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 'The Web must remain a universal medium, open to all
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world wide web knighted (01/08/04)
Inventor of the World Wide Web, Timothy Berners-Lee, has been knighted by the Queen.
Sir Tim, also Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, was dubbed a Knight Commander, Order of the British Empire during an Investiture in London.
The rank of Knight Commander is the second most senior rank of the Order of the British Empire, one of the Orders of Chivalry.
Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, KBE, 49, a British citizen who lives in the United States, was knighted in recognition for his 'services to the global development of the Internet' through his invention of the World Wide Web, a system to organize, link, and browse Internet pages.
First server
He coined the name 'World Wide Web,' wrote the first World Wide Web server, 'httpd,' and the first client program (a browser and editor), 'WorldWideWeb,' in October 1990.
He wrote the first version of the document formatting language with the capability for hypertext links, known as HTML (HyperText Markup Language).
His initial specifications for URIs, HTTP, and HTML were refined and discussed in larger circles as Web technology spread.
During the hour-long ceremony held in the Ballroom at Buckingham Palace, Queen Elizabeth dubbed Sir Timothy Berners-Lee Knight Commander, using the sword that belonged to her father, King George VI.
He was previously honored in 2002 at Buckingham Palace by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who awarded him the Albert Medal of the Royal Society of the Arts.
Humbled
Sir Timothy said: 'I am humbled by this great honor. The Web came about through an ongoing collaboration with my fellow inventors and developers worldwide. Everyone in the Internet community should be recognized by this honor.'
He added: 'The Web must remain a universal medium, open to all and not biasing the information it conveys. As the technology becomes ever more powerful and available, using more kinds of devices, I hope we learn how to use it as a medium for working together, and resolving misunderstandings on every scale.'
The history
While working in 1980 as a consultant software engineer at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, Sir Timothy wrote his own private program for storing information using the kind of random associations the brain makes.
The "Enquire" program, which was never published, formed the conceptual basis for his future development of the Web.
Subsequently he proposed a global hypertext project at CERN in 1989, and by December 1990, the program "WorldWideWeb" became the first successful demonstration of Web clients and servers working over the Internet.
All of his code was made available free on the Internet at large in the summer of 1991.
London
A London native, Sir Timothy graduated with a degree in physics from Queen's College at Oxford University, England in 1976.
While there he built his first computer with a soldering iron, TTL gates, an M6800 processor and an old television.
He has since been awarded several honorary doctorates from universities around the world, including his alma mater in 2001.
At MIT, he is the holder of the 3Com Founders Chair, and holds the position of Senior Research Scientist at CSAIL.
Greatest minds
Cited by Time magazine as one of the 100 greatest minds of the twentieth century, Sir Timothy is a Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society, an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1998, was named a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2001, and received the Japan Prize in 2002.
UK Magazine August issue
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