TIM BERNERS LEE By: Jasalyn K. Lucas

PERSONAL LIFE  He was born in London, England on June 8, He is still alive and is currently 59 years old.  His parents worked on the first commercially-built computer, the Ferranti Mark 1.  He has been married twice. His current wife? He married Nancy Carlson, who was not only a computer programmer but she was also a figure skater. They have two children.

EARLIER LIFE  He went to The Queen’s College at the University of Oxford, where he actually got his degree in Physics.  After graduation, Berners-Lee worked as an engineer at the telecommunications company Plessey in Poole.  In 1978, he joined D. G. Nash to helped create type-setting software for printers.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO COMPUTER SCIENCE  Tim Berners Lee is the inventor of the World Wide Web, which is an internet- based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing while at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory, in  He worked as an independent contractor at CERN from June to December While being there he proposed a project based on the concept of hypertext. To demonstrate, he built a prototype system named ENQUIRE.  In 1989, CERN was the largest Internet node in Europe, and Berners-Lee decided it was time to join hypertext with the Internet.

CONTRIBUTION’S TO COMPUTER SCIENCE CONT.  He made a proposal for an information management system in March  He wrote the first web client and server in  He executed the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet.  He is Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (1994) which is a Web standards organization founded in 1994 that develops interoperable technologies to lead the Web to the fullest.  He is a founding Director of the Web Science Trust (WST) (2009) this promotes research and education in Web Science.  Berners-Lee is also a Director of the World Wide Web Foundation (2009) to coordinate efforts to further the potential of the Web to benefit humanity.

TIM BERNERS LEE HONORS  He is refered to as Sir Tim Berners Lee. He is also know as OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA, DFBCS. The OM stands for Order of Merit which is awarded by the monarch of United Kingdom. KBE stands for Order of the British empire which is awarded by the sovereign of the British Kingdom. FRS stands for Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge. FREng stands for the royal academy of enginering. FRSA stands for Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. DFBCS stands for Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society.

AWARDS  MacArthur Fellowship Award in  Marconi Prize in  Charles Stark Draper Prize in  Mountbatten Medal in  President’s Metal in 2006.