Tim Berners Lee wrote the first web client and server in 1990. His specifications of URIs, HTTP and HTML were refined as Web technology spread.

He is the 3Com Founders Professor of Engineering in the School of Engineering with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he also heads the Decentralized Information Group (DIG). He is also a Professor in the Electronics and Computer Science Department at the University of Southampton, UK.

He is the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a Web standards organization founded in 1994 which develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. He is a founding Director of the Web Science Trust (WST) launched in 2009 to promote research and education in Web Science, the multidisciplinary study of humanity connected by technology.

He is also a Director of the World Wide Web Foundation, launched in 2009 to fund and coordinate efforts to further the potential of the Web to benefit humanity.

Brief History

• Birthdate: 8 June 1955
• Birthplace: London, England
• Father: Conway Berners-Lee
• Mother: Mary Lee Woods

Source: A brief history on TBL

Contact Info

Email: timbl @ w3.org
Address: 32 Vassar Street, MIT Room 32-G524, Cambridge MA 02139, USA
Phone: +1 (617) 253 5702
Fax: +1 (617) 258 5999