Sir Tim Burners-Lee SCOTT WEAVER

CSCE 221H

SPRING 2014

Biography

  Born in London, 8 June 1955

  One of four children

  Tinkered with model railway

  Parents: Conway and Mary Lee

  Ferranti Mark 1 – 1951

  Sheen Mount Primary School

  London’s Emanuel School

  Queen’s College, Oxford University – 1976

  Physics First-Class Degree

Tim Berners-Lee

Pre-WWW Affiliations

  Plessey Telecommunications Ltd – 2 Years

  D.G. Nash Ltd - 1978

  Independent Consultant – 1980

  Image Computer Systems Ltd – 1981

  CERN (European Particle Physics Laboratory)

Fellowship – 1984

  ENQUIRE

World Wide Web

  Proposal and Web Development 1989

  Based on Enquire

  Information management system

  Created at CERN 1990-1991

  First server: “httpd”

  First client: “WorldWideWeb”

  Initial URL, HHTP, HTML specifications

  Continued Work 1991-1993

  Specifications developed as Web spread NeXT Computer

World Wide Web: Uses hypertext to link and access info of various kinds as a web of nodes which the user can browse at will.

Pictured: Visualization of routing paths through the internet.

Firsts   First web address: Info.cern.ch

  First webpage: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

Post-WWW Affiliations

  Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, MIT

  World Wide Web Consortium – 1994

  3Com Founders Professor of Engineering – 1999

  Professor, University of Southampton, UK – 2004

  World Wide Web Foundation, Founder – 2008

  Power of Information Task Force – 2009

  UK’s Open Data Institute, President

  Alliance for Affordable Internet – 2013

  Google, Facebook, Intel, Microsoft MIT Comp. Sci. & A.I. Lab

Recognition

  World Wide Web Hall of Fame – 1994

  Time Magazine’s 100 Most Important People of the 20th century – 1999

  BBC’s 100 Greatest Britons – 2002

  Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire – 2004

  Order of Merit – 2007

  United States National Academy of Sciences Associate – 2009

  Mikhail Gorbachev Award for “The Man who Changed the World – 2011

  IEEE Intelligent Systems AI Hall of Fame – 2011

  Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering – 2013

  Eight Honorary Doctorates

Net Neutrality

  Pioneer of human network rights

  Promotes "connectivity with no strings attached“

  "Threats to the Internet, such as companies or governments that interfere with or snoop on Internet traffic, compromise basic human network rights."

  http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Longer.html

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee