| Tim Berners-Lee | |
|---|---|
 Berners-Lee at the Home Office, London, 2010 | |
| Born | 8 June 1955 [1] London, England[1] |
| Residence | Massachusetts, USA[1] |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | The Queen's College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Computer Scientist |
| Employer | World Wide Web Consortium andUniversity of Southampton |
| Known for | Inventing the World Wide Web |
| Title | Professor |
| Religion | Unitarian Universalism |
| Parents | Conway Berners-Lee, Mary Lee Woods |
| Website | |
| w3.org/People/Berners-Lee | |
| Notes Holder of the 3Com Founders Chair at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory | |
Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA (born 8 June 1955,[1]also known as "TimBL"), is a British engineer and computer scientist and MIT professor credited with inventing the World Wide Web, making the first proposal for it in March 1989.[2]On 25 December 1990, with the help of Robert Cailliau and a young student at CERN, he implemented the first successful communication between an HTTP client and server via the Internet.
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 3Com Founders Chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).[3] He is a director of The Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI),[4] and a member of the advisory board of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence.[5][6] In April 2009, he was elected as a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, based in Washington, D.C. [7]
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