Robert Miner

Design Science, Inc.

Long Beach
United States of America

Other address: robertm@dessci.com

Biography:

Robert Miner received his college education and subsequent graduate and post-graduate training at the University of Maryland, Oxford, and Universitat Bern. He focused on mathematics, receiving a Ph.D. in 1991. In 1995, after teaching for four years at the University of Oklahoma, Dr. Miner decided to move to the Geometry Center at the University of Minnesota where he became involved in the World Wide Web consortium initiative to standardize an XML markup language for mathematics. He eventually co-chaired the technical working group that developed MathML. Dr. Miner and two other researchers spun-off a company to commercialize the software and web content developed at the Center, which was acquired by Design Science in 2000. Since then, Dr. Miner has worked to develop the MathPlayer and MathFlow products, written and spoken extensively on the impact of MathML on technical publishing, and initiated a research program on adding value to electronic math content, including an NSF research grant awarded in 2003 to develop math-aware searching.

Papers:

Handling Math in Real-World Workflows: Practical Lessons