Laureates of the Japan Prize
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Dr. Timothy John Berners-Lee
- Nationality:
UK
- Date of Birth:
1955
Outline of Achievements
The 2002 Japan Prize
Major Awards and Honors Received
| 1995 |
Kilby Foundation’s “Young Innovator of the Year” Award |
| 1995 |
ACM Software Systems Award |
| 1996 |
ACM Kobayashi Award |
| 1996 |
IEEE Computer Society Wallace McDowell Award |
| 1996 |
Computers and Communication (C&C) Award |
| 1997 |
Duddell Medal of the Institute of Physics |
| 1997 |
Interactive Association’s Distinguished Service Award |
| 1997 |
MCI Computerworld/Smithsonian Award for Leadership in Innovation |
| 1997 |
International Communication Institute’s Columbus Prize |
| 1997 |
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) |
| 1998 |
Charles Babbage Award |
| 1998 |
Mountbatten Medal of the National Electronics Council |
| 1998 |
The Lord Lloyd of Kilgerran Prize |
| 1998 |
PC Magazine Lifetime Achievement Award in Technical Excellence |
| 1998 |
Eduard Rhein Technology Award |
| 1999 |
World Technology Award for Communication Technology |
| 2000 |
Paul Evan Peters Award |
| 2000 |
George R. Stibitz Computer Pioneer Award at the American Computer Museum |
| 2000 |
Special Award for Outstanding Contribution of the World Television Forum |
| 2000 |
Royal Medal of the Royal Society |
Honorary Doctorates Received
| 1996 |
Parsons School of Design, New York |
| 1996 |
Southampton University |
| 1998 |
Essex University |
| 2000 |
Open University |
| 2001 |
Columbia University |
| 2001 |
University of Oxford |
Membership in Academic Institutions and Societies
|
Distinguished Fellow, British Computing Society |
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Honorary Fellow, Institute of Electrical Engineering |
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Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
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Fellow, Royal Society |
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The 3Com Founders Chair, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science |
Academic Degrees
| 1976 |
B.A. Queen’s College, University of Oxford |
Professional Career
| 1976-1978 |
Research Engineer, Plessey Telecommunications Ltd., UK |
| 1978-1980 |
Software Engineer, D.G. Nash Ltd., UK |
| 1980-1981 |
Software Consultant, UK
Consultant Software Engineer at CERN (June-December,1980)
[CERN: Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire (European Council for Nuclear Research), Geneva, Switzerland] |
| 1981-1984 |
Director in Technical Design, Image Computer Systems Ltd. UK |
| 1984-1993 |
Research Fellow, CERN |
| 1994- present |
Director, World Wide Web Consortium |
| 1999- present |
Senior Research Scientist, Laboratory for Computer Science, M.I.T. |
Title
- Senior Research Scientist, Laboratory for Computer Science, M.I.T.
Major Publications and Scientific Papers
- Berners-Lee, T.J., Information Management: A Proposal, Document at CERN, 1990 (Original document to propose the idea of the World Wide Web. A copy of this document is available at Timothy Berners-Lee’s homepage.)
- Berners-Lee, T.J., et al, “World-Wide Web: Information Universe”, Electronic Publishing: Research, Applications and Policy, April 1992
- Berners-Lee, T.J., et al, “The World Wide Web”, Communications of the ACM, August 1994.
- Tim Berners-Lee with Mark Fischetti, Weaving the Web, Harper, San Francisco, 1999
