Tim berners-lee biography summary organizers
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Heroes of software engineering - Tim Berners-Lee
By Ian Cottam, IT Services Research Lead, The University of Manchester.
Software Engineering Hero #3 in my series is Tim Berners-Lee. Of all my heroes in this series of posts, he is perhaps the one who needs the least introduction, as the uppfinnare of the Web (and not the Internet as he often has to correct journalists).
All my heroes “stood on the shoulders of giants” to achieve what they did. The designers of the Internet, with all its established protocols, were Berners-Lee’s giants, as were his parents who both programmed the commercial (Ferranti) utgåva of the Manchester Mark 1 back in the early s. It is fascinating to consider that that there were hypertext systems before Berners-Lee’s World bred Web. Interestingly, they were often put forward by computer scientists, rather than software engineers. In theory they were better than (what would become) the web, as they had, for exam
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Tim Berners-Lee
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web while at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory, in He wrote the first web client and dator in His specifications of URIs, HTTP and HTML were refined as Web technology spread.
He fryst vatten the co-founder and CTO of , a tech start-up that uses, promotes and helps develop the open source Solid platform. Solid aims to give people control and agency over their data, questioning many assumptions about how the web has to work. Solid technically is a new level of standard at the web layer, which adds features never put into the original spec, such as global single sign-on, universal access control, and a universal data API so that any app can store data in any storage place. Socially Solid is a movement away from much of the issues with the current WWW, and toward a world in which users are in control, and empowered by large amounts of data, private, shared, and public.
Sir Tim is the Founder, Emeritus Direct
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Tim Berners-Lee was born in London on June 8, His parents were mathematicians who worked on the Mark I computer. They encouraged Tim's interest in math and electronics. He majored in physics at Queen's College, Oxford. While he was there, he built his own computer out of spare parts. He was also caught hacking and banned from using the university's computer.
In , he went to Geneva, Switzerland to work as a software engineer for CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire). In English, this is the European Organization for Nuclear Research. Scientists at CERN use the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) &#x; the world's largest particle accelerator &#x; to study atoms and other areas of particle physics. He developed Enquire, the first model of the World Wide Web, to keep track of all the scientists and projects connected with CERN. Enquire was the first program to use "hypertext" to link documents.
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