He attended Sheen Mount Primary School, and then went on to attend south-west London's Emanuel School from 1969 to 1973, at the time a direct grant grammar school, which became an independent school in 1975. His parents were computer scientists who worked on the first commercially built computer, the Ferranti Mark 1. īerners-Lee was born on 8 June 1955 in London, England, the eldest of the four children of Mary Lee Woods and Conway Berners-Lee his brother Mike is a professor of ecology and climate change management. He received the 2016 Turing Award 'for inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and the fundamental protocols and algorithms allowing the Web to scale'. He tweeted 'This is for everyone' which appeared in LED lights attached to the chairs of the audience. He was honoured as the 'Inventor of the World Wide Web' during the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in which he appeared working with a vintage NeXT Computer. He was named in Time magazine's list of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th century and has received a number of other accolades for his invention. In 2004, Berners-Lee was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his pioneering work.

In April 2009, he was elected as Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences. He currently directs the W3 Consortium, developing tools and standards to further the Web's potential. He devised and implemented the first Web browser and Web server, and helped foster the Web's subsequent explosive development. He is a founder and president of the Open Data Institute and is currently an advisor at social network MeWe. In 2011, he was named as a member of the board of trustees of the Ford Foundation. He is a director of the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) and a member of the advisory board of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. He is a senior researcher and holder of the 3Com founder's chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). He co-founded (with his then wife-to-be Rosemary Leith) the World Wide Web Foundation. īerners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees the continued development of the Web. Berners-Lee proposed an information management system on 12 March 1989, then implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet in mid-November. He is a Professorial Fellow of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA DFBCS (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (2009)

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