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Open Data Institute will act as biz incubator

...and republication. It will open later this year under the leadership of Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt. "We don't just want to... Read more

23 May, 2012 by David Meyer

Berners-Lee: We need PGP for the people

...World wide web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has set security professionals the challenge of coming up... Read more

17 October, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Berners-Lee: Personal clouds could offset privacy risks

...to control the information found online about themselves, world wide web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has suggested. Sir Tim Berners-Lee has suggested people... Read more

14 October, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Berners-Lee: 80 percent of the world isn't on the web

...brief welcome Mark Selby, vice president of industry collaborations for Nokia introduced Sir Tim Berners-Lee — inventor of the Web — for the Nokia World second... Read more

15 September, 2010

Government unveils £100m for urban broadband

...a new Open Data Institute, to be established under the leadership of Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt. The graphene money will come in... Read more

29 November, 2011 by David Meyer

Berners-Lee: Work is needed to harmonise HTML 5

...for duplication of effort and divergence of technologies, according to web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Tim Berners-Lee has warned that lack of harmonisation... Read more

18 April, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Berners-Lee: Public must fill gaps in government data

...into government-released data to make it understandable, according to web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Databases released to the public, such as the Treasury... Read more

18 April, 2011

Berners-Lee to advise on UK net-neutrality code

...about their traffic management policies in an easy-to-understand way — Sir Tim wants the commitment to extend to other aspects of net neutrality... Read more

17 March, 2011

The Top 20 'Technology Elite' on Twitter

...Lotus), and Steve Case (AOL). Other participants include the web's inventor, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Linux kernel developer Linus Torvalds, and would-be-immortal... Read more

11 March, 2011

Who do we invite to the UK's tech dinner with Obama?

...and Martha Lane Fox, famous for founding Lastminute.com. Andrew @brookhouse added Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who is perhaps the only world-class contender… but... Read more

18 February, 2011

Berners-Lee, BBC, Vodafone focus on web's potential

...is something that we all have an interest in. Worldwide web founder Sir Tim Berners-Lee clearly wants to play a role in the development... Read more

21 April, 2011 by Tim Ferguson

Web inventor 'Briton of the year'

Sir Tim Berners-Lee has scooped the award for 'Best Briton 2004', 14... Read more

28 January, 2005 by Will Sturgeon

Berners-Lee wins ?1m prize

Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has received some cash to go with the glory... Read more

21 June, 2004 by Ron Coates

...arise> Sir Tim

...a knighthood in the New Year honours list. Responding to the honour, Sir Tim said it was an acknowledgement that the Net was becoming globally... Read more

31 December, 2003 by Matt Loney

Sir Tim picks up latest gong

...bean directly from the www... but if he sold all his awards... Sir Tim Berners-Lee has picked up his latest award in a long... Read more

29 March, 2006 by Will Sturgeon

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