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==Career History== | ==Career History== | ||
Berners-Lee started his career as a programmer after his graduation in 1976 at Plessey Controls Limited, a major telecommunications equipment manufacturer in Poole, Dorset UK. After two years, he joined D.G. Nash Limited wherein he wrote a typesetting software and a multitasking operating system for intelligent printers. In 1980, he served as | Berners-Lee started his career as a programmer after his graduation in 1976 at Plessey Controls Limited, a major telecommunications equipment manufacturer in Poole, Dorset UK. He worked on bar coding, message relays, and typesetting software. After two years, he joined D.G. Nash Limited wherein he wrote a typesetting software and a multitasking operating system for intelligent printers.<ref> | ||
[http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Longer.html Tim Berners-Lee Longer Bio]</ref> | |||
In 1980, he served as consultant software engineer at the Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucleaire (CERN), the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. During his 6 months consultancy job at CERN, he wrote Enquire-his first hypertext system which was named after an old book he found at his parents house entiled, "Enquire Within upon Everything." He used Enquire to store information, track all the researchers and projects associated with CERN. The program was never published for commercial use however, the program became the foundation of the future development of the world wide web. <ref>[http://www.livinginternet.com/w/wi_lee.htm Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau, and the World Wide Web]</ref> | |||
In 1981, Tim served as Technical Design Lead at John Poole's Image Computer Systems for four years. He worked on real-time control firmware, graphics, communications software, generic macro language. In 1984, he returned to CERN and worked on distributed real-time systems for scientific data acquisition, system control and FASTBUS system software. He also designed a heterogeneous remote procedure call system.<ref> | |||
[http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Longer.html Tim Berners-Lee Longer Bio]</ref> | |||
On March 1989, Tim submitted a project proposal to his superior, Mike Sendall at CERN to develop an information management system that will allow an automatic information sharing using a global hypertext system among scientists in different institutes and universities worldwide. Sendall commented that the proposal was "vague but interesting."<ref> | |||
[http://info.cern.ch/Proposal.html Tim Berners-Lee's proposal]</ref> | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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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]
Personal Information
Tim Berners Lee was born June 8, 1955 in Southwest London, England. His parents Conway Berners-Lee and Mary Lee Woods were both mathematicians and part of the team who built the Machester Mark 1, one of the earliest commercial computers.He currently resides in Lexington, Massachusetts with his wife Nancy and their two children-Alice and Ben.[4]
Education
Tim went to Wandsworth's Emanuel School. He received his degree in physics from the Queen's College at Oxford University.
Career History
Berners-Lee started his career as a programmer after his graduation in 1976 at Plessey Controls Limited, a major telecommunications equipment manufacturer in Poole, Dorset UK. He worked on bar coding, message relays, and typesetting software. After two years, he joined D.G. Nash Limited wherein he wrote a typesetting software and a multitasking operating system for intelligent printers.[5]
In 1980, he served as consultant software engineer at the Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucleaire (CERN), the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. During his 6 months consultancy job at CERN, he wrote Enquire-his first hypertext system which was named after an old book he found at his parents house entiled, "Enquire Within upon Everything." He used Enquire to store information, track all the researchers and projects associated with CERN. The program was never published for commercial use however, the program became the foundation of the future development of the world wide web. [6]
In 1981, Tim served as Technical Design Lead at John Poole's Image Computer Systems for four years. He worked on real-time control firmware, graphics, communications software, generic macro language. In 1984, he returned to CERN and worked on distributed real-time systems for scientific data acquisition, system control and FASTBUS system software. He also designed a heterogeneous remote procedure call system.[7]
On March 1989, Tim submitted a project proposal to his superior, Mike Sendall at CERN to develop an information management system that will allow an automatic information sharing using a global hypertext system among scientists in different institutes and universities worldwide. Sendall commented that the proposal was "vague but interesting."[8]