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Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, the HTML markup language, the URL system, and HTTP. He is a professorial research fellow at the University of Oxford and a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).Berners-Lee proposed an information management system on 12 March 1989 and implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet in mid-November.
He devised and implemented the first Web browser and Web server and helped foster the Web's subsequent explosive development. He is the founder and director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees the continued development of the Web. He co-founded (with Rosemary Leith) the World Wide Web Foundation. In April 2009, he was elected as Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences.Berners-Lee is a senior researcher and holder of the 3Com founder's chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). He is a director of the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) and a member of the advisory board of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. In 2011, he was named as a member of the board of trustees of the Ford Foundation. He is a founder and president of the Open Data Institute and is currently an advisor at social network MeWe. In 2004, Berners-Lee was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his pioneering work. He received the 2016 Turing Award "for inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and the fundamental protocols and algorithms allowing the Web to scale". He was named in Time magazine's list of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th century and has received a number of other accolades for his invention.
Filmography
all 13
self 12
Movies 10
TV Shows 3
The Gutenberg Enigma (2017)
Stare Into the Lights My Pretties (2017)
The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014)
The Virtual Revolution (2010)
A Science Odyssey (1998)
Horizon (1964)
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GenderMale
Birthday1955-06-08 (69 years old)
Birth NameTimothy John Berners-Lee
Birth PlaceLondon, England, UK
ReligionUnitarian Universalism
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FatherConway Berners-Lee
MotherMary Lee Woods
SiblingsMike Berners-Lee
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
ResidencesConcord, United States of America
Also Known AsSir Tim Berners-Lee, Timothy John Berners-Lee, Timothy Berners-Lee, TimBL, TBL
AwardsPresident's Medal, honorary doctor of the Yale University, OII Lifetime Achievement Award, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Paul Evan Peters Award, honorary doctor of the Open University of Catalonia, honorary doctor of Harvard University, Axel Springer Award, Computer History Museum fellow, Obedience Award, honorary doctorate of the University Polytechnic of Madrid, Fellow of the British Computer Society, Bodley Medal, Albert Medal, IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award, Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, honorary doctorate of Lancaster University, IEEE Maxwell Award, Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 1st Class, Kilgerran Prize, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, UNESCO Niels Bohr Medal, Royal Designer for Industry, Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, W. Wallace McDowell Award, Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Eduard-Rhein Technology Award, Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Charles Stark Draper Prize, ACM Software System Award, Japan Prize, Sir Frank Whittle Medal, Mountbatten Medal, Internet Hall of Fame, Millenium Technology Prize, Millennium Technology Prize, MacArthur Fellows Program, Lovelace Medal, Royal medal, Quadriga, Prix Ars Electronica, Freedom of the City, Order of Merit, EFF Pioneer Award, Marconi Prize, Turing Award
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