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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]
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]
Berners-Lee on the Semantic Web
Video 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. 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]
Sir Tim
News Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web, has been awarded a knighthood in the New Year honours list. We weren't insightful enough to recognise that what we had inside of Hypercard, essentially, was everything that later was developed so successfully...
[December 31, 2003, 10:10]
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. Tim Berners-Lee and Alberto Ibargüen, Knight Foundation's chief executive, at the...
[September 15, 2008, 18:22]
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. In a press conference, Sir Tim Berners-Lee weighed into the controversial subject of Net neutrality.
[May 23, 2006, 16:25]
Name your top tech heroes
News Following this week's news that Charles Babbage, Alan Turing and Tim Berners-Lee have all been voted onto a list of the top 100 "Greatest Britons", ZDNet UK would like to hear who your all time technology greats are.
[August 23, 2002, 11:56]
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]
Supreme Court rules against file swapping
Talkback It was actually Tim Berners Lee who did invented the internet (although not all of it) and he's British" Tim Berners Lee invented the internet did he? Your Tim Beners Lee may have invented the internet in your dreams, this happens to be real life.
[June 29, 2005, 13:22]
Outrage at Gates' knighthood
Talkback Bill Gates is every bit as deserving of knighthood as Tim Berners-Lee, Harold Evans, and other "noble" people who came before Bill. Tim Berners Lee: the "supremely modest" genius, is neither. Tim Berners Lee, oh excuse me, Sir Timothy, having...
[March 2, 2005, 19:08]
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]
Google founders win Marconi engineering award
News Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who won the same prize in 2002, said in a statement: "Google held a mirror up to us, reflecting the myriad little actions of linking as a set of concepts which society has discussed and sought.
[September 23, 2004, 14:50]
Tech heroes in line for 'Greatest Briton' award
News Charles Babbage, Alan Turing and Tim Berners-Lee have all been shortlisted by a nationwide survey, conducted by the BBC, to find the greatest ever Briton. Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web in 1989 while working for CERN -- the...
[August 22, 2002, 12:07]
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]
Towards a Semantic Web
News An introduction to Tim Berners-Lee's Semantic Web For Tim Berners-Lee, who many recognise as the inventor of the World Wide Web, the Semantic Web has been 15 years in the making. Leaving aside the artificial intelligence problem of training...
[January 31, 2005, 15:05]
Ten years ago: switching on the World Wide Web
News When I saw what Tim Berners-Lee had done I said, "This is all well and good, but will it work over the Internet? A: I was visiting the laboratory called CERN, in Geneva, Switzerland -- a big international lab funded by European countries -- and a...
[December 10, 2001, 16:37]
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]
Here today, gong tomorrow for 'Sir' Bill Gates
Talkback I was delighted to read that Tim Berners-Lee was to receive a knighthood in the New Year's Honours list. My reaction to the announcement that Bill Gates will too was the polar opposite. There's no doubt that his influence has been immense but at...
[January 26, 2004, 9:19]
Cern celebrates 20 years of the web
News Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who was working at Cern at the time, first proposed the idea of the World Wide Web in March 1989, when he submitted a paper entitled Information Management: A Proposal to his supervisor Mike Sendell.
[March 13, 2009, 15:40]
