Tim Berners-Lee

Born: June 8, 1955

Major Academic Events

• Graduated from University of Oxford in 1976.
• Won the MacArthur Fellowship for computer science in 1998.

Main Contributions to Computer Science:

• Invented the World Wide Web system (the internet) in 1989.
• Created the first web browser and the first web server, facilitating the growth of the internet.
• Developed the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), which are the foundation of web communications.
• Established the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to ensure the web's long-term growth and compatibility.

Most Interesting Thing Found:

He received the first Queen Elizabeth Prize for engineering in 2013 and was a member of the internet hall of fame.