Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee was born June 8, 1955, in London, England. As British computer scientist, he was credited as the inventor of the World Wide Web. After graduating Oxford in 1976, He designed computer software for two years at Plessey Telecommunications Ltd. While working at CERN, Berners-Lee developed a program for himself that could store information in files that contained (“links”)—a technique that became known as hypertext. Over the years, Tim has received the first Queen’ Elizabeth Prize for Engineering in 2013, was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009. He has received over 10 honorary doctorates, is a member of the Internet Hall of Fame, and was awarded the Finland Millennium Prize in 2004, and the A.M. Turing Award — often called ‘computing’s Nobel Prize’ — in 2016. Tim Berner-Lee has furthered the world today as we know it, creating the one thing we all know and love as the world-wide-web.
