October 2006, 5 pages
Interview by: Sarah Powell
Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee is the inventor of the World Wide Web, and founder and director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
The consortium coordinates Web development worldwide together with teams at MIT, The European Research Consortium in Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM), and Keio University in Japan. He is a senior researcher at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory where he holds the 3Com Founders Chair. He also serves as Professor of Computer Science at the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) of the University of Southampton.
Since 1995 Tim Berners-Lee has received a raft of international awards, nominations, honorary degrees and fellowships including a MacArthur Fellowship in 1998 and, in 2002, the Japan Prize from the Science and Technology Foundation in Japan. In 1997 he was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE), and in 2004 he received a knighthood (KBE) for services to the global development of the Internet via his invention of the Web.
In June 2004 in Helsinki Sir Tim Berners-Lee was awarded the first ever Millennium Technology Prize 'for outstanding technological achievements that directly promote people's quality of life, are based on humane values, and encourage sustainable economic development'.
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