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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: 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 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 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 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 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 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]
Google China head Kai-Fu Lee resigns
News Kai-Fu Lee, president of the Google's Greater China operation and the subject of a bitter employee custody battle between Google and Microsoft, will leave the search giant later this month. Lee, who left Microsoft in 2005 to take over Google's...
[September 4, 2009, 8:35]
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 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]
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 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 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]
Sybase Case Study: Addison Lee
White Papers Addison Lee, London's premier courier and delivery service, found the edges of its system with explosive growth. Working with BT and Sybase, Addison Lee architected a system that provides robust 24/7 availability, unparalleled customer service and...
[May 15, 2007, 1:00]
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]
Germans rank Berners-Lee alongside Einstein
News Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee was hailed on Thursday as one of the world's greatest scientists by the organisers of Germany's national Quadriga awards. The organisers said that British-born Berners-Lee and German-born theoretical physicist...
[August 19, 2005, 11:45]
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]
PM calls on Berners-Lee in open-government drive
Blog Gordon Brown is bringing in the inventor of the web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, to help open up government data. So that Government information is accessible and useful for the widest possible group of people, I have asked Sir Tim Berners-Lee who led the...
[June 10, 2009, 14:46]
Kai-Fu Lee trial to remain in Washington, for now
News A federal judge in San Jose, California has issued a tentative ruling that would put on hold Google's effort to move the battle over Kai-Fu Lee to California. Lee's employment agreement clearly states that the Washington courts will be the venue...
[October 14, 2005, 15:45]
