Born - Timothy Berners-Lee
June 8, 1955 (1955-06-08) (age 52)
London, England
Residence - Lexington, Massachusetts, USA
Other names - Tim
Education - The Queen's College, Oxford
Employer - World Wide Web Consortium and University of Southampton
Occupation - Computer Scientist
Title - Senior Researcher
Known for - Inventing the World Wide Web
Religious beliefs - Unitarian Universalism
Spouse - Nancy Carlson (remarried)
Children - 2
Parents - Conway Berners-Lee and Mary Lee Woods
Website - Tim Berners-Lee
June 8, 1955 (1955-06-08) (age 52)
London, England
Residence - Lexington, Massachusetts, USA
Other names - Tim
Education - The Queen's College, Oxford
Employer - World Wide Web Consortium and University of Southampton
Occupation - Computer Scientist
Title - Senior Researcher
Known for - Inventing the World Wide Web
Religious beliefs - Unitarian Universalism
Spouse - Nancy Carlson (remarried)
Children - 2
Parents - Conway Berners-Lee and Mary Lee Woods
Website - Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA (born June 8, 1955) is an English developer who invented the World Wide Web in March 1989. With the help of Robert Cailliau, and a young student staff at CERN, he implemented his invention in 1990, with the first successful communication between a client and server via the Internet on December 25, 1990. He is also the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (which oversees its continued development), and a senior researcher and holder of the 3Com Founders Chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).
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