Nicholas (Nick) Nagel, an educational specialist in the field of information processing, earned his Ph.D. at Florida Atlantic University in the field of cognitive science. After completing a number of linguistics oriented post-doctoral fellowships, Nick’s interests led him to Sun Microsystems where he acquired substantial expertise in information processing system development using XML, Java, J2EE and related technologies. Presently at Altova, Nick now focuses on the development and delivery of educational systems aimed at providing architects, developers, and information processing system engineers with the information they need to best leverage existing and emerging XML and Web-related technologies.