Tim Berners-Lee

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Tim Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.

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instanceOf computer scientist
engineer
human
inventor
university professor
academicDegree Bachelor of Arts in Physics
awardReceived Japan Prize
Knight Bachelor
Millennium Technology Prize
Order of Merit
Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
Turing Award
birthDate 1955-06-08
birthPlace England
London, England
surface form: London

United Kingdom
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
developed HTML markup language
HTTP protocol
URL addressing scheme
WorldWideWeb (web browser)
educatedAt Emanuel School
The Queen's College, Oxford
employer CERN
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Oxford
World Wide Web Consortium
familyName Tim Berners-Lee self-linksurface differs
surface form: Berners-Lee
fieldOfWork computer science
information technology
web technology
founded World Wide Web Consortium
World Wide Web Foundation
fullName Tim Berners-Lee self-linksurface differs
surface form: Timothy John Berners-Lee
givenName Timothy
honorificPrefix Sir
knownFor creating the first web browser
creating the first web server
developing HTML
developing HTTP
developing URL/URI concepts
inventing the World Wide Web
languageSpoken English
memberOf American Academy of Arts and Sciences
National Academy of Engineering
Royal Society
nationality British
notableIdea open and decentralized web
semantic web
notableWork Enquire (software)
World Wide Web
parent Conway Berners-Lee
Mary Lee Woods
positionHeld director of the World Wide Web Consortium
professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
professor at University of Oxford
spouse Nancy Carlson
Rosemary Leith
website https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/
workLocation Cambridge, Massachusetts
Geneva

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The Queen's College, Oxford alumnus Tim Berners-Lee
World Wide Web Foundation chairperson Tim Berners-Lee
Conway Berners-Lee child Tim Berners-Lee
Mary Lee Woods child Tim Berners-Lee
Håkon Wium Lie collaboratedWith Tim Berners-Lee
Cailliau collaboratedWith Tim Berners-Lee
subject surface form: Robert Cailliau
Enquire (software) creator Tim Berners-Lee
HTML creator Tim Berners-Lee
Nexus creator Tim Berners-Lee
HTML developedBy Tim Berners-Lee
World Wide Web developedBy Tim Berners-Lee
CERN httpd developer Tim Berners-Lee
Enquire (software) developer Tim Berners-Lee
Nexus developer Tim Berners-Lee
WorldWideWeb (web browser) developer Tim Berners-Lee
subject surface form: WorldWideWeb
Enquire (software) documentationAuthor Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee familyName Tim Berners-Lee self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Berners-Lee
Open Data Institute foundedBy Tim Berners-Lee
ODI foundedBy Tim Berners-Lee
subject surface form: Open Data Institute
World Wide Web Consortium foundedBy Tim Berners-Lee
World Wide Web Foundation foundedBy Tim Berners-Lee
World Wide Web Foundation founder Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee fullName Tim Berners-Lee self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Timothy John Berners-Lee
Timothy givenNameOf Tim Berners-Lee
World Wide Web hasInventor Tim Berners-Lee
Japan Prize hasLaureate Tim Berners-Lee
University of Sheffield hasNotableAlumni Tim Berners-Lee
this entity surface form: Tim Berners-Lee (studied briefly)
Emanuel School hasNotableAlumnus Tim Berners-Lee
Emanuel School hasNotableAlumnus Tim Berners-Lee
this entity surface form: Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Timothy hasNotableBearer Tim Berners-Lee
Turing Award hasNotableRecipient Tim Berners-Lee
Mike Berners-Lee hasRelative Tim Berners-Lee
Ted Nelson influenced Tim Berners-Lee
Mary Lee Woods motherOf Tim Berners-Lee
Royal Society notableMember Tim Berners-Lee
EFF Pioneer Award notableRecipient Tim Berners-Lee
Marconi Prize notableRecipient Tim Berners-Lee
Conway Berners-Lee notableRelative Tim Berners-Lee
Semantic Web proposedBy Tim Berners-Lee
Mary Lee Woods relative Tim Berners-Lee