Tim Berners-Lee

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Tim Berners-Lee

• The man who invented the World Wide Web

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For just a minute, can you imagine life
without
http//www.aol.com, http//www.msn.com,
http//www.google.com,http//www.yahoo.com,http//
www.youtube.com,http//chicagotribune.com,www.face
book.com,www.myspace.com
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World Wide Web

• What is it?
• Per Berners-Lee a global hypertext system
• On the Web, you find
• Documents, Sounds, Videos, Information
• An open, nonpropriety, and free community
• What has it done?
• Popularized HTML
• Utilized the idea of URL
• Created, and built upon the idea of HTTP
  (HyperTextTransfer Protocol)
• CHANGED THE WAY WE LIVE, WORK, and INTERACT

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The man who created the World Wide Web

• Born June 8, 1955 in London, England
• Oxford Educated (Physics Major)
• While employed at CERN (the European
• Organization for Nuclear Research), he created
• the World Wide Web in 1991

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Major Accomplishments

• While at CERN in 1980, he created a program
  called Enquire, which was a basic hypertext
  system.
• Based on outline by Vannevar Bush from 1945
• Basically a system that links documents
• On August 6, 1991, Berners-Lee launched the first
  website http//info.cern.ch
• 3COM Founders Professor of Engineering in the
  School of Engineering with a joint appointment in
  the Department of Electrical Engineering and
  Computer Science at the Laboratory for Computer
  Science and Articficial Intelligence (CSAIL) at
  MIT
• Head of the Decentralized Information Group (DIG)
  at MIT
• Co-Director of the Web Science Reasearch
  Initiative (WSRI)
• Professor of Computer Science at Southampton ECS
• Director of the World Wide Web Consortium
• Became a fellow of the Royal Society in 2001,
  knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 2004, in 2007 was
  awareded the Order of Merit.

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Major Publications

• Weaving the Web
• by Tim Berners-Lee with Mark Fischetti
• The Future of the Web. Testimony before the
  United States House of Representatives Committee
  on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on
  Telecommunications and the Internet. (2007-03-01)
• Japan Prize commemorative lecture on the
  universality of the Web (2002)
• The web Past, Present and Future (1996)
• Hypertext and Our Collective Destiny , (1995)

http//www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/
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Past/Present/Future Influence on Education

• Web integration has lead to many new ways of
  learning
• Web 2.0 has amazing learning opportunities

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Glossary

• HTML hypertext markup language
• - Describes the structure of text-based
  information in a document by denoting certain
  text as links, headings, paragraphs, lists, and
  so on and to supplement that text with
  interactive forms, embedded images, and other
  objects. Basically, it is the language for
  encoding documents.
• HTTP Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
• - A communications protocol used for retrieving
  inter-linked text documents. It is a
  request/response standard between a client and a
  server. A client is the end-user, the server is
  the web site. Basically, it is the system for
  linking documents.
• WWW World Wide Web
• - A system of interlinked hypertext documents
  accessed via the Internet.
• URL Universal Resource Locator
• - Specifies where an identified resource is
  available and the mechanism for retrieving it
• -In popular language a URL is also referred to as
  a Web address. Basically, it is the system for
  addressing documents.

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3 Questions

• 1) What can students learn about the process of
  creating something brand new?
• 2) What could be changed/done differently about
  the World Wide Web?
• 3) What do you think will be the next
  technological advancement?

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References

• Books
• Friedman, Thomas. The World Is Flat. New York
  Picador, 2007.
• Magazine Articles
• Quittner, Joshua. "The IQ Meritocracy". TIME
  Magazine March 29, 1999.
• Wright, Robert. "The Man Who Invented The
  Internet". TIME Magazine May 19, 1997.
• Websites
• "Homepage". World Wide Web Consortium.
  01/20/2009 lthttp//www.w3.org/gt