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Tim Berners-Lee

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Tim Berners-Lee

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Also known as Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, Timothy John Berners-Lee, TimBL

English computer scientist (born 1955)

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Tim Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist, physicist, programmer, and university teacher. Born in London, he holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from The Queen's College. His notable works include the World Wide Web, WorldWideWeb, HTTP, and HTML. He has worked at CERN, the World Wide Web Consortium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Plessey.

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Association for Computing Machinery. His awards include the Prix Ars Electronica, W. Wallace McDowell Award, MacArthur Fellows Program, and Japan Prize. He resides in Concord and practices Unitarian Universalism.

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Person · Open Library

Works
8

Top works

  • This Is for Everyone
  • This Is for Everyone
  • Spinning the Semantic Web
  • A framework for web science
  • The WWW virtual library

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Film & TV

Acting · London, England, UK

Known for

  • The Gutenberg Enigma — Himself - Computer Scientist2017
  • Foreveryone.net — Himself2016
  • The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz — Self2014
  • Inside the Dark Web — Himself2014
  • London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder — Self2012
  • Worldwidewebwonder - 20 Years "WWW" - 40 Years Internet — Self2009
  • Click — Self2000
  • Into the Future: On the Preservation of Knowledge in the Electronic Age1997
  • Horizon — Himself - Interviewed Guest1964

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
United States
Active from
1920-05-26
Active to
2002-01-21
adult standardsbig bandbluescast recordingseasy listeningjazz

Discography

Official siteDiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1,381
Total plays
1,685

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Tom WujecGeorge WhitesidesHans RoslingJonathan DroriDerek Sivers

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density

    · 1988 · cited 95,780x

  2. Common method biases in behavioral research: A critical review of the literature and recommended remedies.

    · 2003 · cited 67,768x

  3. The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools

    · 2009 · cited 59,258x

  4. Rapid colorimetric assay for cellular growth and survival: Application to proliferation and cytotoxicity assays

    · 1983 · cited 46,069x

  5. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

    · 2021 · cited 43,635x

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Quotes

  • “This project is experimental and of course comes without any warranty whatsoever. However, it could start a revolution in information access.”
  • “I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the TCP and DNS ideas and — ta-da!— the World Wide Web.”
  • “I don't believe in the sort of eureka moment idea. I think it's a myth. I'm very suspicious that actually Archimedes had been thinking about that problem for a long time. And it wasn't that suddenly it came to him.”
  • “Web 1.0 was all about connecting people. It was an interactive space, and I think Web 2.0 is of course a piece of jargon, nobody even knows what it means. If Web 2.0 for you is blogs and wikis, then that is people to people. But that was what the Web was supposed to be all along.”
  • “Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.”
  • “Now, if someone tries to monopolize the Web, for example pushes proprietary variations on network protocols, then that would make me unhappy.”

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

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Encyclopedic overview

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, HTML, the URL system, and HTTP. He is a professorial research fellow at the University of Oxford and a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Berners-Lee proposed an information management system on 12 March 1989 and implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet in mid-November. He devised and implemented the first Web browser and Web server and helped foster the Web's subsequent development. He is the founder and emeritus director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees the continued development of the Web. He co-founded (with Rosemary Leith) the World Wide Web Foundation. In 2009, he was elected Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tim Berners-Lee” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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