Tim Berners-Lee July 2012
Tim Berners-Lee
History of Tim Berners-Lee
In 1989, while working at at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland,Tim Berners-lee proposed a global hypertext project, to be known as the World Wide Web. Based on the earlier "Enquire" work, it was designed to allow people to work together by combining their knowledge in a web of hypertext documents. He wrote the first World Wide Web server, "httpd", and the first client, "WorldWideWeb" a what-you-see-is-what-you-get hypertext browser/editor which ran in the NeXTStep environment. This work was started in October 1990, and the program "WorldWideWeb" first made available within CERN in December, and on the Internet at large in the summer of 1991.
Mr. Berners-Lee was the receipent of the following awards:
- 1995:Kilby Foundation's "Young Innovator of the Year" Award ACM Software Systems Award (co-recipient) Honorary Prix Ars Electronica Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society
- 1997:Awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE)IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award Duddell Medal of the Institute of Physics Interactive Services Association's Distinguished Service Award MCI Computerworld/Smithsonian Award for Leadership in Innovation International Communication Institute's Columbus Prize
- 1998:Charles Babbage award Mountbatten Medal of the National Electronics Council Lord Lloyd of Kilgerran Prize from the Foundation for Science and Technology PC Magazine Lifetime Achievement Award in Technical Excellence MacArthur Fellowship The Eduard Rhein Technology Award Honorary Fellow, Institution of Electrical Engineers
- 1999:Named "One of the 100 greatest minds of the century" by Time Magazine World Technology Award for Communication Technology Honorary Fellowship, The Society for Technical Communications 2000:Paul Evan Peters Award of ARL, Educause and CNI Electronic Freedom Foundation's Pioneer Award George R Stibitz Computer Pioneer Award, American Computer Museum Special Award for Outstanding Contribution of the World Television Forum
- 2001: Sir Frank Whittle Medal, the Royal Academy of Engineering Fellow,Royal Society Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2002: Japan Prize, the Science and Technology Foundation of Japan Prince of Asturias Foundation Prize for Scientific and Technical Research (shared with with Larry Roberts, Rob Kahn and Vint Cerf)Fellow, Guglielmo Marconi Foundation Albert Medal of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Art, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA)
Honoray Degrees |
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1995 |
Parsons School of Design |
1995 |
Southampton University |
1998 |
Essex University |
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