Full Name | Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee |
Birth Date | June 8, 1955 |
Birth Place | London, England |
Other Names | TimBL, TBL |
Education | The Queen’s College, Oxford (BA in Physics) |
Known For | Invention of the World Wide Web, HTML, URL, HTTP |
Spouses | Nancy Carlson (m. 1990; div. 2011), Rosemary Leith (m. 2014) |
Children | 2 children; 3 step-children |
Parents | Conway Berners-Lee, Mary Lee Woods |
Awards | Turing Award (2016), Queen Elizabeth Prize (2013), Order of Merit (2007), ACM Software System Award (1995) |
Institutions | CERN, MIT, World Wide Web Consortium, University of Oxford, University of Southampton |
Website | w3.org/People/Berners-Lee |
Notable Achievements | Proposed information management system (1989), implemented first HTTP communication (1989) |
Positions | Founder and Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Co-founder of the World Wide Web Foundation |
Other Roles | Senior researcher at MIT CSAIL, Director of Web Science Research Initiative, Member of Ford Foundation Board |
Recognition | Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II (2004), Time 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century |
Early Life | Born to mathematicians/computer scientists, attended Sheen Mount Primary School and Emanuel School |
Hobbies | Trainspotting, electronics (built a computer from an old TV set) |
Legacy | Invented the fundamental protocols and algorithms for the Web, enabling its global scale and development |