Sir Tim Berners-Lee

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Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee (8 June 1955 - ) is a British engineer, computer scientist and MIT professor credited with inventing or conceptualizing the web. He is currently the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a standards organization founded in 1994 which develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools). He is a founding Director of the Web Science Trust (WST) launched in 2009 to promote research and education in Web Science, a multidisciplinary study of humanity connected by technology. Berners-Lee is also 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. In 2001, he became a Fellow of the Royal Society and has been the recipient of several international awards including the Japan Prize, the Prince of Asturias Foundation Prize, the Millennium Technology Prize and Germany's Die Quadriga award. In 2004 he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth and the Order of Merit in 2007. In 2009, he was elected a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2009, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced that Sir Tim will work with government to help make data more accessible, building on the work of the Power of Information Task Force.

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