W3C20 Anniversary Symposium

29 October 2014, Santa Clara, CA, USA

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In October 1994, Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to lead the Web to its full potential. To mark the anniversary this year, W3C invites the Web community to a 3-hour Symposium on the Future of the Web to discuss how the Web community can:

Create a more beautiful Web to enable our creative expression;
Extend the Web to the many devices people use to improve their lives;
Support trusted communications, secure and private; and
Empower all people to use and contribute to the Web, including support for diverse languages and accessibility.

The Web turned 25 in 2014. Register today and join us at W3C20 for a look at the future Web.

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→ Celebrate 25 years of the Web at @w3c's 20th anniversary Symposium: the Future of the Web, 29 Oct Santa Clara http://www.w3.org/20/ #w3c20
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→ Join us and @timberners_lee at W3C's 20th anniversary Symposium: Future of the Web. 29 Oct 2014, Santa Clara http://www.w3.org/20/ #w3c20
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About Tim Berners-Lee

The inventor of the World Wide Web and one of Time Magazine’s ‘100 Most Important People of the 20th Century’, Sir Tim Berners-Lee is a scientist and academic whose work has transformed almost every aspect of our lives.

Having invented the Web in 1989 while working at CERN and subsequently working to ensure it was made freely available to all, Berners-Lee is now dedicated to enhancing and protecting the Web’s future. He is Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, a global Web standards organization he founded in 1994 to lead the Web to its full potential. He is also a Founding Director of the World Wide Web Foundation, which seeks to ensure the Web serves humanity by establishing it as a global public good and a basic right. In 2012 he co-founded the Open Data Institute (ODI) which advocates for Open Data in the UK and globally. Sir Tim has advised a number of governments and corporations on ongoing digital strategies. A graduate of Oxford University, Sir Tim presently holds academic posts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab), (USA) and the University of Southampton (UK.)

Sir Tim has been the recipient of multiple accolades. These include receiving the first Queen’ Elizabeth Prize for Engineering in 2013, election as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009 and being knighted by H.M. Queen Elizabeth in 2004. He has received more than 15 honorary doctorates, is a member of the Internet Hall of Fame, and was awarded the Finland Millennium Prize in 2004. In 2007, Berners-Lee was awarded the UK’s Order of Merit – a personal gift of the monarch limited to just 24 living recipients. In 2012, he played a starring role in the opening ceremony for the Olympics, where, in front of an audience of some 900 million, he tweeted: “This is for everyone.”

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