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TIM BERNERS LEE
By: Jasalyn K.
Lucas
PERSONAL LIFE He was born in London, England on June 8, 1955. 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 1989.
He worked as an independent contractor at CERN from June to
December 1980. 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
1989.
He wrote the first web client and server in 1990.
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.