Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee


Name: Tim Berners-Lee

Born: June 8, 1955 in London, England

Computer related contributions

• Invented the World Wide Web (WWW).
• Proposed hypertext.
• Created the first website.
• Founded the World Wide Web Consortium.

Publications

• The World Wide Web
• Weaving the Web
• World-Wide Web: Information Universe

Honors and awards

• In 2017, Berners-Lee received the Turing Award, the most prestigious honor in computer science, with a $1 million prize contributed by Google.
• One of only six members of the World Wide Web Hall of Fame.
• Won the Kilby Foundation's "Young Innovator of the Year" Award.
• Received also the Software System Award from the Association for Computing Machinery.
• Awarded with an honorary doctorate from the University of Essex.
• Time Magazine named Berners-Lee one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th century.
• Awarded an honorary degree from The Open University as Doctor of the University.
• Elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
• Received the Computer History Museum's Fellow Award, for his seminal contributions to the development of the World Wide Web.
• Named as the first recipient of Finland's Millennium Technology Prize, for inventing the World Wide Web.
• Appointed to the rank of Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (the second-highest class within this Order that entails a knighthood) by Queen Elizabeth II.
• Presented with an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Lancaster University.
• Named Greatest Briton of 2004.
• Received the Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award.
• Received the Order of Merit, becoming one of only 24 living members entitled to hold the honour, and to use the post-nominals "O.M." after their name.
• Awarded the 2008 IEEE/RSE Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Award, for "conceiving and further developing the World Wide Web".
• Awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Manchester.
• Awarded an honorary doctorate by the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
• Elected member of the United States National Academy of Sciences.
• Received the Webby Award for Lifetime Achievement.
• Awarded an honorary doctorate by the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
• One of the first three recipients of the Mikhail Gorbachev award for "The Man Who Changed the World".
• Awarded with an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Harvard University.
• Inducted into IEEE Intelligent Systems' AI's Hall of Fame for the "significant contributions to the field of AI and intelligent systems".
• Inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame by the Internet Society.