Tim Berners-Lee

Sir Timothy Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989.
He founded and directs the World Wide Consortium (W3C) the forum for technical development of the Web.
He founded the Web Foundation whose mission is that the WWW serves Humanity, and co-founded the Open Data Institute in London.
His research group at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (“CSAIL”) plans to re-decentralize the Web.
Tim spends a lot of time fighting for rights such as privacy, freedom and openness of the Web.
A graduate of Oxford University, Tim Berners-Lee invented the Web while at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory, in 1989.
He wrote the first web client and server in 1990.
His specifications of URLs, HTTP and HTML were refined as Web technology spread.
He is the 3Com Founders Professor of Engineering in the School of Engineering with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and CSAIL at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he also heads the Decentralized Information Group (DIG).
He is also a Professor in the Electronics and Computer Science Department at the University of Southampton, UK.
In 2011, he was named to the Board of Trustees of the Ford Foundation, a globally oriented private foundation with the mission of advancing human welfare.
He has promoted open government data globally and is a member of the UK’s Transparency Board.
He is President of London’s Open Data Institute.
In 2001, he became a Fellow of the Royal Society.
He has been the recipient of several international awards including the Japan Prize, the Prince of Asturias Foundation Prize, the Millennium Technology Prize and Germany’s Die Quadriga award.
In 2004, he was knighted by H.M.
Queen Elizabeth and in 2007 he was awarded the Order of Merit.
In 2009 he was elected a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences.
He is the author of “Weaving the Web”.