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'''Tim Berners-Lee''' is a British computer scientist. He invented the world wide web (www), a system used to access the internet via hyperlink documents. He is the founder and director of the World Wide Web Consortium ([[W3C]]), an open international organization dedicated in developing standards for the world wide web to ensure its long-term growth. He | '''Tim Berners-Lee''' is a British computer scientist. He invented the world wide web (www), a system used to organize and access information over the internet via hyperlink documents. He also developed the uniform resource identifier ([[URL]]), hypertext markup language ([[HTML]]) and hypertext transfer protocol ([[HTTP]]). He is the founder and director of the World Wide Web Consortium ([[W3C]]), an open international organization dedicated in developing standards for the world wide web to ensure its long-term growth. Tim is also a director of the Web Science Research Initiative and the World Wide Web Foundation. | ||
He is a senior researcher and holder of the 3Com Founders Chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and head of the Decentralized Information Group (DIG). He is also a professor at the Electronics and Computer Science Department at the University of Southampton in United Kingdom.<ref>[http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/05/the-first-website-ever-made/ The First Website Ever Made]</ref> <ref>[http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Overview.html#Bio Tim Berners-Lee Bio]</ref> <ref>[http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/draper-prize.html Tim Berners-Lee receives Draper Prize]</ref> | |||
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Tim Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist. He invented the world wide web (www), a system used to organize and access information over the internet via hyperlink documents. He also developed the uniform resource identifier (URL), hypertext markup language (HTML) and hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP). He is the founder and director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an open international organization dedicated in developing standards for the world wide web to ensure its long-term growth. Tim is also a director of the Web Science Research Initiative and the World Wide Web Foundation. He is a senior researcher and holder of the 3Com Founders Chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and head of the Decentralized Information Group (DIG). He is also a professor at the Electronics and Computer Science Department at the University of Southampton in United Kingdom.[1] [2] [3]