tim_berners_lee

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tim_berners_lee

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biographical_information

• Born London, England, 8 June 1955
• Parents met while building first commercially
  sold computer
• Built pretend computers from  cardboard boxes
• Graduated Queen's College, Oxford, 1976 BA Physics

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biographical_information

• June -Dec, 1980 software engineer consultant at
  CERN
• 1984 took a fellowship at CERN
• 1989 proposed "World Wide Web" as global
  hypertext project
• 1990 wrote the first server  and client software
• 1991-1993 continued development of WWW based on
  feedback from users

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major_accomplishments
World's first web server NeXT Box

• Invented the World Wide Web
• Initial specs of URL, HTML, and HTTP
• Founder of W3 Consortium (W3C) which coordinates
  global web developments and standards
• Knew that for the Web to thrive it had to remain
  open so he never patented any of it

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major_publications

• too many to list
• written numerous papers on web architecture, web
  standards, and the future of the web
• Tim Berners-Lee with Mark Fischetti, Weaving the
  Web  The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of
  the World Wide Web by its Inventor, Harper San
  Francisco, 1999

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long-term-significance

• Made the internet available to all--even my
  grandma
• Growth of e-commerce will continue to boom
• connects consumers with products opening the
  e-commerce arena for anyone
• ebay
• amazon
• multiple sources of information/data will be able
  to connect with one another to make the web more
  powerful (semantic web)

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significance_to_education

• Opens the walls of the classroom to the world
• streaming video on demand
• learning is truly 24/7
• learning resources that appeal to the learning
  styles of most students available when they want
  them, where they want them
• Allows students to connect to experts
• Allows students to connect to peers
• Provides a world wide, authentic audience for
  student work
• widened the digital divide

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three_remaining_questions

• Will Google control the world?
• When will the semantic web really take off?
• What will web 4.0 be?

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glossary
CERN
http
hypertext
semantic web
W3 Consortium (W3C)
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references

• Quittner, Joshua,The TIME 100, March, 29, 1999
  http//www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile
  /bernerslee.html 
• Tim Berners-Lee Official Webpage  at W3
  Consortium http//www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Ov
  erview.html
•  Bertil C Lindberg , Consultant, http//home.earth
  link.net/lindberg_b/index.html
• Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila,
  The Semantic Web , Scientific American Online 
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CERN
The European Particle Physics Laboratory located
on the border between France and Switzerland near
Geneva. Where TBL worked when he devised the WWW.
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http
hyper text transmission protocol- A computer
transmission protocol first developed by TBL as
part of the original design of the Web. It is
used to transfer information across the Net. 
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hyper text
text that acts as a link to another part of the
document, another document on the same computer,
or another document on another computer. First
devised by Vanevar Bush and Ted Nelson.
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semantic_web
An extension to the current web. Some call it web
3.0. This allows computers to understand
(semanticsmeaning) information in webpages and
data so it can serve up related information.
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w3_consortium (W3C)
Founded by Burners-Lee in 1994, of which he is
still the Director. "The World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C) develops interoperable
technologies (specifications, guidelines,
software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full
potential. W3C is a forum for information,
commerce, communication, and collective
understanding." From w3c.org homepage
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