Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Sir Tim Berners-Lee is the inventor of the World Wide Web. Now with the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he directs the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The W3C is the main international standards organisation for the World Wide Web which develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. During 2009 Sir Tim advised on the UK Government's "Making Public Data Public" initiative and in 2010 his latest venture is data.gov.uk which offers the public better access to official data.

"The man behind the World Wide Web"

In 1989, while at CERN, Sir Tim invented the World Wide Web as an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing. He wrote the first web client and server in 1990. His specifications of URIs, HTTP and HTML were refined and discussed in larger circles as Web technology spread. Through 1991 and 1993, Sir Tim continued working on the design of the Web, co-ordinating feedback from users across the Internet. He is the founder of the World Wide Web Foundation and the 3Com Founders Professor of Engineering in the School of Engineering at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).

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