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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 ...
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 receives the Freedom of the City of London, at the Guildhall, in 2014. Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA, DFBCS (born 8 June 1955), also known as "TimBL", the inventor of the World Wide Web, has received a number of awards and honours.
The World Wide Web Foundation, also known as the Web Foundation, was a US-based international nonprofit organization advocating for a free and open web for everyone.It was cofounded by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, and Rosemary Leith. [2]
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
The Open Data Institute (ODI) is a non-profit private company limited by guarantee, based in the United Kingdom. [2] Founded by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Sir Nigel Shadbolt in 2012, the ODI's mission is to connect, equip and inspire people around the world to innovate with data.
Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a standards organization which oversees and encourages the Web's continued development, co-director of the Web Science Trust, and founder of the World Wide Web Foundation. [222] In 1994, Berners-Lee became one of only six members of the World Wide Web Hall of Fame. [223]
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 ...