A graduate of Oxford University (BA Physics first class, 1976), Tim now holds the 3Com Founders chair at the Laboratory for Computer Science ( LCS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He directs the World Wide Web Consortium, an open forum of companies and organizations with the mission to lead the Web to its full potential.
With a background of system design in real-time communications and text processing software development, in 1989 he invented the World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing, while working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory. He wrote the first web client (browser-editor) and server, and the original HTML, HTTP and URI specifications, in 1990. Awards include ACM Software Systems Award (1995), ACM Kobayashi award (1996), the IEEE Computer Society Wallace McDowell Award (1996), Computers and Communication (C&C) award (1996); OBE (1997), Charles Babbage award (1998), a MacArthur Fellowship and The Eduard Rhein technology award (1998). Honorary degrees from Parsons School of Design, New York (D.F.A., 1996), Southampton University (D.Sc., 1996), and Essex University (D.U., 1998), Southern Cross University (1998). Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society, Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers. Publications include:
T. Berners-Lee "Universal Resource Identifiers in WWW", RFC1630, 1994/6
Berners-Lee, T.J., et al, "World-Wide Web: Information Universe", Electronic Publishing: Research, Applications and Policy, 1992/4.
Berners-Lee, T.J., et al, "The World Wide Web," Communications of the ACM, 1994/8.
T. Berners-Lee, L. Masinter, M. McCahill, "Universal Resource Locators (URL)", RFC1738, 1994/12
T. Berners-Lee, D. Connolly "Hypertext markup Language - 2.0", RFC1866, 1996/5
R. Fielding, J. Gettys, J. Mogul, H. Frystyk, L. Masinter, P. Leach, T. Berners-Lee "Hypertext Transfer Protocol HTTP 1.1", RFC 2616, 1999/6
Tim Berners-Lee, Dan Connolly, Ralph R. Swick "Web Architecture: Describing and Exchanging Data", W3C Note, 1999/6/7
Berners-Lee, T., Weaving the Web, Harper SanFrancisco, 1999
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