[1]Jasalyn Lucas
MCIS Department
Mississippi Valley State University
Itta Bena, MS. United States of America
jasalyn.lucas@mvsu.edu
Abstract – Tim Berners Lee was the inventor of the
World Wide Web. He has contributed to computer science
in a variety of ways. So in this paper, I will include his
Personal Life, Earlier Life, Education and Work, Honors
and Awards, and Contributions to Computer Science.
Keywords – Personal Life, Earlier Life, Education and
work, honors, Awards, Contributions to Computer Science.
I.
node in Europe, and Berners-Lee decided it was time
to join hypertext with the Internet. [2]
III.
He is referred to as Sir Tim Berners Lee.
 OM which stands for Order of Merit
which is awarded by the monarch of
United Kingdom
 KBE which stands for Order of the
British empire which is awarded by the
sovereign of the British Kingdom
 FRS- stands for Royal Society of
London
for
Improving
Natural
Knowledge.
 FREng which stands for the Royal
Academy of Engineering.
 FRSA which stands for Royal Society
for the encouragement of Arts,
Manufactures and Commerce.
 DFBCS which stands for Distinguished
Fellow of the British Computer Society.
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PERSONAL AND EARLIER LIFE
Tim Berners Lee was born in London, England on
June 8, 1955. He is still alive and is currently 59
years old. His parents worked on the first
commercially-built computer, which is called the
Ferranti Mark 1. He has been married and remarried.
His past wife was named Nancy Carlson, who was
not only a computer programmer but she was also a
figure skater. They have two children. Actually, his
current wife is named Rosemary Leith and her exhusband was a computer programmer and so is she.
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II.
EDUCATION AND WORKS
Tim Berners Lee receive a great education at The
Queen’s College at the University of Oxford, where
he actually got his degree in Physics. After he
graduated, he worked as an engineer at the
telecommunications company named Plessey in
Poole. In 1978, he accompanied D. G. Nash to help
create type-setting software for printers. [2]
He is Director of the World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C) (1994) which is a Web standards
organization founded in 1994 that develops practical
technologies to lead the Web to the max. He is a
founding Director of the Web Science Trust (WST)
(2009) this promotes research and education in Web
Science. Berners-Lee is also a Director of the World
Wide Web Foundation (2009) which is how to
coordinate efforts to further the potential of the Web
to benefit the human race. [3]
He worked as an independent contractor at CERN
from June to December 1980. While being there he
proposed a project based on the concept of hypertext.
To demonstrate, he built a prototype system named
ENQUIRE. In 1989, CERN was the largest Internet
Honors
IV.
AWARDS
 MacArthur Fellowship Award
(1998)
 Marconi Prize (2002)
 Charles
(2007)
Stark
Draper
Prize
 Mountbatten Medal (1996)
 President’s Metal (2006)
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V.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO COMPUTER
SCIENCE
 Tim Berners Lee is the inventor of the
World Wide Web, which is an internetbased hypermedia initiative for global
information sharing while at CERN, the
European Particle Physics Laboratory, in
1989.
 He made a proposal for an information
management system in March 1989.
 He wrote the first web client and server
in 1990.
 He executed the first successful
communication between a Hypertext
Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and
server via the Internet.
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VI. BIBLIOGRAPHY
[1]
L. Page and S. Bnirin, "Tim Berners Lee awards recieved," Google, 4 September 1998. [Online].
Available: https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=tim+lee+awards. [Accessed 2014 November
2014].
[2]
"Tim Berners Lee," Wikipedia, 10 January 2001. [Online]. Available:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee. [Accessed 30 November 2014].
[3] Timbl, "Tim Berners Lee," World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), October 1994. [Online]. Available:
http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/#Press. [Accessed October 1994].
[4]
"Sir Tim Berners Lee," World Wide Web Foundation, 2001. [Online]. Available:
http://webfoundation.org/about/sir-tim-berners-lee/. [Accessed 30 November 2014].