Timothy Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS

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Biography

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Tim Berners-Lee is an English engineer and computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.^[1]

He was born^[2] in London in 1955 to Conway Maurice and Mary Lee Woods Berners-Lee. Tim's parents were mathematicians and computer scientists who met when they were both working on the Ferranti Mark 1 the first commercially available electronic computer.

Tim spent his school years in London at Emanuel School and then attended Queen's College, Oxford University, graduating in 1976 with a first class degree in physics.

Tim Berners-Lee was married firstly in 1976.

After graduating from Oxford University, Tim went to work at Plessey Communications in Dorset, England as a software designer. He then went to CERN Geneva for six months in 1980 as a software engineering consultant. Returning to England he worked at Image Computer Systems, Dorset, England undertaking technical system design. He returned to CERN in 1984.

Whilst at CERN in 1989 Tim proposed an information-sharing system to improve the limitations of the existing Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP). To enable the system to send and receive embedded links and documents Tim invented the tools that underpin the internet today including Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) and the web browser.^[3]

He married secondly in 1990; the couple had two children.

In 1994 he founded the World Wide Web Consortium

Thirdly, he married on 20 June 2014. The names of the three spouses and two children are not shown for privacy reasons.

As of today (15 June 2021) he is auctioning 10,000 lines of the original code used to create the WWW via Sotheby's. They are calling it "the only signed copy of the code for the first web browser in existence",^[4]

Awards

These are just a few of Tim's awards. For a full list see his full biography here.

• 1997 - OBE
• 1999 - Named as one of the 100 most important people of the 20th century
• 2002 - awarded the Albert Medal of the Royal Society of the Arts by Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh for his outstanding contribution to the World Wide Web.^[5]
• 2004 – Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II^[6][7]
• 2004 – Millenium Technology Prize
• 2007 - Awarded the Order of Merit by Queen Elizabeth II
• 2010 -UNESCO Niels Bohr Gold Medal Award^[8]
• 2013 - Tim was one of five internet and web pioneers to win the inaugural Queen Elizabeth prize for Engineering. His fellow pioneers were Robert Kahn, Vinton Cerf, Louis Pouzin and Marc Andreessen^[9]
• 2016 ACM A.M. Turing Award

Since 1995 Tim has been awarded honorary degrees by numerous universities from across the world.

Publications

This is a select list of publications. A full list is available here

• Berners-Lee, T.; Parkman, C.; Perrin, Y.; Petersen, J.; Tremblet, L. The VALET-Plus, a VMEbus Based Microcomputer for Physics Applications. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 1987, 34, 835–839.
• Berners-Lee, T. Electronic publishing and visions of hypertext. Physics World 1992, 5, 14–18.
• Berners-Lee, T. World-Wide Web: The Information Universe. Electronic Networking: Research, Applications and Policy 1992, 2, 52–58.
• Berners-Lee, T.; Cailliau, R.; Luotonen, A.; Nielsen, H. F.; Secret, A. The World-Wide Web. Communications of the ACM 1994, 37, 76–82.
• Berners-Lee, T. WWW: Past, Present, and Future. Computer. 1996, 29, 69.
• Berners-Lee, T. World-wide computer. Commun. ACM Communications of the ACM 1997, 40, 57–58.
• Berners-Lee, T. Realising the Full Potential of the Web. Technical Communication: Journal of the Society for Technical Communication 1999, 46, 79–82.
• Berners-Lee, T. TECHNOLOGY - FLASHBACK - 1990: Tim Berners-Lee shares his view that cyberspace isn’t a limited resource. Computerworld. 1999, 33, 82.
• Berners-Lee, T.; Hendler, J. commentary - Publishing on the semantic web. Nature. 2001, 410, 1023.
• Berners-Lee, T.; Hendler, J.; Lassila, O. The Semantic Web - Computers navigating tomorrow’s Web will understand more of what’s going on--making it more likely that you’ll get what you really want. Scientific American. 2001, 284, 34.
• Berners-Lee, T.; Hall, W.; Hendler, J.; Shadbolt, N.; Weitzner, D. J. Creating a Science of the Web. Science 2006, 313, 769–771.
• Berners-Lee, T.; Weitzner, D. J.; Hall, W.; O’Hara, K.; Shadbolt, N.; Hendler, J. A. A Framework for Web Science. FNT in Web Science Foundations and Trends in Web Science 2006, 1, 1–130.
• Berners-Lee, T.; Connolly, D.; Kagal, L.; Scharf, Y.; Hendler, J. N3Logic: A logical framework for the World Wide Web. Theory and Practice of Logic Programming Theory and Practice of Logic Programming 2008, 8, 249–269.
• Berners-Lee, T.; Kagal, L. The Fractal Nature of the Semantic Web. AI magazine. 2008, 29, 29.
• Berners-Lee, T. Long Live The Web. Scientific American 2010, 303, 80–85.
• Berners-Lee, T.; Fischetti, M. Weaving the web : the original design and ultimative destiny of the World Wide Web by its inventor; HarperBusiness: New York, NY, 2011; ISBN 978-0-06-251587-2.
• Berners-Lee, T. We Need a Magna Carta for the Internet. New Perspectives Quarterly 2014, 31, 39–41.

Sources

1. ↑ Wikipedia:Tim Berners-Lee
2. ↑ Timothy J Berners-Lee, mother: Woods, GRO Births Jun 1955 Pancras 5d 521, FreeBMD
3. ↑ “The Web at 25: Revisiting Tim Berners-Lee’s Amazing Proposal.” Time, n.d. http://time.com/21039/tim-berners-lee-web-proposal-at-25/.
4. ↑ Auction of Internet code
5. ↑ “Albert Medal (Royal Society of Arts).” Wikipedia, April 21, 2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert_Medal_(Royal_Society_of_Arts)&oldid=837589080 Page Version ID: 837589080.
6. ↑ “Creator of the Web Turns Knight,” July 16, 2004. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3899723.stm.
7. ↑ “Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the World Wide Web, Knighted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.” Accessed May 2, 2018. https://www.w3.org/2004/07/timbl_knighted.
8. ↑ Skaarup, Gertie. “UNESCO’s Niels Bohr Gold Medal Awarded to Prominent Physicists,” September 14, 2010. http://news.ku.dk/all_news/2010/2010.9/unesco_niels_bohr_gold_medal_awarded_to_prominent_physicists_kopi/.
9. ↑ QE Prize

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