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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.
Berners-Lee was born in London on 8 June 1955, [24] the son of mathematicians and computer scientists Mary Lee Woods (1924–2017) and Conway Berners-Lee (1921–2019). His parents were both from Birmingham and worked on the Ferranti Mark 1, the first commercially-built computer.
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 ...
World wide web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee said he was "devastated" by recent abuses of the web, in an interview with Vanity Fair. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who in 1989 invented the worldwide web, has ...
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.
In 2011, she was the first female president of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and was appointed DBE for services to business. [6] She was a trustee of Sir Tim Berners-Lee's World Wide Web Foundation, and was chairman of the Port of London Authority from January 2010 until 31 December 2015.
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.
A look at the lives of Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Steward, the first Black female doctor in New York, and her sister Sarah J. S. Tompkins Garnet, the first Black female principal in NYC.