Steven Pemberton is a senior researcher at CWI, the Dutch national research institute for mathematics and computer science in Amsterdam. His research focuses on the changes that need to be made to system architecture to make the resulting system more human-oriented.
In the late 80's he built a system with his group, Views, that would now be called a browser. It had extensible markup, stylesheets, vector graphics, client-side scripting, everything you would recognise as the web now (though it didn't run over TCP/IP).
In 1993 he wrote a white paper with Jakob Nielsen, and Scooter Morris for ACM/SIGCHI on visions for electronic publishing, where they recommended using the web.
In 1994 he organised two workshops at the first web conference at CERN (one on electronic publishing, one on client-side computation).
In 1995 he designed and built an early online journal, the SIGCHI Bulletin. He chaired the European World Wide Web Working Group W4G, and then got involved with the fledgling World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
As a consequence he became involved with CSS and HTML, and now chairs the HTML and Forms working groups. He is co-author of many W3C recommendations, including HTML4, CSS, XHTML, XForms, and XML Events.
He has also been involved with HCI as the chair of CHI '97, a past editor of the SIGCHI Bulletin, and for ten years a member of the executive committee of SIGCHI. He was until recently editor-in-chief of ACM/interactions.
Pemberton, Steven (2005): The Future of Web Interfaces. In: Proceedings of IFIP INTERACT05: Human-Computer Interaction 2005. pp. 4-5. Available online
Pemberton, Steven (2004): Scents and sensibility. In Interactions, 11 (1) p. 4
Pemberton, Steven (2004): Scratching someone else's itch: (why open source can't do usability). In Interactions, 11 (1) p. 72
Pemberton, Steven (2004): The development consortium. In Interactions, 11 (2) p. 4
Pemberton, Steven (2004): A little personalization goes a long way. In Interactions, 11 (3) p. 4
Pemberton, Steven (2004): Banking. In Interactions, 11 (4) p. 4
Pemberton, Steven (2004): The power of two. In Interactions, 11 (4) p. 64
Pemberton, Steven (2004): Emotion. In Interactions, 11 (5) p. 4
Pemberton, Steven (2004): Goodbye!. In Interactions, 11 (6) p. 4
Pemberton, Steven (2004): Things that stay us from the swift completion of our appointed tasks (revisited). In Interactions, 11 (6) p. 64
Pemberton, Steven (2003): That old Janx Spirit. In Interactions, 10 (1) p. 4
Pemberton, Steven (2003): The kiss of the spiderbot. In Interactions, 10 (1) p. 44
Pemberton, Steven (2003): Spanning the globe. In Interactions, 10 (2) p. 4
Pemberton, Steven (2003): Not so much losing a publication as gaining a Web site. In Interactions, 10 (3) p. 4
Pemberton, Steven (2003): Letter writing, telephones, and television. In Interactions, 10 (3) pp. 64-ff
Pemberton, Steven (2003): Common interests. In Interactions, 10 (4) p. 4
Pemberton, Steven (2003): Restrictive practices. In Interactions, 10 (4) p. 64
Pemberton, Steven (2003): The timeless way. In Interactions, 10 (5) p. 4
Pemberton, Steven (2003): Hotel heartbreak. In Interactions, 10 (5) p. 64
Pemberton, Steven (2003): Accessibilty is for everyone. In Interactions, 10 (6) pp. 4-5
Pemberton, Steven (2003): So big, so bad, so often. In Interactions, 10 (6) pp. 64-ff
Pemberton, Steven (2002): Editorial. In Interactions, 9 (1) p. 4
Pemberton, Steven (2002): Electric IP. In Interactions, 9 (1) p. 56
Pemberton, Steven (2002): Editorial. In Interactions, 9 (2) p. 4
Pemberton, Steven (2002): Choose one: fast, correct, or pleasurable. In Interactions, 9 (2) pp. 128-127
Pemberton, Steven (2002): Editorial. In Interactions, 9 (3) p. 4
Pemberton, Steven (2002): Use is beauty, beauty use. In Interactions, 9 (4) p. 4
Pemberton, Steven (2002): Go away!. In Interactions, 9 (4) pp. 52-51
Pemberton, Steven (2002): Pemberton's laptop. In Interactions, 9 (5) p. 4
Pemberton, Steven (2002): A pixel is not a point. In Interactions, 9 (5) p. 64
Pemberton, Steven (2002): Pemberton's PDA. In Interactions, 9 (6) p. 4
Pemberton, Steven (2001): Editorial: International Browser Day. In Interactions, 8 (1) p. 4
Pemberton, Steven (2001): Reflections: Photocopy this article!. In Interactions, 8 (1) p. 64
Pemberton, Steven (2001): Editorial. In Interactions, 8 (2) p. 4
Pemberton, Steven (2001): Reflections: The design of notations. In Interactions, 8 (2) pp. 128-126
Pemberton, Steven (2001): Editorial. In Interactions, 8 (3) p. 4
Pemberton, Steven (2001): What's happening. In Interactions, 8 (3) pp. 7-9
Pemberton, Steven (2001): Book preview. In Interactions, 8 (3) pp. 53-56
Pemberton, Steven (2001): Editorial. In Interactions, 8 (4) p. 4
Pemberton, Steven (2001): Conference preview: HCI international 2001. In Interactions, 8 (4) pp. 59-61
Pemberton, Steven (2001): Reflections: In search of the killer app. In Interactions, 8 (4) p. 64
Pemberton, Steven (2001): Editorial. In Interactions, 8 (5) p. 4
Pemberton, Steven (2001): Reflections: the culture of uncertainty. In Interactions, 8 (5) pp. 51-52
Pemberton, Steven (2001): Editorial. In Interactions, 8 (6) p. 4
Pemberton, Steven (2001): Reflections: did convergence kill the clock?. In Interactions, 8 (6) p. 52
Pemberton, Steven (2000): Editorial. In Interactions, 7 (1) p. 4
Pemberton, Steven (2000): Reflections: the demise of the book. In Interactions, 7 (1) p. 92
Pemberton, Steven (2000): Editorial. In Interactions, 7 (2) p. 4
Pemberton, Steven (2000): Reflections: it rings for thee. In Interactions, 7 (3) p. 72
Pemberton, Steven (2000): Editorial. In Interactions, 7 (4) p. 4
Pemberton, Steven (2000): Reflections: the accidental death of reviewing. In Interactions, 7 (4) p. 56
Pemberton, Steven (2000): Editorial. In Interactions, 7 (5) p. 4
Pemberton, Steven (2000): Reflections: so much for WYSIWYG. In Interactions, 7 (5) p. 60
Pemberton, Steven (2000): The digital library. In Interactions, 7 (6) p. 4
Pemberton, Steven (2000): Reflections: abusus non tollit usum. In Interactions, 7 (6) p. 56
Pemberton, Steven and Blickstein, Jay (1999): Editorial. In Interactions, 6 (1) p. 4
Pemberton, Steven (1999): Editorial. In Interactions, 6 (3) p. 4
Pemberton, Steven and Blickstein, Jay (1999): Editorial. In Interactions, 6 (5) p. 4
Pemberton, Steven (1999): Editorial. In Interactions, 6 (6) p. 2
Pemberton, Steven (1999): Starting a SIGCHI Local Group in the Netherlands. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 31 (1) pp. 17-21
Pemberton, Steven (1998): Editorial. In Interactions, 5 (2) p. 4
Pemberton, Steven (1998): Editorial. In Interactions, 5 (4) p. 4
Pemberton, Steven (1998): Reflections: Our Subliminal Art. In Interactions, 5 (5) p. 48
Pemberton, Steven (1998): A Curtain Falls. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 30 (1) p. 1
Pemberton, Steven (1998): Flags are Not Languages. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 30 (1) p. 96