Tim Berners-Lee

1955 -

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

country of citizenship: United Kingdom

native language: English

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: The Queen's College, Emanuel School

occupation: computer scientist, physicist, programmer, university teacher, web developer, engineer, inventor

award received: Prix Ars Electronica, W. Wallace McDowell Award, Eduard-Rhein Technology Award, MacArthur Fellows Program, Japan Prize, Millennium Technology Prize, Quadriga, Charles Stark Draper Prize, Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Fellow of the Royal Society, UNESCO Niels Bohr Medal, Royal medal, Mountbatten Medal, Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, EFF Award, Kilgerran Prize, Marconi Prize, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Internet Hall of Fame, honorary doctorate of the University Polytechnic of Madrid, honorary doctorate of Lancaster University, Turing Award, Obedience Award, Computer History Museum fellow, Order of Merit, Lovelace Medal, ACM Software System Award, Albert Medal, Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 1st Class, honorary doctor of the Open University of Catalonia, Paul Evan Peters Award, OII Lifetime Achievement Award, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the British Computer Society, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, honorary doctor of Harvard University, Axel Springer Award, Freedom of the City, honorary doctor of the Yale University, Royal Designer for Industry, IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, President's Medal, Sir Frank Whittle Medal

official website: www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He is a professorial research fellow at the University of Oxford and a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Berners-Lee proposed an information management system on 12 March 1989, then implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet in mid-November.Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees the continued development of the Web. He co-founded (with his then-wife-to-be Rosemary Leith) the World Wide Web Foundation. He is a senior researcher and holder of the 3Com founder's chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). He is a director of the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) and a member of the advisory board of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. In 2011, he was named as a member of the board of trustees of the Ford Foundation. He is a founder and president of the Open Data Institute and is currently an advisor at social network MeWe.He devised and implemented the first Web browser and Web server, and helped foster the Web's subsequent explosive development. He currently directs the W3 Consortium, developing tools and standards to further the Web's potential. In April 2009, he was elected as Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences.In 2004, Berners-Lee was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his pioneering work. He was named in Time magazine's list of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th century and has received a number of other accolades for his invention. He was honoured as the "Inventor of the World Wide Web" during the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in which he appeared working with a vintage NeXT Computer. He tweeted "This is for everyone" which appeared in LED lights attached to the chairs of the audience. He received the 2016 Turing Award "for inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and the fundamental protocols and algorithms allowing the Web to scale". Source: Wikipedia (en)