Berners-Lee received the award for creating the technology that underpins the web 28 years ago. But he sees his creation as the work of countless other people—and believes that work is far from ...

What’s clear, however, is that Berners-Lee’s idea is coming about 30 years too late: The Contract for the Web is more of a Magna Carta for the Web 1.0—a founding document the Web needed ...

Projects like Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap and the world of open source software are the kinds of constructive tools that I hoped would flow from the web. However, the reality is much more complex.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 2012 Wikipedia. Even then, the web was a text-only service that didn’t bear that much resemblance to the one that became a phenomenon a few years later.

On April 29, 2015, the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute honored Sir Tim Berners-Lee for his pioneering invention: the World Wide Web. Berkman Executive Director Urs Gasser delivered the laudation at the ...

Tim Berners-Lee has a radical proposition. ... The internet today isn’t the vibrant, motley network that came into being after Berners-Lee first fashioned it in 1989, ...

Tim Berners-Lee is on a mission to decentralize the web “The principle of Solid is it’s a new platform in which you as a user have complete control of your data,” he explained.

Boots Director of Innovation, Richard Corbridge, shares his Jack Kerouac-esque 'Stream of Consciousness' notes, digesting some of Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee's discussion at last week's Gartner ...

It'll be beyond our imagination, says Tim Berners-Lee But figuring out where we would like it to go is a little easier, says the inventor of the world wide web. Written by Steve Ranger, Global ...

Berners-Lee suggested that empowerment should be facilitated by the destruction of the gulf that exists between the technology world and the policy world—our technology pioneers should not be ...

Because without Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the World Wide Web (WWW), who celebrates his 70th birthday today, none of this would exist. Or at least not as we know it.

Wikipedia co-founder Wales has come out against the UK government's draft Communications Data Bill, while inventor of the web Tim Berners-Lee has raised concerns about legislation that allows the ...