1 / 0

Sir Tim Burners-Lee

Sir Tim Burners-Lee. Scott Weaver CSCE 221H Spring 2014. Biography. Born in London, 8 June 1955 One of four children Tinkered with m odel r ailway Parents: Conway and Mary Lee Ferranti Mark 1 – 1951 Sheen Mount Primary School London’s Emanuel School

phong
Download Presentation

Sir Tim Burners-Lee

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Sir Tim Burners-Lee

    Scott Weaver CSCE 221H Spring 2014
  2. Biography Born in London, 8 June 1955 One of four children Tinkered with model railway Parents: Conway and Mary Lee Ferranti Mark 1 – 1951 Sheen Mount Primary School London’s Emanuel School Queen’s College, Oxford University – 1976 Physics First-Class Degree Tim Berners-Lee
  3. Pre-WWW Affiliations Plessey Telecommunications Ltd – 2 Years D.G. Nash Ltd - 1978 Independent Consultant – 1980 Image Computer Systems Ltd – 1981 CERN (European Particle Physics Laboratory) Fellowship – 1984 ENQUIRE
  4. World Wide Web Proposal and Web Development 1989 Based on Enquire Information management system Created at CERN 1990-1991 First server: “httpd” First client: “WorldWideWeb” Initial URL, HHTP, HTML specifications Continued Work 1991-1993 Specifications developed as Web spread NeXT Computer
  5. World Wide Web: Uses hypertext to link and access info of various kinds as a web of nodes which the user can browse at will. Pictured: Visualization of routing paths through the internet.
  6. Firsts First web address: Info.cern.ch First webpage: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
  7. Post-WWW Affiliations Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, MIT World Wide Web Consortium – 1994 3Com Founders Professor of Engineering – 1999 Professor, University of Southampton, UK – 2004 World Wide Web Foundation, Founder – 2008 Power of Information Task Force – 2009 UK’s Open Data Institute, President Alliance for Affordable Internet – 2013 Google, Facebook, Intel, Microsoft MIT Comp. Sci. & A.I. Lab
  8. Recognition World Wide Web Hall of Fame – 1994 Time Magazine’s 100 Most Important People of the 20th century – 1999 BBC’s 100 Greatest Britons – 2002 Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire – 2004 Order of Merit – 2007 United States National Academy of Sciences Associate – 2009 Mikhail Gorbachev Award for “The Man who Changed the World – 2011 IEEE Intelligent Systems AI Hall of Fame – 2011 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering – 2013 Eight Honorary Doctorates
  9. Net Neutrality Pioneer of human network rights Promotes "connectivity with no strings attached“ "Threats to the Internet, such as companies or governments that interfere with or snoop on Internet traffic, compromise basic human network rights." http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Longer.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee
More Related