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Sir Tim
News Responding to the honour, Sir Tim said it was an acknowledgement that the Net was becoming globally powerful, and not just a passing trend. Sir Tim came up with the idea of what he called global hypertext space while working at the European...
[December 31, 2003, 10:10]
Berners-Lee arises as Sir Tim
Talkback get them while you can, some idiot want to replace the empire with txcellence. When I get one I hope it will still be empire or i will not accept it, I promise! samuel
[July 19, 2004, 19:18]
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]
A new science for a new age
Leader Sir Tim's call for a new discipline of Web Science, concentrating not just on the technology but how it interacts with society, is both logical and necessary. What Sir Tim proposes is nothing less than an anthropology of the web.
[November 2, 2006, 13:00]
Photos: World Wide Web 2006 conference
News Sir Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the Web, got WWW06 off to a flying start with a speech in which he warned that massive change was ahead. We are in the embryonic stages of the Web from any point of view," said Sir Tim, comparing today's Web to early...
[May 23, 2006, 16:25]
W3C celebrates tenth birthday
News W3C founder Sir Tim Berners-Lee is due to speak at the event, as are other notable names from the world of the Internet, including 3Com founder and Ethernet creator Bob Metcalfe, and Tom O'Reilly, founder of the eponymous media company.
[October 15, 2004, 17:20]
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 calls for Net neutrality
News Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web, has called for clear separation between Internet access and Internet content. The Web has brought so many possibilities that it's hard to believe its such a short time since Sir Tim and those pioneers...
[May 23, 2006, 12:10]
Government outlines Berners-Lee's role
News Over the next six months, Sir Tim Berners-Lee will oversee the implementation of key recommendations from the government's Power of Information report. Sir Tim's advice will also be invaluable when it comes to how the internet can be used to make...
[June 16, 2009, 9:16]
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. He is the first recipient of the €1m Millennium Technology Prize awarded by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation, which is the...
[June 21, 2004, 16:10]
Web inventor 'Briton of the year'
News Sir Tim Berners-Lee has scooped the award for 'Best Briton 2004', 14 years after combining HTML with URLs to come up with the Web. At a ceremony held in central London last night and attended by politicians and celebrities from all walks of life...
[January 28, 2005, 8:30]
The Today Programme's fear of a tech planet
Blog They try, bless 'em, but this morning the 8am headlines said "Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the Internet. Cue email meltdown. By 8:25, the irascible Humphries was forced to admit defeat and try and sort it out due to the number of...
[November 2, 2006, 8:09]
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. The Semantic Web, a project overseen by the World Wide Web Consortium...
[March 12, 2009, 16:09]
Semantic Web is ready for mainstream use
News The Semantic Web, where machines are able to read the contents of documents as readily as people can, now has all the standards and technologies it needs to succeed, according to W3C director Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
[May 24, 2006, 14:55]
Web 2.0 Is Like Pornography
Talkback In 2006, Web founder Sir Tim Berners-Lee sagely observed that "nobody knows what it means": http://tinyurl.com/y6ewzy Like so many tech articles posted since Tim O'Reilly coined the term in 2004, this one references "Web 2.0" as if it were...
[August 12, 2008, 15:05]
Gartner Group Gaffs and "Web 2.0" Techno-Hype
Talkback In 2006, Web founder Sir like so many tech articles posted since Tim O'Reilly (or was it Dale Dougherty? Tim Berners-Lee sagely observed that "nobody knows what it means": http://tinyurl.com/y6ewzy The renowned Gartner Group's latest Hype Cycle...
[August 17, 2008, 15:37]
Vote for your UK tech titans
News Sir Tim later founded the World Wide Web consortium and has been an active proponent of open standards on the Internet. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web The 10 finalists were selected from names nominated by readers of ZDNet UK and our...
[September 8, 2004, 17:45]
Election leaves power vacuum in MP's tech group
News Sir George Young Tim Boswell Tim Loughton Other APIG members fared better than White. APIG chairman Derek Wyatt scraped through the election with a paper-thin majority of 79 in his Sittingbourne and Sheppey constituency.
[May 6, 2005, 14:30]
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 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]
