A graduate of Oxford University, England, in 1989, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing while at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory. He wrote the first web client and server in 1990. His specifications of URIs, HTTP and HTML were refined as Web technology spread.
He is the 3COM Founders Professor of Engineering in the School of Engineering with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he also heads the Decentralized Information Group (DIG). He is also a Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Southampton, UK.
He is the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a Web standards organization founded in 1994 which develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. He is co-Director of the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) started in 2006 to help create the first multidisciplinary research body to examine the World Wide Web and offer the practical solutions needed to help guide its future use and design. He is also a Director of the World Wide Web Foundation, started in 2008 to fund and coordinate efforts to further the potential of the Web to benefit humanity.
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- Tim Berners-Lee . Retrieved 29th september 2009 12:43. From : http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/
- Wikipedia, La enciclopedia libre, Tim Berners-Lee. Retrieved: 29th September 2009 12:45. From:http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee
- Las artes @ Digital. El autor y la autoría en el mundo digital. María Jesus Lamarca. Retrieved: 29th September 2009 12:45. From: http://artesadigital.blogspot.com/2009/02/el-autor-y-la-autoria-en-el-mundo.html
