![]() ![]() ![]() In June 2009 then Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced that he would work with the UK Government to help make data more open and accessible on the Web, building on the work of the Power of Information Task Force. The Web Foundation words to fund and coordinate efforts to defend the Open Web and further its potential to benefit humanity. The Web Foundation is a non-profit organisation devoted to achieving a world in which all people can use the Web to communicate, collaborate and innovate freely. In 2008 he founded and became Director of the World Wide Web Foundation. In 2016, Sir Tim joined the Computer Science Department at the University of Oxford as a Professor. Lalana Kagal, the DIG Research Group works on projects including: how to re-decentralize the Web and help radically change the way Web applications work today, resulting in true data ownership working to ensure the rights of users in big data and analytics and systems as well as harnessing mobile technologies to aid during disaster relief and help society. In 2008 he was named 3COM Founders Professor of Engineering in the School of Engineering, with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at CSAIL where he also leads the Decentralized Information Group (DIG). In 1999, he became the first holder of 3Com Founders chair at MIT. The Consortium has host sites located at MIT, at ERCIM in Europe, and at Keio University in Japan as well as Offices around the world. Since that time he has served as the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium a Web standards organization which develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. In 1994, Tim founded the World Wide Web Consortium at the then Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) which merged with the Artificial Intelligence Lab in 2003 to become the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). ![]() Among other things, he worked on FASTBUS system software and designed a heterogeneous remote procedure call system. ![]() In 1984, he took up a fellowship at CERN, to work on distributed real-time systems for scientific data acquisition and system control. Work here included real time control firmware, graphics and communications software, and a generic macro language. Named "Enquire" and never published, this program formed the conceptual basis for the future development of the World Wide Web.įrom 1981 until 1984, Tim worked at John Poole's Image Computer Systems Ltd, with technical design responsibility. Whilst there, he wrote for his own private use his first program for storing information including using random associations. In 1978 Tim left Plessey to join D.G Nash Ltd (Ferndown, Dorset, UK), where he wrote among other things typesetting software for intelligent printers, and a multitasking operating system.Ī year and a half spent as an independent consultant included a six-month stint (Jun-Dec 1980) as consultant software engineer at CERN. He spent two years with Plessey Telecommunications Ltd (Poole, Dorset, UK) a major UK Telecom equipment manufacturer, working on distributed transaction systems, message relays, and bar code technology. Whilst there he built his first computer with a soldering iron, TTL gates, an M6800 processor and an old television. Tim Berners-Lee graduated from the Queen's College at Oxford University, England, 1976. His initial specifications of URIs, HTTP and HTML were refined and discussed in larger circles as the Web technology spread. Through 19, Tim continued working on the design of the Web, coordinating feedback from users across the Internet. This work was started in October 1990, and the program "WorldWideWeb" first made available within CERN in December, and on the Internet at large in the summer of 1991. He wrote the first World Wide Web server, " httpd", and the first client, " WorldWideWeb" a what-you-see-is-what-you-get hypertext browser/editor which ran in the NeXTStep environment. Based on the earlier "Enquire" work, it was designed to allow people to work together by combining their knowledge in a web of hypertext documents. In 1989, while working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, Tim Berners-Lee proposed a global hypertext project, to be known as the World Wide Web. This is more or less a collection of everything which has been asked for to date.
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