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Tim Berners-Lee: Inventor of the World Wide Web (Ferguson's Career Biographies), Melissa Stewart (Ferguson Publishing Company, 2001), ISBN 0-89434-367-X children's biography How the Web was Born: The Story of the World Wide Web , Robert Cailliau, James Gillies, R. Cailliau (Oxford University Press, 2000), ISBN 0-19-286207-3
Rosemary Blaire Leith, Lady Berners-Lee (born September 1961), [2] is a Canadian-born British director of both for-profit and non-profit organizations. [1] She co-founded the World Wide Web Foundation in 2009 with Sir Tim Berners-Lee , [ 3 ] who became her husband in 2014.
On 10 July 1954 at St Saviour's Church, Hampstead, she married Conway Berners-Lee whom she met while working in the Ferranti team, and together they had four children; Timothy (Tim), Peter, Helen and Michael (Mike). Their eldest son, Sir Tim Berners-Lee [13] is the inventor of the World Wide Web, and their youngest son Mike is an academic. [14 ...
Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee (born 1955) is a British physicist and computer scientist. [221] In 1980, while working at CERN, he proposed a project using hypertext to facilitate sharing and updating information among researchers. [222] While there, he built a prototype system named ENQUIRE. [223]
ENQUIRE was a software project written in 1980 by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, [2] which was the predecessor to the World Wide Web. [2] [3] [4] It was a simple hypertext program [4] that had some of the same ideas as the Web and the Semantic Web but was different in several important ways.
Berners-Lee was son of Major Cecil Burford Berners-Lee (1884–1931), of the Royal Field Artillery, [6] and Helen Lane Campbell Gray (1895–1968). His mother was from Winnipeg, Manitoba, daughter of John Sidney Gray, M.D. [7] [8] His grandfather, Berners Burford Lee was married to Gertrude Payne Tegner, [9] whose uncle (and her adopted father) was Alfred Tegner, originally from Helsingør ...
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Robert Cailliau (last name pronunciation: [kajo], born 26 January 1947) is a Belgian informatics engineer who proposed the first (pre-www) hypertext system for CERN in 1987 [1] and collaborated with Tim Berners-Lee on the World Wide Web (jointly winning the ACM Software System Award) from before it got its name.