Tim Berners-Lee
Timothy Berners-Lee | |
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| Born | 8 June 1955[1] |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | The Queen's College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Computer Scientist |
| Employer(s) | World Wide Web Consortium and University of Southampton |
| Known for | Inventing the World Wide Web |
| Title | Professor |
| Parent(s) | Conway Berners-Lee, Mary Lee Woods |
| Website | Tim Berners-Lee |
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Holder of the 3Com Founders Chair at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory | |
Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA (born 8 June 1955 in London, England) invented the World Wide Web which is the system that delivers webpages over the Internet. He created a new computer language called HTML which most web pages are written in. The first web page was available on August 6, 1991.
Berners-Lee now leads the World Wide Web Consortium. That is an organization that looks after the World Wide Web. He is the author of the book Weaving the Web. 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 April 2009, he was elected as a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, based in Washington, D.C. In 1999, Time Magazine named Berners-Lee one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century. In March 2000 he was awarded an honorary degree from the Open University as Doctor of the University.
Early life
Tim Berners-Lee was born in London, England, on 8 June 1955. He is the son of Conway Berners-Lee and Mary Lee Woods. First, he attended Sheen Mount primary school. Then he went on to Emanuel School in London, from 1969 to 1973. After that, he studied at The Queen's College, Oxford, from 1973 to 1976. While he was there, he received a first-class degree in Physics. He invented the World Wide Web.
Other websites
- Berners-Lee's home page
- Berners-Lee's blog
- Berners-Lee's book Weaving The Web which details his views on the history and future of the Web.
