Tim Berners-Lee is an English Physical Engineer, considered the father of the Web . His full and honorary name is Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee ; It is also known by the acronyms TimBL and TBL.
Biography
Childhood
He was born on 8 June as as 1955 in London , UK .
Youth
He received a degree in Engineering Physics in 1976 from Queen’s College, Oxford University . He is considered the Father of the Web .
Contributions in your Career
Faced with the need to distribute and exchange information about his research in a more effective way, Tim developed the ideas that are part of the Web. He and his group created what is known by its acronym in English: HTML ( HyperText Markup Language ) or Hypertext Label Language; the HTTP protocol ( HyperText Transfer Protocol ), and the URL ( Uniform Resource Locator ) system for locating objects on the web .
In 1988 , while working at the European Physics Laboratory for the Study of Particles (CERN), Tim Berners-Lee proposed a global hypertext project , which would become known as the World Wide Web ( www ) (literally, World Wide Web ) . Based on his previous project, called “Inquire”, the www was designed to allow people to work together by combining their knowledge in a web of hypertext documents. He wrote the first www server, “httpd”, and the first client, “WorldWideWeb”, a “what-you-see-is-what-you-get” hypertext browser / editor, which ran in the NeXTStep environment. . This work began in October of 1990, and the “WorldWideWeb” program was first available within CERN in December , and on the internet in the summer of 1991 .
Throughout 1991 and 1993 , Tim continued working on the design of the Web, coordinating user feedback on the Internet .
Tim Berners-Lee graduated from Queen’s College, Oxford University, England , in 1976 . While studying there, he built his first computer with a soldering iron, TTL gates, an M6800 processor, and an old television.
He worked for two years at Plessey Telecommunications Ltda. (Poole, Dorset, UK), a manufacturer of telecommunications equipment.
In 1978 , Tim left Plessey and went to work at DG Nash Ltda. (Ferndown, Dorset, UK), where he wrote, among other things, typographic software for smart printers, and a multitasking operations system.
From 1981 to 1984 , Tim worked at John Poole’s Image Computer Systems Ltd., with responsibility for technical design. In this work, he developed a real-time signature control system, graphics and communications software, and a generic macro language.
In 1994 , Tim founded the World Wide Web Consortium in what was then the Laboratory for Computer Science, which became the Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science in 2003 , at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since then, he has served as the director of the World Wide Web Consortium, an organization for the standardization of the Web, which develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guides, software, and tools) to bring the Web to its full potential.
Berners-Lee is currently Professor of Engineering at the School of Engineering, heads the Decentralized Information Group, and the World Wide Web Foundation .
He wrote, together with Mark Fischetti, the book “Weaving the Web”, which talks about the past, present and future of the Web.
Awards, recognitions, and decorations
- A Conference Room on AOL’s central campus is named after him.
- The University of Southampton was the first to recognize his contribution to developing the World Wide Web with an Honoris Causa degree in 1996 . He is also a Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society , an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Electrical Engineers and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- In 1997 he was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire; He has been a member of the Royal Society since 2001 .
- In 2002 he received the Prince of Asturias Award (he shared this award with Lawrence Roberts , Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf ) in the category of Scientific and Technical Research.
- Also in 2002, he was ranked among the 100 Greatest Brits of All Time by the British public in a poll conducted by the BBC , and he also won the Technology Festival Award in Telluride, Colorado.
- In May of 2006 he was appointed honorary member of the Royal Society of Arts .
- The 15 of April of 2004 he became the first winner of the award of the Millennium Technology by the World Wide Web.
- He received the rank of Knight Rider (the second highest in the Order of the British Empire) from Queen Elizabeth II on July 16 , 2004 .
- On July 21, 2004, he received the Honoris Causa degree of Doctor of Science from Lancaster University.
- The 27 of January of 2005 was named best British of the Year 2004 for his achievements and demonstration of key qualities British: “humility, determination and a keen sense of humor and adaptability” as said David Hempleman-Adams, a panelist.
- The 8 of January of 2007 was announced as the winner of the Charles Stark Draper Prize in 2007.
- On January 14, 2007 he was inducted into the British National Academy of Engineering.
- On June 13, 2007 he was awarded the Order of Merit of Great Britain .
- The 20 of maypole in 2008 he received the Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Award IEEE / RSE, to conceive and help develop the World Wide Web.
- On October 10, 2008 he received the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa from the Open University of Catalonia.
- The 21 of April of 2009 he received the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa from the Polytechnic University of Madrid .
- He is also Doctor Honoris Causa from the Free University of Amsterdam .
Other distinctions
- 1995 : Young Innovator of the Year Award, from the Kilby Foundation; Honorary Award Ars Electrónica.
- 1997 : IEEE Koji Kobayashi Award for Communications and Computing; Distinguished Service Award, from the Interactive Services Association; Columbus Award, from the International Institute of Communications.
- 1998 : Lifetime Achievement Award for Technical Excellence from PC Magazine .
- 1999 : Named “One of the 100 Greatest Minds of the Century” by Time Magazine .
- 2000 : Pioneer Award, from the Electronic Freedom Foundation; Special Award for Outstanding Contribution, from the World Television Forum .
- 2004 : Special Award, from the American Society for Information Science and Technology .
- 2005 : Common Wealth Award, for Distinguished Service in favor of Mass Communications; Die Quadriga Award; Lifetime Achievement Award from the Financial Times .
- 2007 : Lovelace Medal, from the British Computing Society .
- 2008 : Pathfinder Award, from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University .
- 2009 : Prize for the Work of a Lifetime, from the Webby Awards.