inventor of the World Wide Web in 1980
born June 8, 1955, London, England
parents met while working on the Ferranti Mark I, the first commercially available computer
Emanuel School, London 1969-73
Queen's College, Oxford, B.A. Hons (I) Physics, 1976
honorary degrees from Parsons School of Design, New York (D.F.A., 1996) , Southampton University (D.Sc., 1996), Essex University (D.U., 1998), Southern Cross University (1998), Open University (D.U., 2000), Columbia University (D.Law, 2001), Oxford University (2001) and University of Port Elizabeth (D.Sc.)
Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society, Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers., Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Fellow of the Royal Society (2001)
Order of the British Empire, 1997
Knight Commander of the British Empire, 2004
inaugural winner of the Millennium Technology Prize, 2004
currently heads up the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tim Berners-Lee, Internet Pioneer
Tim Berners-Lee and the History of the World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee, Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II (BBC)
Tim Berners-Lee, inaugural winner of the Millennium Technology Prize story at TechNewsWorld
Time Magazine's 20 Most Influential Thinkers of the 20th Century