Robert Cailliau
1947
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photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: Belgium
native language: Dutch
languages spoken, written or signed: Dutch
educated at: Ghent University, University of Michigan
occupation: computer scientist, engineer, programmer, writer
award received: Commander of the Order of Leopold, Internet Hall of Fame, ACM Software System Award, Christophe Plantin Prize, Honorary doctors of Ghent University, Honorary doctor of the University of Liège, Gouden Penning
influenced by: HyperCard
official website: www.cailliau.org
Robert Cailliau (last name pronunciation: [kajo], born 26 January 1947) is a Belgian informatics engineer who proposed the first (pre-www) hypertext system for CERN in 1987 and collaborated with Tim Berners-Lee on the World Wide Web (jointly winning the ACM Software System Award) from before it got its name. He designed the historical logo of the WWW, organized the first International World Wide Web Conference at CERN in 1994 and helped transfer Web development from CERN to the global Web consortium in 1995. He is listed as co-author of How the Web Was Born by James Gillies, the first book-length account of the origins of the World Wide Web. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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