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Tim Berners-Lee Biography
Computer Scientist
Tim Berners-Lee is the primary inventor of the World Wide Web, the system of text links and multimedia capabilities that made the Internet accessible to mass audiences. Lee wrote the original Web software himself in 1990 and made it available on the Internet in 1991. He joined MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science in 1994 and remains a leading authority on Internet issues. His 1999 book Weaving the Web described the Web's birth and growth. In 2003, Queen Elizabeth II announced that Berners-Lee would be made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) for his work on the Web.
Extra credit: In 2004, Berners-Lee was awarded the first Millennium Technology Prize, a Finland-based award for excellence which carries a cash prize of one million Euros.
Other scientists of Berners-Lee's era: Mathematician Philip Emeagwali, DNA pioneers James Watson and Francis Crick, and offbeat physicist Richard Feynman.
Blog posts mentioning Tim Berners-Lee:
Four Good Links
Tim Berners-Lee
His own very casual home page, with a bio and an excellent FAQ of his views
Knighthood for Internet Creator
December 2003 report from CNN, with good background on Berners-Lee
Timbl's Blog
Very technical blog with remarks on his current projects
Time 100: Tim Berners-Lee
Time magazine anoints him as one of the top thinkers of the 20th century
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Best Known As
Inventor of the World Wide Web