Derek (Ernest) Denny-Brown - Notable Links

Neurologist, born in Christchurch, New Zealand. He trained at the University of New Zealand and at Oxford, where he worked with Charles Sherrington. After clinical work in London, he went to Harvard in 1941, where he remained. He was particularly interested in the diseases of the basal ganglia and of the muscles.

Derek Denny-Brown, a software developer formerly with the Microsoft Corporation, is credited with the development of both the MSXML XML processing engine, as well as the XMLHTTP ActiveX Control, providing functionality which has since been followed up by the Mozilla Foundation, AppleMac-Safari, and Opera, and has become the basis of a recent draft proposal by the W3C to standardize against.

Notable Links

Derek's Blog

Dare Obasanjo on the XMLHTTP object pointing to Derek's prior ownership of the XMLHTTP control

Other notable mentions of Derek on Dare Obasanjo's Blog

Oleg Tkachenko's announcement regarding Derek's blog, and overview of the various responsibilities Derek held while at Microsoft

Derek worked for Dr. Steven Newcomb's TechnoTeacher company prior to joining Microsoft.