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
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.
marketing use machinery
AI is not just heading for our industry, it will radically change the machinery we use in marketing.
numbers space people
The story of the growth of the World Wide Web can be measured by the number of Web pages that are published and the number of links between pages. The Web's ability to allow people to forge links is why we refer to it as an abstract information space, rather than simply a network.
distance sculpture clay
[The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance.
talking world gaps
The world's urban poor and the illiterate are going to be increasingly disadvantaged and are in danger of being left behind. The web has added a new dimension to the gap between the first world and the developing world. We have to start talking about a human right to connect.
dating people google
The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website.
running data organization
Any enterprise CEO really ought to be able to ask a question that involves connecting data across the organization, be able to run a company effectively, and especially to be able to respond to unexpected events. Most organizations are missing this ability to connect all the data together.
powerful thinking would-be
One way to think about the magnitude of the changes to come is to think about how you went about your business before powerful Web search engines. You probably wouldn't have imagined that a world of answers would be available to you in under a second. The next set of advances will have an different effect, but similar in magnitude.
technology past bigger
The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.
ideas space information
The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.
use culture crosses
I hope we will use the Net to cross barriers and connect cultures.
clients documentation server
I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.
running splits site
Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split.
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.