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Carter is the Manager of Electronic Publishing Development at the American
Geophysical Union. His mission is to build tools to help scientists
collaborate in research and publish their results.
In his role as a technology leader at AGU, he has implemented a database driven electonic publishing system based on XML, an online manuscrupt submissions system, and countless workflow and production improvement tools.
Before working at AGU, Carter was the Manager of the Internet Publishing and
E-commerce unit of The Thomson Labs. He conducting research into all aspects
of large-scale electronic publishing and publishing commerce. His areas of
research interest were XML, SGML, on-line payment systems, dynamic database
publishing, internet advertising and content protection technologies. He has
served as internet strategy consultant to senior publishing executives and
hosted numerous workshops on internet publishing.
Carter has been building database systems for over fifteen years and was
drawn to on-line publishing because it has the most interesting challenges
in the years ahead.
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