Web

A graduate of Oxford University, England, Tim Berners-Lee is the inventor of the World Wide Web. While working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in 1989 he invented an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing. He wrote the first web client (browser-editor) and server in 1990. He is currently Senior Researcher at MIT's CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory), and Professor of Computer Science at Southampton ECS.

He also currently is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an international organization created to develop Web standards and guidelines. Since 1994 the W3C has published over ninety standards recommendations.

The focus of the work at W3C is to create one view of the Web infrastructure. W3C's goal is to transform the architecture of the initial Web (basically HTML, URIs, and HTTP) into the architecture of tomorrow's Web - the so-called Web 2.0. •