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\nScott Lee is a professional genealogist and retired software enginee ring consultant who has researched his family history since 1979. He has s erved as an officer in several genealogical societies and lectures on gene alogical topics with a focus on technology. Currently\, he serves as presi dent of the Arkansas Genealogical Society and is a member of the Associati on of Professional Genealogists and the Genealogical Speakers Guild. In 19 95\, he helped design the GEDCOM 5.5 standard for transporting genealogica l data\, improving its syntax to be more easily read by software and fixin g several issues in date specifications. He created the calendar conversio n website \;rosettacalendar.com\, which is used by historical research ers to convert among various ancient dating systems. His date manipulation library (sdncal20) is utilized by many software packages\, powering date\ , and calendar operations in hundreds of millions of websites (more than h alf of all websites). Scott grew up in Little Rock\, Arkansas\, but his wo rk took him to Indiana\, Oregon\, North Carolina\, and New York City. In r etirement\, he and his wife\, Deirdre\, have returned to their families in Arkansas. His career spanned the medical field\, computer graphics algori thm design\, graphical interface systems\, and consulting at Fortune 500 c ompanies\, where he trained their developers in techniques to produce more reliable software. In retirement\, he lectures on genealogy topics and wo rks on the design of deep-learning neural networks and software for geneal ogy. In his spare time\, he enjoys writing science fiction\, studying anci ent calendars\, developing open-source software\, keeping up with the late st advances in astrophysics\, and\, of course\, researching his family his tory.
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