Title: Director and Inventor of the
World Wide Web
Family:
Tim Berners-Lee is the Director of the
World Wide Web Consortium, Senior Researcher at
MIT's
CSAIL where he leads the Decentralized Information Group (DIG), and Professor of
Computer Science at Southampton ECS.A graduate of
Oxford University,
England,
Tim Berners-Lee holds the
3Com Founders chair and is a Senior Research Scientist at the Laboratory for
Computer Science and
Artificial Intelligence (
CSAIL) at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (
MIT). He is co-Director of the new Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) and is a Chair in the
Computer Science Department at the
University of Southampton,
UK. He directs the
World Wide Web Consortium, founded in 1994In 1989 he invented the
World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global
information sharing while at
CERN, the European
Particle Physics Laboratory. He wrote the first web client and server in 1990. His specifications of URIs, HTTP and
HTML were refined as Web technology spread.In 2001 he became a fellow of the Royal Society. He has been the recipient of several international awards including the
Japan Prize, the Prince of
Asturias Foundation Prize, the Millennium Technology Prize and
Germany's Die Quadriga award. In 2004 he was knighted by H.M.
Queen Elizabeth. He is the author of "Weaving the Web. Source:
World Wide Web Consortium website (www.w3.org)
Awards: 1995: Kilby Foundation's "Young Innovator of the Year" Award ACM Software Systems Award (co-recipient) Honorary Prix Ars ElectronicaDistinguished Fellow of the
British Computer Society1997: Awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE)IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award Duddell Medal of the
Institute of PhysicsInteractive Services Association's Distinguished Service AwardMCI Computerworld/Smithsonian Award for
Leadership in
Innovation International Communication Institute's Columbus Prize1998:
Charles Babbage awardMountbatten Medal of the National Electronics CouncilLord Lloyd of Kilgerran Prize from the Foundation for Science and TechnologyPC Magazine Lifetime Achievement Award in Technical Excellence
MacArthur FellowshipThe Eduard Rhein Technology AwardHonorary Fellow, Institution of Electrical Engineers1999: Named "One of the 100 greatest minds of the century" by Time Magazine
World Technology Award for Communication TechnologyHonorary Fellowship, The Society for
Technical Communications 2000: Paul Evan Peters Award of ARL, Educause and CNIElectronic Freedom Foundation's Pioneer AwardGeorge R Stibitz Computer Pioneer Award, American Computer Museum Special Award for Outstanding Contribution of the
World Television Forum2001: Sir Frank Whittle Medal, the
Royal Academy of EngineeringFellow,Royal SocietyMember,
American Academy of Arts and Sciences2002:
Japan Prize, the Science and Technology Foundation of
JapanPrince of
Asturias Foundation Prize for Scientific and Technical Research (shared with with
Larry Roberts, Rob Kahn and
Vint Cerf)Fellow, Guglielmo
Marconi FoundationAlbert Medal of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Art, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA)2004: Knighted (KBE) by H.M. the Queen for services to the global development of the Internet Millennium Technology PrizeSpecial Award of the American Society for
Information Science and TechnologyMember,
American Philosophical Society2005: Common Wealth Award for Distinguished Service for Mass CommunicationsDie Quadriga AwardFinancial Times Lifetime Achievement Award 2006: President's Medal, the
Institute of Physics 2007: Awarded the Order of Merit by H.M. the QueenCharles Stark Draper Prize, National Academy of EngineeringLovelace Medal,
British Computer SocietyD&AD President's Award for
Innovation and CreativityMITX (
Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange)
Leadership AwardForeign Associate of the National Academy of Engineering Honorary Degrees: Parsons School of Design, New York (D.F.A., 1995)
Southampton University (D.Sc., 1995)
Essex University (D.U., 1998)
Southern Cross University (1998)
Open University (D.U., 2000)
Columbia University (D.Law, 2001)
Oxford University (D.Sc., 2001)University of
Port Elizabeth (DSc., 2002) Lancaster University (D.Sc., 2004)