 timothy william bray (born june 21, 1955) is a canadian software developer and entrepreneur. he co-founded open text corporation and antarctica systems. bray was also one of the co-authors of the original xml specification. bray was director of web technologies at sun microsystems from early 2004 to early 2010. he joined google as a developer advocate in 2010, focusing on android and then on identity.tim bray in google scholar he left google in march 2014, unwilling to relocate to silicon valley from vancouver. ==early life== bray was born on june 21, 1955 in alberta, canada. he grew up in beirut, lebanon and returned to canada to attend school at the university of guelph in guelph, ontario. he graduated in 1981 with a bachelor of science, double majoring in mathematics and computer science (in 2009, he would return to guelph to receive an honorary doctor of science degree{{cite web|url=http://www.uoguelph.ca/news/2009/06/eight_to_receiv.html|title=eight to receive honor
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