This nice looking man is no less than the Enlish engineer that invented the World Wide Web in 1989, though it was not released until 1992, when he worked at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland.
Berners-Lee, now Sir, was born in 1955, and studied Physics in Oxford university. He soon began to work for CERN, where he had his first idea of the WWW, as he wanted to create a project based on hypertext. He then left CERN, but when he came back he started to work on this project which was soon to become the WWW. In his own words:
“I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the Transmission Control Protocol and domain name system ideas and — ta-da! — the World Wide Web.”
Since he invented the WWW, he has not stopped woking on it and its development. He is now working as well on his new project, the Semantic Web, as he got a chair on the Computer Science at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, in the University of Southampton. He is as well now workinf for the British Government, as he was asked to help make data more open and accessible on the Web, building on the work of the Power of Information Task Force.
Apart from having won many awards, he has also been Honored many times:
Honorary Degrees:
- Parsons School of Design, New York (D.F.A., 1995)
- Southampton University (D.Sc., 1995)
- Essex University (D.U., 1998)
- Southern Cross University (1998)
- Open University (D.U., 2000)
- Columbia University (D.Law, 2001)
- Oxford University (D.Sc., 2001)
- University of Port Elizabeth (DSc., 2002)
- Lancaster University (D.Sc., 2004)
- Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (2008)
- University of Manchester (2008)
- Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (2009)
References:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee
- http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Longer.html
- http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/lee.html
