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
thinking issues people
There are converging web-related issues cropping up, like privacy and security, that we currently have no way of thinking about. Nobody has thought to look at how people and the web combine as a whole - until now.
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.
issues intellectual important
Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.
thinking issues people
On the web the thinking of cults can spread very rapidly and suddenly a cult which was 12 people who had some deep personal issues suddenly find a formula which is very believable.
technology media issues
We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on.
data issues networking
One of the issues of social networking silos is that they have the data and I don't.
access allow guarantee people talk
On the Web, you can allow people to talk to each other, but you have to guarantee that they know who's going to have access to the conversation.
cells brain neurons
There are billions of neurons in our brains, but what are neurons? Just cells. The brain has no knowledge until connections are made between neurons. All that we know, all that we are, comes from the way our neurons are connected.
strings-attached water house
I myself feel that it is very important that my ISP supplies internet to my house like the water company supplies water to my house. It supplies connectivity with no strings attached.
adjustment interact microsoft nearly people percent recently sort system
Microsoft said recently that nearly 50 percent of people need to make some sort of adjustment to their system to interact with it.
happen original people supporting web work
The original idea of the Web was about supporting the way people already work socially, but this doesn't happen with a lot of IT projects.
battle feature fragments huge leaves mess pieces web whenever
There could still be a huge battle which leaves a big mess and fragments the Web into two pieces whenever a new feature comes along.
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The recommended strategy is to employ 'smart' buying practices to reduce acquisition and support costs, including software asset management, and increase the use of standards-compliant software,'
people throughout
It's interesting that people throughout the existence of the web have been concerned about monopolies.