Sir Tim Burners-Lee SCOTT WEAVER CSCE 221H SPRING 2014

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

Pre-WWW Affiliations  Plessey Telecommunications Ltd – 2 Years  D.G. Nash Ltd  Independent Consultant – 1980  Image Computer Systems Ltd – 1981  CERN (European Particle Physics Laboratory) Fellowship – 1984  ENQUIRE

World Wide Web  Proposal and Web Development 1989  Based on Enquire  Information management system  Created at CERN  First server: “httpd”  First client: “WorldWideWeb”  Initial URL, HHTP, HTML specifications  Continued Work  Specifications developed as Web spread NeXT Computer

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.

Firsts  First web address: Info.cern.ch  First webpage:

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

Recognition  World Wide Web Hall of Fame – 1994  Time Magazine’s 100 Most Important People of the 20 th 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

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."  