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1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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3 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
4 <head>
5 <meta charset="utf-8" />
6 <meta content=
7 "HTML Tidy for Mac OS X (vers 31 October 2006 - Apple Inc. build 2649), see www.w3.org"
8 name="generator" />
9
10 <title>Tim Berners-Lee</title>
11 <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="https://www.w3.org/general.css" />
12 <link href="https://www.w3.org/card.rdf" title="Contact" type="application/rdf+xml"
13 rel="meta" />
14 <!-- <link rel="meta" type="application/rdf+xml" title="FOAF" href="card.rdf"/> -->
15 <link href="http://pip.verisignlabs.com/server" rel=
16 "openid.server" />
17 <link href="http://timbl.pip.verisignlabs.com/" rel=
18 "openid.delegate" />
19 </head>
20
21 <body>
22 <table summary="Nav" width="100%" cellpadding="2">
23 <tbody>
24 <tr>
25 <td><p><b>Contents</b></p><p><b><br></b></p></td>
26
27 <th>
28 <p align="left">See also</p>
29 </th>
30
31 <th>
32 <p align="left"><br /></p>
33 </th>
34 </tr>
35
36 <tr>
37 <td><img src=
38 "https://www.w3.org/Press/Stock/Berners-Lee/2001-europaeum-eighth.jpg"
39 alt="Tim BL" width="252" height="166" /><br />
40 <!--
41 <a href="https://www.battleforthenet.com/"> <img src="images/protest-loading-avatar-replacement.gif" alt="Loading too slow? Demand Net Neutrality!" width="166" height="166" /></a><br /> --></td>
42
43 <td><a href="#Bio">Short biography</a><br />
44 <a href="#Address">Address</a><br />
45 <a href="#Talks">Talks, articles etc</a><br />
46 <a href="#Speaking">Speaking engagements</a><br />
47 <a href="#Press">Press interviews</a></td>
48
49 <td><a href="https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Longer.html">Longer Biography</a><br />
50 <a href="https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Research.html">Research at MIT-CSAIL</a><br />
51 <a href="https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/DesignIssues">Design Issues: web
52 architecture</a><br />
53 <a href="/">World Wide Web Consortium<br /></a> <a href=
54 "https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ.html">Frequently Asked Questions</a><br />
55 <a href="https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Kids.html">Kids' Questions</a><br />
56 <a href="https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Weaving/Overview.html">Weaving the Web - the
57 book</a></td>
58 </tr>
59 </tbody>
60 </table>
61
62 <p><a title="Data about me" href="https://www.w3.org/card#i"><img alt="data" src=
63 "https://www.w3.org/images/rdf-flyer-24.gif" align="right" /></a></p>
64
65 <h1>Tim Berners-Lee</h1>
66
67 <h2><a id="Bio" name="Bio">Biography</a></h2>
68
69 <p>Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989.</p>
70
71 <p>He is the co-founder and CTO of <a href=
72 "https://inrupt.com/">Inrupt.com</a>, a tech start-up which uses,
73 promotes and helps develop the open source <a href=
74 "https://solidproject.org">Solid</a> platform. Solid aims to give
75 people control and agency over their data, questioning many
76 assumptions about how the web has to work. Solid technically is a new level of standard at the web layer, which adds things
77 never put into the original spec, such as global single sign-on,
78 universal access control, and a universal data API so that any
79 app can store data in any storage place. Socially Solid is a
80 movement away from much of the issues with the current WWW, and
81 toward a world in which users are in control, and empowered by
82 large amounts of data, private, shared, and public.</p>
83
84 <p>Sir Tim is the Founder, Emeritus Director, and an Honorary Member of the Board of Directors of the
85 <a href="https://www.w3.org">World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)</a>, a Web standards
86 organization that he founded in 1994 which develops interoperable
87 technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to
88 lead the Web to its full potential. He is a Director of the
89 <a href="http://www.webfoundation.org/">World Wide Web
90 Foundation</a> which was launched in 2009 to coordinate efforts
91 to further the potential of the Web to benefit humanity.</p>
92
93 <p>A graduate of Oxford University, Sir Tim invented the Web
94 while at <a href="http://www.cern.ch/">CERN</a>, the European
95 Particle Physics Laboratory, in 1989. He wrote the first web
96 client and server in 1990. His specifications of URIs, HTTP and
97 HTML were refined as Web technology spread.</p>
98
99 <p>He is the Emeritus 3Com Founders Professor of Engineering in the School
100 of Engineering with a joint appointment in the Department of
101 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Laboratory for
102 Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence ( <a href=
103 "http://csail.mit.edu/">CSAIL</a>) at the Massachusetts Institute
104 of Technology (<a href="http://web.mit.edu/">MIT</a>) where he founded the <a href="http://dig.csail.mit.edu/">Decentralized
105 Information Group (DIG)</a>.<br /></p>
106
107 <p>The <a href="http://dig.csail.mit.edu">Decentralized
108 Information Group</a>, works on the <a href=
109 "https://solid.inrupt.com">Solid Project</a> to give people
110 control of their own data and to re-decentralize the Web. He is
111 the co-founder and CTO of <a href=
112 "https://inrupt.com">inrupt</a>, the company launched to ensure
113 the success of the Solid platform and its open source community,
114 and to build the ecosystem that supports it.<br /></p>
115
116 <p>He is also a Professor in the <a href=
117 "http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2016-10-27-sir-tim-berners-lee-joins-oxfords-department-computer-science">
118 Computer Science Department at the University of Oxford</a>, UK.
119 He is President of and founded the <a href=
120 "https://theodi.org">Open Data Institute</a> in London. He is
121 President of London's <a href="https://www.odi.org/">Open Data
122 Institute</a>.</p>
123
124 <p>In 2001 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society. He has been
125 the recipient of several international awards including the Japan
126 Prize, the Prince of Asturias Foundation Prize, the Millennium
127 Technology Prize and Germany's Die Quadriga award. In 2004 he was
128 knighted by H.M. Queen Elizabeth and in 2007 he was awarded the
129 Order of Merit. In 2009 he was elected a foreign associate of the
130 National Academy of Sciences. He is the author of "<a href=
131 "https://www.w3.org/Weaving/Overview.html">Weaving the Web</a>".</p>
132
133 <p>On March 18 2013, Sir Tim, along with Vinton Cerf, Robert
134 Kahn, Louis Pouzin and Marc Andreesen, was awarded the <a href=
135 "http://qeprize.org">Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering</a>
136 for "ground-breaking innovation in engineering that has been of
137 global benefit to humanity."</p>
138
139 <p>Sir Tim has promoted open government data globally and spends
140 time fighting for rights such as net neutrality, privacy and the
141 openness of the Web.<br /></p>
142
143 <p>On 4 April 2017, Sir Tim was awarded the <a href=
144 "http://awards.acm.org/about/2016-turing" title=
145 "turing prize">ACM A.M. Turing Prize</a> for inventing the World
146 Wide Web, the first web browser, and the fundamental protocols
147 and algorithms allowing the Web to scale. The Turing Prize,
148 called the "Nobel Prize of Computing" is considered one of the
149 most prestigious awards in Computer Science. </p><p>In September 2022, he won the <a href="https://m.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20220928000610">Seoul Peace Prize</a> for his work promoting data sovereignty and leading the movement to “decentralize” the web dominated by tech giants.</p>
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154 <p>(<a href="https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Longer.html">Longer biography</a>)</p><!--
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