Tim Berners-Lee is a professorial research fellow at the University of Oxford and a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
43 Facts About Tim Berners-Lee
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Tim Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium, which oversees the continued development of the Web.
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Tim Berners-Lee co-founded the World Wide Web Foundation.
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Tim Berners-Lee is a senior researcher and holder of the 3Com founder's chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
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Tim Berners-Lee is a director of the Web Science Research Initiative and a member of the advisory board of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence.
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Tim Berners-Lee is a founder and president of the Open Data Institute and is currently an advisor at social network MeWe.
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Tim Berners-Lee devised and implemented the first Web browser and Web server, and helped foster the Web's subsequent explosive development.
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Tim Berners-Lee currently directs the W3 Consortium, developing tools and standards to further the Web's potential.
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In 2004, Tim Berners-Lee was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his pioneering work.
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Tim Berners-Lee was named in Time magazine's list of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th century and has received a number of other accolades for his invention.
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Tim Berners-Lee was honoured as the "Inventor of the World Wide Web" during the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in which he appeared working with a vintage NeXT Computer.
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Tim Berners-Lee tweeted "This is for everyone" which appeared in LED lights attached to the chairs of the audience.
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Tim Berners-Lee received the 2016 Turing Award "for inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and the fundamental protocols and algorithms allowing the Web to scale".
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Tim Berners-Lee was born on 8 June 1955 in London, England, the eldest of the four children of Mary Lee Woods and Conway Tim Berners-Lee; his brother Mike is a professor of ecology and climate change management.
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Tim Berners-Lee's parents were computer scientists who worked on the first commercially built computer, the Ferranti Mark 1.
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Tim Berners-Lee attended Sheen Mount Primary School, and then went on to attend south-west London's Emanuel School from 1969 to 1973, at the time a direct grant grammar school, which became an independent school in 1975.
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Tim Berners-Lee studied at The Queen's College, Oxford, from 1973 to 1976, where he received a first-class Bachelor of Arts degree in physics.
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Tim Berners-Lee worked as an independent contractor at CERN from June to December 1980.
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Tim Berners-Lee ran the company's technical side for three years.
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In 1989, CERN was the largest Internet node in Europe and Tim Berners-Lee saw an opportunity to join hypertext with the Internet:.
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Tim Berners-Lee wrote his proposal in March 1989 and, in 1990, redistributed it.
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Tim Berners-Lee's software functioned as an editor, and the first Web server, CERN HTTPd.
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Tim Berners-Lee published the first web site, which described the project itself, on 20 December 1990; it was available to the Internet from the CERN network.
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On 6 August 1991, Tim Berners-Lee first posted, on Usenet, a public invitation for collaboration with the WorldWideWeb project.
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In 1994, Tim Berners-Lee founded the W3C at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Tim Berners-Lee made his idea available freely, with no patent and no royalties due.
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Tim Berners-Lee participated in Curl Corp's attempt to develop and promote the Curl programming language.
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In 2001, Tim Berners-Lee became a patron of the East Dorset Heritage Trust, having previously lived in Colehill in Wimborne, East Dorset.
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Tim Berners-Lee told the newspaper that he easily could have designed web addresses without the slashes.
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In November 2009, Tim Berners-Lee launched the World Wide Web Foundation in order to campaign to "advance the Web to empower humanity by launching transformative programs that build local capacity to leverage the Web as a medium for positive change".
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Tim Berners-Lee is one of the pioneer voices in favour of net neutrality, and has expressed the view that ISPs should supply "connectivity with no strings attached", and should neither control nor monitor the browsing activities of customers without their expressed consent.
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The Alliance for Affordable Internet was launched in October 2013 and Tim Berners-Lee is leading the coalition of public and private organisations that includes Google, Facebook, Intel and Microsoft.
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Tim Berners-Lee holds the founders chair in Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he heads the Decentralized Information Group and is leading Solid, a joint project with the Qatar Computing Research Institute that aims to radically change the way Web applications work today, resulting in true data ownership as well as improved privacy.
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Tim Berners-Lee reasoned EME's virtues whilst noting DRM was inevitable.
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Tim Berners-Lee's stance was opposed by some including Electronic Frontier Foundation, the anti-DRM campaign Defective by Design and the Free Software Foundation.
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On 30 September 2018, Tim Berners-Lee announced his new open-source startup Inrupt to fuel a commercial ecosystem around the Solid project, which aims to give users more control over their personal data and lets them choose where the data goes, who's allowed to see certain elements and which apps are allowed to see that data.
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Tim Berners-Lee was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in the 2004 New Year Honours "for services to the global development of the Internet", and was invested formally on 16 July 2004.
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Tim Berners-Lee was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2001.
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Tim Berners-Lee was elected as a member into the American Philosophical Society in 2004 and the National Academy of Engineering in 2007.
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Tim Berners-Lee has been conferred honorary degrees from a number of universities around the world, including Manchester, Harvard and Yale.
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Tim Berners-Lee married Nancy Carlson, an American computer programmer, in 1990.
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Tim Berners-Lee was working in Switzerland at the World Health Organization.
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Tim Berners-Lee was raised as an Anglican, but he turned away from religion in his youth.