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Rosemary Blaire Leith, Lady Berners-Lee (born September 1961), [2] is a Canadian-born British director of both for-profit and non-profit organizations. [1] She co-founded the World Wide Web Foundation in 2009 with Sir Tim Berners-Lee , [ 3 ] who became her husband in 2014.
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), [1] also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, the HTML markup language, the URL system, and HTTP. He is a professorial research fellow at the University of Oxford [2] and a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of ...
It was cofounded by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, and Rosemary Leith. [2] Announced in September 2008 [3] in Washington, D.C., the Web Foundation launched operations in November 2009 at the Internet Governance Forum. [4]
ENQUIRE was a software project written in 1980 by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, [2] which was the predecessor to the World Wide Web. [2] [3] [4] It was a simple hypertext program [4] that had some of the same ideas as the Web and the Semantic Web but was different in several important ways.
Berners-Lee may refer to: Conway Berners-Lee (1921–2019), British mathematician and computer scientist, father of Mike and Tim Berners-Lee; Mike Berners-Lee (born 1964), English researcher and writer on greenhouse gases; Tim Berners-Lee (born 1955), British engineer and computer scientist, known for his creation of the World Wide Web
On 10 July 1954 at St Saviour's Church, Hampstead, she married Conway Berners-Lee whom she met while working in the Ferranti team, and together they had four children; Timothy (Tim), Peter, Helen and Michael (Mike). Their eldest son, Sir Tim Berners-Lee [13] is the inventor of the World Wide Web, and their youngest son Mike is an academic. [14 ...
Robert Cailliau (last name pronunciation: [kajo], born 26 January 1947) is a Belgian informatics engineer who proposed the first (pre-www) hypertext system for CERN in 1987 [1] and collaborated with Tim Berners-Lee on the World Wide Web (jointly winning the ACM Software System Award) from before it got its name.
Berners-Lee was son of Major Cecil Burford Berners-Lee (1884–1931), of the Royal Field Artillery, [6] and Helen Lane Campbell Gray (1895–1968). His mother was from Winnipeg, Manitoba, daughter of John Sidney Gray, M.D. [7] [8] His grandfather, Berners Burford Lee was married to Gertrude Payne Tegner, [9] whose uncle (and her adopted father) was Alfred Tegner, originally from Helsingør ...