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Dana Florescu is the president of FLWOR which is a non-profit foundation building XML-related open source software. Dana was founder and CTO of XQRL, Inc. which was acquired by BEA. Her company XQRL implemented the XQuery processor that is the foundation of BEA's AquaLogic. She was formerly a database researcher in INRIA (National Research Center for Computer Science) France and at the ATT Research Center in New Jersey. Dana was a visiting scientist at the IBM Research Center in Almaden and later a senior researcher and professor at University of Paris. Dana was one of the authors of Quilt, the origin of XQuery, and she is now an editor of the XQuery specification and is a member of the W3C XML Query standardization working group, an author of XQuery and the editor of several XQuery related documents, including the query language itself. Ms. Florescu received her PhD in Computer Science, Databases and Query Processing at the University of Paris. | 