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
data lasts data-science
Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.
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.
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.
interesting mail
E-mail is interesting. We can't live with it, and you can't live without it.
nice book worry
The nice thing about programming at the RDF level is that you can just say, I'll ask for all the books. You can ask for all the shelves. You can ask for a given shelf whether a book was on it. And you're not worrying so much about the underlying syntax.
computers promote reflect web
We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal.
designed future net people run
The people who designed the tools that make the Net run had their own ideas for the future.
The important thing is the diversity available on the Web.
amazing people pick quickly
It's amazing how quickly people on the internet can pick something up, but it's also amazing how quickly they can drop it.
designed
Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases.
people throughout
It's interesting that people throughout the existence of the web have been concerned about monopolies.
data issues networking
One of the issues of social networking silos is that they have the data and I don't.
felt internet people realise time tool
There was a time when people felt the internet was another world, but now people realise it's a tool that we use in this world.
imagine power sorts
It's difficult to imagine the power that you're going to have when so many different sorts of data are available.