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Sir Timothy "Tim" John Berners-Lee, KBE , FRS ('''TimBL''' or '''TBL''') (born June 8 , 1955 in London ) is the Inventor of the World Wide Web and director of the World Wide Web Consortium , which oversees its continued development. Background and early career Berners-Lee was born in London , England , the son of Conway Berners-Lee and Mary Lee Woods . His parents, who were both mathematicians, were employed together on the team that built the Manchester Mark I , one of the earliest computers. Berners-Lee attended Sheen Mount Primary School (who have dedicated a new hall in his honour) before moving on to Emanuel School in Wandsworth . He is an Alumnus of Queen's College , Oxford University , where he built a Computer with a Soldering Iron , TTL Gates , an M6800 processor and an old television. While at Oxford, he was caught Hacking with a friend and was subsequently banned from using the university computer. He worked at Plessey Telecommunications Limited in 1976 as a programmer, and in 1978 , he worked at the D.G. Nash Limited where he did typesetting software and an operating system. World Wide Web was used by Berners-Lee at CERN and became the first Web Server .]] In 1980 , while an independent contractor at CERN from June to December 1980, Berners-Lee proposed a project based on the concept of Hypertext , to facilitate sharing and updating information among researchers. With help from Robert Cailliau he built a prototype system named ENQUIRE . After leaving , for which he designed and built the first web browser and editor (called WorldWideWeb and developed on NeXTSTEP ) and the first Web server called Httpd (short for HyperText Transfer Protocol Daemon ). The first Web site built was at In 1994 , Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at the Massachusetts Institute Of Technology . It comprised various companies willing to create standards and recommendations to improve the quality of the Internet. Many of the World Wide Web Consortium's achievements are able to be seen in many Web sites on the Internet. In 1996 , in conjunction with Håkon Wium Lie , the W3C announced a standard entitled Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). It was not until 2000 and 2001 that popular browsers began to support this standard, which shows Berners-Lee's first goal to maintain the freedom of the Web. In December 2004 he accepted a chair (AKA professorship) in Computer Science at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University Of Southampton , UK. He will be working closely with the University on the Semantic Web — his new project. To this day, Tim Berners-Lee maintains a low profile, not intent on gaining popular status. While the component ideas of the World Wide Web are still simple, Berners-Lee's insight was to combine them in a way which is still discovering its full potential. Perhaps his greatest single contribution, though, was to make his idea available freely, with no patent and no royalties due. The World Wide Web Consortium decided that their standards must be based on royalty-free technology, so they can be easily adopted by anyone. Patent Policy - 5 February 2004 Sir Tim Berners-Lee genius is not confined to, or prejudiced by, computer technology. In a BBC Television interview last year, he made a statement which shows that he is acutely aware of the limitations of the internet as an informational resource. "''Even the clearest, cleverest and most comprehensive website can not hope to equal the wealth of information contained in a good reference book. The internet is most definitely not a substitute for a well-stocked public library''". ''Weaving the Web'' In Berners-Lee's book ''Weaving the Web'', several recurring themes are apparent:
Recognition The University Of Southampton was the first to recognise Berners-Lee's contribution to developing the World Wide Web with an honorary degree in 1996 and he is currently a Chair of Computer Science at the University of Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science department. He was the first holder of the 3Com Founders Chair at MIT , and is also now a Senior Research Scientist there. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society , an Honorary Fellow of the Institution Of Electrical Engineers , and a member of the American Academy Of Arts And Sciences . In 1997 he was made an Officer in the Order Of The British Empire , became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2001 , and received the Japan Prize in 2002 . In 2002 he received the Principe De Asturias award in the category of Scientific and Technical Research. He shared the prize with Lawrence Roberts , Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf . Also in 2002, the British public named him among the 100 Greatest Britons of all time, according to a BBC poll spanning the entire history of the nation. On (16 July, 2004) On July 21 , 2004 he was presented with an Honorary Doctor of Science (honoris causa) from Lancaster University . Lancaster University Honorary Degrees - July 2004 On included Berners-Lee in its list of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century, published in 1999. Current life In 2001 , he became a patron of the East Dorset Heritage Trust having previously lived in Colehill in Wimborne , East Dorset, England . He is now living in Lexington, Massachusetts (USA) with his wife and two children. Works
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In the novel "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown, the title character Robert Langdon visits CERN and sees a plaque that credits Tim Berners-Lee for inventing the WEB. See also
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