Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA FBCS, 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, and he implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocolclient and server via the Internet sometime around mid-November of that same year...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth8 June 1955
damage private-life
Celebrity damages private life.
communication thinking issues
I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.
data needs problem
Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems they are always obliged to go back to them.
royalty infrastructure company
Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free.
clients documentation server
I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.
thinking people get-involved
I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work.
people machines doe
The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people.
ideas space information
The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.
years able duty
It is the the duty of a Webmaster to allocate URIs which you will be able to stand by in 2 years, in 20 years, in 200 years.
information use should
Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information.
growing-up people way
In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.
people want good-things
It's a new medium, it's a universal medium and it's not itself a medium which inherently makes people do good things, or bad things. It allows people to do what they want to do more efficiently.
mind would-be might
Computers might not find the solutions to our problems, but they would be able to do the bulk of the legwork required, assist our human minds in intuitively finding ways through the maze.
lasts professionalism standards
When it comes to professionalism, it makes sense to talk about being professional in IT. Standards are vital so that IT professionals can provide systems that last.