Tim Berners-Lee
Berners-Lee, Tim

    The man who invented the web while
   working at the Center for European Particle Research (CERN).
   Now Director of the web Consortium.

   Tim Berners-Lee graduated from the Queen's College at Oxford
   University, England, 1976.  Whilst there he built his first
   computer with a soldering iron, TTL gates, an M6800
   processor and an old television.

   He then went on to work for Plessey Telecommunications, and
   D.G. Nash Ltd (where he wrote software for intelligent
   printers and a multi-tasking operating system), before
   joining CERN, where he designed a program called 'Enquire',
   which was never published, but formed the conceptual basis for
   today's web.

   In 1984, he took up a fellowship at CERN, and in 1989, he
   wrote the first web server, "httpd", and the
   first client, "WorldWideWeb" a hypertext browser/editor
   which ran under NEXTSTEP.  The program "WorldWideWeb" was
   first made available within CERN in December, and on the
   Internet as a whole in the summer of 1991.

   In 1994, Tim joined the Laboratory for Computer Science
   (LCS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
   In 1999, he became the first holder of the 3Com Founders
   chair.  He is also the author of "Weaving the Web", on the
   past present and future of the Web.

   In 2001, Tim was made a fellow of The Royal Society.

   Tim is married to Nancy Carlson. They have two children, born
   1991 and 1994.

   <http://w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Longer.html>.

   (2001-06-17)