Tim Berners-Lee

person The man who invented the World-Wide Web while

working at the Center for European Particle Research (CERN).

Now Director of the World-Wide Web Consortium.

Tim Berners-Lee graduated from the Queen's College at Oxford

University, England, 1976. Whilst there he built his first

computer with a soldering iron, TTL gates, an M6800

processor and an old television.

He then went on to work for Plessey Telecommunications, and

D.G. Nash Ltd (where he wrote software for intelligent

printers and a multi-tasking operating system), before

joining CERN, where he designed a program called 'Enquire',

which was never published, but formed the conceptual basis for

today's World-Wide Web.

In 1984, he took up a fellowship at CERN, and in 1989, he

wrote the first World-Wide Web server, "httpd", and the

first client, "WorldWideWeb" a hypertext browser/editor

which ran under NEXTSTEP. The program "WorldWideWeb" was

first made available within CERN in December, and on the

Internet as a whole in the summer of 1991.

In 1994, Tim joined the Laboratory for Computer Science

(LCS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

In 1999, he became the first holder of the 3Com Founders

chair. He is also the author of "Weaving the Web", on the

past present and future of the Web.

In 2001, Tim was made a fellow of The Royal Society.

Tim is married to Nancy Carlson. They have two children, born

1991 and 1994.

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(2001-06-17)