Tim Berners-Lee: Inventor of the World Wide Web

McPherson, Stephanie Sammartino

ISBN 10: 0822572737 ISBN 13: 9780822572732

Casa editrice: Twenty First Century Books, 2009

Riassunto

Looks at the life and accomplishments of the man who invented the World Wide Web, from his early life and education to his current efforts as the director of the World Wide Web Consortium to keep the Web freely accessible to all.

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee (b.1955), English computer scientist, invented the initial software for the World-Wide Web. The son of computer scientists, he graduated from Oxford University and in 1980 accepted a fellowship at CERN (the European nuclear research establishment) in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1989 he suggested a global hypertext project. He and his CERN colleagues created a communications protocol called HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) that standardized communication between computer servers and clients. Their text-based Web browser was released to the public in 1991, marking the beginnings of the World Wide Web and general public use of the Internet. Berners-Lee declined all opportunities to profit from his immensely valuable innovation. Knighted in 2004, he lives in Massachusetts and is currently working on development of the Semantic Web and advocacy of royalty-free technology.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Twenty First Century Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0822572737
• ISBN 13: 9780822572732
• Rilegatura: Rilegatura all'americana
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 112