Tim Berners-Lee

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Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English engineer and computer scientist who is best known as the Web's creator.

He is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Professor.

Berners-Lee devised an information management system on March 12, 1989, and then established the first successful interfacing between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server over the internet in mid-November of the same year.

He is also the founder of the World Wide Web Foundation and a senior researcher and holder of the 3Com founders chair at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).

He is a founder of the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) and a member of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence's advisory board.

He was elected as a member of the Ford Foundation's board of trustees in 2011.

Berners-Lee was honoured by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004 as a founder and president of the Open Data Institute, as well as a social media consultant.

He was named a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences in April 2009.

Berners-Lee, one of the 100 Most Influential People of the 20th Century, has received a number of other honors for his invention, including Time magazine's list of the 100 Most Influential People of the 20th Century.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, he was honoured as the "Inventor of the World Wide Web," in which he appeared in person, working with a vintage NeXT Computer at the London Olympic Stadium.

He tweeted "This is for everybody," which was immediately spelled out in liquid-crystal display (LCD) lights attached to the chairs of the 80,000 people in the audience.

Berners-Lee received the 2016 Turing Award "for inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and the creation of the Web's basic protocols and algorithms that allow the Web to scale."

Early life and education

Berners-Lee was born in London, England, on June 8, 1955, the eldest of Mary Lee Woods and Conway Berners-Lee's four children; his brother Mike is a professor of ecology and climate change management. His parents, who worked on the first commercially built computer, the Ferranti Mark 1. He attended Sheen Mount Primary School in north-west London and then moved to Emanuel School, which became a direct grant grammar school in 1975. He learned about electronics from tinkering with a model railway as an infant. He studied at The Queen's College, Oxford, from 1973 to 1976, where he obtained a first-class Bachelor of Arts degree in physics. Berners-Lee created a computer out of an old television set he bought from a repair shop when he was at university.

Personal life

"I like to keep work and personal life separate," Berners-Lee says.

Nancy Carlson, an American computer programmer, was married by Berners-Lee in 1990. She was also working at the World Health Organisation in Switzerland. In 2011, the two children and divorced. He married Rosemary Leith at the Chapel Royal in St. James' Palace in London in 2014. Leith, a founder and member of Berners-Lee's World Wide Web Foundation, is a Canadian Internet and financial entrepreneur and a founding member of the Berners-Lee Foundation. Both companies also work on venture capital to support artificial intelligence firms.

Berners-Lee was born as an Anglican, but he was rejected from faith in his youth. He became a parent in the United Kingdom, and he became a Unitarian Universalist (UU). "I'm not in the sense of most people, I'm atheist and Unitarian Universalist."

By TimBL, Sotheby's in London auctioned the web's source code as a non-fungible token (NFT). The proceeds, according to TimBL and his partner, Rosemary Leith, were sold for USD $5,434,500.

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Career and research

Berners-Lee spent time as an engineer at Plessey, a telecommunications firm in Poole, Dorset. In 1978, he joined D. G. Nash in Ferndown, Dorset, where he helped create typesetting software for printers.

Berners-Lee served as an independent contractor at CERN from June to December 1980. When visiting Geneva, he suggested a project based on the idea of hypertext to enable sharing and updating data among researchers. He built ENQUIRE, a prototype system to demonstrate it.

He began working at Image Computer Systems, Ltd, in Bournemouth, Dorset, after leaving CERN in late 1980. For three years, he was in charge of the company's scientific department. The initiative, which included hands-on-computer networking, gave him a "real-time remote procedure call" which gave him expertise in computer networking. In 1984, he returned to CERN as a fellow.

CERN's 1989 was Europe's biggest internet node, and Berners-Lee saw the possibility to join hypertext on the Internet: Berners-Lee believed it would be possible to join hypertext on the Internet.

Berners-Lee made his plan in March 1989 and, in 1990, redistributed it. Mike Sendall, his company's chairman, accepted it "vague, but exciting." Robert Cailliau had initiated a CERN initiative to build a hypertext system and Berners-Lee joined Berners-Lee as a co-partner in his attempts to get the web off the ground. They created the World Wide Web with similar intentions to those under the ENQUIRE system, which Berners-Lee designed and built the first web browser. His applications also worked as an editor (called WorldWideWeb, which runs on the NeXTSTEP operating system) and the first Web server, CERN HTTPd (short for Hypertext Transfer Protocol daemon), as well as the first Web server, CERN HTTPd (short for Hypertext Transfer Protocol daemon).

Berners-Lee launched the first web site, which outlined the project itself, on December 20, 1990; it was available on the Internet from the CERN network. The site gave an example of what the World Wide Web was, how to use a browser and build a web server, as well as how to get started with your own website. Berners-Lee first announced, on Usenet, a public call for collaboration with the WorldWideWeb project on August 6, 1991.

The invention of the World Wide Web was ranked number one on a list of 80 cultural moments that changed the world, based on a panel of 25 influential scientists, scholars, editors, and world leaders, with the entry claiming that the Internet has changed the course of modern life forever. We can all connect with each other in the world.

Berners-Lee founded the W3C at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1994. It was made up of various companies that were eager to develop standards and recommendations to raise the quality of the Web. Berners-Lee proposed his idea freely, but without a license or royalties due. The World Wide Web Consortium has determined that its guidelines should be based on royalty-free technologies so that they could be adopted by anyone.

Berners-Lee was involved in Curl Corp's attempt to develop and promote the Curl programming language.

Berners-Lee, a 2001 resident of Colehill, East Dorset, became a patron of the East Dorset Heritage Trust. He accepted a chair in computer science at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Hampshire, in December 2004 and joined the Semantic Web.

Berners-Lee admitted in a Times article in October 2009 that the first two slashes ("//") in a web address were "unnecessary." He told the newspaper that he could have created web addresses with no slashes. In his lighthearted apology, he said, "There go, it seemed like a good idea at the time."

Gordon Brown, the then-British prime minister, confirmed that Berners-Lee would collaborate with the UK government to help make data more transparent and available on the Web, expanding on the Power of Information Task Force's work in June 2009. Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt are the two main figures behind data.gov.uk, a UK government initiative that intends to open up virtually all data for official use for free reuse. Berners-Lee said about the opening of Ordnance Survey results in April 2010: "The changes point to a larger political change in government based on the belief that information should be published in the public domain unless there is a legitimate reason not to—not the other way around." "Greater openness, accountability, and transparency in government would give people more freedom and make it possible for individuals to become more involved in issues that matter to them," he continued.

Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web Foundation (WWF) in November 2009 in an effort to "advance the Web to empower humanity by launching transformative initiatives that enhance local capacity to use the Internet as a tool for positive change."

Berners-Lee, one of the pioneers of net neutrality, has stated the view that ISPs should provide "connectivity with no strings attached," and that no one should monitor or monitor customer browsing activities without their explicit permission. "Net neutrality, whether businesses or governments that challenge or snoop on Internet traffic, jeopardize basic human network rights," Mr. Gore says. Berners-Lee wrote a letter to the US Federal Communications Commission, which was sent in an open letter (FCC). He and 20 other Internet pioneers urged the FCC to postpone net neutrality until December 14, 2017. Senator Roger Wicker, Senator Brian Schatz, Representative Marsha Blackburn, and Representative Michael F. Doyle were among Senator Roger Wicker's letters.

Berners-Lee joined the board of advisors of start-up State.com, which is headquartered in London, in London. He is president of the Open Data Institute, which he co-founded with Nigel Shadbolt in 2012.

In October 2013, the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) was founded, and Berners-Lee is leading a coalition of public and private companies including Google, Facebook, Intel, and Microsoft. The A4AI is designed to make Internet access more affordable so that it can be distributed in the developing world, where only 31% of people are online. Berners-Lee will collaborate with those aiming to lower internet access prices so that they fall below the UN Broadband Commission's global target of 5% of monthly income.

Berners-Lee is the founders of Computer Science at MIT, where he leads Decentralized Information Group and is leading Solid, a joint venture with the Qatar Computing Research Institute that aims to dramatically change the way Web applications work today, resulting in true data ownership and improved security. He joined Oxford University's Department of Computer Science as a professorial research fellow and a Fellow of Christ Church in October 2016, one of Oxford University's four faculties.

Berners-Lee began neutral on the new Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) plan, despite the fact that it had a turbulent Digital Rights Management (DRM) implication. He felt he had to take a stand that would promote the EME's in March 2017. When not saying DRM was inevitable, he defended EME's virtues. In July 2017, he proceeded to endorse the finalized specification as the W3C's director. Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the anti-DRM campaign Defective by Design and the Free Software Foundation, among others, reacted angrily to his position. Users were also concerned about being unable to endorse the Internet's open philosophy against commercial gain and the dangers of users being compelled to use a particular web browser to view specific DRM content, among other topics. In September 2017, the EFF lodged a formal appeal that did not succeed, and the EME document became a formal W3C recommendation.

Berners-Lee, a Berners-Lee founder, revealed his new open-source startup Inrupt, which aims to give users more control over their personal information and allows them to choose where the data goes, who is allowed to view such details, and which applications are allowed to view it.

The Internet Governance Forum in Berlin, Lee and the WWWF announced Contract for the Web in November 2019, a campaign launched by the German government and companies to convince governments, businesses, and citizens to avoid "misuse," putting the web in jeopardy, divided and obscure. [its potential for good]" is the risk of squandering.

Berners-Lee has received many accolades and awards. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in the 2004 New Year Honours "for services to the globalization of the internet" and was announced officially on July 16, 2004.

He was elected to the Order of Merit (OM) on June 13, 2007, an order limited to 24 (living) members. The Queen's personal responsibility lies behind the fact that the Order of Merit does not require ministers or the Prime Minister to recommend it.

In 2001, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). He was also elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2004 and the National Academy of Engineering in 2007.

He has been awarded honorary degrees from a variety of universities around the world, including Manchester (his parents worked on the Manchester Mark 1 in the 1940s), Harvard and Yale.

Berners-Lee, one of British cultural icons chosen by artist Sir Peter Blake in a new interpretation of his most famous work, the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover features British cultural figures from his youth, which he most admires on his 80th birthday.

He was given the inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering in 2013. "For inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and the web's common protocols and algorithms that allow the Web to scale," the ACM Turing Award recipient received on April 4, 2017.

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