Timothy J. Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee is the Inventor of the World Wide Web, WWW and has conceived HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol), HTML (Hypertext Markup language), and URI (Universal Resource Identifier) which permit users on the Web to request information that is stored on servers (browse) and call up whole documents from highlights in any one document. Currently, he is now Director of the WWW Consortium which coordinates Web development worldwide and is a professor at MIT. While working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory. He wrote the first web browser and server in 1990. Before coming to CERN, Tim worked with Image Computer Systems, of Ferndown, Dorset, England and before that a principal engineer with Plessey Telecommunications, in Poole, England. Sir Tim has received multiple accolades in recent years. These include receiving the first Queen’ Elizabeth Prize for Engineering in 2013, election as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009 and being knighted by H.M. Queen Elizabeth in 2004. He has received over 10 honorary doctorates, is a member of the Internet Hall of Fame, and was awarded the Finland Millennium Prize in 2004. In 2007, Berners-Lee was awarded the UK’s Order of Merit – a personal gift of the monarch limited to just 24 living recipients.