Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, HTML, the URL system and HTTP. He proposed an information management system on 12 March 1989 and implemented the first successful communication between an HTTP client and server over the Internet in mid-November of that year, devising and implementing the first web browser and web server and helping foster the web's subsequent development. He is founder and emeritus director of the World Wide Web Consortium, which oversees the web's continued development, co-founded the World Wide Web Foundation with Rosemary Leith, and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004 for his pioneering work.
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AwardCharles Stark Draper Prize 3 AwardKnight Commander of the Order of the British Empire 3 AwardEduard-Rhein Technology Award 3 Awardhonorary doctorate of the Open University 3 AwardMacArthur Fellows Program 3 AwardFellow of the Royal Society 3 AwardLord Lloyd of Kilgerran Award 3 AwardUNESCO Niels Bohr Medal 3 AwardFellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering 3 AwardMillennium Technology Prize 3 AwardOrder of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 1st Class 3 AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Liège 3 AwardW. Wallace McDowell Award 3 Awardhonorary doctorate of Lancaster University 3 Awardhonorary doctorate of the University Polytechnic of Madrid 3 AwardComputer History Museum Fellow 3 AwardPrincess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research 3 AwardRoyal Designer for Industry 3 Awardhonorary doctor of Harvard University 3 AwardInternet Archive Hero award 3 AwardQueen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering 3 AwardIEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award 3 Awardhonorary doctor of the Open University of Catalonia 3 AwardFellow of the Royal Society of Arts 3 AwardFellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 3 AwardDennis Gabor Medal and Prize 3 AwardFellow of the British Computer Society 3 AwardOII Lifetime Achievement Award 3 Awardhonorary doctor of Yale University 3 AwardSir Frank Whittle Medal 3 AwardACM Software System Award 3 Connections
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also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web
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Timothy John Berners-Lee (1955-06-08) 8 June 1955 (age 71), London, England
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For inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and the fundamental protocols and algorithms allowing the Web to scale.
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Berners-Lee discussed the need for semantics in the Web at the first International World Wide Web Conference in 1994.
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