sir tim burners-lee scott weaver csce 221h spring 2014
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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