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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.
Tim Berners-Lee at the Home Office, London, on 11 March 2010 By 2010, he created data.gov.uk alongside Nigel Shadbolt . Commenting on the Ordnance Survey data in April 2010, Berners-Lee said: "The changes signal a wider cultural change in government based on an assumption that information should be in the public domain unless there is a good ...
Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee (born 1955) is a British physicist and computer scientist. [219] In 1980, while working at CERN, he proposed a project using hypertext to facilitate sharing and updating information among researchers. [220] While there, he built a prototype system named ENQUIRE. [221]
Berners-Lee, Tim: Invented the World Wide Web and sent the first HTTP communication between client and server. [15] 1995 Blum, Manuel: Contributions to the foundations of computational complexity theory and its application to cryptography and program checking [16] 1966 Böhm, Corrado: Theorized of the concept of structured programming. 1847 ...
Tim Berners-Lee wrote what would become known as WorldWideWeb on a NeXT Computer [4] during the second half of 1990, while working for CERN, a European nuclear research agency. The first edition was completed "some time before" 25 December 1990, according to Berners-Lee, after two months of development. [7]
The Internet Hall of Fame was established in 2012, on the 20th anniversary of ISOC. [2] Its stated purpose is to "publicly recognize a distinguished and select group of visionaries, leaders and luminaries who have made significant contributions to the development and advancement of the global Internet".
In 1989, the World Wide Web was invented at CERN by Tim Berners-Lee. Based on the concept of hypertext, the idea was designed to facilitate information sharing between researchers. [43] [44] This stemmed from Berners-Lee's earlier work at CERN on a database named ENQUIRE. A colleague, Robert Cailliau, became involved in 1990. [45] [46] [47] [48]
Tim Berners-Lee – invented World Wide Web; Daniel J. Bernstein – djbdns, qmail; Eric Bina – cocreated Mosaic web browser; Marc Blank – cocreated Zork; Joshua Bloch – core Java language designer, lead the Java collections framework project; Jonathan Blow – video games Braid and The Witness; Susan G. Bond – cocreated ALGOL 68-R