Sir Timothy Berners-Lee

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Sir Timothy Berners-Lee

• By Tonicia Keeton

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The Early Years

• Timothy Berners-Lee was born 6/8/55
• He was born in London, England
• He graduated from Emanuel school in 1973
• Tim graduated from the Queens College at Oxford
  University in 1976 with a BA in Physics
• While there he made a computer with nothing but a
  old television, M6800, TTL gates, and a soldering
  iron

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A Working Man

• After his graduation he gained a job at Plessey
  Telecommunications Limited
• In 1978 Tim left to gain employment at D.G. Nash
  Limited
• While at D.G. Nash Limited he wrote type setting
  software for intelligent printers and
  multitasking operating systems
• After his time at D.G. Nash Ltd., he worked as an
  independent consultant for a year and six months

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Working Man continued

• This period included the six months where he was
  a consultant software engineer at CERN
• While he was there he created enquire for his
  own private and personal use
• In 1981 Tim worked for John Pooles Image
  Computer Systems Limited with technical design
  responsibility until the year of 1984
• In 1984 Tim joined CERN

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Genius At Work

• In 1989 Tim proposed global hypertext project
  also known as World Wide Web
• 1994 Tim founded the company World Wide Web
  Consortium at the Laboratory for Computer Science
  in MIT
• 1999 he was the first holder at 3com Chair at LCS
• He later wrote the book Weaving the Web

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Awards Received

• 1995
• Young innovator of the year award
• Honorary Prix Ars Electronica
• Co recipient of ACM software system award
• 1997
• IEEE Koji Kobayashi computers and communications
  award
• Dudell Medal
• MCI Computerworld/ Smithsonian Award for
  leadership in innovation
• The International Communication Institutes
  Columbus prize
• OBE

• 1998
• Charles Babbage Award
• The Mountbatten Medal of the National Electronics
  Council
• PC Magazine lifetime achievement Award in
  technology
• MacArthur Fellowship Award
• Edward Rhein technology award
• 1999
• Time dubbed Tim one of 100 greatest minds of the
  century
• 2000
• Paul Evan Peters Award
• Electronic Freedom Foundations pioneer award
• George R. Stibitz computer pioneer award
• Special award for outstanding contribution

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Awards Received continued

• 2001
• Sir Frank Whittle Medal
• 2002
• Japan prize
• Albert Medal
• 2004
• Knighted July 16, 2004
• Millennium Technology prize

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Work Cited Page

• http//www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Longer.html
• http//www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/lee.html
• Tim Berners-Lee with Mark Fischetti, Weaving the
  Web, Harper San Francisco, 1999