Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web at CERN in 1989-1990 and founded the World Wide Web Consortium in 1994.
Biography
Tim Berners-Lee studied physics at Oxford and worked as a software engineer before joining CERN, the European physics laboratory near Geneva. In 1989 he proposed a system of linked documents to share information between researchers.
By the end of 1990 he had written the first web browser and web server and defined HTML, HTTP and URLs. CERN put the World Wide Web into the public domain in 1993, and it spread rapidly.
In 1994 he founded the World Wide Web Consortium at MIT to set web standards. He was knighted in 2004 and received the Turing Award in 2016. He has campaigned for an open web and for people's control over their own data.
Affiliations
Employment
- Jun 1, 1980 – Dec 31, 1980 CERN Independent contractor, June-December 1980
- from Jan 1, 1984 CERN Fellow from 1984; end date not in source
- from Jan 1, 1994 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Founded the W3C at MIT in 1994; later 3Com founders chair at CSAIL, now professor emeritus
- from Jan 1, 2004 University of Southampton Chair in computer science, School of Electronics and Computer Science
- from Jan 1, 2016 University of Oxford Professorial research fellow, Department of Computer Science
Education
- The Queen's College, Oxford First-class degree in physics, 1976
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