Tim Berners-Lee

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA FBCS (English: Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, June 8, 1955 -), nicknamed Tim Berners-Lee, is a British computer scientist. He was the inventor of the World Wide Web, developing the world's first website and the first web browser, allowing ordinary users to access and browse the web. On December 25, 1990, he successfully used the Internet to achieve the first communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol client and a server. Berners-Lee is the chairman of the World Wide Web Consortium. He founded the World Wide Web Consortium in 1994, an organization founded to focus on the development of the World Wide Web. He is also the founder of the World Wide Web Foundation. Berners-Lee was the founding chairman and senior researcher of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. At the same time, Berners-Lee is the director of the Web Science Research Initiative and a member of the advisory board of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. In 2011, he was appointed to the Ford Foundation's Board of Directors. In 2004, Queen Elizabeth II awarded Berners-Lee the Commander of the Order of the British Empire. In April 2009, he was elected as a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2017, he won the 2016 Turing Award for "inventing the World Wide Web, the first browser, and the basic protocols and algorithms that enabled the expansion of the World Wide Web." He was named to Time 100: the most important people of this century by Time magazine.