Tim Berners-Lee

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Berners-Lee in 2014.
Born	Timothy John Berners-Lee 8 June 1955 (age 60)[1] London, England
Institutions	World Wide Web Consortium University of Southampton Plessey MIT
Alma mater	University of Oxford (BA)
Notable awards	OM (2007) KBE (2004) FRS (2001)[2] FREng[when?] FRSA[when?] DFBCS (1995) See full list of honours
Spouse	Nancy Carlson (m. 1990) (divorced)[when?] Rosemary Leith (m. 2014)
Website www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee

Professor Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA, DFBCS (born 8 June 1955),^[1] also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He made a proposal for an information management system in March 1989,^[3] and he implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet sometime around mid-November of that same year.^{[4][5][6][7][8]}
Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees the Web's continued development. He is also the founder of the World Wide Web Foundation, and is a senior researcher and holder of the Founders Chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).^[9] He is a director of the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI),^[10] and a member of the advisory board of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence.^[11][12] In 2011 he was named as a member the Board of Trustees of the Ford Foundation.^[13]
In 2004, Berners-Lee was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his pioneering work.^[14][15] In April 2009, he was elected a foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences.^[16][17] He was honoured as the "Inventor of the World Wide Web" during the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, in which he appeared in person, working with a vintage NeXT Computer at the London Olympic Stadium.^[18] He tweeted "This is for everyone",^[19] which instantly was spelled out in LCD lights attached to the chairs of the 80,000 people in the audience.^[18]