Speaker Profile...
- Sir Tim Berners-Lee
- Director
World Wide Web Consortium - Sir "Tim" Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA is a British engineer and computer scientist and MIT professor credited with inventing 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 an HTTP client and server via the Internet.
Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees 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 April 2009, he was elected as a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, based in Washington, D.C.
Speaker Programme Listings...
| Author | Title | Description | Category | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sir Tim Berners-Lee | The future of the Internet | Where will the Internet go next?, What impact will the internet have on organisations, society and individuals... In a rare British Computer Society (BCS) interview Tim sets out his thoughts... With kind permission of the BCS.... | Technology |  |