Friday, November 2, 2007

He invented the World Wide Web

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 directs the World Wide Web Consortium, founded in 1994.

In 1989 he invented the World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing while at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory.

In 2004 he was knighted by H.M. Queen Elizabeth. He is the author of "Weaving the Web". On 21st September 2007 he delivered a video presentation (see below) entitled 'The Future of the World Wide Web' at the 4th Ministerial eGovernment Conference entitled “Reaping the Benefits of eGovernment” in Lisbon, Portugal. Connect were invited to attend as Award Nominees.

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