for OASIS, an international consortium that drives the development, convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. He is the President of the Robert J. Glushko and Pamela Samuelson Foundation, which sponsors the annual Rumelhart Prize in Cognitive Science.