User:Misha Wolf

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This user has been on Wikipedia for 17 years, 8 months and 8 days.
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Between 1969 and 1972, I studied Chemical Physics at the University of Sussex. My only exposure to computers was writing a program, using a Teletype equipped with a paper tape punch, to output the words "Hello world".

For the next few years, I worked in a vegetarian cafe, in two British secondary schools (teaching maths and science) and in two housing associations (looking after tenants).

Then, between 1976 and 1978, I studied Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London. My favourite computer language was Algol-68.

From 1978 to 2019, I worked in information technology. Between 1997 and 2019, my main focus was on taxonomies and classification schemes and on their use in metadata.

During my years of employment, I had various public roles related to technical standards, including:

During that time, I co-authored a number of specifications, including:

I also co-chaired the following Unicode Conferences: