from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
Tim Berners-Lee
Berners-Lee, Tim
<person> The man who invented the {World-Wide Web} while
working at the Center for European Particle Research (CERN).
Now Director of the {World-Wide Web Consortium}.
Tim Berners-Lee graduated from the Queen's College at Oxford
University, England, 1976. Whilst there he built his first
computer with a soldering iron, {TTL} gates, an {M6800}
processor and an old television.
He then went on to work for {Plessey Telecommunications}, and
D.G. Nash Ltd (where he wrote software for intelligent
printers and a {multi-tasking} {operating system}), before
joining CERN, where he designed a program called 'Enquire',
which was never published, but formed the conceptual basis for
today's {World-Wide Web}.
In 1984, he took up a fellowship at CERN, and in 1989, he
wrote the first {World-Wide Web} {server}, "{httpd}", and the
first client, "WorldWideWeb" a {hypertext} browser/editor
which ran under {NEXTSTEP}. The program "WorldWideWeb" was
first made available within CERN in December, and on the
{Internet} as a whole in the summer of 1991.
In 1994, Tim joined the {Laboratory for Computer Science}
(LCS) at the {Massachusetts Institute of Technology} (MIT).
In 1999, he became the first holder of the {3Com} Founders
chair. He is also the author of "Weaving the Web", on the
past present and future of the Web.
In 2001, Tim was made a fellow of The Royal Society.
Tim is married to Nancy Carlson. They have two children, born
1991 and 1994.
(http://w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Longer.html).
(2001-06-17)