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Berners-Lee says no to internet 'snooping'
News The inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has attacked deep packet inspection, a technique used to monitor traffic on the internet and other communications networks. Speaking at a House of Lords event on the 20th anniversary of the...
[March 11, 2009, 15:11]
Berners-Lee: Intelligent Web requires co-operation
News Speaking at Ordnance Survey's Terra Future conference in Southampton on Tuesday, Sir Tim Berners-Lee said all that was needed to build the Semantic Web was for existing databases to be exposed in standard formats.
[September 19, 2006, 14:50]
Video: Berners-Lee on the Semantic Web
News David Berlind interviews Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium at the MITX (Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange) Technology Awards held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts.
[June 8, 2007, 14:52]
Berners-Lee pushes web science
News It's a way that social people interact," Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the basic software of the web and is director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards group, said. Berners-Lee, who is also a senior research scientist at MIT's...
[November 3, 2006, 9:27]
Berners-Lee honoured for creating the Web
News Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, has finally received a substantial financial reward for his achievements. Berners-Lee will pick up €1m (£670,000) after winning the inaugural Millennium Technology Prize, awarded by the Finnish...
[April 15, 2004, 13:10]
Berners-Lee: Keep the internet free
News World wide web father Tim Berners-Lee told politicians on Thursday that it's critical to shield his seminal innovation from control by a single company or country. That means ensuring anyone can use the web regardless of what software or hardware...
[March 2, 2007, 8:12]
Berners-Lee: Semantic Web will have privacy built-in
News Web pioneer Sir Tim Berners-Lee has said that the Semantic Web will make the privacy of online communications stronger, and will allow people to control who can use their data. Berners-Lee, who is director of W3C, told ZDNet UK on Wednesday that...
[March 12, 2009, 16:09]
Berners-Lee honoured for creating the Web
Talkback Congratulations Tim Berners-Lee who, more than any other has influenced and improved communications between us all.
[April 16, 2004, 10:35]
Berners-Lee calls for Net neutrality
News Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web, has called for clear separation between Internet access and Internet content. Speaking at the World Wide Web conference in Edinburgh on Tuesday morning, Berners-Lee gave his views on the growing battle over...
[May 23, 2006, 12:10]
Berners-Lee: Web security a 'never-ending battle'
News The man credited with invention of the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has warned that web security is a "never-ending battle". Speaking at a lecture hosted by the Institution of Engineering and Technology in London on Thursday, Berners-Lee...
[September 21, 2007, 14:37]
Berners-Lee challenges 'stupid' male geek culture
News The inventor of the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has called for an end to the "stupid" male geek culture that disregards the work of capable female engineers, and puts others off entering the profession.
[September 21, 2007, 15:47]
Berners-Lee discusses future of the internet
News Tim Berners-Lee, considered to be the father of the web, speaks with scientists and Silicon Valley executives at HP Labs in Palo Alto, California, about where he sees the internet going in the next five years.
[November 29, 2007, 14:40]
Berners-Lee wins €1m prize
News Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has received some cash to go with the glory of this year's award of a knighthood. In his acceptance speech, Berners-Lee laid out his vision of the 'semantic Web'. Berners-Lee also slammed the ease with which patents...
[June 21, 2004, 16:10]
Berners-Lee calls for Net neutrality
Talkback "Although Berners-Lee offered his support for Net neutrality, he does not support a completely unregulated telecoms and Internet market. Berners-Lee supports property rights violations such as this, it's obvious he doesn't support a "completely...
[May 23, 2006, 18:22]
Berners-Lee touts the Semantic Web
News Sir Tim Berners-Lee, recognised as the founding father of the World Wide Web, has claimed the work of companies like Google has made the web a much more powerful tool. Speaking at the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures...
[March 14, 2008, 8:15]
Berners-Lee HAS ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING ONLINE NOWADAYS!
Talkback "If [third parties] are using the data for political ends or commercial interest, there we have to draw the line," Berners-Lee said. There's a gap between running a successful internet service and looking inside data packets.
[June 18, 2009, 23:26]
Berners-Lee regrets the HTTP slashes
Blog Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the HyperText Transfer Protocol, regrets specifying the characters "//" in the protocol. Berners-Lee told The New York Times last week that the characters, used in web addresses after the "http:", were a...
[October 14, 2009, 16:37]
Berners-Lee sketches out plan for gov't data
News World wide web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has published advice as to how more government data can be made available online. In a paper on Thursday, Berners-Lee said that the government should "start with low-hanging fruit", by publishing raw data.
[June 26, 2009, 15:12]
Berners-Lee unveils scheme to achieve 'One Web'
News Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee on Sunday unveiled the World Wide Web Foundation, an initiative to spread the web to developing countries and maintain its openness. In a speech, Berners-Lee — a proponent of a "non-discriminatory internet" — said the...
[September 15, 2008, 18:22]
And the winner is Tim Berners-Lee
Blog Tim Berners-Lee The best clerihew celebrates, not Bill Gates, but a paragon whose contribution to IT has empowered all of us to create great and worthwhile things. Over at Miss Conduct, the winner is announced:
[July 12, 2008, 8:52]
