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Timothy John Berners-Lee is a britanic engineer and computer scientist born on June 8th 1955. He is mostly known for the invention of the Worl Wide Web. | Timothy John Berners-Lee is a britanic engineer and computer scientist born on June 8th 1955. He is mostly known for the invention of the Worl Wide Web. | ||
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|width="50%"| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinguished_Fellow_of_the_British_Computer_Society Distinguished fellowship of the British Computer Society (DFBCS)] | |||
|1995 | |||
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|width="50%"| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Arts Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA)] | |||
|2001 | |||
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|width="50%"| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)] | |width="50%"| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)] | ||
|2001 | |2001 | ||
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|width="50%"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empire Knight commander of the British Empire (KBE)] | |width="50%"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empire Knight commander of the British Empire (KBE)] | ||
|2004 | |2004 | ||
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|width="50%"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_Award Turing Award] | |width="50%"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_Award Turing Award] | ||
|2016 | |2016 | ||
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Apart from those distinctions, he received honors from universities such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Manchester Manchester], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University Harvard] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_University Yale]. | Apart from those distinctions, he received honors from universities such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Manchester Manchester], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University Harvard] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_University Yale]. | ||
== Net Neutrality == | |||
[[Tim Berners Lee]] is a defender of the net neutrality which he considers to be a basic human network rights. [https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/long-live-the-web/] | |||
He also leads the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) which aims to decrease internet access price worldwide in order to increase access and to prevent the widening of the digital divide. [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/07/google-berners-lee-alliance-broadband-africa] | |||
== Sources == | == Sources == | ||
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/11/tim-berners-lee-web-inventor-save-internet | |||
https://webfoundation.org/about/sir-tim-berners-lee/ | |||
Latest revision as of 09:39, 22 September 2017
Timothy John Berners-Lee is a britanic engineer and computer scientist born on June 8th 1955. He is mostly known for the invention of the Worl Wide Web.
Biography
Berners-Lee was born in London, England, United Kingdom, he is the son of Mary Lee Woods and Conway Berners-Lee. His parents worked on the first commercially built computer, the Ferranti Mark 1. He studied at The Queen's College, Oxford, from 1973 to 1976, where he received a first-class bachelor of arts degree in physics. Berners-Lee was first married to Nancy Carlson in 1990; they had two children and divorced in 2011. In 2014, he married Rosemary Leith who is director of the World Wide Web Foundation and a fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center.
Distinctions
Sir Berners-Lee received several awards and honors.
Apart from those distinctions, he received honors from universities such as Manchester, Harvard and Yale.
Net Neutrality
Tim Berners Lee is a defender of the net neutrality which he considers to be a basic human network rights. [1]
He also leads the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) which aims to decrease internet access price worldwide in order to increase access and to prevent the widening of the digital divide. [2]
Sources
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/11/tim-berners-lee-web-inventor-save-internet