Robert Cailliau is a Belgian informatics engineer, computer scientist and author who proposed the first hypertext system for CERN in 1987 and collaborated with Tim Berners-Lee on the World Wide Web from before it got its name.
12 Facts About Robert Cailliau
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Robert Cailliau designed the historical logo of the WWW, organized the first International World Wide Web Conference at CERN in 1994 and helped transfer Web development from CERN to the global Web consortium in 1995.
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Together with Dr James Gillies, Cailliau wrote How the Web Was Born, the first book-length account of the origins of the World Wide Web.
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Robert Cailliau has an MSc from the University of Michigan in Computer, Information and Control Engineering, 1971.
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Robert Cailliau later became a key proponent of the project, running several projects to create and support browsers on different operating systems including various UNIX flavours and Classic Mac OS.
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In 1993, in collaboration with the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Robert Cailliau started the European Commission's first web-based project for information dissemination in Europe.
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In December 1993 Robert Cailliau called for the first International WWW Conference which was held at CERN in May 1994.
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Robert Cailliau was a member of the committee from 1994 until 2002.
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In 1995 Robert Cailliau started the "Web for Schools" project with the European Commission, introducing the web as a resource for education.
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Robert Cailliau went on early retirement from CERN in January 2007.
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Robert Cailliau is an active member of Newropeans, a pan-European political movement for which he and Luca Cominassi have recently drafted a proposal concerning the European information society.
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Robert Cailliau is a public speaker on the past and future of the World Wide Web and has delivered many keynote speeches at international conferences.