TIM BERNERS LEE

By: Jasalyn K.

Lucas

PERSONAL LIFE He was born in London, England on June 8, 1955. He is still alive and is currently 59 years old. His parents worked on the first commercially-built computer, the Ferranti Mark 1.He has been married twice. His current wife? He married Nancy Carlson, who was not only a computer programmer but she was also a figure skater. They have two children.

EARLIER LIFE

He went to The Queen’s College at the University of Oxford, where he actually got his degree in Physics.

After graduation, Berners-Lee worked as

an engineer at the telecommunications

company Plessey in Poole.

In 1978, he joined D. G. Nash to helped

create type-setting software for

printers.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO COMPUTER SCIENCE

Tim Berners Lee is the inventor of the World Wide Web, which is an

internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing

while at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory, in 1989.

He worked as an independent contractor at CERN from June to

December 1980. While being there he proposed a project based on

the concept of hypertext. To demonstrate, he built a prototype

system named ENQUIRE.

In 1989, CERN was the largest Internet node in Europe, and

Berners-Lee decided it was time to join hypertext with the Internet.

CONTRIBUTION’S TO COMPUTER SCIENCE CONT .

He made a proposal for an information management system in March

1989.

He wrote the first web client and server in 1990.

He executed the first successful communication between a Hypertext

Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet.

He is Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (1994) which is a

Web standards organization founded in 1994 that develops interoperable

technologies to lead the Web to the fullest.

He is a founding Director of the Web Science Trust (WST) (2009) this

promotes research and education in Web Science.

Berners-Lee is also a Director of the World Wide Web Foundation (2009) to

coordinate efforts to further the potential of the Web to benefit humanity.

TIM BERNERS LEE HONORS

He is refered to as Sir Tim Berners Lee. He is also

know as OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA, DFBCS. The OM

stands for Order of Merit which is awarded by the

monarch of United Kingdom. KBE stands for Order of

the British empire which is awarded by the sovereign of

the British Kingdom. FRS stands for Royal Society of

London for Improving Natural Knowledge. FREng

stands for the royal academy of enginering. FRSA stands

for Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts,

Manufactures and Commerce. DFBCS stands for

Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society.

AWARDS

MacArthur Fellowship Award in

1998.

Marconi Prize in 2002.

Charles Stark Draper Prize in 2007.

Mountbatten Medal in 1996.

President’s Metal in 2006.