Tim Berners-Lee

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee is a computer scientist who is credited with creating the World Wide Web and is presently director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

Education
In 1976, Berners-Lee graduated from at  in the United Kingdom. While there, he built his first computer with a soldering iron, gates, a Motorola  processor and an old television.

Career
Berners-Lee went on to work for, and then D.G. Nash, where he wrote a multitasking operating system and software for intelligent printers.

In 1984, Berners-Lee took up a fellowship at (European Organization for Nuclear Research), where he designed a program called 'Enquire', which was never published, but formed the conceptual basis for today's web. In 1989, he wrote the first web server, "httpd", and the first client, "" a hypertext browser/editor which ran under NeXTSTEP. The program "WorldWideWeb" was first made available within CERN in December 1989, and was published to the Internet in the summer of 1991.

In 1994, Berners-Lee joined the (LCS) at the  (MIT). In the same year, he co-founded the World Wide Web Consortium, which has since been working to define uniform standards for the web. .

Personal life
Berners-Lee is married to Nancy Carlson. They have two children, born in 1991 and 1994.

Honours

 * In 1999, Berners-Lee became the first holder of the Founders chair.
 * In 2001, Berners-Lee was made a fellow of the.
 * In 2012, Berners-Lee was honoured at the.
 * In 2016, Berners-Lee received the.