School Degree Date
Oxford University BA (Physics, 1st Class Hons) 1976
Employer Position Beginning Ending Plessey Telecommunications Ltd. Assistant Engineer June 1976 Dec 1976 Engineer Dec 1976 1977 Senior Engineer 1977 1977 Principal Engineer 1977 1978 D.G. Nash Ltd. Software Engineer 1978 Dec. 1979 Consultant to: January 1980 June 1981 Hugh Pushman Associates General Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) European Semiconductor Equipment Corporation (ESEC) European Particle Physics Laboratory (CERN) Image Computer Systems Ltd Director July 1981 August 1984 CERN Fellow September 1984 Feb 1987 Staff member Feb 1987 Sept 1994
Rank Beginning Ending
Research Scientist Sept. 1994 June 1995 Principal Research Scientist June 1995 present
Council for Educational Technology Feb 1996-
U.S. DoE NIM Committee, Software Working Group 1984? 1987? Program Committee, First International World Wide Nov. 93 May 94 Web Conference, Geneva Program Committee, Second International World Wide May 94 Nov. 94 Web Conference, Chicago Program Committee, Third International World Wide Nov. 94 April 95 Web Conference, Darmstadt Chair, Program Committee, Fourth International Dec. 94 Dec. 95 World Wide Web Conference, Geneva International World Wide Web Conference Steering Oct. 94 present Committee
Seybold electronic publishing award 1994 On-line London 1995 Prix Ars Wlectronica, Honorary "Nike" 1995 Kilby "Young Innovators" Award 1995
Networked Information Systems, for CERN computing summer school,
Italy, 1989.
Guest appreances in MIT 6.001, MIT Sloan Scool,
Berners-Lee T.J., et al, The World Wide Web, Communications of the ACM, August 1994.
(All other journal publications were related to some conference
or other and are listed below)
Berners-Lee, T.J., "Experience with Remote Procedure Call in Data Acquisition and Control", IEEE Trans. on Nuclear. Science, Vol. NS-34 No. 4 (August 1987)
Berners-Lee, T.J., CERN, "Programming Distributed Systems: Remote Procedure Call", VMEbus in Research, C. Eck and C. Parkman (eds.), North Holland, 1988
Berners-Lee, T.J., et. al., "World-Wide Web: an Information Infrastructure for High-Energy Physics", Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering for High energy Physics, La Londe, France, January 1992. New Computing Techniques in Physics Research, World Scientific, Singapore. pp157-164.
Berners-Lee, T.J, Cailliau, R., and Groff, J-F, "The World-Wide Web", Computer Networks and ISDN Systems 25 (1992) 454-459. North-Holland
Berners-Lee, T.J. and Cailliau, R., CERN, "The World-Wide Web", in proceedings of the conference "Computing in High Energy Physics", Annecy, France, 1992. Yellow report, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
Berners-Lee, T.J, et. al., ... Proceedings of the INET conference San Francisco (1994?) @@
Berners-Lee, T, et al., "The VALET-Plus, a VMEbus based microcomputer for physics applications", IEEE trans. nucl. sci. : NS34 (1987) - 835-839
Burckhart, D, et al., "Software support for the CERN Host Interface", Proceedings of the International conference on the impact of digital microelectronics and microprocessors on particle physics, Trieste, Italy, 28 - 30 Mar 1988
McLaren, R A, et al., "The CERN host interface and the optical interconnect", ibid.
Perrin, Y, et al., "The VALET-Plus embedded in large physics experiments", Proceedings of the ESONE VMEbus in research conference, Zurich, Switzerland, 11 - 13 Oct. 1988, Ed. Eck & Parkman, (North Holland)
McLaren, R A, et al., "Connecting Digital Equipment Corporation VAXes to the VMEbus", ibid.
McLaren, R A, et al., ; "The CERN host interface", IEEE trans. nucl. sci. : NS35 (1988) - 321-323
Adye, T., et al., "On-line communications in the DELPHI experiment", Comput. phys. commun. : 57 (1989) - 466-474
Heyes, G, et al., "The integration of VAX and VALET-plus data acquisition software", IEEE trans. nucl. sci. : 36 (1989) - 1572-1576
Mueller, H, et al., "The CHI : a new Fastbus interface and processor", IEEE trans. nucl. sci. : 37 (1990) - 361-364
Worldwide Hypermedia, closing keynote, European Conference on Hypertext (ECHT94), Edinburgh, Scotland, Sept. 1994
The World Wide Web, Invited plenary, Second International World Wide Web Conference, Chicago, Nov. 1994; also at Nearnet annual seminar, 1994; also Northeastern University, Dec. 1994.
March 1994, Future directions for networked information,
MIT Media Lab
DAGS 95
National On-line Meeting 95
DECUS 95
Secret, A, Supervision in 1 year technical studentship, CERN, 1993/94
Kahle, Brewster, CEO, Wide Area Information Systems Inc.
Rutkowski, Anthony, Executive Director, Internet Society.
Scheifler, Robert, President, X Consortium.
My earlier work in communications protocols, graphics, text processing, control systems, operating systems, data acquisition systems, information systems and software interfaces provided useful experience but has had limited global impact. Perhaps the real time heterogeneous remote procedure call project, apart from being of use to some physicists, demonstrated the use of RPC-like techniques to problems of programming language and platform diversity as well as distributed operation, and removed the traditional stigma of inefficiency from RPC. However, the World-Wide Web (W3) project has had a much more significant impact than these.
The web was designed to be an interactive world of knowledge which would allow people and machines to communicate. It was designed to scale, in that isolated webs could be linked, where a linking relationship required expression, with only incremental effort. This property has technically enabled the recent global growth, once started. The initial deployment was nurtured by use in the design of standards from various communities, and by a flexibility which enabled not only the evolution of the system, but also the smooth transition from earlier systems.
The result has demonstrated both the possibility of making hardware and operating system independent design, and seriously scaleable applications. The independence has allowed the hiding of technical details burdensome to users; the scalability has allowed unchecked growth. From the introduction of the first public W3 server, the load on that server has grown steadily by a factor of 10 every year over three years. The number of servers is now in the tens of thousands. The web has for many become the visible part of, and justification for, the Internet. The extent of the web can be learned through the tabloid press.
Nevertheless, the initial design goals have yet to be achieved. Unlike the original program, most W3 client programs are passive browsers, rather than interactive editors of knowledge. For this reason, and due to the lack of servers supporting interaction, people are not in equilibrium with the knowledge world, but rely on a cycle involving irrelevant human administrators to contribute. To control access, and to enable commercial transactions, security protocols must be defined, along with the trust systems which they implement. Sophisticated algorithms for the replication, propagation and caching of information are essential to efficiently support the growth rate. The web must be able to convey varying notions of intellectual property, appropriate readership, and payment.
Essential to the web through these changes is its continued
interoperability.
To preserve this through its rapid evolution will require all the flexibility
of the original design and more; the collaboration of very disparate groups;
and systems architecture of great foresight.
In the next 5 to 10 years,
by directing the W3 Consortium of interested companies,
by managing the W3C group in LCS,
by working with the researchers in this and other institutes,
I hope to be able to follow through from the invention of a system to
assuring an information infrastructure which will give us socially and
scientifically all we require.
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