Sir Tim Burners-LeeSCOTT 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