Steven Pemberton is a researcher at CWI, The Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, Amsterdam. His research is in interaction, and how the underlying software architecture can support users. Involved with the Web since the beginning, he organised two workshops at the first Web Conference in 1994, and chaired the first W3C Style Sheets and Internationalisation workshops. He now chairs XHTML2 and leads the W3C Forms Activities. He is co-author of many current web technologies, including HTML4, CSS, XHTML, XForms and RDFa. He speaks and writes regularly on the effects of technology design, and for a while had a regular column on Teleac's science radio program Teleskoop.