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Tim Berners-Lee

Berners-Lee at the TED 2009 Conference in Long Beach, California
Personal information
Birth date8 June 1955(age 56)
Place of birthLondon, England, UK
ResidenceMassachusetts, U.S.
NationalityBritish
EducationThe Queen's College, Oxford
OccupationComputer scientist
EmployerWorld Wide Web Consortium and University of Southampton
Known forInventing the World Wide Web
TitleProfessor, Knight
ReligionUnitarian Universalism
ParentsConway Berners-Lee
Mary Lee Woods

Tim Berners-Lee

Year2004
InventionWorld Wide Web
PresenterTarja Halonen
PreviousFirst recipient, no previous laureates
NextShuji Nakamura

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Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, (born 8 June 1955), also known as "TimBL", is a British physicist, computer scientist and MIT professor, credited for his invention of the World Wide Web, making the first proposal for it in March 1989. On 25 December 1990, with the help of Robert Cailliau and a young student at CERN, he implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet.

Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversaw the Web's continued development. He is also the founder of the World Wide Web Foundation, and is a senior researcher and holder of the 3Com Founders Chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).

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. In 2004, Berners-Lee was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his pioneering work. In April 2009, he was elected as a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, based in Washington, D.C.

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7.47 min. | 4.67 user rating		 www.ted.com 20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he's building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at www.ted.com
16.85 min. | 4.71 user rating		 How did the great invention of the 20th Century come about and who is Tim Buerners-Lee, the English scientist who passed his great invention on to humanity?
2.17 min. | 4.73 user rating		 ...comments on Net Neutrality and the Freedom of the Internet. From Wikipedia: Sir Timothy "Tim" John Berners-Lee (born June 8, 1955 in London) is the inventor of the World Wide Web and director of the World Wide Web Consortium, which oversees its continued development. Informally, in technical circles, he is sometimes called "TimBL" or "TBL". FIGHT FOR THE FREEDOM OF THE INTERNET! GO TO: www.savetheinternet.com
3.80 min. | 4.87 user rating		 www.ted.com At TED2009, Tim Berners-Lee called for "raw data now" -- for governments, scientists and institutions to make their data openly available on the web. At TED University in 2010, he shows a few of the interesting results when the data gets linked up.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at www.ted.com
6.07 min. | 4.82 user rating
The Virtual Revolution Episode 1: Explores the origins, history and impact of the Internet and World Wide Web (WWW). From its Cold-War military origins in the 1950;s, through its evolution as a meeting place of the 1960s hippy/libertarian movement, to its modern-day incarnation through the genius of Tim Berners-Lee and other like minded pioneers. The Internet/WWW is seen as powering the 2nd Industrial Revolution; its impact on humanity as profound as Guttenbergs Printing Press, or the power of Steam to the original Industrial Revolution.
9.98 min. | 4.81 user rating		 The Virtual Revolution Episode 1: Explores the origins, history and impact of the Internet and World Wide Web (WWW). From its Cold-War military origins in the 1950;s, through its evolution as a meeting place of the 1960s hippy/libertarian movement, to its modern-day incarnation through the genius of Tim Berners-Lee and other like minded pioneers. The Internet/WWW is seen as powering the 2nd Industrial Revolution; its impact on humanity as profound as Guttenbergs Printing Press, or the power of Steam to the original Industrial Revolution.
10.03 min. | 4.90 user rating		 Tim Berners-Lee, considerado o "pai" da web, comenta quais são os príncipios da "Web Semântica", chamada por alguns analistas de Web 3.0 prevista para estar em prática a partir de 2010. Vídeo com legenda em português. Equipe www.buscas.com (Brasil)
1.32 min. | 3.9 user rating		 A brief video about the evolution of computers from the abacus to the Roadrunner. I do not own the rights to any of the video clips, music or images used. As they are being used for educational purposes I hope this is not a problem. Song: Ecstasy of Gold Artist: Ennio Morricone Album: Ennio Morricone Remixes Volume 2 Komrad Zuse's Z3, ENIAC, CSIRAC, UNIVAC 1, NORC, Jack Kilby, Integrated Circuit, COBOL, Grace Hopper, Spacewar, Steve Russell, Moore's Law, IBM, Floppy Disk, Intel, Microprocessor, ATARI, Pong, Superpaint, Microcomputer, BASIC, Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Microsoft, CRAY-1, Tron, Apple Computer, Mouse, Macintosh, Tim Berners-Lee, World Wide Web, Internet, Pentium, Roadrunner, Atari 800-XL
4.18 min. | 4.94 user rating		 Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the World Wide Web, introduces the following set of cigarette cards that is currently on eBay #230170088614: stores.ebay.com Manufacturer: WA & AC Churchman Series Title: Modern Wonders Year Of Issue: 1938 Card Size: medium Complete Set: yes Number of Cards Offered: 48 cards Includes: The Short Mayo-Composite Aircraft,The Flying Triangle,The Westland-Hill Pterodactyl,Sealed Flying Suit,Detecting Unseen Enemies,The Queen Mary at Southampton,Gyro-Stabiliser,Bathysphere,All-Electric Signal Box,Desert Motor Service,Dynasphere,Modern, Fire-Escape,Gigantic Steam Roller,The Gyrotiller,Giant Electric Shovel,The World's Longest Bridge,America's Largest Concrete Arch,The Boulder Dam,Monster Canal Lift,A 500 000 Volt Flash,Ignitron Tube,High-Power Grid-Glow Tube,Million-Volt X-Ray Tube,High, Voltage Test House,Gigantic Electric Lamp,Cleaning Air By Electricity,Magnet That Lifts 46 Tons,Huge Electro-Magnet,The Stroboglow,Welding at 7000 D Fahrenheit,Benzol Recovery Plant,Huge Triple Expansion Pumping Engine,6000 Ton Forging Press,Huge, Vertical Boring Mill,Pair of Giant Motors,200-inch Mirror,Greenwich's Largest Telescope,Giant Plate-Glass Polishing Machine,30 Ton Treasury Door,Modern Cinema Operating Box,Automatic Telephone Exchange,The Speaking Clock,Television Studio,Micro-Ray, Wireless Station,Super Calculating Machine,First Computer,Weighing the Earth,Eye-Prints,Slot Machine Which Plays Bridge, 1930's Technology,Futuristic Machines,Science
3.47 min. | 3.95 user rating

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