Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (rođen 8. juna 1955),[ 1] poznat i kao TimBL , engleski je informatičar , najpoznatiji kao izumitelj World Wide Weba . Napravio je prijedlog za sistem upravljanja informacijama u martu 1989,[ 2] te je implementirao prvu uspješnu komunikaciju između HTTP klijenta i servera preko Interneta nekad oko sredine novembra iste te godine.[ 3] [ 4] [ 5] [ 6] [ 7]
Berners-Lee je direktor World Wide Web Consortiuma (W3C), koji nadgleda nastavak razvoja Weba. Također je osnivač World Wide Web Foundation i viši istraživač Laboratorije za računarstvo i umjetnu inteligenciju (CSAIL) na univerzitetu MIT-u .[ 8]
Direktor Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI),[ 9] i član savjetodavnog odbora MIT Center for Collective Intelligence .[ 10] [ 11] Godine 2011, prozvan je članom odbora povjerenika u Ford Foundation .[ 12]
Kraljica Elizabeta II ga je 2004. godine odlikovala ordenom Reda Britanskog carstva zbog njegovog pionirskog rada.[ 13] [ 14] U aprilu 2009, izabran je u stranog pomoćnika Američke nacionalne akademije nauka .[ 15] [ 16] Imenovan je u Time magazinu u spisku 100 najvažnijih ljudi 20. vijeka , Berners-Lee je primio dosta nagrada zbog njegovih izuma.[ 17] Počastvovan je kao "Izumitelj World Wide Weba" tokom ceremonije Ljetnih olimpijskih igara 2012, u kojoj se pojavio lično, radeći sa originalnim NeXT računarom na Olimpijskom stadionu u Londonu .[ 18] Napisao je na Twitteru "This is for everyone" (bosanski : Ovo je za sve ), što je odmah ispisano u LCD svjetlima prikačenim na stolice od 80.000 ljudi u publici.[ 18]
^ "Berners-Lee, Sir Timothy (John), (born 8 June 1955), 3Com Founders Professor, since 1999, Director, World Wide Web Consortium, and Professor of Engineering, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Professor of Computer Science, University of Oxford, since 2016; Fellow, Christ Church, Oxford, since 2016 | WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO" . www.ukwhoswho.com (jezik: engleski). doi :10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-12699 . Pristupljeno 6. 4. 2019 .
^ "info.cern.ch – Tim Berners-Lee's proposal" . Info.cern.ch. Pristupljeno 21. 12. 2011 .
^ Tim Berners Lee-jeva vlastita referenca. Pravi datum je nepoznat.
^ Berners-Lee, Tim; Mark Fischetti (1999). Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by its inventor . Britain: Orion Business. ISBN 0-7528-2090-7 .
^ Berners-Lee, T. (2010). "Long Live the Web" . Scientific American . 303 (6): 80–85. doi :10.1038/scientificamerican1210-80 . PMID 21141362 .
^ Shadbolt, N. ; Berners-Lee, T. (2008). "Web science emerges" . Scientific American . 299 (4): 76–81. doi :10.1038/scientificamerican1008-76 . PMID 18847088 . CS1 održavanje: nepreporučeni parametar (link )
^ Berners-Lee, T. ; Hall, W. ; Hendler, J. ; Shadbolt, N. ; Weitzner, D. (2006). "Computer Science: Enhanced: Creating a Science of the Web" . Science . 313 (5788): 769–771. doi :10.1126/science.1126902 . PMID 16902115 . CS1 održavanje: nepreporučeni parametar (link )
^ "Draper Prize" . Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Pristupljeno 25. 5. 2008 .
^ "People" . The Web Science Research Initiative. Arhivirano s originala , 28. 6. 2008. Pristupljeno 17. 1. 2011 .
^ "MIT Center for Collective Intelligence (homepage)" . Cci.mit.edu. Pristupljeno 15. 8. 2010 .
^ "MIT Center for Collective Intelligence (people)" . Cci.mit.edu. Arhivirano s originala , 11. 6. 2010. Pristupljeno 15. 8. 2010 .
^ "Tim Berners-Lee and Martin Eakes Join Ford Foundation Board" , Ford Foundation, 29. 9. 2011.
^ "Web's inventor gets a knighthood" . BBC News . 31. 12. 2003. Pristupljeno 10. 11. 2015 .
^ "Creator of the web turns knight" . BBC News . 16. 7. 2004. Pristupljeno 10. 11. 2015 .
^ "Timothy Berners-Lee Elected to National Academy of Sciences" . Dr. Dobb's Journal . Pristupljeno 9. 6. 2009 .
^ "72 New Members Chosen By Academy" (Press release). United States National Academy of Sciences. 28. 4. 2009. Pristupljeno 17. 1. 2011 .
^ Quittner, Joshua (29. 3. 1999). "Tim Berners Lee—Time 100 People of the Century" . Time Magazine . Arhivirano s originala , 15. 8. 2007. Pristupljeno 5. 4. 2017 . He wove the World Wide Web and created a mass medium for the 21st century. The World Wide Web is Berners-Lee's alone. He designed it. He loosed it on the world. And he more than anyone else has fought to keep it open, nonproprietary and free
^ a b Friar, Karen (28. 7. 2012). "Sir Tim Berners-Lee stars in Olympics opening ceremony" . ZDNet . Pristupljeno 28. 7. 2012 .